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It may be beneficial to have a look at http://www.city-data.com/forum/#u-s-forums. While the views/questions are mostly by and for the americans, the new immigrant(s) may get some insight into their prospective hometowns.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?447187-6/us-house-debates-compromise-immigration-bill&live

https://www.c-span.org/video/?447187-6/us-house-votes-goodlatte-mccaul-immigration-bill&live= House rejects 4760 193-231

What about the funding for the wall, it was a deal breaker a few weeks ago? Also, do you have a number for the bill such as HRxxxx or Sxxxx?

Please keep in mind that in Nov 2018 the 116th congress will be elected. All pending legislation will expire and the new congress will need to start from scratch.

The administration is insisting on the wall; I am assuming they are referring to HR4760.

@Britsimon: Google chrome is warning me about insecure content from this site

Vote Planned on Goodlatte Bill During Week of June 17 https://www.numbersusa.com/news/vote-planned-goodlatte-bill-during-week-june-17 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr4760

Politics make strange bedfellows: This article from NumbersUSA (proponents of lower immigration levels of all sorts, including DV) also declares the stalemate a victory, since amnesty proposals were also voted down. It was comforting to read "Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/white-house-framework-immigration-reform-border-security/

Here we go again, another "I get to have the last say". Pray tell what qualification(s) do you have to tell if the move is significant or not. Do forum participants have to "validate" their questions to you :-)

To all respondents: If you had bothered to read my post, I was asking "wonder what may have influenced this?", ie are there any important news that you heard recently!

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr4760 Prognosis: 13% chance of being enacted according to Skopos Labs (details) It went up to 13% from 7%; wonder what may have influenced this?

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr4760 Prognosis: 7% chance of being enacted according to Skopos Labs (details)

No prognosis? There is no text yet :-)

The conservatives do not seem to be pleased with this DACA business, here is a video clip from Fox featuring Ann Coulter:

You can follow the progress of the latest bill: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr4760 There are 4 more bills seeking to eliminate the DV program, that I am aware of: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr4340 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr3775...

There are three bills in congress targeting the DV program: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr3775 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s354 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr1178

The results announcement date is also pushed back (to May 15th I believe) as a result of this hiccup. Are we to deduce that they are using every hour of every day until the announcement to select the candidates :D thus a few days of delay in the beginning affects the whole schedule?

Finally, https://www.dvlottery.state.gov/ has been updated with relevant information.