Posts tagged “Diversity Visa refusals”

The Diversity Lottery program was created to diversify our immigrant population and give individuals the opportunity to immigrate who otherwise would not be eligible. No one can argue that the program has not achieved these objectives over the years, with hundreds of thousands of individuals and their families from around the world receiving green cards. But it has also been ravaged by scandal, usually provoked by overzealous, biased, or incompetent consular staff. The latest: consular staff at the US Embassy in Kenya, after collecting fees from DV-2024 winners from Somalia in September and causing them to incur thousands of dollars in expenses to travel to Kenya for their visa interviews, automatically denied them.