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Diversity Visa Lottery Paused Amid Shooting Suspect Controversy

12/20/2025

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The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will pause the Diversity Visa Lottery.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced that Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a suspect in Brown University and MIT shootings, entered the United States via the Diversity Visa Lottery in 2017.
The Diversity Visa Lottery was created by the Immigration Act of 1990 and has admitted about 500,000 people, prompting calls by U.S. President Donald Trump to end it.

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The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will pause the Diversity Visa Lottery.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced that Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a suspect in Brown University and MIT shootings, entered the United States via the Diversity Visa Lottery in 2017.
The Diversity Visa Lottery was created by the Immigration Act of 1990 and has admitted about 500,000 people, prompting calls by U.S. President Donald Trump to end it.