Nigerian Lady Shares How Her Family Moved to the U.S. After Playing Visa Lottery

• A Nigerian lady shared a humorous post on social media about her family’s move to America after playing the visa lottery game.

• The post reveals that despite the incident occurring several years ago, she still thinks about it daily.

A Nigerian lady has taken social media by storm after recounting how her entire family moved to the United States by what she describes as a stroke of luck.

In a now-viral post, she revealed that they had entered the American visa lottery years ago as a joke, with no serious expectations. To their surprise, they were selected and ended up relocating to the U.S. within a year.

“Every day I think about how my parents moved to America by luck,” she wrote. “We played the visa lottery game as a joke, and next thing you know, we won.”

As her story attracted attention, some users expressed disbelief. She responded by confirming the events in more detail:
“Everyone keeps saying ‘as a joke,’ but I remember the day we applied so vividly. We were at a cyber café, genuinely thinking it was just banter. We even forgot we had applied. Then, a year later, we received the email saying we had won, and the rest is history.”

Her post has since generated a wave of reactions, with many users sharing similar stories or expressing amazement at the family’s unexpected journey.

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Reacting to the post…

@TheManAfricano: “Most ppl that I know that came here by visa lottery played my luck. They even played it on some people’s behalf, and they were lucky.”

@Megadoings: “Everything in Life is Luck. Congratulations again.”

@Tony___Cruz: “I prefer the word favour, if it was luck it will mean your parents were the only one’s who played it. But when many people played it and your family ended up winning. I will say that’s favour.”

@VanPeters13: “Where una for dey see this visa lottery play Abeg make I still try my luck ooo. Nigeria is totally and I redeemably fucked.”

@mamaOlanna: “Similar story. One minute I’m picking my desk for my second year at federal girls owerri, and then next thing I’m told is, we’re moving to America tomorrow loll”

@Hmp2million: “That American lottery era was golden. We had a family friend that moved to the US with that route since 2003, now the whole clan are Americans.”

@vwedechidiamadi: “Meanwhile, my father was busy tearing up my sister’s form whenever she tried to apply.”