"Neves Valente had studied at Brown on a student visa beginning in 2000, according to an affidavit from a Providence police detective. In 2017, he was issued a diversity immigrant visa and months later obtained legal permanent residence status, according to the affidavit. It was not immediately clear where he was between taking a leave of absence from the school in 2001 and getting the visa in 2017."
"The diversity visa program makes up to 50,000 green cards available each year by lottery to people from countries that are little represented in the U.S., many of them in Africa. Nearly 20 million people applied for the 2025 visa lottery, with more than 131,000 selected when including spouses with the winners. After winning, they must undergo vetting to win admission to the United States."
President Donald Trump ordered the suspension of the diversity immigrant visa (green card lottery) program, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem directed U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the program. The suspect, Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente, entered the United States after receiving a diversity immigrant visa in 2017 and later obtained permanent residence. Neves Valente is suspected in shootings at Brown University that killed two students and wounded nine others, and in the killing of an MIT professor; he was later found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Nearly 20 million people applied for the 2025 lottery, which offers up to 50,000 visas annually; winners undergo consular interviews and vetting.
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