Podcasts about diversity visa program

How do immigration policies from economically advantaged countries affect people in less advantaged countries and the immigrants who come in with these policies? "Structured Luck" takes us on a transnational journey to explore the societal, personal, and political implications of the US Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, a US immigration policy that is an annual economic and cultural event in many economically disadvantaged countries. It illuminates the trauma, resilience, determination, and mobility of immigrants who come to the U.S. through the DV program and closes with a call for the U.S. and other economically advantaged countries to develop policies that will better integrate their immigrants into society. Speaker Onoso Imoagene, Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, NYUAD; Author, "Structured Luck Downstream Effects of the U.S. Diversity Visa Program" (Russell Sage, 2024), NYUAD In conversation with Natasha Iskander, James Weldon Johnson Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service, NYU Wagner

As you know, diversity is a core American value, and in 1990, this diversity visa program was established to encourage immigration to the United States from a wider variety of countries. So today, we're here to discuss everything you need to know about this diversity visa program. This program is one of the multiple ways for non-citizens to become U.S. permanent residents. The program is a free lottery that people from countries around the world can enter for a chance to apply for green cards and live and work legally in the United States. The lottery winners don't need family or employment relationships with U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents to sponsor them for their green cards.

In the 1980s undocumented Irish immigrants convinced United States lawmakers to create a program that would provide a path to citizenship for individuals without family connections in the United States. That program eventually became the Diversity Visa Lottery, established as part of the Immigration Act of 1990. Despite the program's roots in demand from Irish immigrants, the majority of the recipients of diversity visas have been awarded to immigrants from Africa, with more than 480,000 individuals and their families immigrating to the United States from Africa between 1995 and 2022 via the Diversity Visa Program. Joining me this week for a deep dive into the diversity visa lottery, and its impact on West African countries, is historian Dr. Carly Goodman, Senior Editor at the Washington Posts's Made by History and author of Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction. Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag, composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. The mid-episode music “Melancholic Afrobeat” by artbybigvee from Pixabay and is available in the public domain. The episode image is “Loterie Americaine visa services in French and English in Yaoundé, Cameroon, 2015,” and is used by permission of the photographer, Carly Goodman. Additional sources: “Find out if you are eligible for the Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery and how to register,” USA.gov. “Immigration History Timeline,” Immigration History. “Fifty Years On, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act Continues to Reshape the United States,” by Muzaffar Chishti, Faye Hipsman, and Isabel Ball, Migration Policy Institute, October 15, 2015. “Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 – Civil Rights Movement Era,” The Asian American Education Project. “European Immigrants in the United States,” by Elijah Alperin and Jeanne Batalova, Migration Policy Institute, August 1, 2018. “1986: Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986,” Library of Congress. “Diversity visa lottery, criticized after New York terrorist attack, was invented to help the Irish,” by Michael E. Miller, The Washington Post,  November 1, 2017. “The ‘Diversity' Green Card Lottery Was Originally for White Immigrants,” by Becky Little, History.com, Originally posted November 2, 2017; Updated March 9, 2019. “U.S. Lottery will award 20,000 visas in 1989-90,” by Karlyn Barker, The Washington Post, March 2, 1989. “While Immigration Reform Waits, Lottery Fills the Void,” by Lisa Wormwood, Special to The Christian Science Monitor, April 13, 1989. “Fact Sheet: Temporary Protected Status (TPS),” National Immigration Forum, updated February 1, 2023. “Temporary Protected Status,” U.S. Department of Justice. “Family Reunification Is the Bedrock of U.S. Immigration Policy,” by Philip E. Wolgin, The Center for American Progress, February 12, 2018. “What is the Diversity Visa Program?” FWD.us, September 14, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rodolfo Gonçalves mora em Nova York e é cake designer - e quando a gente fala em cake designer, imaginem aqueles bolos surreais nos mais diversos formatos e que não parecem bolos até que você corte eles. Recentemente, participou do reality show da Netflix Baking Impossible - do qual foi o grande vencedor. Mas quem olha o Rodolfo fazendo sucesso na TV nem imagina como ele veio parar aqui. Ele era web designer no Brasil e, aos 24 anos, foi contemplado com um Green Card por meio do Diversity Visa Program, um programa da imigração americana que sorteia green cards para residentes de países com taxas historicamente baixas de imigração para os Estados Unidos - o Brasil não faz mais parte desta lista. Neste episódio, ele conta como esse Green Card mudou sua vida e como ele virou cake designer. LINKS DO EPISÓDIO: Instagram do Rodolfo - @rodolfocakedesigner Código para desconto de U$30 ao se inscrever para o teste TOEFL LAURA30 - link de termos e condições: https://cirql.me/b/tpfcp

