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A federal court has ordered the State Department to issue an additional 9,095 immigrant visas to winners of the 2020 Diversity Visa Lottery.
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Additional Information: The ruling requires the Department to process diversity visas randomly until the reserved 9,095 visas have been issued; however, the court left it to the parties to negotiate a reasonable timeframe within which the Department must issue the reserved visas.
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