The federal court has stopped the immediate implementation of the order made by the administration of US President Donald Trump to cancel the foreign student admission program and management system at Harvard University.

A federal court has stopped the immediate implementation of the decision made by the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday following the order of the Trump administration to cancel the admission program of foreign students at Harvard University. 

With the order of the court, the foreign student admission program and management system will not be stopped for the time being. Judge Alison Burrows has ordered a temporary halt to the decision made by Homeland Security for 24 hours, that is, Friday. 

Harvard filed a lawsuit on Friday saying that the Trump administration's actions are illegal and interference in free education. "Even though the court temporarily halted the implementation of the order of the Trump administration, it has also asked to proceed with the process after evaluating the ability of international students to enroll in Harvard and the condition of the admission program," American media CNN mentioned. 

The Harvard administration has also accused the government of playing with the future of a quarter of the university's students in a one-time decision and trying to remove them. Harvard President Alan Garber said the government's decision was illegal, unfair and a retaliatory action against academic freedom. 

Garber has also claimed that the government is trying to illegally control the curriculum, professor selection and student structure. "If Harvard was interested in ending anti-American, anti-Semitic and pro-terrorist activities on its campuses, the government would not have stopped the foreign student management system," White House Deputy Spokesperson Abigail Jackson told the American media. 

Jackson also accused Judge Burroughs of bringing in a 'liberal agenda', who ordered a stay on the implementation of the government's decision. Deputy Speaker Jackson also claimed that unelected judges are doing wrong by blocking the Trump administration's immigration and national security rights. 

The Trump administration had decided to stop the 2.5 billion US dollars federal grant it had previously given to Harvard. 

27 percent of foreign students in 19 years, 22 Nepali 

The number of foreign students at Harvard has reached 27 percent in 19 years. According to the data of the Harvard administration, the number of international students has reached 27 percent from the academic year 2006-2007 to 2024-2025.

In the 2024-2025 academic year, 6,793 international students were enrolled at Harvard. This number is 27 percent compared to this year's total enrollment. Currently, the total number of international students at Harvard is 9,970. 22 of them are Nepali students. This number is only 0.3 percent of the total foreign students.