Timeline
BridgeUSA established
January 1, 2020
ECA’s Office of Alumni Affairs extends IEA invitations to all alumni in all 13 EVP categories
January 1, 2017
First CSG summit in Ocean City, MD
January 1, 2016
ECA and M conduct almost 3,000 interviews for SWT monitoring
January 1, 2015
ECA/EC begins to use Case Management System (CMS)
January 1, 2014
USA Summer Work & Travel Alumni Macedonia launches as the first ever Summer Work & Travel Alumni organization
January 1, 2014
ECA designates J1 EVP alumni as ECA Exchange Alumni
January 1, 2013
The Office of Private Sector Exchange Program Administration (ECA/EC/OPA) created
January 1, 2013
First SWT monitoring visits begin
January 1, 2012
ECA/EC establishes formal coordination with Law Enforcement for six country SWT pilot program
January 1, 2011
First large-scale category review (Secondary School Sponsors)
January 1, 2010
Private Sector Exchange established with Deputy Assistant Secretary; Exchange Coordination and Compliance established as office
January 1, 2009
First sponsor Community Support Group (CSG) forms in Ocean City, MD
January 1, 2008
MOU established with Australia and New Zealand for Summer Work Travel (SWT)
January 1, 2007
SEVIS goes online to track visitors and students within the U.S.
January 1, 2003
USIA joins DOS
January 1, 1999
New Exchange Visitor Program Regulations
January 1, 1993
USIA was mandated to pilot the Au Pair program
January 1, 1986
The Reagan Administration changed the name back to the United States Information Agency (USIA)
January 1, 1982
E.O. 12048 [Reorganization Plan No. 2], USIA was combined with the Bureau of Educational Cultural Affairs of the Department of State into a new agency call the United States International Communications Agency (USICA)
January 1, 1978
Passage of Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act (reaffirms the objective of increasing mutual understanding)
January 1, 1961
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Relations is renamed to the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
January 1, 1960
Exchange function separated from Bureau of Public Affairs; reassigned to new Bureau of Educational and Cultural Relations (under DOS)
January 1, 1959
U.S. Information Agency (USIA) created
January 1, 1953
First Sponsor Designated (Miami University)
January 1, 1949
Passage of Smith-Mundt Act; Establishment of NAFSA
January 1, 1948
Passage of Fulbright Act
January 1, 1946
