President Donald Trump’s order to block incoming foreign students from attending Harvard University will remain on hold temporarily.

Lawyers for Harvard had urged the court to to block Trump's efforts to revoke its credentials to host foreign students, and block foreign students from traveling to the US to study at the university.

A federal judge said on Monday that she would issue a brief extension of an order temporarily blocking President Donald Trump's plan to bar foreign nationals from entering the U.S. to study at Harvard University while she decides whether to issue a longer-term injunction.