US backtracks in standoff with Harvard and MIT over foreign student visas

Washington —

The hearing followed a separate lawsuit by 17 states and a dozen multiparty “friend of the court” briefs filed in support of the schools from universities, trade groups and some of the country’s biggest tech companies. Schools can now resume planning for the fall semester, said Terry Hartle, senior vice-president of government and public affairs for the American Council on Education, which represents more than 1,700 colleges and trade groups.

In Tuesday’s hearing, which was attended by hundreds of journalists and others online but lasted only minutes, the judge asked assistant US attorney Rayford Farquhar if she had described the case’s resolution correctly. Harvard is conducting almost all its classes online in the autumn semester, while MIT has a hybrid model. The two said in a lawsuit filed last week that the government had failed to consider the harm to students from the new directive. They also noted the impact on businesses, pointing to the role foreign students play in American innovation, and on the US GDP, citing “the loss of the tens of billions of dollars that international students contribute to US GDP each year”.

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