Wednesday, April 29, 2015

PIER Newsletter : April 28, 2015

Welcome PIER members. Going forward PIER will mail out information in the form of a bi-monthly newsletter to all PIER members. In the future, this letter will be posted to the PIER website.
If you would like to announce a job or submit a resource or event for the PIER Newsletter, please email to piergroupsd@gmail.com for consideration. The PIER Board will take all submissions under consideration for posting in the PIER Newsletter.

Thank you,

The PIER Board

In This Issue:
Announcements
PIER Chair Announcement
PIER Announcement

PIER Chair Announcement

Dear PIER Members,

We had a very informative and interactive PIER meeting at Grossmont College on April 15. Thank you to Yumiko Hudson and Grossmont College for hosting our meeting. We will post the PIER Meeting minutes and presentation to current PIER Members by May 15, 2015. Recently SEVP sent out “Broadcast Message 1504-04.” SEVP will be mailing notices to active F and M students who do not have a valid SEVIS I-901 Fee payment in their record. To comment on this Broadcast Message, please email SEVP@ice.dhs.gov with “Broadcast Message 1504-04 Comment” entered in the subject line. To ask questions about the SEVIS I-901 fee email fmjfee.sevis@ice.dhs.gov. PIER advises members to contact SEVP at sevp@ice.dhs.gov for the most up to date information concerning any questions they may have concerning SEVP policy and practices. There are several questions from PIER members to SEVP and their answers. Please email PIER at piergroupsd@gmail.com for a copy of these questions if you did not receive PIER Newsletter via email.

PIER Announcement
PIER 2014 - 2015 Meeting Dates
All Meeting Times are at 2:00 pm with the exception of the PIER Workshop
June 17 – Location: USD

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PIER Board
Chair - Kasey McCarthy, Gemological Institute of America Kasey.McCarthy@gia.edu
Vice - Chair - Yasue O'Neill, Palomar College Yoneill@palomar.edu
Treasurer - Martha Delgadillo, EC San Diego MarthaDelgadillo@ecenglish.com
Membership Coordinator - LyKai Johnson, EC San Diego lykaijohnson@ecenglish.com
Secretary - Eric Abutin, National University eabutin@nu.edu
Web Coordinator - Cadence Ellis, National University cellis@nu.edu