President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered an immediate pause of the Diversity Visa (DV-1) Green Card Lottery Program.
Green card lottery suspended
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has announced an immediate pause of the Diversity Visa (DV-1) Green Card Lottery Program following concerns raised about national security.
According to a statement shared by the Secretary of Homeland Security, the individual responsible for the Brown University shooting, identified as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, entered the United States in 2017 through the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program and was later granted lawful permanent residency.
The Secretary stated that this development has renewed longstanding concerns about the program. During his first term, President Donald Trump previously pushed to end the Diversity Visa Lottery after the 2017 New York City truck attack, in which an ISIS-inspired terrorist who also entered the U.S. through the DV-1 program, killed eight people.
Acting under President Trump’s directive, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has been instructed to halt the program while a review is conducted. The administration says the pause is intended to prevent further risks to public safety and reassess the effectiveness of the immigration screening process tied to the lottery system.
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