The Department of Homeland Security revoked Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification.
The Ivy League school cannot enroll foreign students. The foreign students enrolled at Harvard “must transfer or lose their legal status.”
“This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus,” stated Secretary Kristi Noem. “It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments. Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing. It refused. They have lost their Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law. Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.”
DHS has already ended $2.7 million in grants for Harvard.
In April, Noem told Harvard to give the department “information about the criminality and misconduct of foreign students on its campus.”
Noem told the university it would lose its SEVP certification if it did not comply.
Noem said Harvard’s counsel claimed he had the information for DHS, but did not.
The acting DHS general counsel gave Harvard another chance to hand out the required information, but it did not.
Harvard can regain its SEVP certification if it provides DHS with the requested information as listed in Noem’s letter:
1. Any and all records, whether official or informal, in the possession of Harvard University, including electronic records and audio or video footage, regarding illegal activity whether on or off campus, by a nonimmigrant student enrolled in Harvard University in the last five years.2. Any and all records, whether official or informal, in the possession of Harvard University, including electronic records and audio or video footage, regarding dangerous or violent activity whether on or off campus, by a nonimmigrant student enrolled in Harvard University in the last five years.3. Any and all records, whether official or informal, in the possession of Harvard University, including electronic records and audio or video footage, regarding threats to other students or university personnel whether on or off campus, by a nonimmigrant student enrolled in Harvard University in the last five years.4. Any and all records, whether official or informal, in the possession of Harvard University, including electronic records and audio or video footage, regarding deprivation of rights of other classmates or university personnel whether on or off campus, by a nonimmigrant student enrolled in Harvard University in the last five years.5. Any and all disciplinary records of all nonimmigrant students enrolled in Harvard University in the last five years.6. Any and all audio or video footage, in the possession of Harvard University, of any protest activity involving a nonimmigrant student on a Harvard University campus in the last five years.
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