WASHINGTON: The United States has temporarily suspended its Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery program after a shooting incident at Brown University in which the suspect was reportedly a beneficiary of the program.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen confirmed that the shooter used the Green Card Lottery to enter the U.S. The suspect, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a Portuguese national, had received his Green Card after winning the lottery in 2017.
The Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery, commonly referred to as the Green Card Lottery, is a U.S. government initiative designed to grant permanent residency to individuals from countries with low immigration rates to the United States. Every year, about 50,000 people are selected to receive Green Cards, allowing them to live, work, and eventually apply for U.S. citizenship.
Neves is accused of killing two students and injuring nine others at Brown University, and also of causing the death of an MIT professor.
