India, Oct. 21 -- The Trump administration has filed an appeal against a federal judge's directive mandating that the State Department reinstate the 2027 Diversity Visa lottery and has concurrently requested that the judge suspend the directive pending the appellate review, as per Newsweek.

U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta of the Southern District of California issued a preliminary injunction in response to litigation initiated by immigration law firm Red Eagle Law, L.C., instructing the department to restore the Diversity Visa Program commencing with its lottery registration phase.

The initiative, frequently referred to as the green card lottery, allocates approximately 55,000 diversity visas annually to people from other nations that ...