Harvard ‘Flooded’ With Worries of Students Barred From U.S. (1)

Foreign students ready to attend college in the U.S. are being turned away by a government ban on visas for those whose classes are online only, a lawyer for Harvard University told a judge weighing its request to freeze the new policy.

“Quite honestly, your honor, we are getting flooded with inquiries and requests because of the policies being enforced at the borders as we speak,” Bill Lee said on Thursday at an online conference over a lawsuit Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed against the government on Wednesday. California later announced that it, too, was suing over ...