D.C. District Judge Denies Injunction in Visa Lottery Case
If you can't afford a passport, can you really afford to live in the United States?
By Andrew R. Arthur on November 7, 2019
On November 4, 2019, Judge Timothy J. Kelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an opinion in E.B. v. U.S. Dep't of State, denying a motion by three aliens and their U.S.-based relatives to enjoin the so-called "Passport Rule" issued by the U.S. Department of State (DOS) during the spring. While it is welcome news that a district court judge actually denied an injunction in a case that challenged a Trump administration effort to improve the immigration system, that decision is all the more interesting because of what it reveals about the Diversity Visa (DV) lottery itself.
By way of background, as U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) explains:
The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV Program) makes up to 50,000 immigrant visas available annually, drawn from random selection among all entries to individuals who are from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. The DV Program is administered by [DOS].
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