The government has filed their report in the DV case. They are saying that 122 diversity visas have been issued to plaintiffs and 1009 in total. That’s only a fraction of the named plaintiffs and there about 45K are waiting on visas all together. Not a serious effort here.
There are 425 named plaintiffs. The government says all but five have been interviewed or scheduled for interviews (we believe most have not actually been interviewed). The govt says 128 people have been denied for reasons unrelated to the proclamations. That’s very suspicious.
Want to bet they are for lacking documents that they would have had plenty of time to provide or correct had these applications been adjudicated when they were supposed to have been?
The government is blaming COVID for their inability to issue visas. Let’s remember - they were supposed to issue 45,000 more visas by this point. They’ve issued 1000. They’re at full-staff and have banned most immigrant visas. They’ve had loads of time.
They’re also blaming their own bureaucracy for the inability to move quickly. They should have thought about that before they banned visas for 100s of 1000s of people completely outside the scope of the law.
This document is one long list of excuses for the judge. We’ve got a whole lot of evidence they haven’t been acting in good faith and the judge needs to take extraordinary measures to make this right.
The government is reserving the right to brief their position on our request that DV visas be reserved past September 30th.
Here's the link where you can read for yourself. dropbox.com/s/25wwq598tvc3…
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