A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration to revoke a key certification that will allow Harvard University to register international students.
Judge of the North District -american Allison Burroughs granted temporary containment order after Harvard University filed a complaint and a motion for the order of containment on Friday morning.
Revocation occurs after the federal government gave Harvard an ultimatum in April to April Send detailed records about foreign students or lose certification.
“We are conducting this illegal and unjustified action. Impelling the future of thousands of Harvard students and scholars and serves as a warning to countless others in colleges and universities throughout the country who have come to America to follow their training and fulfill their dreams,” said Harvard President Alan Garber. A Friday letter.
Garber said that the university responded to applications from the National Security Department according to the law required.
Nord -American Secretary of the National Security Department, Kristi Noem, said he was not satisfactory.
Harvard will have another opportunity if it provides detailed records on international students within 72 hours, according to Noem’s letter.
About 27% of Harvard’s university students and graduates are international, according to 2024 and 2025 data.
“For those international students and scholars affected by yesterday’s action, you know that you are vital members of our community. You are our classmates and class friends, our colleagues and mentors, our partners in the work of this great institution. Thanks to you, we know more and understand more, and our country and our world are more lit and more resistant.
What is the certification revoked?
The Exchange Student and Visitors Program, also known as the Sevp, allows higher education institutions to issue visa request forms to future international students after admitting them. Forms are used to apply for a visa to enter the United States.
The certification requirements include that the school is operational and instructs students, who have the necessary facilities and the appropriate finances to operate, provides instructions to a degree or objective and complies with the state requirements for operation, according to the Department of National Security Website.
Institutions are recessed every two years, but they can be evaluated at other times if they have information that suggests that it does not comply with the regulations.
If the certification is removed, an institution is not allowed to register international students. Current students should choose between transferring to another institution, leaving the United States or changing their immigration status, according to ice Website.
An example of the certification that was undressed at the Herguan University of California in 2016 after its CEO declared guilty of providing fraudulent documents to the Department of National Security East Bay Times.
A growing struggle
Harvard has been in a battle with the federal government since April. There has been one Wave of Federal Research Grant Start at Harvard University, as well as one 60 million dollars in multi -year assistance,$ 450 million cut off and one 2.2 billion dollars Freeze.
United States Education Secretary Linda McMahon has also told the institution that the federal government would be Exception from Harvard University to acquire new federal grants While the university continues to refuse to fulfill the administration’s demands on its campus.
Harvard President Alan Garber wrote in a letter For the Secretary of American Education, Linda McMahon, who share the same “common ground”, but the university “will not deliver its nucleus, the principles legally protected by fear.”
Garber returned to administration through a litigation In April. The institution argues that its constitutional rights had been violated by government threats to remove thousands of dollars in funding if the school did not meet the demands for review. modified his demand.
“No government, regardless of which party is in power, should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and research can pursue,” says the lawsuit.
Due to federal cuts, Harvard announced which was committing $ 250 million of “central funding” to support investigations affected by suspended and canceled federal subsidies.