Posted on 01/01/2009 9:48:22 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
(CNSNews.com) – A little-known State Department program has allowed about 3,400 immigrants to come to the U.S. in 2008 from the four nations that a currently listed by the State Department as “state sponsors of terror” – Iran, Cuba, Syria and Sudan.
According to a State Department report on the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, 691visas were granted to immigrants from Cuba, 1,435 to immigrants from Iran, 1,147 to immigrants from Sudan and 94 to immigrants from Syria.
The program, mandated by Congress and administered by the State Department, consists of a lottery for applicants from countries with “low rates of immigration” to the U.S.
In the 2008 diversity visa (DV) lottery, the U.S. made available 50,000 visas for applicants.
Out of 6.4 million applicants, approximately 96,000 were chosen at random from countries in six different geographic regions, and registered. The 96,000 were then allowed to apply for one of the 50,000 visas.
Applicants must be “natives” of an eligible country -- in most cases, the applicant’s country of birth. Applicants must also have either a high school education or its equivalent, 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,” according to the official lottery program regulations. “Qualifying work experience” is determined by the U.S. Department of Labor.
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A Look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
just as there used to be a question on US Visa applications ;
Have you ever been a member of the Communist or Nazi parties ?
There should be a question ; Are you now ,or have you ever been a muslim?
No visa....
There’s one responding to this video. A pro-Hamas Yemeni- born Somalian going to college in Dallas Texas. What a wonderful world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp_zyfo0DiY
Ping for later
Our most recent Russian immigrants passed through Israel, claiming Judaic roots.
OTOH, I wonder how many are claiming oppression of Christianity in Muslim countries?
Is there any doubt that the purpose of the Dept of State
is the overthrow of America and the US Constitution?
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