Belgium-82 / bangladesh-6,023 *why?*
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Two reasons come to mind: people from Europe do not try to get a green card as hard as those from Asia or Africa. (By Europe I mean its Western part, not semi-Europe like Ukraine or Belarus.) The other explanation is that since it's a diversity immigration, each country/region receives a certain amount of visas. When Africa gets too many (>50,000) in five years, it will be not allowed to participate.
It can be the first possibility because I don't think some european countries like belgium norway or sweden received many GC.
Btw was that your 1st try?
Guys, this is a no-brainer.
This is like "Are you smarter than a 8th grader?"
Elementary probability, 8th grade.
If you put 8 green balls and 2 blue balls in a bag, and pick out a ball ramdomly, what is the probability that you will get a:
1.) Blue ball (Let's say this represents Belgium).
It's 2/10 = 1/5
2.) Green ball (Let it represent Bangladesh)
It's 8/10 = 4/5.
It is because so many more people from Bangladesh enter the lottery that they have more winners than Belgium, from which fewer people enter the lottery.
And actually people from Belgium have a much higher chance of winning this thing. ~ 7,500 visas go to Asia, and ~ 20,000 goes to EU. I'm talking visas, not people who win the lottery.
This is like "Are you smarter than a 8th grader?"
Elementary probability, 8th grade.
If you put 8 green balls and 2 blue balls in a bag, and pick out a ball ramdomly, what is the probability that you will get a:
1.) Blue ball (Let's say this represents Belgium).
It's 2/10 = 1/5
2.) Green ball (Let it represent Bangladesh)
It's 8/10 = 4/5.
It is because so many more people from Bangladesh enter the lottery that they have more winners than Belgium, from which fewer people enter the lottery.
And actually people from Belgium have a much higher chance of winning this thing. ~ 7,500 visas go to Asia, and ~ 20,000 goes to EU. I'm talking visas, not people who win the lottery.
Are you sure it's based on applicants?
And the UK wasn't even allowed to participate anymore this year, because there are already enough brits in the US according to Immigration.
Here's how it was explained to me, could be wrong, but that's what I've been told.
It's not so much about how many participants of each country, but really about establishing "diversity" of nationalities in the US, hence some countries with supposedly low total numbers of this nationality in the US already (vs the total % of their home population) get granted more DV's.
So those newly created countries in the East, like Kosovo, Montenegro, Moldova, they are not that much bigger then Belgium but get more DV's assigned coz there are virtually no nationals of these countries in the US. Now when these countries where still part of Russia, Yugoslavia, they had a much smaller chance or percentage DV's assigned to their larger country.
Hence, I'm rooting for Belgium to split in two and we have the Country of Flanders and Wallonia, suddenly you'll see, rather then Belgium 82 DV's, Flanders will be assigned 2,000-odd DV's and so will Wallonia.
Of course Belgium will never be split in two, Flemish & Walloons will keep arguing and my changes (I'm Belgian
) of winning the DV will continue to be slim.
If I've got this wrong, please correct me, this is how some explained this to me.
And the UK wasn't even allowed to participate anymore this year, because there are already enough brits in the US according to Immigration.
Here's how it was explained to me, could be wrong, but that's what I've been told.
It's not so much about how many participants of each country, but really about establishing "diversity" of nationalities in the US, hence some countries with supposedly low total numbers of this nationality in the US already (vs the total % of their home population) get granted more DV's.
So those newly created countries in the East, like Kosovo, Montenegro, Moldova, they are not that much bigger then Belgium but get more DV's assigned coz there are virtually no nationals of these countries in the US. Now when these countries where still part of Russia, Yugoslavia, they had a much smaller chance or percentage DV's assigned to their larger country.
Hence, I'm rooting for Belgium to split in two and we have the Country of Flanders and Wallonia, suddenly you'll see, rather then Belgium 82 DV's, Flanders will be assigned 2,000-odd DV's and so will Wallonia.
Of course Belgium will never be split in two, Flemish & Walloons will keep arguing and my changes (I'm Belgian
) of winning the DV will continue to be slim.If I've got this wrong, please correct me, this is how some explained this to me.
it can be correct. For example there are 72 winners from Finland for 2009. Finland's population is 5.000.000
edit: but it would be stupid
ARMENIA - 1,285 for 2009
Armenia's population is 3.000.000
thousands of Armenians go and work in the states every year
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Estonia 58 winners for dv 2009
they have 1.300.000 population
edit: but it would be stupid
ARMENIA - 1,285 for 2009
Armenia's population is 3.000.000
thousands of Armenians go and work in the states every year
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Estonia 58 winners for dv 2009
they have 1.300.000 population
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If it is indeed correct what I heard, then I find it unfair to some degree.
Also you are allowed to participate based upon your country of birth or country of permanent residency.
Hence apparently (I say this cautiously, as I'm not sure I can trust the person who told me that), back to my tiny country, the majority of Belgian applicants are not native Belgians but legal Belgian immigrants, which in my mind gives an unfair % distribution of DV, coz wouldn't you then have to take a % of the Belgium population (+ total pop of those legal immigrant countries)
Perhaps they do take that in consideration, but didn't think so.
Then again, this is something every European country has, as Europe is very diverse already.
I just don't agree with being allowed to participate based upon the country of your legal residency, if that is to be true. It should be based upon your country of birth only.
Also you are allowed to participate based upon your country of birth or country of permanent residency.
Hence apparently (I say this cautiously, as I'm not sure I can trust the person who told me that), back to my tiny country, the majority of Belgian applicants are not native Belgians but legal Belgian immigrants, which in my mind gives an unfair % distribution of DV, coz wouldn't you then have to take a % of the Belgium population (+ total pop of those legal immigrant countries)
Perhaps they do take that in consideration, but didn't think so.
Then again, this is something every European country has, as Europe is very diverse already.
I just don't agree with being allowed to participate based upon the country of your legal residency, if that is to be true. It should be based upon your country of birth only.