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”
Yes, we have a problem with LEGAL immigrants. Like 55,000 diversity visa lottery winners. And a lot of H1s, student visas, sham “refugee” claims, etc.
Let’s do a moratorium on legal immigration for about 5 years, during which time we can kick out those who should not be here. And we can come up with a sane policy on who we actually NEED here (and I’m not talking diversity picks).
Visa Lottery is a sham, and has NO value to America.
It should be scrapped, immediately.
Boo hoo. I guess she’ll just have to settle for living in her own country.
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