The 29-year-old technology worker from Togo thought his dream had come true when he learned in May that he’d hit the lottery.
He quit his job in India, expecting soon to enjoy his jackpot: a new life in the United States.
Green card lottery
But 12 days after his name popped up among the lucky winners of a State Department program widely known as the “green card lottery,” Sedem Kokou Agbobli saw his dream crushed. The State Department discovered a computer problem with the drawing and canceled the results.
Now, Agbobli and thousands of others who thought they were winners hope lightning will strike twice Friday, when federal officials in Washington announce the results of a new drawing for the program, which attracts millions of applicants worldwide and each year provides about 50,000 immigrants a legal route to permanent residency in the United States.
He's not lucky.
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