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Don’t Forget, the Green Card Lottery ends Dec 2, 2007 at Noon. You have less than one week to apply for this great chance of becoming an American. Please click here to begin the application process.   The lottery to another world

 
In 2000 Kita’s family won the Diversity Visa (DV) lottery that enabled them to make the move to the United States from Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program annually makes 50,000 permanent visas available to a random selection of people who “meet strict eligibility requirements [and come] from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States,” according to the U.S. State Department web site.
 
Individuals who receive visas through the program are permitted to bring spouses and unmarried children under the age of 21 to the United States and are authorized to permanently live and work in the country, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services web site. “Since everyone wants to come to America, it’s a way of randomly picking people,” Kita’s friend, senior Selam Kabtiymer, says. Although Kabtiymer’s family had also won the DV lottery, she and her family were able to come to the United States without the lottery’s help. Kabtiymer’s mother was already residing in the United States and so the rest of her family was able to get visas through her. Kabtiymer’s father had applied for the DV lottery in the case they were not able to obtain visas this way. (more…)

The glittering skyscrapers of New York, the Technicolor action of Hollywood and vibrant casino life of Las Vegas are the wild visions that Mr Job Kariu Ngugi nursed about the United States of America. For many people like Mr Ngugi, America is the place where dreams are born and opportunities seized.

 
Arriving in America in 1995 when he had just turned 21 , Mr Ngugi determined to study, earn a degree and come back to Kenya. He was later to learn that everything in America was not perfect.

 
“I was shocked that there are beggars, and there are wooden houses like in Kenya,” he says.
 
Nevertheless, his life took an unexpected turn, and a year later he won the green card lottery. Mr Ngugi was elated and returned to Kenya to process an immigrant visa.
 
“An applicant is given a deadline after which you cannot be issued with a visa,” he says.
 
Armed with the precious green card, Mr Ngugi was assured that he could legally work and live in the United States without fear of deportation. Like the thousands of fellow immigrants escaping from broken dreams in various countries, Mr Ngugi knew that he was an inch away from poverty - or riches.
 

He would see the sleek cars snaking through the streets of Boston, the jobs and the smoothness of life as compared to Nairobi. Though Mr Ngugi contends that the green card is just a piece of paper that grants you immigrant status in the US, he says it is a lifeline that has changed his life. (more…)

It’s taken a little luck and a whole lot of hard work, but Arjan and Milda Osmani are living their very own version of the American dream. The couple are Albanian immigrants who live in Crawfordsville. They came to the United States with their two young children in 1999 after being selected by lottery to be part of the U.S. Department of State National Visa Center’s DV-99 diversity immigrant program.

They received the first notification their names had been randomly selected for further consideration for the program on April 6, 1998.

In that first letter, the Osmanis were told they were not guaranteed a visa “because the number of applicants selected is greater than the number of visas available.” While 90,000 applicants had been chosen for further processing, the letter said, only 50,000 diversity visas were available worldwide.

The purpose of the DV lottery, according to visalaw.com, is to increase the diversity of immigrants coming to the U.S. Therefore, high admission states — including Canada and Mexico — are excluded from the lottery. Low admission states compete equally with other low admission states in the same region, and no single state may receive more than 7 percent of the allotted visas — which was 3,500 the year the Osmanis were selected. Arjan signed up for the lottery on a whim, he said. Registration for the lottery took place each October at the post office, Arjan said.

“We have a friend who won the lottery,” said Arjan, a dark-eyed man with a cheerful smile. “He come back to Albania talking (America) up.” (more…)

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