DV-2012 Could Possibly be the last Edition. Brace yourselves

[win dv]

Hello,

The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to meet on Wednesday to discuss dropping the DV-Lottery program:

"If you're a terrorist organization and you can get a few hundred people to apply to this from several countries . . . odds are you'd get one or two of them picked," Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who introduced the bill, said in an interview.

An earlier version of the bill twice passed in the House in recent years but was rejected by the Senate in part, Goodlatte said, because of the support of Kennedy, who died in 2009.

But with high unemployment in the United States, he said, "it's hard to justify bringing an additional 50,000 in that need a job and will be competing with the 14 million Americans for jobs."

Supporters of the program say that lottery winners and their families undergo the same rigorous security screening as any other visa applicant and that the congressional hearing is a distraction.

"At a time when we should be focusing on our economy and how immigrants can play a positive role, the House is now simply taking cheap shots at legal forms of immigration," said Michele Waslin, a senior policy analyst at the Washington-based Immigration Policy Center. "Eliminating the diversity visa program will do nothing to fix our broken immigration system and nothing to grow our economy."

http://www.pressherald.com/news/nat...uestions-as-economy-struggles_2011-07-17.html

 

[raevsky]

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41747.pdf

Is the diversity visa lottery more vulnerable to fraud and misuse than other
immigration pathways?
Some might reference the 2009 arrests of Lassissi Afolabi and Akouavi Kpade Afolabi, who
coerced foreign nationals into human trafficking and forced labor rings by paying for the diversity
visas if they listed the trafficked young women as their own family on the visa application.19 They
also might cite the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) which found pervasive fraud
reported by some consular posts.20 Others might refer to the numerous fraud investigations and

arrests of immigrants who used other visa categories.21 Others might also point out that DOS and
DHS have revised the diversity lottery procedures to address these fraud vulnerabilities. 22 For
example, DOS maintains that the electronic registration process increases its ability to screen
duplicate and fraudulent entries as well as enables the use of facial recognition software to detect
fraud.23
Are there national security reasons to eliminate the diversity visa?
Some might cite the case of Hesham Mohamed Ali Hedayet, the Egyptian immigrant who shot
and killed two people at Los Angeles International Airport on July 4, 2002, and who had obtained
LPR status as the spouse of diversity immigrant.24 Some might assert that the difficulties of
performing background checks in many of the countries currently qualifying for the diversity
lottery, as well as broader concerns about terrorism, justify the elimination of the category. Some
might cite the 2004 warning of the DOS Deputy Inspector General that the diversity visa lottery
“contains significant vulnerabilities to national security” from state sponsors of terrorism.25
Others might point out that immigrants coming to the United States in the other LPR visa
categories are not restricted if they come from these same countries and further argue that
background checks for national security risks are performed on all prospective immigrants
seeking to come to the United States. Others might reference the broader reform to visa security
that Congress has enacted since the early 2000s,26 or cite the 2007 GAO report stating: “We found
no documented evidence that DV immigrants from these, or other, countries posed a terrorist or
other threat.” 27

 

[win dv]

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41747.pdf

Excellent source, as usual! I must say that you are very good with researching reliable and informative sources.

 

[Tazmania]

Bob Goodlatte is an idiot, who has nothing else to do than intruducing the same shit over and over again.

 

[delit2727]

There have been several attempts to cancel the Program. In 2005, the House even adopted a bill that would have canceled the DV Lottery but the Senate never even reviewed the Bill...so it died.
This is America. Congress dose not pass bills so easily. Lots of bargaining. I think that there's a pretty good chance the House will pass the Bill in question but in my mind there is no way Senate would pass such a bill in a stand alone form. The Senate is already reviewing a bill on immigration reform and if the bill to abolish the DVL is reviewed by Senate, it would be in this broader context.
The DV lottery is flawed but canceling it without a comprehensive immigration reform would not fix the far greater issues that need to be solved. To this day, the DVL is one of the few ways for some groups of people to immigrate into the US. The main thesis of proponent of the SAFE Bill is that the program opens the door to terrorists...this argument is weak; people go thru the same screening as any other would-be immigrant or non-immigrant.

 

[win dv]

The deciding factor to abolish the DVL seems to be the weak economic/unemployment situation in the USA. Many sources have indicated this.....

Can they reach a decision to cancel before October, 2011?

 

[delit2727]

The deciding factor to abolish the DVL seems to be the weak economic/unemployment situation in the USA. Many sources have indicated this.....

Can they reach a decision to cancel before October, 2011?

No, it's impossible. I will cut my left hand if this bill passes Congress EVER. The House would be an easy hurdle and I would not be surprised if it passes some time this Fall. The Senate is a whole different story! Senate would not cancel the DVL without a comprehensive immigration reform in mind. Period.
Be calm the DV2013 will happen. However, one should be aware of the low chance of winning and it should not be the primary path to immigration....but more like...try and if you are lucky you could save yourself $7,000 and many years of waiting. There always needs to be a plan B.