On 15 September 2026, admission for F-1 and J-1 nonimmigrants stops being open-ended. That is not a forecast — it is a published final rule, and you can read it yourself.
The rule, cited so you can check it
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Title | Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media |
| Agency | Department of Homeland Security |
| Type | Final rule |
| Published | 17 July 2026 |
| Effective | 15 September 2026 |
| Federal Register document | 2026-14439 |
| Codified at | 8 CFR 214.1(m)(1) — the transition provision the dashboard above implements |
What AUD Watch is intended to do
Hold your F-1 and J-1 population, compute each person's fixed admission end date under the rule, and tell you which deadlines are close — the work above, over your roster instead of a simulated one. It ingests a spreadsheet you already hold and export yourself; it does not connect to SEVIS and does not file anything.
Where it actually is today
Plainly, because this touches people's legal status and vagueness here would be a bad thing to sell:
- It holds no real data. Every record in the system is synthetic test data. No institution's population is in it.
- Real-data ingestion is deliberately switched off. Loading real records requires an authorisation that has not been granted. Until it is, every row loads flagged as synthetic — by design, not by oversight.
- Per-customer data isolation is now built and tested. As of 15 August 2026, row-level security policies scope every row to one institution, and they were verified with two test institutions: each could read only its own rows, an attempt to write a row belonging to the other was refused by the database, and a session presenting no institution claim sees nothing at all. This was the outstanding item on this list; it is done.
- There is no customer login yet. The data layer enforces separation, but the web sign-in a DSO would use to reach their own roster has not been built. Today an institution would be onboarded by hand.
- It does not email you yet. Deadlines are computed nightly, but automated notification to a DSO is not built. Until it is, this is a dashboard you look at, not a system that pages you.
- It is read-only. It does not file anything, submit anything, or transmit anything to any government system, and it is not intended to.
- It is not legal advice and is not a substitute for counsel or for SEVIS.
We would rather show you this list than a demo that implies otherwise. When the remaining items are done, this page will say so and will carry a price.
If this would be useful to you
Tell us. If you run an F-1 or J-1 population and this is the shape of the problem you are facing on 15 September, we would rather build it against a real institution's requirements than guess at them.