Posted on 07/02/2020 3:23:14 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CAIRO -- Noha, an Egyptian engineer, should feel lucky after winning a visa lottery that randomly selects people from a pool of more than 14 million applications for about 55,000 green cards that would let them live permanently in the United States.
But the hopes she and her husband had of moving with their two children to New York vanished last week when President Donald Trump extended a ban on many green cards issued outside the United States to the end of the year, including the lottery’s “diversity visas,” which have been issued every year since 1990 to people from underrepresented countries.
This year’s recipients learned of their good fortune about a year ago, but many had not yet completed the vetting process when American consulates closed in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now the administration’s latest step to reduce legal immigration has upended their lives, and many find themselves stuck in a worse situation than the one they were trying to escape.
The lottery requires that green cards be obtained by Sept. 30 or they will be voided. The State Department says no exceptions are made for those who do not yet have one in hand.
Noha and her children got their visas in February. But her husband, Ahmed, is still waiting, and the family fears his visa will never come.
The situation forces Noha to make an impossible choice between going alone to New York to seek a better life for the couple’s 7-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son, or giving up that dream so the family can stay together. She said she felt angry and cried for days after learning of Trump’s order.
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We have no problem with the LEGAL visas and immigrants, it is the ILLEGALS pouring over with no permission, no skills, no health checks, no background checks, and no limits on the numbers that are the problem.
>> powerball for terrorists.
lol
GFY
” to people from underrepresented countries”
So the United States are some sort of zoo where multiple species are supposed to be on display?
We aren’t the UN.
Egypt is a dictatorship in case you have not heard. If you try to make things better, you will be in prison.
Great post! And most illegals do not bring any wealth with them except a few bags of illegal drugs, and end up on welfare.
Zoo is not good analogy. Zoo’s only accepts animal which are checked for health and are rare. You do not see many dogs and cats or rats in zoo’s.
The US is an opportunity to come here and make a better life for yourself. But no one should have promised a free ride in. It shouldn’t mean that someone is that special when they get here, it means they can make themselves special by competition, not fast tracking. No one is that special they are recognized to be a better choice to come into this country because you have some type of talent that is all over the place already. Computer skills are not on a comparison with walking on water.
rwood
More WINNING!
SELCO’S rules of SHTF: DO NOT BE A FOREIGNER!
We’ve let in way too many islamonaxis (people need to be vetted! Before being let in here). And too many alien engineers ( offer the jobs to Americans first, dammmmmnit!).
Dear non-citzens, gtfo! You will thank me for this advice because things will get even more fugly here.
Priority #1
Round up and expel all 30 million wetbacks currently here.
Eff diversity. Leaving the front door open to anyone and everyone has turned this country into an open sewer in Calcutta. Press 1 for English. Press 2 for English. Press 0 to get the hell out of my country.
Let them into Guam, as long as they meet a 170 lb. weight limit so it won’t tip over.
A lot of American degreed engineers out of work, we don’t need Egyptian engineers here. Go pound sand, you have a lot of it.
“Feel” cheated. I am so tired of people’s feelings dictating policy.
Why would he want to come to a racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and fascist country on earth? These wannabe immigrants must learn that the USA is bad place.
Stay home, go home.
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