USA 250: How the American Dream has survived - but only just
- ByAsma KhalidCo-Host, The Global Story PodcastSixteen years ago, Abdi Nor Iftin was a Somali refugee living in one of the roughest slums in Kenya when he found out he had won the lottery of a lifetime.
- Out of nearly eight million applicants in 2013, he had been one of the lucky 50,000 granted a US visa through a scheme known as the diversity visa scheme that the US government had begun in the 1990s.
- Abdi had long dreamt of moving to America.
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- ByAsma KhalidCo-Host, The Global Story PodcastSixteen years ago, Abdi Nor Iftin was a Somali refugee living in one of the roughest slums in Kenya when he found out he had won the lottery of a lifetime.
- Out of nearly eight million applicants in 2013, he had been one of the lucky 50,000 granted a US visa through a scheme known as the diversity visa scheme that the US government had begun in the 1990s.
- Abdi had long dreamt of moving to America.
Sources: BBC News