Indian citizens are not eligible to enter the United States' yearly Diversity Visa (DV) lottery, a program popularly referred to as the Green Card Lottery, for the next cycle and will probably not be able to apply until at least 2028.

Exclusion arises from the resultant high number of legal immigrants from India to the US in recent years that exceeds the programme's statutory limit.

Increased Volume Of Immigration Leads To Exclusion

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The Diversity Visa programme aims to diversify America's immigrant population by choosing applicants from countries with historically low numbers of immigrants to the United States.

To be eligible to participate, a nation needs to have sent fewer than 50,000 immigrants to the US in the previous five years. India has never

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