When Mohammad first won the Diversity Visa lottery in June 2020, he couldn't believe it.
Nearly 3 years later, he and his family remain in limbo, waiting to obtain their visas as promised.
https://t.co/eJs1ao7RIU
Each year, 11 million people apply for the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program. Applicants have a 1% chance of winning.
Now, tens of thousands of people are unsure of their status in the lottery process because of policy changes in the last 3 years. https://t.co/eJs1ao7RIU
The apeal of @DV2020@DV201 Lawsuits: Gomez, Goodluck, Kennedy, and others is preventing more than 20,000 families from achieving the American dream while were already checked by the uscis, so please encourage @SecBlinken to withdraw the appeal, let them come and help USA. 🇺🇸
@camiloreports Hey Camilo. Sponsorship program is a wise acknowledgement that legal paths deter unlawful ones. Yet @SecBlinken still throttles family-based immigration by prioritizing students/tourists, & he still fights 20k+ Diversity Visa immigrants with appeals. Why Blinken not on board?
@DanaBashCNN@chucktodd Please ask Secretary Blinken why he’s appealing 4 orders from 2 federal judges reserving and/or granting Diversity Lottery Visas to over 17,000 immigrants, the majority of whom are Africans. #ifitssunday#MTP#DV2020#DV2021
This is another step in Biden’s crusade to end a legal pathway for thousands of would be immigrants.
A shameful contradiction of @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris’s campaign rhetoric.
Falling in the category of 🤦♀️. The Biden administration has appealed our #DV2020 win in the Gomez case. If Biden valued diversity in our immigration system, his admin would not have appealed this modest win that orders 9,095 diversity visas to be issued. /1
Diversity visa lottery winners are seeing processing delays days before the Sep 30 deadline – and whether they will be able to call America home remains in limbo.
@chantaladasilva joins @AlisonMorrisNOW to explain who is impacted and what they are up against.
Anti-immigrant policies have prevented ~40K diversity visa winners from receiving their visas. We must pass the “Keeping Our Promise Act” to ensure they get their visas & are not penalized for past #Trump xenophobic measures. My oped w/ @FWDus in @thehill https://t.co/HjuUL4j85R
The Biden position loses lawsuits finding that they caused #DV2020 unreasonable delay. So, their position now is they'll issue in 2023.
Let's say you stole car. Judge says give back car. And you say, sure judge, but first, as soon as I steal another car. 💁♂️