State Department now scrutinizing all visa holders associated with Harvard

Senior State Department officials archer Fox News each visa holders associated with Harvard University are being scrutinized, not conscionable pupil visa holders.

Along with pupil visas, the State Department volition beryllium conducting a substantive probe into B-1, oregon concern visas; B-2, oregon tourer visas; arsenic good arsenic others, officials said.

The probe is aimed astatine identifying imaginable information vulnerabilities oregon different abuses of the visa system.

The probe could interaction hundreds of radical associated with the elite schoolhouse and could uncover if radical entering with claimed connections genuinely person existent connections oregon much tenuous connections.

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The State Department volition statesman scrutinizing each visa holders associated with Harvard University, not conscionable pupil visa holders. (Blake Nissen for The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital learned earlier successful the time that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is eliminating the pupil visa programme astatine Harvard University owed to "pro-terrorist conduct" astatine field protests.

The determination is simply a terrible effect successful effect to what the DHS claims is Harvard’s refusal to comply with its requests for behavioral records of pupil visa holders.

"This medication is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party connected its campus," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said. "It is simply a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll overseas students and payment from their higher tuition payments to assistance pad their multibillion-dollar endowments. Harvard had plentifulness of accidental to bash the close thing. It refused. They person mislaid their Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification arsenic a effect of their nonaccomplishment to adhere to the law. Let this service arsenic a informing to each universities and world institutions crossed the country."

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Demonstrators stitchery connected Cambridge Common to protestation Harvard's stance connected the warfare successful Gaza and amusement enactment for the Palestinian people, extracurricular Harvard University successful Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 25, 2025.  (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

Harvard whitethorn nary longer enroll overseas students successful the 2025-2026 schoolhouse year, and existing overseas students indispensable transportation oregon suffer their ineligible presumption to reside successful the U.S. earlier the adjacent world twelvemonth begins. 

"As a effect of your brazen refusal to comply with aggregate requests to supply the Department of Homeland Security pertinent accusation portion perpetuating an unsafe field situation that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas rhetoric, and employs racist ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ policies, you person mislaid this privilege," Noem wrote successful a missive to Maureen Martin, the university’s manager of migration services. 

Noem offered Harvard 72 hours to supply the accusation requested for an accidental to regain its visa programme for the adjacent schoolhouse year. 

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Hundreds of graduates walked retired of the 2024 Commencement successful Harvard Yard to telephone attraction to the plight of Palestinians.  (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

She called the determination the "direct effect of Harvard’s epic nonaccomplishment to comply with elemental reporting requirements." 

Harvard, meanwhile, asserted the termination was "unlawful." 

Last month, Harvard announced it would let overseas students to judge admittance to some Harvard and a overseas assemblage arsenic backup amid the Trump administration’s threats to determination to artifact Harvard’s authorization to big them. Typically, students indispensable judge enrollment astatine Harvard by May 1 and can’t perpetrate to different university. 

At slightest a twelve Harvard students person had their authorization to survey successful the U.S. revoked implicit field protestation activity. 

The Trump medication has already frozen adjacent to $3 cardinal successful national backing to the university, mostly dedicated to research, and launched investigations crossed the departments of Justice, Education and Health and Human Services. They assertion that Harvard has failed to code field antisemitism and eradicate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) successful its policies.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress this week that the State Department had astir apt revoked "thousands" of pupil visas by this constituent and would "proudly" revoke more. 

"We're going to proceed to revoke the visas of radical who are present arsenic guests and are disrupting our higher acquisition facilities," helium said Tuesday. "A visa is simply a privilege, not a right." 

The crackdown connected assemblage policies comes aft a question of pro-Gaza pupil protests and encampments swept schools crossed the federation since the opening of Israel’s violative run to eradicate Hamas aft the Oct. 7 attacks to unit assemblage administrations to divest from Israel. 

Fox News Digital’s Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.