Stanford and Yale join court challenge over Trump’s foreign student visa rule

US President Donald Trump speaks during a law enforcement meeting in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, the US, July 13 2020. Picture: OLIVER CONTRERAS/BLOOMBERGAlmost 60 US universities filed a court brief in support of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a case the schools brought to stop new visa rules that could bar many international students.

US higher education, already facing long-term challenges because of changing demographics, has been severely hit by the crisis, closing campuses and giving refunds earlier in 2020. As schools try to prepare for coming classes, more are saying they will be fully online for the foreseeable future — a plan that now could jeopardise many of the 213,000 international students that enrol every year via the visa programme.

Harvard and MIT sued US immigration and customs enforcement last week after the agency issued the rules, which would block visas for applicants studying at colleges that only offer virtual instruction. Students on existing visas who want to remain in the US must transfer to a school with in-person instruction or attend one that offers both remote and on-campus learning.

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