Judge throws out challenge to U.S. visa lottery
USA Today Thursday 14th July, 2011
Those in the group had been seeking class-action status, which would mean their cases could be combined into one, in their bid to stop the government from nullifying their selections in the visa lottery. One of them, 42-year-old French native Armande Gil, who lives in Florida, called the decision by US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson another disappointment. "It makes the injustice even bigger, and it's just a sense that there is nobody who hears us and whatever the government wants to do with us they can do and there is nothing we can do about it," said Gil, who had hoped to preserve her long-shot chance to get a US visa without the traditional family or employer sponsorship. About 22,000 people were notified in early May that they had won a chance to apply for a visa as part of the Diversity Visa Lottery Program, which is aimed at increasing the number of immigrants from the developing world and countries with historically low rates of emigration to the United States.
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