{"id":956,"date":"2026-01-09T08:41:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isaford.com\/?p=956"},"modified":"2026-01-09T08:41:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:41:45","slug":"us-suspends-diversity-visa-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isaford.com\/km\/us-suspends-diversity-visa-program\/","title":{"rendered":"US Suspends Diversity Visa Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.goway.com\/production\/hero\/iStock-1569136577_0.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Gate Bridge Tours 2025\/2026 | Goway Travel\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On 18 December 2025, President Trump suspended the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, sometimes called the \u201cgreen card lottery,\u201d following shootings at Brown University and of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor by a Portuguese national who immigrated to the United States in 2017 under that program and obtained legal permanent residence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt President Trump\u2019s direction, I am immediately directing USCIS to pause the Diversity Visa program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program,\u201d Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On 18 December 2025, President Trump suspended the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, sometimes called the \u201cgreen card lottery,\u201d following shootings at Brown University and of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor by a Portuguese national who immigrated to the United States in 2017 under that program and obtained legal permanent residence. \u201cAt President Trump\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-isaford-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isaford.com\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isaford.com\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isaford.com\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isaford.com\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isaford.com\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/isaford.com\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/isaford.com\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isaford.com\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isaford.com\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isaford.com\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isaford.com\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}