Opening the borders? The 2005 Diversity Immigration Visa Program

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[GeronL]

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE 2005 DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAM (DV-2005)

The congressionally mandated Diversity Immigrant Visa Program is administered on an annual basis by the Department of State and conducted under the terms of Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Section 131 of the Immigration Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-649) amended INA 203 to provide for a new class of immigrants known as "diversity immigrants" (DV immigrants). The Act makes available 50,000 permanent resident visas annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.

The annual DV program makes permanent residence visas available to persons meeting the simple, but strict, eligibility requirements. Applicants for Diversity Visas are chosen by a computer-generated random lottery drawing. The visas, however, are distributed among six geographic regions with a greater number of visas going to regions with lower rates of immigration, and with no visas going to citizens of countries sending more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. in the past five years. Within each region, no one country may receive more than seven percent of the available Diversity Visas in any one year.

For DV-2005, natives of the following countries are not eligible to apply because they sent a total of more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. in the previous five years:

CANADA, CHINA (mainland-born), COLOMBIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, EL SALVADOR, HAITI, INDIA, JAMAICA, MEXICO, PAKISTAN, PHILIPPINES, RUSSIA, SOUTH KOREA, UNITED KINGDOM (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and VIETNAM. Persons born in Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taiwan are eligible.

[GeronL]

These are the countries that are NOT elgible, all of the rest ARE!!!

CANADA, CHINA (mainland-born), COLOMBIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, EL SALVADOR, HAITI, INDIA, JAMAICA, MEXICO, PAKISTAN, PHILIPPINES, RUSSIA, SOUTH KOREA, UNITED KINGDOM (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and VIETNAM

You gotta read this thing!! Its an application!!

[GeronL]

LINK to it!!

[ETERNAL WARMING]

to persons from countries with low rates of immigration

That is why we now have so many Arabs living in America. It's a redistribution of populations per the UN. Thanks alot to our leaders for ruining this country with too much immigration and out of control illegal immigration. And the bad news is that there appears to be no end in sight! Vote them out of office. It's time they learned we're serious about this issue, even if they're not.

[11B3]

I'm starting to feel the need to brew some tea in the Potomac, along with getting the tar and feathers ready. Otherwise, it will turn into voting from the rooftops.

[dougherty]

OMG, it never ends.

[dagnabbit]

George Bush's war on Americans continues.

[mark502inf]

This program is 10 years old and offers a total of 50,000 visas per year to people who must apply and document the info on their applications--not much compares to what pours over our borders illegally every month--and we have no idea who those people are.

Check the numbers--50,000 divided into 6 regions--let's say the largest region gets 10,000 visas. Then no more than 7% can come from a country in that region, equalling no more than 700 visas for any given country.

I know a couple from south-east Europe that came to America under this program last year. They speak English, have jobs, and fly an American flag from the balcony of their apartment. We've got an immigration problem, but this program is not it.

[gubamyster]

ping

[Joe Hadenuf]

That is why we now have so many Arabs living in America. It's a redistribution of populations per the UN. Thanks alot to our leaders for ruining this country with too much immigration and out of control illegal immigration. And the bad news is that there appears to be no end in sight!

And look at George Bush's Texas...

Middle Easterners Streaming Into Texas:

The HoustonChronicle.com ^ | Aug, 2002 | Edward Hegstrom

Middle Easterners streaming to Texas

By EDWARD HEGSTROM Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle

Texas has one of the nation's fastest-growing Middle Eastern populations, and most of the state's immigrants live in Houston, according to a study based on census data.

Researchers at the Center for Immigration Studies say Texas' Middle Eastern population more than doubled in the last decade, to just over 100,000, including more than 52,000 in Greater Houston.

What lunacy.....

[dagnabbit]

Any program in existence in late 2003 is G. Bush's responsibility, regardless of when it began.

Admittedly , the 50,000 per year allowed in under this fraud-ridden program aren't much compared to other G. Bush legal and illegal immigrant flows. These 50k however need have no qualifications other than a high school degree or equivalent, and as noted elsewhere on this thread, a great many of them are muslim and come from terrorist-source countries.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

This program we can thank Ted Kennedy for. Nothing like bringing in terrorists from Middle Eastern countries to enrich our society.

[ask]

It's a redistribution of populations per the UN ,Human Rights

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Time to get out of the UN.

[Brownie74]

An applicant must have EITHER a high school education or its equivalent, defined as successful completion of a 12-year course of elementary and secondary education; OR two years of work experience within the past five years in an occupation requiring at least two years of training or experience to perform.

Does this apply to weed eater operators? Will they qualify?

[Bernard Marx]

Any program in existence in late 2003 is G. Bush's responsibility, regardless of when it began.

Well, not really. The President can't change legislation enacted by Congress, especially when it was signed by his own Dad. Of course Kennedy may be responsible for the corruption of the bill's original intent -- I haven't been able to check that.

There's some interesting background if you'll only take a little time to do the research on Google. It was originally passed to increase immigration from European countries. You might try this first:

http://www.cis.org/articles/1997/IR28/visa_lottery.html

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

The Kill America plan.....

F the elites.

[junta]

Cease with the propaganda would you? The mad Egyptian who shot up the El Al counter at LAX was a "winner" or at least his wife was, but anyway immigration of all kinds is out of control.

[Celtman]

The President can't change legislation enacted by Congress, especially when it was signed by his own Dad.

      Heres a novel thought.  A Republican controlled congress could repeal some of the socialist, anti-american, destructive, and just plain bad legislation passed in the past.  I don't care who passed it, who signed it, or what its supposed intent was.  This should include the DV-2005 and H1-B programs.  But then, I guess I'm given to pipe dreams.

[Bernard Marx]

A Republican controlled congress could repeal some of the socialist, anti-american, destructive, and just plain bad legislation passed in the past.

I'm certainly in agreement. But the poster said it was GWB's responsibility and that's not entirely accurate. Here's the problem, though:

Without 60 votes to crush filibusters, we don't really have a Congress that can do what you suggest. It can't even get an up-down vote on judicial nominees. Worse, GWB [Rove] learned triangulation from Dick Morris and is selling out conservatives to pass MORE big government legislation like the medicare prescription bill. While there are still some big differences between the parties [tax cuts and partial birth abortion, f'rinstance], both parties have converged more and more in the middle. It remains to be seen whether Dean will move the Rats to the far Left again but for the time being conservatives like us will have to settle for half a loaf.

[Celtman]

... both parties have converged more and more in the middle ...

      And there is the real problem.