A federal judge in Boston sided with Harvard University on Friday and blocked a Trump administration effort to rescind the school’s right to host international students.

The government’s moves against Harvard have thrown the lives of thousands of visiting scholars into temporary disarray. But Friday’s ruling by Judge Allison D. Burroughs allows Harvard’s long-standing participation in the Student and Visitor Exchange Program to continue, at least for now.

The administration had sought to exclude the school from that program, which allows 7,000 Harvard students and recent graduates to study and work legally in the United States.

In a three-page preliminary injunction, Burroughs said the government was forbidden from “implementing, instituting, maintaining, or giving any force or effect” to the Department of Homeland Security’s push last month to force Harvard out of the international student program.

The judge also ruled that the government had to tell American diplomatic posts and ports of entry to “disregard” instructions to restrict Harvard’s participation.

Although Burroughs stopped short of embracing all of Harvard’s requests, a spokesperson for the university said Friday that the ruling “allows Harvard to continue enrolling international students and scholars while the case moves forward” and that the university would “continue to defend its rights — and the rights of its students and scholars.”

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In a post on social media, President Donald Trump claimed that U.S. officials had been “working closely with Harvard, and it is very possible that a Deal will be announced over the next week or so.”

The university, Trump said, had “acted extremely appropriately during these negotiations” and appeared “to be committed to doing what is right.” He added: “If a Settlement is made on the basis that is currently being discussed, it will be ‘mindbogglingly’ HISTORIC, and very good for our Country.”

Harvard did not immediately respond to an inquiry about Trump’s assertions.

The Trump administration and Harvard have been at sharp odds for months, clashing over accusations of antisemitism and racism as the government pulled billions of dollars in research funding from Harvard, the nation’s oldest and richest university. Harvard has separately challenged those matters in federal court. Burroughs is overseeing that litigation, too.

The university has accused the administration of pursuing a vendetta and seeking to compromise its independence. The administration says that Harvard has harbored antisemitism and not disclosed information that it should about its international students.

The dispute over international students erupted on May 22, when the Homeland Security Department said it was rescinding Harvard’s right to participate in the exchange visitor program. That kind of action had generally been taken by the government only against diploma mills that were improperly arranging for would-be immigrants to enter the country on student visas.

But Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said the action was necessary because Harvard had failed to comply with requests for information on misconduct by the university’s international students — a charge Harvard denied.

The university sued.