U.S. Judge Voids Quarantine Rule for Diversity Visa Winners (1)

U.S. State Department requirements that diversity visa winners from large swaths of Europe and elsewhere quarantine outside those places before receiving their papers is contrary to a recent court order granting the issuance of their visas, a federal judge ruled.

Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia called the government’s coronavirus-based quarantine requirement for those DV winners “illogical” and without legal basis in an order issued late Monday, after immigration attorneys complained the U.S. was failing to comply with his Sept. 4 ruling.

“The Quarantine Requirement seems designed to frustrate DV2020 applicants who ...