BOSTON (AP)– Facing 8 federal claims and opposition from numerous universities, the Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a guideline that would have needed worldwide students to move or leave the country if their schools held classes totally online because of the pandemic.
The decision was announced at the start of a hearing in a federal claim in Boston brought by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs stated federal immigration authorities consented to pull the July 6 directive and “return to the status quo.”
An attorney representing the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Migration and Customs Enforcement said only that the judge’s characterization was correct.
The announcement brings relief to countless foreign students who had actually been at danger of being deported from the nation, in addition to