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"Most Americans do not even know that we have a lottery to give out Visas, but the rest of the world knows. In 2009, more than 15 million applications for the Visa Lottery were filled online. The only requirement is a high school diploma or some equivalency. The immigrants are selected by simply putting the applications in a lottery. 50,000 Diversity Immigrant Visas are then granted random chance...countries such as Iran, Sudan, Syria are among the countries that receive the most visas...Illegal aliens who have already broken into this country can apply for legal citizenship through the diversity lottery without even returning to their nation of origin."
I did not know a Diversity Visa Lottery existed. I thought visas were only given to people who plugged a specific workforce hole or who needed one to escape some inhumane regime or who had helped the US and then found their life was in danger.
In times of big American unemployment, should we be giving out these random Diversity Lottery Visas at all? The question isn't should we be giving out visas. The question is whether we should be giving them to people who only get them because they were lucky enough to have their name drawn in a lottery considering the current unemployment situation and the only criteria is high school diploma.
It's pretty infuriating that my mother, who has lived here legally for 17 years, still cannot apply for a green card until I become naturalized yet some lucky bastard can get a visa by pure chance.
I thought most green cards were issued through a lottery. When I first thread the thread title I thought you were referring to 7% visa cap per country when you said diversity. Hundreds of thousands of people legally immigrate to this country in this manner.
edit: After reading the article, I agree about repealing it. Our immigration laws actually favor applicants from countries with less green card applicants anyway so I don't see the need for the law.
Every year millions of would-be immigrants take a gamble and submit their names for the U.S. government's annual visa lottery. The odds of getting permission to move to the United States are slim at best — nearly 15 million people applied in 2010 for 55,000 visas — and could get slimmer. bill to abolish the annual lottery was referred by the Judiciary Committee to the full House Wednesday. (http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/bill-to-abolish-visa-1029655.html - broken link)
That being said, perhaps we should be more focused on the people we already have in America... vice those who are hoping for their 50,000:15,000,000+ chance of coming here legally.
In June 2011, the High School Graduate (highest level of education) unemployment rate was 10%. I don't know why we would want to contribute to the woes of those Americans by bringing in more people to compete with them for jobs. It's not right.
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Bill to abolish visa lottery moves to full House
