Green Card lottery

New rules for Diversity Visa: Valid, unexpired passport required from applicants for combatting fraud

[ad_1] The State Department released the final rules for the Green Card lottery or the Diversity Visa program, bringing back the measures introduced under the first Trump administration. Applicants for the Green Card lottery will now require a valid and unexpired passport from their home country before entering the lottery, beginning last month. The new […]

ICE detains Green Card Lottery immigrant charged with raping 16-year-old in Nashville, held victim at gunpoint

[ad_1] US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has lodged an arrest detainer against Mena Mohsen Farez Nmn Awad, an Egyptian national, after he was charged with raping a 16-year-old girl while she slept in her own bed in Nashville, Tennessee.According to local reports, on December 31, 2025, Awad broke into the minor girl’s apartment. She […]

‘Visa applicants go through…’: Indian-origin Congresswoman weighs in on Trump suspending US green card lottery

[ad_1] Indian-origin Democratic Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal criticised US President Donald Trump on X after he ordered a suspension of the US green card lottery.She called the move an exploitation of a recent tragedy to push an anti-immigrant agenda.Pramila said that there is no doubt that visa applicants have to go through tough procedures before even […]

‘Fits the pattern’: Former immigration official says Trump could permanently end Green Card program as lottery stops

[ad_1] A former immigration official said it would not be surprising if the Donald Trump administration permanently ends the Green Card program altogether, after it stopped the Green Card lottery citing the bad actor of Brown University shooting, who also killed an MIT professor. Green Card lottery is different from Green Card programs as the […]

Green Card lottery suspended: List of countries to be affected by Donald Trump’s new immigration rule

[ad_1] The Donald Trump administration suspended the Green Card lottery program after Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national who came to the US through this lottery pathway was found to be the suspect of Brown University shooting and he also killed an MIT professor. Valente was found dead Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot. […]