US president Donald Trump seems to be in no mood to encourage any system that helps non-Americans to gain access into the country. After ensuring stricter measures in granting Visas to foreigners, Trump has now dropped another bomb by suspending the Green Lottery System with immediate effect.
The decision was taken because a Portuguese national named Claudio Neves Valente, who is suspected in the recent shootings at Brown University College, entered the US in 2017 through the Diversity Visa Program which is commonly referred as the Green Card Lottery. The shooting incident has resulted in the death of two Americans including a MIT professor and seriously injured 9 others.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that in accordance with US President’s direction she is ordering the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the program. She took to X and posted ” At President Trump’s direction, I am immediately directing USCIS to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program.”
Diversity Visa is lottery program for an immigrant visa which is followed by a permanent resident card. This program came into force in accordance with Immigration Act of 1990.
This post was last modified on 19 December 2025 12:27 pm
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