In 1990, the Diversity Visa Lottery program began disbursing 55,000 green cards to randomized foreign nationals hailing from countries with supposedly low rates of immigration. Stipulated in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990, members of Congr…
Diversity Visa Lottery
One of the many unhelpful provisions in President Joe Biden’s massive immigration package would raise the diversity visa lottery’s annual ceiling to 80,000. Tucked into just three lines on Page 217 of the 353-page bill, it opens 25,000 additional slots…
In the September 2020 Visa Bulletin, U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs announced the results of the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, or Diversity Visa Lottery, for FY 2021. The top countries “winning the visa lottery game” this yea…