15 Million applied for DV 2012 and 580,000 are from Ethiopia

*15 Million applied this year

*100,000 will be notified as winners

*50,000 will be given Visa
*580,000 from Ethiopia

*5200 Ethiopian received Visa for DV 2011

WSJ is reporting about DV 2012 lottery applications and it's future.
Excerpt from the WSJ article

For the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2009, nationals from Ethiopia, Egypt and Nigeria were the top recipients. This year, Bangladesh and Nigeria supplied the most entries.

 Five years since arriving as a single man in San Diego, lottery winner Tsegaye Kedir of Ethiopia is married and a U.S. citizen preparing to attend college.

"I came because the U.S. has big opportunity for work, to get an education and to live a better life than in my country," said the 29-year-old, who drives a taxi.

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"More and more people are learning about this program and are dumbfounded that we have it in the first place," said Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R., Va.), who has introduced legislation to abolish it. "Our chances have never been better to kill it," he added, following his party's successes in the midterm elections and amid high unemployment in the U.S.

*Read the comment and reactions about the article on WSJ website. Most US citizens never heard about the program before, read about it for the first time on this article and are not happy about it.
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