Why are citizens from Great Britain not allowed to apply for the U.S Green Card Lottery?
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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.
You Brits don't need one, just come on over!
I think its because simply it is like a lottery ! Great Britain just wasn't drawn this time !
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.
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 ?
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.
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.
I'm not too sure.
Why do you care?
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we kicked you guys out in 1776 and 1812 and you still want to come back?
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.
The Britian and the United States are one and the same.
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.
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.
They can get a green card through the right channels. I know someone who has one.
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