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More and more East European countries are winning the Green Card Lottery |
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| In the past 5 years more and more Eastern European countries are winning the US green Card Lottery. More and more people from these countries are applying the lottery and are hoping to win a Green Card and live and work legally in the USA. |
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| Among the East European nations, Ukrainians, Poland, Albanian, Bulgaria, and Romania have expressed the greatest interest to win a green card and becoming US residents with some 27,000 winners from Ukraine, 24,000 from Poland, 13,000 for Albania, 14,000 from Bulgaria, and 9,000 from Romania, |
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The US Green Card Lottery Program makes available 50,000 permanent resident visas annually, to people from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.
The visas are scattered among six geographic regions with a greater number of visas going to regions with low rates of immigration.
This gives the East European countries a better chance to win a green card than other countries in the globe. |
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| Congress passed the first green-card-lottery law in 1986, establishing the current program in 1990. The lotteries are designed to increase the diversity of new immigration to the United States. Because immigration from some countries had slowed after passage of the 1965 immigration reforms, prospective immigrants from these countries had few relatives in the United States who could petition for them. Lottery supporters argued that these countries needed "new seeds" to allow for new immigration. The first lotteries benefited primarily Irish and other Europeans. The present lottery is much broader more and more people from all over the world would want to win a green card. Immigration from Africa and East Europe for instance, has increased substantially because of the lottery. |
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| Under the current lottery law, 50,000 winners will get permanent residence this year. The Consular Center sent approximately 82,000 winners notices. The Center knows that some winners will not apply and that others won't qualify. The winners are divided up among six geographic regions with a maximum of 7 percent available to persons born in any single country. Applying to the lottery is free, however more and more people are using an official forms specialists like in www.usgcrs.org to win a green card. |
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| The increase of applications and winners from the East European countries are because of more and more people have met the qualifications to apply the US green card lottery. There are 2 simple requirements to be eligible and to participate in the USA Green Card Lottery. To check if you can win a green card, a free eligibility test can be found at www.usgcrs.org. |
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| “To win a green card is like when you play Megamillions," said Victor Larkovc a native of Ukraine. Larkovc received a green card through the lottery in late 2003, shortly after moving to the United States on a student visa to get a BA. in International Relationship in Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. |
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| "I played a couple of lotteries, but I never won anything. That was the only lottery I won. I tried to play Megamillions when I came here, but I didn't get a single number." |
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| The lottery is giving the chance to thousands of people each year from countries such as Ukraine, Ethiopia, Ghana and Bulgaria - places in Africa and Eastern Europe where natives move to the U.S. less regularly than do people from other nations, and they all have one thing in common the desire to win a green card. |
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In some countries, the lottery is just about the only way to get a green card.
There is no cost to apply using the State Department website online form at http://www.state.gov/. However almost 28% of applications are disqualified. every year, because of various reasons like submitting more than one application in a year, many people don't meet the qualifications or don't pass background checks. More and more people used the help of usgcrs.org to win a green card and to live and work in the USA.
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| Apply online for the American Green Card Lottery Program - Click here to
register |
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