Wednesday, November 28, 2012

The Criterion Of Awarding The Green Card Lottery

By Gloria Gardner


The Green Card lottery is an effort by the United States of America to provide employment and residence to people in less developed countries. Through section 203 of the constitution, the country has been able to continually provide these services to people in less developed countries and to date, there are many people who have been beneficiaries of American visas.

The program runs an annual allotment of visas. About fifty thousands individuals are considered for it. They are given the right to live and work in the United States. Normally, those considered have to be from citizens of countries with low rate immigration to the United States.

This exercise was introduced at the start of the nineties and has been ever growing with each annual allotment. However, those countries that have had more than fifty thousand immigrants in the prior five years are not considered to be in the running for this awarding. Canada, Jamaica and India are top of the list of disqualified countries in this lottery. The list is kept in check year after year and updated with before each allotment.

The list of ineligible countries still continues to be updated with more and more countries being added to it. Each annual allotment is based on different criterion for issuance. That is why the list of ineligibility also keeps being changed from time to time.

Countries keep finding themselves in either the eligible or ineligible side of the United States awarding criterion. Disqualification or qualification for countries may keep changing either way for a nation. Canada is one of those countries that have hopped between the two sides of the lists.

Critics suggest that this is not an advisable move since it may lead to the entry of terrorists into the country. Certain checks have to be kept in the whole exercise of the green card lottery bonanza. It could also lead to too many people of the same nationality entering the United States.




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