Xinhua News Agency, Washington, July 14th (Reporter Xu Jianmei and Deng Xianlai) Judge Burroughs of the Federal District Court in Boston, United States, announced during the hearing of related lawsuits filed by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the 14th that the US government agreed to revoke the previously issued visa for international students new rule.

  Burroughs said at the beginning of the trial that, as far as he knew, the parties to the lawsuit had reached a settlement.

  The US Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau issued a notice on the 6th that international students in the fall semester of 2020 will not be able to obtain a visa to the United States or maintain a current visa if they only take online courses. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a lawsuit on the 8th to prevent the US government from implementing the new visa regulations for international students.