{"id":15651,"date":"2026-01-15T09:16:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/?p=15651"},"modified":"2026-01-15T09:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:16:24","slug":"pause-in-diversity-lottery-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/2026\/01\/15\/pause-in-diversity-lottery-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Pause in Diversity Lottery Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.e2ma.net%2Fclick%2F1s4zfk%2F5fh4iaf%2Fh9rxv8&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cjillian.hautman%40vanderbilt.edu%7Cac7df9a3898a4cfc0f4308de544763f0%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C639040862768081981%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=k4xYXdQmd2UVA5zJOrYuXBI2rOYNiONSmsN8QD9mIgI%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><strong>Diversity visa issuance<\/strong><\/a> and related adjustment approvals are temporarily paused while additional security reviews are conducted. The visa lottery provides a limited number of immigrant visas each year to those from countries with low U.S. immigration rates. No approvals will be issued during this pause. Find more information\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.e2ma.net%2Fclick%2F1s4zfk%2F5fh4iaf%2Fx1sxv8&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cjillian.hautman%40vanderbilt.edu%7Cac7df9a3898a4cfc0f4308de544763f0%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C639040862768105604%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=5b7KmbrCM8dsw%2FWVVQ1uypyUZEQEGwUPDc%2BpYtB8epg%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-name=\"here\" data-type=\"url\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diversity visa issuance and related adjustment approvals are temporarily paused while additional security reviews are conducted. The visa lottery provides a limited number of immigrant visas each year to those from countries with low U.S. immigration rates. No approvals will be issued during this pause. Find more information\u00a0here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8500,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","ACF":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}