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Good point and depending on country of nationality, the odds can in fact be pretty good.
by proberts 9y ago
Good point and depending on country of nationality, the odds can in fact be pretty good.
- ottoid 9y agoHaving been born in Oman, a country with historically low rates of immigration to the United States, I have never won in years of applications. Are the odds still good?
- adamnemecek 9y agoHow many times did you try? I think the rate is like 2-3% for most countries.
- ottoid 9y ago5
- joyceschan 9y agoalso, can one apply for Green card lottery while they are on TN visa?
- uiri 9y agoNot a lawyer, eligibility is based upon being born in a country with low immigration to the US. I neither Canada nor Mexico qualify although I can't find the exact list right now.
- dcs19010 9y agoHere are the odds, by country. Rate of legal immigration doesn't seem to be a primary determinate for that country's odds. www.usagreencardlottery.org/green-card-statistics.jsp
- cletus 9y agoSlight nit: you want to add http to that so it gets linkified. Thanks for posting it. It's super-interesting. I always suspected the chance for my country (Australia) was _reasonably_ good. This bears that out. In fact it might even be higher (5%) than I'd expected. That being said I tried like 6-8 times and never won. But that's not too surprising even at 1 in 20. In fact I think I've only ever met one person who had won this. As it happened he was from Russia.
- klipt 9y agoThere are quotas by "geographic region" (roughly, continent): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_Immigrant_Visa#Distribution_and_lottery_process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_Immigrant_Visa#Distr... Oceania (Australia, New Zealand and some other islands) happens to have few applicants relative to its regional quota.
- TorKlingberg 9y agoWhat does "Winning Chances" mean? It is often very different from "Winning % By Country".
- vacri 9y agoI had trouble figuring that out as well. Maybe it's "total wins proportion-out-of-100"? It seems to scale with the absolute count. If it is that, then it's a terrible name.
- senatorobama 9y agoI'm an Australian citizen but was born in Pakistan. Do I go in the Australian queue or Pakistani queue for green card lottery?
- sumedh 9y agoYou go in the Pakistani queue. One of my friend who is an Indian citizen can apply because he was born in Kuwait while folks who were born in India cannot apply.
- senatorobama 9y agoHow stupid. I am an Australian for all intents and purposes.
- sumedh 9y agoI believe one of the reason for having that rule is to prevent people buying citizenship of some poor country and then use that to apply for the lottery. Selecting by country of birth prevents those shenanigans.
- ndeepak 9y agoIf you're married to an Australian (non-Pakistani), you can "cross-charge" your GC application to your spouse. This is true for employer-based GC, may apply to diversity visa as well.