The United States announced the suspension of the green card lottery

US authorities have announced the suspension of the Green Card Lottery Program. This decision is related to the recent shooting at Brown University. According to US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the suspect in the attack, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, entered the country in 2017 through this program, having won a green card in the annual lottery.

This is not the first such initiative by the Donald Trump administration. In 2017, during his first term, he already advocated for the repeal of this visa following the October 31 terrorist attack in New York City. The perpetrator, 29-year-old Uzbek native Sayfullo Saipov, drove his car onto a Manhattan bike path and rammed a school bus, killing eight people. Police classified the incident as a terrorist attack linked to the Islamic State, a terrorist group banned in Russia. The US President announced that Saipov also arrived in the US by winning a green card lottery.

The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, which awards 50,000 green cards annually, was established in 1990 and is administered by the US Department of State. It is designed for residents of countries with low rates of immigration to the US. According to US media, Sayfullo Saipov was granted entry in 2010 through this program. The lottery is open to citizens of all countries, with the exception of those countries from which more than 50,000 people have immigrated to the US in the past five years.

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