Sentences with phrase «visa lottery application»

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Two months before the expiration date, he found out that his application for an H - 1B visa through the lottery was denied.

To obtain the kind of Visa L. has, he had to apply in March, in April he was pulled out from the lottery — there are 80,000 H1B available every year, last year there were about 240,000 applications — and he finally got the confirmation in August, after a really long and exhausting check — «how many hours did you work for that client in a week?».

The Pew Research report indicated that, «In fiscal 2015 (the most recent year for detailed data on application countries), about 12 % of the 14.4 million people who applied for the visa lottery were citizens of Ghana (1.7 million)».

Mr. Jackson also spoke about the US Diversity Visa Lottery programme, saying more Ghanaians applied for the programme than people from any other country in the world in 2017, as the US Embassy in Accra recorded over 1.5 million applications from Ghana.

Note that entering the lottery does not constitute a visa application.