Diversity Visa Lottery - 7.3-mill applicants in a one month period!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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If you don’t know what that is, here’s a brief explanation:

This year they had approx. 7.3 million applicants from eligible countries apply in a one month period. They end up selecting a small percentage of people from each country, based on how many people from that country have already emigrated to the US.

That’s not even counting the people who emigrate here using other methods, such as work related visas, marriage, etc

That is mind blowing!

Can you imagine how many people would emigrate to the States if all countries were eligible and there were no restrictions?

I just thought I’d share this info cuz it seems the US gets a pretty bad rap sometimes, but it seems as though there’s no shortage of folks wanting to move here!

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Oh, yeah - here’s a link:

http://travel.state.gov/dv2004results.html

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dont forget the UK either. parts of our coutry have a huge amount of economic migrants, and the violence isnt far behind…
Kings Lynn (a small city in the east) has a huge number of illegal chinese immigrants at the moment…

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That’s not so bad. The US has promised, but has yet to deliver, 20,000 yearly visas to Cubans. Every single year over 500,000 apply. This is in a country with a population of 11,000,000.

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The estimate the number of illegal aliens in the US at 13 million and may be as many as 20 million!

Wow.

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In addition to the approx. 7.3 million applicants who applied there were:

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hey, well when the U.S makes it self out to be the land of Coca Cola dreams and opportunity, of course people are going to want to come.

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Oh the US does more than “make itself out to be…”, take from someone who came to the US with little more than the clothes in his back, it IS the land of dreams and opportunity. Both in absolute and relative terms.