SEVIS Acronyms

The following acronyms are used in the documentation of collecting and reporting SEVIS data:

Acronym

Description

2D

Two-dimensional

ARO

Alternate Responsible Officer

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

CA

Certificate Authority

CIP 2000

Classification of Instructional Programs: Year 2000

CPT

Curricular Practical Training

DoS

Department of State

dpi

Dots Per Inch

DSO

Designated School Officials

DTD

Document Type Definition

ED

Department of Education

EST

Eastern Standard Time

EV

Exchange Visitor

FIPS

Federal Information Processing Standard

FRD

Functional Requirements Document

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTTPS

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

ICD

Interface Control Document for the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System Interface

ID

Identification

INS

Immigration and Naturalization Service

IP

Internet Protocol

LZW

Lemple-Ziv Welch compression algorithm

MB

Megabyte

MQ

Message Queue

OIRM

Office of Information Resources Management

OISS

Office for International Students and Scholars

OPT

Optional Practical Training

PDSO

Primary Designated School Official

PDF

Portable Document Format

RO

Responsible Officer

SEVIS

Student and Exchange Visitor Information System

SEVP

Student and Student Visitor Program

SSL

Secure Socket Layer

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

UCS

Universal Character Set

URI

Uniform Resource Indicator

UTF-8

UCS Transformation Format 8

W3C

Word Wide Web Consortium

XML

Extensible Mark-up Language

XSD

SML Schema Definition