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State Secretary Marco Rubio announced on Wednesday that the Trump administration had investigated the use of international visa of Harvard University.
Rubio said that the investigation will determine the constant eligibility as a sponsor of the Exchange Visitor Program of Harvard University and “Ensure that the External Affairs Department programs do not run contrary to the interests of our country.”
He said in a statement, “All the sponsors participating in the event are required to fully follow the commitment of a performance to promote exchange visitor rules, transparency in reporting, and cultural exchange and principles of mutual understanding, to fully follow the commitment of a performance on which the program was established.” “To maintain their privileges to sponsor visitors, sponsors must follow all rules, including their programs in such a way that does not reduce the objectives of foreign policy or compromise the national security interests of the United States.”
He said, “American people have the right to maintain national security from their universities, comply with law and provide a safe environment for all students,” he said.
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State Secretary Marco Rubio during a meeting with President Donald Trump and Crown Prince of Bahrain at the Oval Office on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. (Aaron Shwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Image)
A spokesman from Harvard said in a statement to Fox News Digital that Investigation “is yet another retaliatory step taken by the administration in Harvard’s first amendment rights violations.”
The spokesperson said, “Harvard continues to nominate and sponsor the international scholars, researchers and students, and protect his international community as they apply for the US visa and travel to the campus,” the spokesman said. “The university is committed to continuing to follow the applied exchange visitor program rules.”
Homeland Security Department (DHS) Secretary Christie NoM attempted to cancel Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification in May, effectively stopped the university from nominating international students. He said that Trump Administration “Harvard was held responsible for violence, promoting antisemiamism and coordination with the Chinese Communist Party in his premises.”
In April, NOEM demanded Harvard to record “criminality and misconduct of foreign students in his premises”. Harvard claimed that it had been complied with, but Nom said that the university’s reactions were repeatedly tremendous.
Harvard challenged the cancellation in the court, claiming the move that more than 7,000 f – 1 and J – 1 were endangered by the education of the visa holders and the Trump administration was taking retaliation against the university to maintain its “educational freedom”.
The protesters gathered outside the Mokali Federal Courthouse, where Harvard challenged $ 2.6 billion in funding on Monday, July 21, 2025 in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
During the previous academic year, one quarter of the students of Harvard’s student body were international students.
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US District Judge Elisan Buroz in Boston in May in the first amendment ground with Harvard University in May, and again, in an early prohibitory verification, which more permanently blocked the cancellation, while the litigation plays.
President Donald Trump issued an announcement, in which the Foreign Department ordered foreign nationals to deny the F -1 and J -1 student visa, which “seeks to study in institutions under federal inquiry for” antisementism or national security violations, “clearly naming Harvard. Beroz then forcefully responded to the Trump administration, ordering the Consular offices to allow the students of Harvard to enter the US and continue to continue the visa and US customs and border security.
Law enforcement a person with a costume goes to protesters outside the Boston Federal Courthouse, where the Harvard University challenges $ 2.6 billion in funding cuts on Monday, July 21, 2025 by the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
The judge at the time wrote, “SVP -like announcement, an attempt to punish a thin veil to punish Harvard to oppose political pressure rather than a legitimate use of the Executive Immigration Authority,” Wrote by the judge at that time.
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Harvard, meanwhile, returned to another case in the federal court on Monday, in another case to challenge the Trump administration for the university research grant and other federal funding for $ 2.6 billion.
In the hearing, Baroz questioned the validity of the government’s functions, but has not yet issued a decision on funding cuts.
