This year’s lucky ones are already clear
This year’s lucky winners of a green card to leave for the United States are now clear. The results came out, according to which the winners are 348. However, it turns out that according to statistics, the number of Bulgarians who want to participate in the lottery is getting smaller.
0.2% – this is exactly the chance to win a green card among the hundreds of thousands of people around the world who apply. The winners of the program worldwide are over 55,000. This year, 348 Bulgarians out of a total of 30,649 applicants are welcome overseas. In the name of the American dream, Dida Ivanova also submitted documents with clenched thumbs 19 years ago. The news of the great luck comes in a calm and orderly period of her life.
“We ran a grocery store in Dobrich – for rent. My husband had a separate exchange. Everything was completely normal. We did not need this experience, but my husband decided that he wanted to go to see the Statue of Liberty and so on, “said Dida.
Dida has little desire to leave, although she is applying with her partner. Ironically, however, it was she who won the coveted green card.
“The children did not agree very much, especially my son. He was 16, the daughter was 15. They grew up there. Life is completely different than here, “she added.
However, they grab the chance in the suitcase and leave: “The first years were especially difficult for me. I have a sister and parting with her was very difficult. We had never parted. For a year I cried every day. Every year until the third I packed my bags to go home “, shared Dida.
For one reason or another, the number of Bulgarians facing such a dilemma is decreasing. The number of applicants for a green card two years ago is twice as high as those who have just submitted documents – from about 30,600 to 14,407. The trend began in 2013, when 52,506 people applied. Meanwhile, in 2020, then-President Donald Trump restricted the issuance of green cards. The year 2017 speaks of stopping the program.
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