{"id":37248,"date":"2021-09-23T23:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T14:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/23\/afghans-visa-lottery-us-immigration"},"modified":"2021-09-23T23:22:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T14:22:34","slug":"last-year-2100-afghans-won-the-visa-lottery-their-hopes-of-making-it-to-the-us-are-dwindling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37248","title":{"rendered":"Last year 2,100 Afghans won the visa lottery. Their hopes of making it to the US are dwindling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a judge does not intervene by 30 September, those selected for the program will become ineligible: \u2018We are left behind\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Afghan families who were selected for US visas are stuck in the war-torn country, as the US government\u2019s failure to schedule their visa interviews ahead of a final deadline puts them at risk of missing their opportunity to leave. <\/p>\n<p>If a US judge does not intervene by 30 September, more than 2,100 Afghans who were selected for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/may\/02\/green-card-lottery-us-immigration-trump-agenda\">diversity visa program<\/a> last year will become ineligible for such a visa.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/23\/afghans-visa-lottery-us-immigration\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a judge does not intervene by 30 September, those selected for the program will become ineligible: \u2018We are left behind\u2019Thousands of Afghan families who were selected for US visas are stuck in the war-torn country, as the US government\u2019s failure to s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2598,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,319,1083,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-foreign-policy","category-us-immigration","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37249,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37248\/revisions\/37249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}