Many immigrants disappointed Visa lottery Glitch
A major computer glitch, affected a group of hopefully U.S immigrants. There was a computer glitch with the United States Of America's State Department's annual worldwide Visa Lottery. 15 million names were supposed to be entered in the lottery for 2012. 50 000 immigrants were informed that they were selected to legally live in U.S.A., but because of this computer glitch a portion of the names were not entered into the computer. So the selection process was not 100% fair. The outcome is, this group of immigrants that thought they were U.S citizen, but now are required to re enter the Lottery with the original 15 million names. Talk about dropping the ball. This is a pretty unfair mistake.
One of the reasons America use the concept of a visa lottery, is to receive a diverse selection of immigrants. The lottery works like this. 90 000 names are selected through the digital lottery from a group of 15 million names selected for the lottery. Through a process of attrition, the final group of 50 000 are selected through a interview process. I think this is a unique and excellent way to select new people for a country. But before phone calls are made to the winners there should be a few different verification processes in place so this exact issue would not arise. There is a very large group of people that now feel cheated. This is not a good way to welcome individuals into a country.
Tyson World View wants to give my deepest regrets to the immigrant and family that were chosen through this lottery, then rejected based on a error that was out of their control.
