Harvard and MIT sue Trump administration over visa policy

Chinese and Indians to be hardest hit by new policy barring them from country

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Hours after Harvard University announced its fall semester is going online, the U.S. government said international students will have to leave the country without in-person instruction. (Photo courtesy of Harvard University)

ALEX FANG, Nikkei staff writer

NEW YORK -- Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the U.S. over a new rule that would bar international students from staying in the country if fall semester classes are held online.

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