India, Sept. 15 -- The Department of Homeland Security's extensively scrutinized regulation restricting the duration of international students' residence within the nation will not be implemented on September 15, following a federal judge's decision to defer the regulation as a component of litigation contesting the policy.

F. Dennis Saylor IV, presiding judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, issued a comprehensive 48-page order determining that officials from the Trump administration failed to provide sufficient responses to public commentary regarding the regulation and neglected to evaluate alternative approaches, alongside additional breaches of the Administrative Procedure Act, the statutory fra...