Harvard Canadian students are fighting with Trump’s attempt to avoid foreign students

Megana Sanagaram was celebrating her spring for the graduate program at Harvard University on Wednesday.

By Thursday, she is no longer sure of the future of her testimony at all.

“It is a frustrating thing to assimilate that all of these evenings and nights that remained working in those degrees, while the mother, among other things, was not for nothing – not because of something I did,” said Sanagaram, 32, who lives in Whithance.

The Trump administration dealt with a big blow on Thursday by announcing it was Harvard University’s ability to register international students Like Sanagaram.

The administration said in a statement that US Minister of Internal Security Christie sleep ordered the administration to end the certificate of student visitors and the stock exchange program at Harvard University, which is valid for the academic year 2025-26. It also forces the current students to move to other schools or lose their legal status.

The move also collects the university of its authority to care for F-and J-visas for international students and scholars for the academic year 2025-26, Harvard notice in an online statement.

This step was in response to Harvard’s refusal to provide the information he sought about about foreign student visa holders and can be reversed if the university coincides with it, according to the Trump administration. Harvard sueDescribing the cancellation a “flagrant violation” of the first amendment of the United States constitution and other federal laws in a complaint submitted to the Boston Federal Court on Friday.

Later on Friday, a judge issued a temporary restriction order that freezes policy. But the Trump administration can appeal the ruling.

Currently, confusion is increasing about the meaning of this for thousands of international students – including Canadians – at the prestigious Ivy League school in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sanagram says that the announcement of Thursday from the Trump administration feels misleading and anxious because international students in the United States are legally, and they contribute greatly to the American economy, and “adding huge value to academic institutions.”

She said: “I felt () as a political war with a little attention to what this means to thousands of students, their dreams and investments, and in many cases, years of life work.”

Canada is the largest share of university students at Harvard International University

Harvard records nearly 6,800 foreign students on its university campus in Cambridge. Most of them are graduate students and they come from more than 100 countries.

The largest share, 1,390 students, comes from China, according to Harvard University Fact Book. But Canada is not far away, in second place where 751 students joined in 2024. When it comes to university students alone, the largest percentage of international students comes from Canada to a large extent.

The largest share of students (176) was registered at Harvard College for a university degree, followed by 139 registered at the College of Graduate Studies for Arts and Sciences, and 132 students enrolled in the counseling programs for adult learners.

The rest has spread among the various Harvard professional programs, such as its work, medical, public health, and legal colleges.

Many world leaders and children attended or attended Ivy League school, including Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carne. His daughter is also a current student.

Although we do not know the number of new students admitted to studies in 2025, last year, 18 percent of New acceptance in the university stage program They were international students.

“Generations”

Konor Peter, who graduated from Harvard University in 2018 and is now working as an educational consultant to help other students to apply to international elite universities.

“This is more than just a change in politics,” Peter told CBC News from Toronto.

Peter said that many students working with them come from families who have put a great investment in teaching their children. The students have achieved a great investment at the time, as they worked towards the goal of entering Harvard University for years.

He added that even just a “full -time job investment” in the fall. Now, to know that the door may be closed?

“It is the most destructive news that can receive the 12 -grade that has worked throughout their lives to reach Harvard University.”

“A lot in trouble”

Marco Avene, a PhD candidate at Harvard University, says his immediate interest is how to return to the United States at all. Avina, from Montreal, has been in Croatia over the past two weeks on vacation and intends to re -enter through JFK Airport on June 1.

Avina said he usually enters the United States as J-1 research scientist, but it is now not sure what to do.

He said in an interview with Zoom: “I don’t know if I have my apartment in Cambridge, or if I have to evacuate that and return to Montreal or if I can expect a long -term stay in Cambridge,” he said in an interview with Zoom.

Avina says he is lucky because at least he will not waste his work, as he can work in his research remotely.

“But … there are people associated with Harvard University, in more tangible ways than me. These people are in great dilemma at the present time.”

In a statement It was published on the Internet on FridayHarvard University President Alan Garper said that Trump’s work “presents the future of thousands of students and scientists throughout Harvard and works as a warning to countless others in colleges and universities throughout the country who came to America to continue their education and achieve their dreams.”

Harvard added that Harvard will continue to support its international students because it fights the decision.