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  1. April 03, 2024

    Diversity Visa Winners Can't Get Hold Lifted On Green Cards

    A D.C. federal judge kept intact a hold on an order requiring the Biden administration to start processing green cards for 2020 diversity visa lottery winners, saying the winners didn't directly link themselves to increased conflicts in their native countries.

  2. March 20, 2024

    Feds Say Conflict Zones Irrelevant To Diversity Visa Process

    The Biden administration countered a push from winners of the 2020 diversity visa lottery to speed up green card processing, telling a D.C. federal court that ongoing conflicts in the lottery winners' home countries — including Afghanistan, Ukraine and Sudan — have no bearing on their visa applications.

  3. March 06, 2024

    Lottery Winners Say Visa Wait Has Sent Them To The Border

    Winners of the diversity visa lottery pressed the Washington, D.C., federal court to order the immediate processing of thousands of green cards, saying visa hopefuls who have waited years to immigrate are now entering through the U.S.-Mexico border instead.

  4. April 06, 2022

    Feds Keep Diversity Visa Order Paused, But Must Update Tech

    A D.C. federal judge extended the stay of his order directing the State Department to issue more than 9,000 diversity visas while the Biden administration appeals to the D.C. Circuit, but he unfroze his directive for the department to update the technology for processing the visas.

  5. March 03, 2022

    Diversity Visa Order Paused For Speedy DC Circ. Appeal

    A D.C. federal judge gave the Biden administration on Thursday a 30-day reprieve from an order requiring 9,095 delayed diversity visas to be issued by Sept. 30, offering the administration time to seek an expedited review of the order. 

  6. February 17, 2022

    Feds Rapped Over Bid To Pause Diversity Visa Court Orders

    Visa lottery winners are pushing back against the Biden administration's bid to pause the implementation of two D.C. federal court orders for the U.S. Department of State to process and issue thousands of delayed diversity visas before October while the White House seeks to overturn the rulings at the D.C. Circuit.

  7. February 07, 2022

    DC Judge Won't Let Feds Rush Her To Stall Diversity Visas

    A Washington, D.C., federal judge slammed the Biden administration for pressuring her to decide quickly on whether to pause diversity visa processing, saying the government hadn't justified a two-week turnaround for its motion submitted last week.

  8. February 02, 2022

    Feds Push To Stay Diversity Visa Orders For DC Circ. Fight

    The Biden administration has urged two D.C. judges to pause orders requiring the processing of over 10,000 diversity visas that have been on hold throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, saying it was taking the orders up to the D.C. Circuit.

  9. January 12, 2022

    State Dept.'s Sluggish Diversity Visa Progress Sparks Outcry

    Winners of the 2020 Diversity Visa Lottery lambasted the U.S. Department of State for issuing none of the 9,095 visas that a court ordered to be delivered by next fall, saying Wednesday that the federal government was procrastinating and manufacturing a future visa crisis. 

  10. December 13, 2021

    Biden Fights Another Ruling Unfreezing Diversity Visas

    The Biden administration appealed a Washington, D.C., federal court ruling that the U.S. Department of State illegally used a COVID-19 travel ban to freeze thousands of green card applications from winners of the 2020 Diversity Visa Lottery, according to court filings.

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