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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The online SEVIS portal has been experiencing outages for the last week, and today SEVIS is down again. This is impacting our processing times, and we have no control over these technical difficulties. This
message is to inform you that requests requiring advisors to access your SEVIS record will take longer to process due to the SEVIS outages. Since we cannot access SEVIS, we cannot issue I-20s, and we do not know when the problems will be fixed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Constantia","serif"">Ginger Gonzalez<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Constantia","serif"">Interim Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Constantia","serif"">International Student & Scholar Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Constantia","serif"">Texas A&M University – Commerce<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Constantia","serif"">(903) 886-5097<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Constantia","serif""><a href="http://www.tamuc.edu/isso"><span style="color:blue">www.tamuc.edu/isso</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Constantia","serif"">Please take a moment and complete our
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and provide feedback on how we are doing. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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