H1B Lottery
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Did anybody get picked in the lottery ??
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Did anybody get picked in the lottery ??
H-1B is not a lottery. It is a non-immigrant visa[^] that a US company can sponsor for a foreign worker. It is valid for three years and can be extended after that, but it does not allow the worker to stay in the US permanently. You are thinking about the Diversity Immigrant Visa[^] program, also known as the Green Card Lottery. I came to the US on an H-1B visa back in 2001. I had been sending applications to the Green Card lottery for a couple of years before I moved here and I actually did get picked in the lottery in 2001. I received the confirmation letter a few months after I arrived and had the Green Card approved later that year. Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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H-1B is not a lottery. It is a non-immigrant visa[^] that a US company can sponsor for a foreign worker. It is valid for three years and can be extended after that, but it does not allow the worker to stay in the US permanently. You are thinking about the Diversity Immigrant Visa[^] program, also known as the Green Card Lottery. I came to the US on an H-1B visa back in 2001. I had been sending applications to the Green Card lottery for a couple of years before I moved here and I actually did get picked in the lottery in 2001. I received the confirmation letter a few months after I arrived and had the Green Card approved later that year. Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
SoMad wrote:
I had been sending applications to the Green Card lottery for a couple of years before I moved here and I actually did get picked in the lottery in 2001. I received the confirmation letter a few months after I arrived and had the Green Card approved later that year.
Bloody lucky you! :thumbsup:
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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SoMad wrote:
I had been sending applications to the Green Card lottery for a couple of years before I moved here and I actually did get picked in the lottery in 2001. I received the confirmation letter a few months after I arrived and had the Green Card approved later that year.
Bloody lucky you! :thumbsup:
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the timeYeah, I am not sure how it is these days, but back then they received something like 6 million applications per year and they would actually discard at least 1 million of them without even opening them for reasons such as: - The application arrived too early - The application arrived too late - The envelope was the wrong size - The address was not 100% correct - The return address was not filled in correctly and so on... Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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SoMad wrote:
I had been sending applications to the Green Card lottery for a couple of years before I moved here and I actually did get picked in the lottery in 2001. I received the confirmation letter a few months after I arrived and had the Green Card approved later that year.
Bloody lucky you! :thumbsup:
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the timeYou drew the blank and moved to Sweden instead. (Or was it a red card?) ;P
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]
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You drew the blank and moved to Sweden instead. (Or was it a red card?) ;P
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]
Sometimes I wonder... :laugh:
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time -
Yeah, I am not sure how it is these days, but back then they received something like 6 million applications per year and they would actually discard at least 1 million of them without even opening them for reasons such as: - The application arrived too early - The application arrived too late - The envelope was the wrong size - The address was not 100% correct - The return address was not filled in correctly and so on... Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
SoMad wrote:
actually discard at least 1 million of them without even opening them for reasons such as:
And? There were too many applications. The vast number would never be approved anyways. There wasn't much in the way of criteria for 'best' it was after all just a lottery. So why should they spend extra money, which solving the problems you listed would have required, have changed any of that?
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SoMad wrote:
actually discard at least 1 million of them without even opening them for reasons such as:
And? There were too many applications. The vast number would never be approved anyways. There wasn't much in the way of criteria for 'best' it was after all just a lottery. So why should they spend extra money, which solving the problems you listed would have required, have changed any of that?
I didn't say it was a bad way to handle incorrectly filed applications. I was just trying to give a sense of the avalanche of applications hitting their mailbox.
jschell wrote:
The vast number would never be approved anyways
I don't know about that. The acceptance requirements are pretty minimal. As I recall, you must have graduated high school and not be from an ineligible country. That's about it. It is much more likely that applicants are rejected due to not providing all of the required information in the application or not attaching a valid photograph. Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty