Talk:Gurbaksh Chahal/Archives/2015

Odd date

The Diversity Visa law is dated 1990 and came into force in 1995. This is after the date mentioned in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.143.244.24 (talk) 14:58, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

The date 1985 is in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.143.244.24 (talk) 15:00, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure that's the IP editor's point. How did the subject's parents get a Visa under a program that didn't exist yet? Moreover, the cited source claims the Visa was granted in 1982, and "The next year, on 1982, when their baby was only four years old, the family of Gurbaksh Chahal settled permanently in San Jose...", while this article currently puts his DoB in 1982. The whole thing is fishy.DoctorCaligari (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 17:55, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

The language "In 1985, his parents received a visa for America through a lottery-based system in India." was originally added by the user Ekcpr, who is now blocked. The part about the visa has been removed and re-added, and then the language "In 1985, his parents received a visa for America through the Diversity Visa (DV) program, also known as the Green Card Lottery, and the following year, when he was four, the family settled in San Jose, California." was added by the IP user 119.12.154.154. No citation was provided, and none of the other page citations offer that claim, either. (And, of course, if they did, they would be wrong, because it's impossible based on the dates. Further, AFAICT, India has actually been an excluded country from that program since the date of the program's inception.) Now, perhaps the original language about "a lottery-based system in India" meant some other lottery, but there aren't any citations that explain or assert that, so I'm cleaning up the language. Sadly, though, the only citations for even the fact that they immigrated and the date of the immigration lead back to the subject of the page. DoctorCaligari (talk) 19:42, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Correction - the citation does actually say "Mr. Avtar Singh and Mrs. Arjinder Chahal, the parents of Gurbaksh Chahal, received an American Visa in 1982 through the Green Card Lottery." Though, in my opinion, this seems clearly false, I'm not going to remove it, because the source does say that. DoctorCaligari (talk) 19:49, 28 February 2015 (UTC)