Considering the Great Britain are U.S's biggest allies, why are we not allowed to enter for the green card lottery? (except northern ireland). Citizens from Afghanistan are allowd to apply, even citizens from Australia, France, Germany, Switzerland are allowed but for some reason UK citizens are not. I know there are exemptions such as where your spouse or parents were born but what if you and your parents and your partner are Bristih born and raised - it doesn't seem fair! What is the reasoning behind this? Is there any other way around it? Can you appeal to the American embassy?
2007-02-09 23:16:30 · 15 answers · asked by ? 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
I'm with you, but we simply have too many people now with about a million coming illegally each year to loosen the lottery.
The lottery was set up for a purpose - some countries felt our 'family based' immigration favored unfairly people from countries where many immigrants were already here, particularly immigrants from Mexico and Central/South America. So those with more than some cut off number of immigrants were not allowed to be in the lottery in favor of those who had few here. England, because they ARE friends, had more than the cut off amount. North Ireland, for some reason, is still in it.
I think the family reunification basis for immigration should go, altogether, back to how it was prior to 1965, which allowed us to choose individuals rather than have automatic immigration through nepotism.
2007-02-10 03:10:02 · answer #1 · answered by DAR 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You have asked a question that a man I work with would love to know as well. It took him over 8 years to get approved to move to this country - along with having to show that he would not be on the welfare system, self supporting, and in good health.
It isn't fair. The reasoning is the type that is unreasonable. There is no way around it. Appealing to the American embassy won't help at all.
If I had my way - there would be no more 'lottery' for green cards.
2007-02-10 05:47:49 · answer #2 · answered by Toe the line 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because it is a "diversity" lottery. It is to make our immigrant pool more diverse, in other words, to spread out the countries that our immigrants come from. We already have plenty of immigrants each and every year from the UK. So adding UK immigrants will not make the immigrant pool any more diverse. So people from the UK are excluded, just as those from Canada, Mexico, China, India, etc are excluded.
2016-03-29 00:45:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
persons born in a country with a high rate of immigration into the U.S. are not allowed to apply for green card lottery , like south korea, china, mexico.
the goverment tries to have a equal emmigration quote from every country. so they can keep the status saying the usa is a immigration country.
2007-02-09 23:37:40 · answer #4 · answered by panny 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My God YO ALL ARE WRONG,
Green Card Lottery is a Diversity (Diversity is a key word) lottery, means that they want diverse immigrants.
\Therefore, countries, that send more then 50000 immigrants in 5 years are disqualified. Its Russia, Mexico, China, Vietnam , UK, Canad, India, etc.
Its is not very right, because china is huge, and some african country is small, and 50000 rule applies to both equally, but thats what they want.
2007-02-10 08:41:43 · answer #5 · answered by type2negative 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Probably because UK citizens can freely enter and leave the US without need for a visa. They can also buy and own property in the US - and if I am not wrong, can stay indefinitely. Hence no need for the rigorous process of Green Card Lottery.
2007-02-09 23:22:42 · answer #6 · answered by jnamunyu 1 · 0⤊ 4⤋
They can get a green card through the right channels. I know someone who has one.
2007-02-11 16:46:35 · answer #7 · answered by Angelfish 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The US 1965 immigration laws backed by - Ted Kennedy - were changed to benefit minorities by discouraging whites to come to America so we could become a minority nation and ultimately have no white majority.
2007-02-10 05:28:08 · answer #8 · answered by yars232c 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Why would you want one? you can get Mcdonalds, starbucks, driveby shootings, panhandling & pollution in the UK now, why travel so far, is there something else that the US has that they haven't sent us yet? Lordy knows what that will be.
2007-02-09 23:40:21 · answer #9 · answered by uncle fester 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i think the are 2 main reasons for it #1-economical and political situation in UK is stable, #2-historical- remember the history of the USA ?
2007-02-09 23:31:38 · answer #10 · answered by dr coach 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