US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said late on Thursday (December 18) that she has instructed US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to pause the DV1 program.
The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV Program) makes up to 50,000 immigrant visas available annually, according to the USCIS website.
Noem made the comments after officials said on Thursday the suspect in the mass shooting at Brown University last weekend, identified as Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente, had died.
“The Brown University shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente entered the United States through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card. This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” Noem wrote in a social media post.
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