Dozens of people are suing the US government for mistakenly telling them that they had won lottery.
Dozens of people are suing the US government for mistakenly telling them that they had won a spot to apply for a US visa through the annual visa lottery system.
People say that they spent time and money preparing for their new life and are devastated to learn it was just a bureaucratic mistake. Roughly 22,000 individuals were told they had been selected through the visa lottery system. Immigration officers later discovered that it has been a computer error. A new lottery is set for July 15.
Diversity Visa Lottery is an annual free-for-all established by Congress in 1994 to increase the number of immigrants from the developing world. The lottery selects 90,000 names from a pool of online entrants.
Dozens of people are suing the US government for mistakenly telling them that they had won a spot to apply for a US visa through the annual visa lottery system.
People say that they spent time and money preparing for their new life and are devastated to learn it was just a bureaucratic mistake. Roughly 22,000 individuals were told they had been selected through the visa lottery system. Immigration officers later discovered that it has been a computer error. A new lottery is set for July 15.
Diversity Visa Lottery is an annual free-for-all established by Congress in 1994 to increase the number of immigrants from the developing world. The lottery selects 90,000 names from a pool of online entrants.
