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It is based on the number of people from each country obtaining permenant residency (green cards) not on the numbers approved for various other visas.
They look at the country of chargeability (Germany in Carolyn's case) when counting numbers of people from various countries.
I would imagine in our case, we will count as 1 person from Germany and 5 people from the UK in terms of the stats.
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<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by florida4sun
We are not excluded from emigrating to the usa as over 100,000 of us do that each each year.
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Cruella DeVilla
We stand side by side with her no matter what but we are excluded[?]
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But where do they get their figures for emigrating?
We have moved here, but under the rules of an E2 visa we are classed as temporary.
Are we included in the "emigrated" numbers i wonder???
The measure would be how many people attain permanent residence in the US from the UK per year.
Interestingly, i wonder whether Roger and his family are included in the UK numbers, even though they got here by having connections to another country (Germany).
If that were the case then people who can apply through connections to other countries would infact be stopping people who have no ties, by filling the avaialble 10,000 allocated slots.
Now that would seem just plain unfair.
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Thanks for putting me straight.
Still think its unfair that you have applied because of your links with Germany, so all your numbers should have gone against the german allocation.
That way there might not be so many UK emigrants coming to America, then there might be a chance we don't send our allocation and thus they open the lottery back up to UK citizens.
Thats not an attack on you, good on yer that you got in, i just think that the system is flawed and it seems to be flawed heavy against us having a fighting chance same as everyone else.
Maybe SDJ is right and there is something a lot more underhand going on between the 2 countries.
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