The senior officials of the State Department say in Fox News that all visas holders associated with Harvard University are being examined, not just student visas holders.
Together with the student visas, the State Department will conduct a substantial B-1 investigation or business visas; B-2, or tourist visas; In addition to others, the officials said.
The investigation aims to identify possible security vulnerabilities or other visas system abuses.
The probe could affect hundreds of people associated with the elite school and could reveal whether people who come in with claimed connections have real connections or more dim connections.
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The State Department will start examining all the associate visas holders at the University of Harvard, not just student visas holders. (Blake Nissen for Boston Globe through Getty Images)
Fox News Digital learned before the day that the National Security Department (DHS) eliminates the Student Visa program at Harvard University due to the “pro-interrifier behavior” on the campus protests.
Movement is a severe consequence in response to the DHS is Harvard’s refusal to fulfill his behavioral records for student visa holders.
“This administration is responsible for Harvard to foster violence, anti -Semitism and coordination with the Chinese Communist Party on his campus,” said DHS secretary Kristi Noem. “ It is a privilege, it is not a right, that universities were urging foreign students and they benefit from their higher enrollment payments to help with their billionaire endowments. Harvard had many opportunities to do the right things.They have declined. They have lost their students and exchange the visitors program as a result of their failure in the law. It allows this service to be as a warning to all universities and universities as a warning. from all over the country. “
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Protesters meet in Cambridge Common to protest Harvard’s position on the war in Gaza and show support to Palestinian people, outside the University of Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 25, 2025. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP through Getty Images)
Harvard can no longer register for foreign students in the 2025-2026 school year, and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal state to reside in the United States before the next academic year begins.
“ As a result of his shameless refusal to fulfill multiple requests for providing relevant information from the National Security Department, while perpetuating a campus environment, it is not sure to host Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas rhetoric and uses racist diversity, equity and inclusion policies, you have lost this privilege, ” said Noem in a letter to Maureen Martin, the director of the university director.
Noem offered Harvard 72 hours to provide the requested information for the opportunity to recover his visa program for the next school year.
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Hundreds of graduates came out of Harvard Yard from the beginning of 2024 to draw attention to the situation of the Palestinians. (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe through Getty Images)
He called the movement the “direct result of Harvard’s epic failure to fulfill the simple reports of reports”.
Harvard, meanwhile, stated that the ending was “illegal”.
Last month, Harvard announced that it would allow foreign students to accept admission to both Harvard and a foreign university as a backup in the midst of the Trump Administration’s threats to move to block Harvard’s authorization to accommodate them. Students must usually accept Harvard registration on May 1 and cannot commit to another university.
At least a dozen of Harvard students have had their authorization to study in the United States revoked by campus protest activity.
The Trump administration has already frozen $ 3 billion in federal funding at the university, largely dedicated to research and has launched research in all the departments of Justice, Education and Health and Human Services. They claim that Harvard has failed to address the anti -Semitism of the Campus and eradicate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in its policies.
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Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced on Wednesday that the United States will begin to revoke “aggressively” visas of Chinese students, including those who have connections with the Chinese Communist Party or will study in critical fields.
He also told Congress this week that the State Department had probably revoked “thousands” of students’ visas for this point and “proudly” would revoke more.
“We will continue to revoke the visas of people who are here as guests and are disturbing our higher education facilities,” he said on Tuesday. “A visa is a privilege, not a right.”
The repression of university policies occurs after a wave of pro-Gaza student protests and fields dragged schools across the country from the beginning of the Israel’s offensive campaign to eradicate Hamas after October 7 attacks on the university’s administrations to transfer from Israel.
Morgan Phillips of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
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