A California-based federal judge appointed by Joe Biden has ordered the U.S. State Department to reinstate the Diversity Immigrant Visa lottery for fiscal year 2027 by this Sunday, forcing the Trump administration to reopen a program it suspended after a Portuguese national who entered through the lottery was suspected in the deadly Brown University shooting and the murder of an MIT professor.
U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta of the Southern District of California issued a preliminary injunction requiring Secretary of State Marco Rubio to publicly announce and open registration for the program, which awards permanent residency (green cards) to up to 55,000 applicants annually from countries with historically low rates of immigration to the United States. A large share of these visas go to applicants from Africa.
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