Does the "green card" lottery still exist?

Question

With all the immigration problems that we're having in the United States, I was wondering if the government still has the "green card" lottery. They used to raffle 5,000 green cards every year.

Answer 1

Yes, it's called the "diversity lottery". The official notice follows:

"DV Lottery Instructions

"The congressionally mandated Diversity Immigrant Visa Program is administered on an annual basis by the Department of State and conducted under the terms of Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Section 131 of the Immigration Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-649) amended INA 203 to provide for a new class of immigrants known as "diversity immigrants" (DV immigrants). The Act makes available 50,000 permanent resident visas annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States."

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Answer 2

Yes it still exists. However, Mexico is not a part of it if that is relevant to you. It comes up on this board fairly often. The lottery is to kind of even out the fact that there are 'unofficially' so many from certain countries here.

Answer 3

Yes it still is and they give away 50 000 a year. The government sweeps some universities in Europe with pamphlets to persuade people to emigrate to USA. They make advertising on Yahoo.se too, which might be used by more that 10 000 000 people a day in the Nordic countries. As far as I know the interest is very low to settle down in USA and tell me, who wants an USA passport today?

Answer 4

yes. check on yahoo and click the green card lottery

Answer 5

It's not 5000, it's about 50000-55000 and yes it is still there.

Answer 6

NOT!