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The US suspends the DV1 green card lottery after the university shooting

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12/19/2025, 17:04

The US suspends the DV1 green card lottery after the university shooting

The Brown University shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, entered the US under the Diversity Visa (DV1) immigration programme in 2017 and received a green card. Home Security Minister Kristi Noem said that such a person should never have been allowed into the country.

According to her, back in 2017, President Donald Trump advocated ending the programme after the terrorist attack in New York: an ISIS terrorist who arrived on a DV1 visa drove a truck into a crowd of people, killing eight.

On Trump's orders, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) was instructed to immediately suspend the DV1 programme to prevent a threat to public safety. The duration of the suspension and further decisions have not yet been specified.


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