The U.S. Department of Homeland Security in May issued a letter saying it would not allow international students to study at Harvard, but in court documents last week it signalled that it does not intend to enforce its plan.

Thomas Mete says he is feeling “great relief” now that he knows he’ll be returning to Harvard University to finish the last year of his degree, after a tumultuous summer of limbo.

“I can’t wait to be back in Cambridge,” the fourth-year economics student said in an interview from Montreal this week.

Mete is among hundreds of Canadians who expect to be back at the Massachusetts-based Ivy League school in the fall after United States President Donald Trump’s administration wreaked uncertainty earlier this year .

Harvard enrolled nearly 6,800 international students f

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