The federal District Court in Massachusetts (Allison D. Burroughs) has granted a temporary restraining order against the Department of Homeland Security and others to enjoin them from implementing, instituting, maintaining, or giving effect to the revocation of Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification which allows it to admit foreign students and from giving any force or effect to the Department of Homeland Security’s May 22 Revocation Notice.
The University filed immediately after being notified that it could not admit new foreign students and that current students would have to find other schools to attend or leave the country. It was a further escalation of the attacks on Harvard, which has refused to grant the government intrusive controls over the University’s administration of its programs. The TRO will be in place pending a hearing to a determine whether the revocation should be further enjoined. (President and Fellows of Harvard College v. Department of Homeland Security, D. MA, No. 1:25-cv-11472, 5/23/25.)
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