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handle is hein.crs/crsuntaaiby0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Order Code RS21342 A pril 22, 2004 Immigration: Diversity Visa Lottery Ruth Ellen Wasem Specialist in Social Legislation Karma Ester Technical Information Specialist Domestic Social Policy Division Summary Background The purpose of the diversity visa lottery is, as the name suggests, to encourage legal immigration from countries other than the major sending countries of current immigration to the United States. The law weighs allocation of immigrant visas heavily towards aliens with close family in the United States and, to a lesser extent, aliens who meet particular employment needs. The diversity immigrant category was added to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by the Immigration Act of 1990 (P.L. 10 1-649) to stimulate new seed immigration, i.e. to foster new, more varied, migration from other parts of the world.1 The current diversity lottery began in FYI995 following 3 transitional years with temporary lotteries.2 §203(c) of INA. 2 From FY1992 to FY1994, the State Department conducted a lottery for 40,000 immigrant visas that were available to natives of countries that have been adversely affected by the 1965 amendments to the INA that ended the country quota system. According to § 132 of the 1990 Act, 40% (16,000) of these transitional diversity visas each year were earmarked for natives of Ireland.*

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