Before a federal hearing on Harvard University’s ability to register international students, the Acting Director to implement American immigration and customs issued a message on Thursday with the school giving 30 days to challenge the administration to nullify that certificate.
The message officially notifies the school that the student’s certificate and a visitor program will be withdrawn – but the previous position of the administration will be retracted by granting Harvard 30 days to achieve compliance.
The notification said: “Your school has 30 days in evaluation from the date of the service of this notice to present written representations under the department and is supported by documentary evidence, which determines the reasons that make SEVP not withdraw your school certificate.” “If a SEVP certificate is withdrawn, your school will not be approved for registration or continuing to educate non -immigrant students.”
The notification comes one week after the Minister of Internal Security Christie Nom announced that it had ordered the end of the school SEVP certificate.
“As a result of your rejection of compliance with multiple requests to provide information related to internal security with the constant environment of an unsafe environment on the campus that is hostile to Jewish students, encourage the sympathy of the mother -in -law, and it uses racist diversity, equality, and inclusion, you have lost this victory,” I wrote Naim last week.
On Thursday’s session, shortly after the Trump administration issued a 30 -day notice, the American provincial judge, Alison Buroz, said it was planning to issue a preliminary judicial order prohibiting the Trump administration to cancel the SEVP certificate at Harvard University without first going through the procedure required by law.
“I think it is necessary. It does not have to be Drakaconia, but I want to make sure of anything. I want to maintain the status quo,” the judge said in the session that occurred as thousands of Harvard University students and their families gathered to start the school.
During the Harvard University, May 29, 2025, chanting in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Currently, Judge Buroz said that a temporary restriction issued last week will remain in effect until a preliminary judicial order is being eliminated. In the coming days, Harvard and Trump’s administration will make proposals for an order that would prevent DHS from canceling the school SEVP immediately.
Harvard University, under the current ruling, will remain able to register international students, but DHS said it is still planning to follow the administrative road to cancel the SEVP certificate at Harvard University.
Judge Boroz suggested that it would allow this administrative process to play, as Harvard University provided evidence to refute the allegations made by the Ministry of National Security that it allowed anti -Semitism on the campus and failed to provide information about international students.
The judge said that despite the decline in the Trump administration, it felt that it was necessary to protect Harvard International University students.
“I will feel more comfortable given the above,” she said during a 20 -minute listening session. “It gives some protection to international students who are concerned about coming here.”
Justice’s lawyer, Tiberius Davis, prompted the restriction order, saying that the case had become a “debate” since the Trump administration changed.
Davis said: “The administration decided that it would be better, simpler to move forward, and pass through the procedure,” Davis said.
Despite the change, the Harvard Ian University’s lawyer said that a restricted matter is still necessary, on the pretext that the Trump administration was illegally violating the first amendment rights of the school by taking revenge on the school for its decision not to budge to other demands of the government. The latest notification called the “next step” in the Trump administration campaign to take revenge on the school.
“It seems that there is a different set of rules and Harvard procedures,” he said. “The first amendment is damaged, the suffering is real and continuous.”
Judge Buroz suggested that the two parties end up referring to the court within a few months, as soon as the legal process explodes, to determine whether the possible cancellation is revenge.
“By this stage, we believe that the issue will be completely different,” Davis said.
A graduate student wears his hat, decorated with support for international students, during the 374 start exercises at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 29, 2025.
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On the pretext that the Trump administration’s procedures are part of a “Harvard Crown Campaign to give up the first amendment rights”, Harvard University claimed that the cancellation of Sevp is illegal because it violates the rights of freedom of expression in the school; The policy is arbitrary and thus violates the law of administrative procedures; And that the policy is toughly going to protect legal procedures in the school because it has not been given the opportunity to respond to the cancellation.
“The surrounding events, and explicit defendants’ data, show that the Ministry of Internal Security has taken these measures for no good reason, but only as a punishment for Harvard’s speech, its perceived view, and its refusal to surrender its academic independence or abandon its constitutional rights,” said the school in a lawsuit against Trump.
The lawsuit said: “This is the latest work by the government in a clear revenge for Harvard that exercises the first amendment rights to reject the government’s demands to control Harvard governance, curricula, and” ideology “of faculty and students.
National Security Ministry officials said that cancellation is necessary because Harvard University has failed to deliver information about international students – including disciplinary records – according to the Trump administration request.
“It is a privilege, not really, for universities to register foreign students and take advantage of their high academic payments to help set their billions of dollars. Harvard University had many opportunities to do the right thing. He refused.” The Minister of National Security, Christie sleep, said in a statement last week.
Harvard University is also fighting the Trump administration’s attempt to freeze more than $ 2.2 billion of scholarships and $ 60 million in school contracts. Harvard University filed a separate lawsuit to challenge funding in April, and the next session was determined in this case in July.
Trump has continued to increase pressure on the school over the past two months, threatened to cancel the school’s tax exemption status, direct his administration to cancel contracts with the school, and continue to request information about international students. Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, Trump suggested that Harvard University should determine the number of international students to 15 % of the total student’s student body.
“We have people who want to go to Harvard and other schools, they cannot enter because we have foreign students there. But I want to make sure that foreign students are people who can love our country,” Trump said.
