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Diversity Visa (Green Card) Lottery Submission Deadline in Four Days
- poundy 14y agoIt looks like they are issuing 50,000 visas this year. Any stats on how many people apply for this?
- sasvari 14y agoThere are some interesting statistics on the Wikipedia page [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_Immigrant_Visa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_Immigrant_Visa
- ArekDymalski 14y agoTBH sthe idea off turning such important (both for potential new citizens and country) process seems very inappropriate to me. I'm aware that it seems time- and cost-effective but is disgusting anyway.
- mseebach2 14y agoThe goal of the diversity visa is explicitly diversity and nothing is more diverse than randomness. This is not the path you're expected to take if you have a pressing reason to come to the US.
- ArekDymalski 14y agoHey, I've never looked at it from the perspective of stimulating diversity. Thanks.
- onetwothreefour 14y agoI can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but it has that in its name?
- cfontes 14y agoHum, brazilians are out as always... I see a lot of cool jobs (Scala and JS) listed on Angel list, I would love to be able to apply but without already having a H1B or Green card there is no way :(
- smcl 14y agoThe UK too. What's the options for those not eligible? The fact that these nationalities are excluded from this visa and that there are a large-ish number of such nationals currently resident in the US suggests that there is some legit route available.
- evride 14y agoFind an American to marry.
- smcl 14y agoNot sure why this is downvoted, while it's not a solution I'd pursue it is a valid response.
- gadders 14y agoYeah, saddens me there isn't a way in like this for us Brits,
- thisone 14y agoIt's no easier the other way around, trust me. And it's gotten a lot harder in the past few years. If you seriously want to live in the states, you can try things like going back to university, or trying to get a job with a US company in the UK, with the plan of being transferred. Or, find some ex-pat pubs and cosy on up to the opposite sex person of your choice (US immigration doesn't really to the whole un-married partners thing)!
- gadders 14y ago
- dmishe 14y agoWhile I don't blame US at all, because I hold H1. I find it slightly ridiculous that a skilled worker needs to go thru so much hoops and long-running-processess and pay around $20k for visas and GC (if done by himself), and yet somebody can just win one of those GCs, not having to work, and bring their whole family along.
- arbuge 14y agoThe skilled worker can try the lottery too though. So another way to look at it is that he/she has 2 ways to get a visa, compared to the unskilled with just one.
- onetwothreefour 14y agoYou can also apply for the lottery, so what's the problem? It's called a diversity visa for a reason. To add diversity.