The U.S. State Department on Friday said it mistakenly told more than 22,000 people that they had won a special U.S. visa lottery due to a computer glitch, and that the drawing would have to be redone.
The news dashes the hopes of those who believed they were eligible for the next step in obtaining one of the coveted “green card” lottery visas and gives a second, if remote, chance to the rest of the 19.6 million people who had applied.
Because of a computer programming error, [...]