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J-1 Exchange Visitors and J-2 dependents:
Change of Address Procedures

If you change your residential address (the location where you live), you are required by SEVIS to notify your J-1 sponsor within 10 days of the change. Your J-1 sponsor is the organization that issued your DS-2019.


If ISSS issued your DS-2019, just update your address in One Stop to report your address change.

  1. Go to http://www.onestop.umn.edu/
  2. Click on the link "Personal Information" located in the right-hand column.
  3. Log in using your X.500 ID and password
  4. When the "Personal Information" screen appears, use the menu at the top of the screen to go to "Personal Addresses"
  5. Choose "Current Mailing Address," SEVIS only recognizes the “current mailing” address value in One Stop
  6. Update your residential address in "current mailing address"
    • You must use a U.S. address, do not use a foreign address
    • Do not use a P.O. box, you must use the street address where you reside
    • Do not use your office or department address
    • A zip code is required by SEVIS. The zip code must be limited to 5 digits

  7. Click on the “submit” bar

Once your "current mailing" address is changed in One Stop, ISSS is automatically notified, and we will automatically notify SEVIS. If you are subject to Special Registration (NSEERS), the update in UMN One Stop also fulfills the NSEERS address reporting requirement (J-1s only).

Some scholars may not have access to the One Stop page (if you do not have an X.500 ID). If this is the case, you must ask your hosting academic department to change your address in One Stop. Again, the change in One Stop must occur within 10 days of the actual change of your residential address.

J-2 Dependents (DS-2019 was issued by ISSS)

If the J-2 dependent is living in the U.S. with the J-1, when the J-1 updates her or his address on One Stop, the J-2’s record will also be updated automatically in SEVIS.

Any J-2 dependent who is living separately from the J-1 scholar or student must file an AR-11 Form, within 10 days of moving.

If J-2 dependents are affected by Special Registration (NSEERS) and living in the U.S. separately from the J-1, the dependents must file AR-11SR when they move to another address. They must do so within 10 days of moving. ISSS suggests making a photocopy of the complete form for their personal records. ISSS recommends that they send the form by certified mail so that they have proof that they have complied with the requirement.

Please See Guidelines for Completing the AR-11

 
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