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12 /immigration-news.php IMMIGRATION NEWS

New Federal Lawsuit Challenges New Passport Requirement for Green Card Lottery, Says Policy Unfairly Targets Africans

By Irungu Thairu Wed, 09/25/2019 @ 09:56pm 8880 views 9 comments
New Federal Lawsuit Challenges New Passport Requirement for Green Card Lottery, Says Policy Unfairly Targets Africans

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A federal lawsuit that challenges the Trump administration’s new requirement that diversity visa lottery (green card lottery) applicants posses a valid passport enter the lottery was filed on Tuesday.

The policy was announced by the State Department in June and becomes effective for Diversity Visa 2021 (DV-2021) registration, which is set to start on October 2nd. The State Department at the time of the announcing the policy said the passport requirement would reduce fraud in the lottery system. Previously, a passport was only needed at the green card interview stage for those who won the lottery.

In the lawsuit, the plaints argue the change presents an unreasonable financial and logistical burden for applicants from African countries. “In addition to financial hardship, administrative hurdles make acquiring a new passport time-consuming and impractical in many African countries,” the plaintiffs argue.

Intended to diversity the US population, The diversity visa lottery awards 50,000 visas annually to nationals of countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.

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  • How to Avoid being Disqualified from the Green Card Lottery (Diversity Visa Program)

  • Requirements to Participate in the DV-2021 Diversity Visa Program (Green Card Lottery)

 

 

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Rency

Thu, 09/26/2019 @ 07:44am

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I am really so much interested in applying for the Green card and I hope that everything will work out well

Iriene shi

Thu, 09/26/2019 @ 03:37pm

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I hope this time is a right time for me and my family

Emad Al Dahleh

Thu, 09/26/2019 @ 04:08pm

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USA, Dream of my life.

Please my lord make it possible, That's all I want.

Sadayangy

Fri, 09/27/2019 @ 01:34am

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Usa

Belidah

Fri, 09/27/2019 @ 01:38am

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I have been planning to participate this year only to realize that I don't have a passport and it will take long for me to get one, that's how my dreams have been shattered

Ur subconscious

Fri, 09/27/2019 @ 09:21am

In reply to I have been planning to… by Belidah

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Your dream is still valid. This is just a minor obstacle. You can't give up now, you hear me?!

Nikolai

Fri, 09/27/2019 @ 01:53am

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I think it’s not a real reason of this case 🤔 If they don’t have passport, and win a lottery how they will come in the US? without passport it’s impossible. I think it’s a great idea to add passport number because right now there are a lot of frauds who are making money on applying for someone, they will loose this business.

MUHAMMAD AZHAR IQBAL

Fri, 09/27/2019 @ 05:49am

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very good America
my dream is American visa

Yohannes Ayele

Sat, 09/28/2019 @ 12:31am

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am glad to hear such like info.for those who are happy in getting chance for US visa.

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