The United States has announced the suspension of the Green Card lottery program following the shooting incident at Brown University.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said that the suspect who carried out the shooting at Brown University had used the Green Card lottery program to come to the United States.
What Is The Green Card Lottery?
The U.S. Green Card lottery program is actually called the Diversity Visa (DV) program. It is an official U.S. government immigration program whose purpose is to provide permanent residence in the United States to citizens of those countries from which immigration to the U.S. has historically been low.
Under this program, approximately 50,000 people are granted Green Cards each year through a lottery, allowing them to live permanently in the United States, work there, and later become eligible for citizenship.
It should be noted that a few days ago, shooting incidents occurred at Brown University and MIT. The accused, Portuguese citizen Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, came to the United States in 2017 under the Diversity Visa Lottery Program and was granted a Green Card.
The 48-year-old Neves is accused of killing two students and injuring nine people in a shooting at Brown University, while one MIT professor was also killed in the incident.
