A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s decision to revoke Harvard University’s certification to enroll foreign students. 

Within hours of Harvard filing suit against the move, Boston-based U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs agreed to halt the revocation until she can receive further arguments. She scheduled a May 29 hearing on whether to grant a longer pause. 

Burroughs noted Harvard’s warning that “it will sustain immediate and irreparable injury before there is an opportunity to hear from all parties.” 

“Thus, a TRO [temporary restraining order] is justified to preserve the status quo pending a hearing,” the judge, an appointee of former President Biden, wrote in her brief order. 

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told the nation’s oldest and richest university it would no longer be allowed to admit foreign students on Thursday.  

DHS also told the school with a student body made up of 27 percent international students that all of them would have either transfer schools or leave the country.  

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