The U.S. has paused printing and issuing Diversity Visas, leaving Nepali DV-2026 selectees in limbo even after interviews. Officials say interviews may continue, but no DV visas will be issued for now as the government reviews screening after the Brown University shooting and the killing of an MIT professor.
Authorities have identified former Brown student Claudio Neves Valente as the gunman in the Brown University attack and the killing of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, and the case has already led President Trump to suspend the U.S. diversity visa lottery that once gave him a green card.
A campus shooting inside an engineering building at Brown University in Providence has killed two students and injured nine others during final exams, as police and the FBI hunt for a masked gunman who remains at large.