Government Updates

Section 264(e) of Immigration and Nationality Act requires every individual over the age of 18 to always carry documentation of legal status.

• Students and scholars may consider carrying paper copies of their legal status and keeping original documents in a safe place that is easily accessible when necessary. 
• The most common item of identification is the passport (biography page only) and the most common forms of evidence of lawful status in the U.S. are the I-94 card accompanied by the appropriate visa document (I-20, DS-2019, I-797 Notice of Action, EAD card when on OPT, etc.). 
• I-94 cards can be downloaded electronically.

The University is required to track information relating to international students and scholars on F-1 and J-1 status via the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), including violations of status for things like lack of enrollment or working without authorization.

It’s important that F-1 and J-1 status holders follow all the rules for maintaining those statuses to avoid a terminated designation in SEVIS. Information about maintaining your status is available on the UC International website.

On January 21, 2025, the Trump Administration rescinded previous guidance that designated universities as a “protected area” against enforcement activities by ICE. Therefore, it is possible that ICE agents may make unannounced visits to campus to execute a warrant or subpoena.

The University will continue to comply with valid warrants and subpoenas as well as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and any other applicable laws as appropriate.

The Executive Order “Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats” enhances and tightens vetting for all visa applicants.

• Students and scholars should expect longer wait times to obtain visa appointments. 
• Those applying for immigration benefits should apply as early as possible and expect longer processing times. 
• Students and scholars may want to consult their immigration attorney if they are considering travel at this time. 

• Conventional Munitions: technologies associated with warhead and large caliber projectiles, fusing and arming systems, electronic counter measures and systems, new or novel explosives and formulation, automated explosive detection methods and equipment.
• Nuclear Technology: technologies associated with the production and use of nuclear material for peaceful and military applications include. This includes materials, equipment or technology associated with nuclear physics or nuclear engineering.
• Rocket Systems: technologies associated rocket systems and unmanned air vehicles including ballistic missile systems, space launch vehicles and sounding rockets, cruise missiles, target drones and reconnaissance drones.
• Rocket System and Unmanned Air Vehicle Subsystems: technologies associated with propulsion including solid rocket motor stages and liquid propellant engines. Other critical subsystems include re-entry vehicles, guidance sets, thrust vector controls and warhead safing, arming and fusing.
• Navigation, Avionics and Flight Control Usable in Rocket Systems and unmanned Air Vehicles: These capabilities directly determine the delivery accuracy and lethality of both unguided and guided weapons. Associated technologies include: internal navigation systems, tracking and terminal homing devices, accelerometers and gyroscopes, rockets and UAV and flight control systems, and global positioning system (GPS).
• Chemical, Biotechnology and Biomedical Engineering: associated technologies used to produce chemical and biological weapons.
• Remote Sensing, Imaging and Reconnaissance: technologies associated with satellite and aircraft remote sensing including military and intelligence reconnaissance activities, drones and remotely piloted vehicles.
• Advanced Computer/Microelectronic Technology: Advanced computers and software that play a useful role in the development and deployment of missiles and missile systems, and in the development and production of nuclear weapons, over-the-horizon targeting, airborne early warning targeting, and electronic countermeasures (ECM) processors.
• Materials Technology: technologies related to the metallic, ceramic and composite materials for structural functions in aircraft, spacecraft missiles, undersea vehicles and propulsion devices.
• Information Security: technologies associated with cryptographical systems to ensure secrecy of communications video, data and related software.
• Laser and Directed Energy Systems: technologies associated with laser guided bombs, ranging devices, and lasers having critical military applications.
• Sensors: technologies associated with marine acoustics, missile launch calibration, night vision devices, high speed photographic equipment and magnetometers
• Marine Technology: technologies associated with submarines and deep submersible vessels, marine propulsion systems designed for undersea use and navigation, radar, acoustic/nonacoustic detection;
• Robotics: technologies associated with artificial intelligence, automation computer-controlled machine tools, and pattern recognition technologies.
• Urban Planning: technologies associated in the construction or design of systems necessary to sustain modern urban societies including architecture, civil engineering, community development, environmental planning, geography, housing, land use and urban design.