The Trump administration has suspended the US green card lottery after a suspect in a mass shooting at Brown University was found to have entered the country through the program. Kristi Noem, US homeland security chief, announced the immediate halt to the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV1) following the incident.

• Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national, is accused of killing two and wounding nine at Brown University, and also killing a professor at MIT.
• The homeland security chief, Kristi Noem, directed USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) to pause the program.
• The US green card lottery grants up to 55,000 permanent resident visas annually.