¿Qué es la lotería de la 'green card' que ha pausado Trump por el tiroteo en Brown?
La suspensión de la lotería de la green card por orden de Donald Trump vuelve a colocar en el centro del debate uno de los programas migratorios más antiguos de Estados Unidos. El llamado Programa de Visas de Diversidad permitía cada año a miles de personas emigrar legalmente al país, una vía que ahora queda en pausa tras el tiroteo ocurrido en la Universidad de Brown
TL;DR
- The Diversity Visa Program (DV1), or Green Card Lottery, offers up to 55,000 permanent residency visas annually.
- The program was created in 1990 to provide a legal immigration pathway for citizens from countries with low rates of migration to the US.
- The lottery has been conducted annually since 1995 through a computer-generated random selection process.
- Eligibility requires being from a country that has sent fewer than 50,000 migrants to the US in the past five years and possessing a high school diploma or equivalent work experience.
- Selection in the lottery grants the right to apply for a visa, which requires passing background checks, medical exams, and a consular interview.
- Historically, citizens from African countries have been the most frequent recipients of these visas.
- President Trump suspended the program after a Portuguese citizen who entered the US via the DV1 in 2017 was implicated in a shooting at Brown University.
- Trump had previously attempted to end the program after a 2017 truck attack in New York involving an Uzbek national who entered through the same scheme.