The Trump administration has suspended the Green Card lottery program after Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national, was found to be the suspect in the Brown University shooting. Valente also killed an MIT professor before reportedly dying from a self-inflicted gunshot on Thursday evening. Valente entered the US in 2017 through the Diversity Visa (DV) lottery program and had been granted a Green Card. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said, "The heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country." The Diversity Visa lottery is a program for people from countries with low immigration rates to the US. It is different from the general Green Card program and was meant to randomly select up to 55,000 individuals. For the 2025 visa lottery, nearly 20 million people applied, and about 131,000 were selected including spouses. Portuguese citizens won only 38 slots. The suspension does not affect countries like India and China, whose citizens already have higher US immigration numbers. Affected countries in Africa, Europe, Oceania, South America, Central America, and the Caribbean become ineligible for the lottery. Many countries also face bans under Trump's travel restrictions. India, China, Mexico, Canada, UK (except Northern Ireland), Philippines, South Korea, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Vietnam have never qualified for the Diversity Visa lottery.