The reversal comes after a judge issued a temporary restraining order last week when Trump sought to bar Harvard's international students from the country.

The U.S. State Department directed all U.S. missions abroad and consular sections to resume processing Harvard University student and exchange visitor visas after a federal judge in Boston last week temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's ban on foreign students at the Ivy League institution.

Harvard has been in talks with leading US and international universities to temporarily house its foreign students facing bans under President Donald Trump’s clampdown on the college. Leaders from the University of Chicago and the London Business School are among those who have held discussions on accommodating students accepted for the coming academic year at Harvard,