A federal judge dismissed on Thursday a lawsuit filed by a man working Dublin and 35 other people have said they got the chance to get a U.S. green card, but learned that the State Department canceled the results of the annual lottery for visas because of a bug in the computer.
He said U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, she sympathized with the plaintiffs and thousands of others who thought they had been chosen for one of diversity visas to 50000, which is awarded randomly each year to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States
Jackson, however, stood with the State Department in arguing that the results should be void because of the computer problem caused the selection of applicants for certain others. It is assumed that the process is completely random.
The emotional impact of the reversal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs "has been painful and real," wrote Jackson in the provision of 34 pages of the District Court in Washington, DC, but "there are 19 million people, the stories, participants in the lottery again, many of which may be equally or more pronounced, and for this reason that Congress decided that each student will be an equal opportunity to win the right to apply for a visa. "
Than 19 million people around the world who entered the lottery, and was among the 22,316 plaintiffs who had received a letter from the State Department in early May, which had been randomly selected to apply for a green card. She explained the State Department later that the problems of computer skewed the results, causing them to not be truly random.
The government canceled the results and promised to draw this summer. Is due to the results of the lottery a second attempt to be released Friday.
Prosecutors argued that while the original results, which favored the people who applied in the first two days of the submission period, and the unusual, and should be considered as they are still random, because no one knows the dates that were more favorable when applied. Jackson has denied that argument.
"Attempts by prosecutors to describe the results of a flawed process and make the random fragmentation of the statute and defies common sense," she wrote.
One of the plaintiffs' 28-year-old software engineer Anton Kuraev, a resident of Dublin from Russia who was living in San Francisco Bay Area on a temporary work visa, but want to stay here permanently. He said he believed that Jackson's ruling Kuraev logical but it is still anger and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to issue such a big mistake that affect thousands of lives.
"I completely disagree with the fact that none of the punished those who contributed to this mess," he wrote in an e-mail Kuraev. "What they did is a disgrace."
Spent hundreds of dollars to file the necessary papers.
"I hope one day I finished this program and the lottery will be distributed on a visa every gathering a more rational manner," said Kuraev.
Another would-be immigrants who were told that he was the winner, 24, a French businessman on the Internet Tariq Ansari, said he was disappointed by the ruling but will check the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the early morning Friday hoping to get selected again .
Because there are millions of expatriates, the likelihood of getting picked twice slim.
"The chances are two-thirds of one percent. It's very low," said Ansari, who lives in San Francisco on a temporary work visa, and launches a new dating site creation. "It's disappointing."
Ansari, while plans to look for other ways to get U.S. citizenship, for many people on the Diversity Visa is the only option. Based on visas other family ties and care employer or who have suffered from political persecution.
"It's a broken system, but at least it's the door," said Ansari, a random lottery. "There is a lot of people did not come to this country unless they are truly educated.
