Trump Suspends Green Card Lottery: Indians Already Ineligible, Other Routes Shrink

• US President Donald Trump suspended the "Diversity visa program" (green card lottery) after a shooting suspect entered via the scheme.
• Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered the pause, citing the program as "disastrous" and a threat to Americans.
• The program offers 50,000 green cards annually but bars countries with over 50,000 immigrants to the US in the last five fiscal years.
• India, China, Mexico, and the Philippines are typically ineligible; India's high immigration numbers confirm its exclusion until 2028.
• Indians face shrinking alternative immigration paths like H-1B conversion, investment, asylum, or family sponsorship under stricter Trump policies.

Why It Matters: Trump's green card lottery suspension impacts few Indians directly, but overall US immigration tightens.