Green Card Update: Judge Freezes Reopening of Diversity Visa Lottery
Summary
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked an order requiring the Trump administration to open registration for the fiscal year 2027 Diversity Visa lottery. The stay lets the government keep registration paused while it appeals; the court did not decide the underlying case.Key Facts
- The court granted the government’s emergency request to pause a preliminary injunction.
- The injunction would have required the State Department to open registration by November 1.
- Red Eagle Law sued Secretary of State Marco Rubio in August over the lack of registration for the fiscal year 2027 program.
- The appeals court said the State Department had not explained why it failed to open registration and that this effectively canceled the program.
- The court said Red Eagle had not shown it was likely to succeed because it lacked a cause of action and was outside the statute’s zone of interests.
- The Diversity Visa Program makes up to 55,000 visas available each year to people from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.
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