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Consider entering the 2024 US diversity visa lottery by November 8 2022 - it's free and fast to do, published by Tyrone Barugh on October 7, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Epistemic status and disclaimers: I am a lawyer who has done some immigration work in New Zealand, but I am not a United States lawyer and first heard of the Diversity Visa Program this year. I think I've read and explained the background information below pretty well, but I don't know how worried to be about the risk identified below. Legal risks are usually pretty fact specific, and this is generic advice. Think carefully about your individual circumstances and if you decide to apply you should read the full Instructions/FAQ document published by the State Department. The ability to travel to the United States is valuable, especially for folks doing high impact EA work. The costs of a mistake here can be high, which means it might be worthwhile briefly speaking with a good US immigration lawyer if you are already in the United States, have firm plans to work or migrate there in the future, or have reasons to be a lot more risk averse than the typical person. This post isn't legal advice, it doesn't give rise to a lawyer-client relationship, and I'll do my absolute best to not be responsible to you if something goes bad in your life after you read it / update your priors on it / make decisions on the basis of it. If you are a United States lawyer (especially an immigration lawyer), please comment below or contact me with any corrections/suggestions/additional information. Thanks also to several people who have applied to the lottery, and to a United States lawyer (practising in an area other than immigration), for their feedback on this post - errors and omissions are entirely mine. tl;dr The United States runs a lottery for green cards, and you might be able to enter (by 8 November 2022). The US issues around 55,000 green cards (permanent residence visas) each year via a lottery. Unless you live in a country which already has really significant migration to the US (list below), you can probably enter that lottery. It does not cost you any money to enter, you don't need a passport to enter, and it probably won't take much of your time! Your chance of success in a given year as an individual ranges from around 0.28% (worst success rate for Asia region in 2007-2021 fiscal years) to around 10.03% (best success rate for Oceania region in 2007-2021 fiscal years). You can increase your probability of success by having a spouse who also applies - only one of you needs to be selected for you both to move. This is a game you can play every year, increasing your chances a fair bit (see the table below). I know of some EAs who have already done this and are already working or job searching in the United States. Carefully consider whether you applying to the Diversity Lottery is, on expectation, good for the world. If you're doing direct work, there's a good chance it is - but remember that this is a zero-sum game, and your success comes at someone else's expense. Also consider the legal risks and consequences identified below. Finally, if you are going to apply, don't forget! The deadline is 8 November 2022 at 12.00pm ET, but anecdotally the submission system is usually pretty overloaded in the last week, so consider applying earlier if you can. What is the Diversity Visa Program? Immigrant visa (green card) A United States 'immigrant visa' allows a person to reside permanently in the United States (whereas a 'nonimmigrant visa' only allows a temporary, albeit often lengthy, stay). There are three main categories of non-immigrant visa: immediate relative and family-sponsored; employer sponsored (or applied for without sponsorship on the basis of exceptional ability); and the Diversity Immigrant Visa. ...

