India, July 15 -- The Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded its July 6 rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the country if their schools held classes entirely online because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The universities of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with the support of a number of other institutions, had filed series of lawsuits against the move that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on July 6 that it would not allow foreign students attending US colleges to stay in the country if all of their classes are moved online in the fall over the coronavirus crisis.

Judge Allison Burroughs, the federal district judge in Boston, said federal immigration authoritie...