 A big, big relief for the foreign students enrolled in U.S. institutions. Yes, as the Trump administration has withdrawn, rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the United States if their schools held classes entirely online because of the pandemic. According to an announcement made last week by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, all the international students enrolled in the U.S. offering online only classes for their fall semester were disallowed to come to the U.S. and if they were already in the United States, they were to be forced to leave unless a majority of their coursework was taught in person. That was the policy which was announced last week. But facing eight federal lawsuits, including mainly by the Harvard University and the MIT, an opposition from hundreds of universities and more than a dozen top American technology companies including Google, Facebook and Microsoft, the Trump administration has revoked, rescinded the said arbitrary rule. The decision was announced at the start of the hearing in a federal lawsuit in Boston brought by Harvard University and the MIT, as I just mentioned. The U.S. district judge, Allison Barrows said that federal immigration authorities have agreed to pull the July 6th directive and return to the status quo. The pronouncement brings relief, enormous relief to thousands of foreign students who had been at risk of being deported from the country along with hundreds of universities that were struggling to re-evaluate their plans for the fall in the light of this policy.