We’re ‘Poker Chips’: International Harvard Students Describe Fear After Trump Administration Moves to Revoke Their Enrollment
- The Trump administration moved in 2025 to revoke Harvard's certification to host international students, sparking panic among those enrolled worldwide.
- This action followed months of conflict over demands that Harvard change policies addressing alleged antisemitism and racist practices on campus.
- International students, including Karl Molden from Austria preparing to move 9,000 miles to Boston, expressed fear of visa revocation and being used as political pawns.
- Approximately 27% of Harvard's students are international, and a federal judge temporarily blocked the ban while Harvard filed a lawsuit calling the move clear retaliation.
- The uncertainty threatens students' research, legal status, and university diversity, with officials and students warning this could cause a brain drain and damage U.S. Academic standing.
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Japanese Students at Harvard Worried by U.S. Move; 260 at Harvard Part of 13,500 Japanese Students in U.S.
Japanese students at Harvard University voiced anxiety and anger in response to the attempt by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to revoke Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students.
By the numbers: A look at international students at Harvard and across the U.S.
The latest criticism from the Trump administration of Harvard University highlighted the number of international students entering the United States each year for higher education.
'We are absolutely terrified', say UK Harvard students silenced by Trump
After spending years of his life studying hard to get into one of the world’s most prestigious universities, Alfred Williamson said it only took a “matter of minutes for that dream to be stripped away”.The 20-year-old freshman student, who has been reading Physics at Harvard University, told The i Paper he was in a state of “pure shock” when Donald Trump tried to block the college from enrolling foreign students.Williamson said he and other Brit…
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