Egyptian and Russian citizens won the most U.S. green cards in this year’s random visa lottery

By artappraiser on Mon, 07/29/2019 - 12:35am |

By Daniel Shoer Roth @ MiamiHerald.com, July 27

More than 23 million people from around the world — the applicants and their family members or “derivatives” — tried this year to legally immigrate to the United States and achieve the American Dream through the visa lottery program, the U.S. State Department statistics show.

Winners were selected through a randomized computer drawing from over 14 million qualified entries received during the 34-day application period last year.

According to the department, the visas were distributed among six geographic regions “with a maximum of seven percent available to persons born in any single country.” [....]

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