A court case is underway in the United States to try and get an injunction to stop the state department from re-drawing its 2012 Diversity Lottery.
The lottery offers up to 55,000 green cards each year, allowing the winners from around the world to live and work in the US.
The names are normally pulled at random, but this year the state department says a mistake means the first 22,000 drawn to move further along the process towards getting a green card were incorrectly selected and they will have to be put back into the pot and drawn again along with thousands of other applicants.
Nader Habib is one of the 22,000. We met him at his home in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
When I applied for the lottery, I had very little hope to win because millions of people apply. When I was selected it was a huge surprise.
But Nader’s happiness didn’t last long.
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