Winners in Visa Lottery Await Legal Challenge
The U.S. government has begun notifying would-be immigrants selected as “lucky winners” in a lottery for 10,000 visas to be issued outside the normal annual total of 270,000 over the next two years, U.S. District Judge Irving Hill said Friday.
But Hill secured a pledge from a government attorney that none of the visas would be issued until a legal challenge to the visa lottery is resolved in a March 23 trial in federal court in Los Angeles.
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