Many immigrants have limited means.
Q. I would like to know why they exclude Jamaica from the lottery in 1997. S. Escoffery, Brooklyn A. Congress designed the visa lottery to benefit natives of countries whose legal immigration was less than 50,000 over the preceding five years. The list changes every year. For instance, for the first time, Polish joins Jamaica as a country whose nationals can't win the lottery. Q. Thanks for the detailed information you provided on the lottery.