General News of Tuesday, 4 August 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.comToday in 2017: No more U.S. visa lottery for GhanaiansUS Visa. According to a Pew Research report, in 2015, 1.7 million Ghanaians applied for the visa lottery. Ghanaian citizens for years have had a huge appetite for visa lottery becoming one of the countries with the highest number of applicants in the “green card lottery”. In operation, since 1995, the visa lottery seeks to diversify the US immigrant population by granting visas to underrepresented nations. If selected for a diversity visa, however, individuals must provide detailed background information and submit to visa interviews, security checks and health screenings, and pay $330.

Source: GhanaWeb August 04, 2020 09:11 UTC