The lottery system for a segment of Green Cards, known as the Diversity Immigrant Visa programme, has been restarted. However ...

The requirement adds a pre-entry cost and a documentation step for applicants to help tackle fraud, per the State Department.

Despite tougher rules, the development will not have any direct impact on Indian applicants, who are already excluded from the programme.

The U.S government said the changes are meant to enhance vetting and reduce fraud by making it easier to verify an individual’s identity earlier in the process.

The Donald Trump administration has announced significant new changes to the Diversity Visa (DV) Programme, commonly known as the green card lottery.

President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States. Homeland Security Secretary ...