P.M. Edition for Aug. 13. Thousands of people who won a rare opportunity to immigrate to the U.S. through an immigration lottery are at risk of losing it. The WSJ's Ava Sasani joins host Annmarie Fertoli to discuss the State Department's Diversity Visa Program and how a processing backlog is leaving many families around the world in limbo. Plus, the exodus from Afghanistan accelerates as more countries seek to evacuate personnel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes, the best people you meet are the ones you find on your adventure! Join Noobz TK as he talks with Mehmet Ali Ipsuz about his immigration journey to the United States through the Diversity Visa Program.Follow us here: https://linktr.ee/NoobzTK 

Somali expat and debut author Abdi Nor Iftin is the pen behind one of the most anticipated – and most timely – nonfiction releases of 2018. Iftin’s long and harrowing journey to America, as part of the U.S. Government’s embattled Diversity Visa Program, came to the attention of audiences around the world through a viral […]

Somali expat and debut author Abdi Nor Iftin is the pen behind one of the most anticipated – and most timely – nonfiction releases of 2018. Iftin’s long and harrowing journey to America, as part of the U.S. Government’s embattled Diversity Visa Program, came to the attention of audiences around the world through a viral BBC Radio mini-series. Iftin’s larger-than-life […]

We talk to Gabby Morrongiello, the White House correspondent for the Washington Examiner, about the flaws with the Diversity Visa Program.

On this edition of Midday we focus on a particular group of immigrants, who are affected by immigration policy in ways unlike any other group. Black African Immigrants are the fasting growing immigrant population in the United States. According to PEW research, there was a 137% surge in the Black African Immigrant population between 2000 and 2013. 10% of all Blacks living in the United States are foreign born, up from 3% in the 1980s. They are a population that is often highly educated, family oriented and hardworking, all virtues that from the cornerstone of the American value system. So why do these Black immigrants face the highest levels of deportation, and unemployment?We take a look at the challenges that Black African immigrants face as they strive to lay roots in this country and how the eradication of programs like DACA and the Diversity Visa Program affect their prosperity.Amaha Kassa, the Founder and Executive Director of African Communities Together, joins Tom by phone from New York City.Nana Brantuo is a doctoral candidate in Minority and Urban Education at the University of Maryland-College Park, and policy manager with the Black Alliance for Just Immigration. She joins Tom on the line from NPR studios in Washington DC, as does Jonathan Jayes-Green, a queer, undocumented Afro-Panamanian who is one of the co-founders of the UndocuBlack Network.And Fatima Zara-Beri, an undocumented immigrant from Chad, DACA recipient and founder of the Towson University DREAMERS club, is our guest in Studio A.

FAIR's Ira Mehlman had the opportunity to discuss the problems associated with the diversity visa program. This is in wake of the devastating terrorist attack that took eight lives on October 31, 2017 in New York City. To learn more visit: fairus.org

A CATO Institute poll: 71% of Americans say political correctness has silenced discussions society needs to have, 58% have political views they’re afraid to share. The Latino Victory Fund pulled their ad that featured an Ed Gillespie supporter attempting to run down minority children. Two major studies showed that mankind has more empathy for pooches in dire circumstances than suffering people. Did you fill up with gas before the 12-cent increase today? A Chuck Schumer beauty: Trump calls for end to Diversity Visa Program after the terrorist attack in New York City. Papa John's, the official pizza company of the NFL, expressed disappointment about the league's ongoing player protests during the national anthem.

I discuss Section Two of Senate Bill 354, the "Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment Act" or the "Raise Act." This section eliminates the Diversity Visa Program, which was established under the Immigration and Nationality Act. I analyze the details of the Diversity Visa Program, its history, and the arguments for and against it. This episode is good for anyone curious about how the RAISE Act will change the United States' immigration system. … More Ep. 15: The RAISE Act Pt. 1

I discuss Section Two of Senate Bill 354, the "Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment Act" or the "Raise Act." This section eliminates the Diversity Visa Program, which was established under the Immigration and Nationality Act. I analyze the details of the Diversity Visa Program, its history, and the arguments for and against it. This episode is good for anyone curious about how the RAISE Act will change the United States' immigration system. … More Ep. 15: The RAISE Act Pt. 1 The post Ep. 15: The RAISE Act Pt. 1 appeared first on The Edge of Ideas.