2021春 SEVP 政策延续2021年秋季 - DHS，新闻链接

询问国际办公室的工作人员关于2021年春SEVP政策，她发给我一个链接，里面新闻写的是，保持2020.3 的政策，也就是可以在境外上网课保持F1 active。
链接：
https://www.insidehighered.com/q ... remains-same-spring


新闻内容引用如下：

Federal guidance for enrolling international students in programs operating in hybrid or online modes due to the pandemic remains the same for the spring term, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program said Tuesday.
"Nonimmigrant students should continue to abide by SEVP guidance originally issued in March 2020," said the spokeswoman, Carissa Cutrell. "The guidance enables schools and students to engage in distance learning in excess of regulatory limits due to the public health emergency generated by COVID-19."
Continuing international students who were enrolled at a U.S. college as of March 9 can re-enter the U.S. even if their college is engaged in 100 percent distance learning, but new students since March 9 will not be permitted to enter the U.S. to take a fully online course of study this spring. New students will be able to enter the U.S. to take hybrid programs consisting of a mix of in-person and online coursework this spring.
The American Council on Education and several dozen other higher education organizations sent a letter to SEVP Dec. 4 seeking guidance for the spring semester and asking the agency to allow new international students to travel to the U.S. to attend programs that have had to move online due to COVID. The letter refers to “the shocking decline of international student enrollment in the Fall 2020 semester,” citing one survey that found a 43 percent drop in new international students.

我也发邮件问了我校小秘，得到的回复是此消息并非 SEVP 的最终公告，目前我校还没有收到 SEVP 的正式政策。

附邮件部分原文：

While we have also seen the news about the guidance, there still hasn't been anything official yet. We are expecting everything to remain the same, but need to wait to see the official release from SEVP/ICE.

持续关注！

感觉这个政策不能一直保持，弄不好会在2021年fall 变回去，要是那时候有的学校还是全网课，就惨了...