ROANOKE TIMES 

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, March 17, 1994                   TAG: 9403170189
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-9   EDITION: METRO 
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NEXT LOTTERY WON'T SHOW FAVORITISM

Irish immigrants got preferred treatment in a rare, mail-in lottery under the 1990 U.S. Immigration Act.

The act favored Europeans as compensation for earlier laws that favored Asians. It provided 40,000 green cards a year to 35 countries.

\ The lottery ran from 1991 to 1993. The INS is planning another lottery in 1995. So far, the Irish will get no preferential treatment.

- Associated Press 


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