Won a contest for free tickets for Cirque de Soleil
 

Here in Houston there was a contest for Telemundo to win 4 tickets to watch Cirque de Soleil next week. All I needed to be was..

18 or older ✔️

Resident or Citizen ✖️

Still I submitted because maybe I thought DACA would be good enough and what were the chances I was going to win anyway. Well they called me earlier today and told me I won and that I needed to come present a valid drivers license and residency card. I was too nervous to say I had lied and only had DACA. I’ll call back in a bit and confess and tell them to give the tickets to someone else.

It’s sad because these tickets were going to my aunt, cousin and uncle who’d have a rough 2018. We lost my other aunt last year to cancer and I wanted to distract them with something new and fun. It’s little things like this that remind me that even with DACA protection I will always be a second rate citizen of this country that I’ve lived my whole life in.

Re: Won a contest for free tickets for Cirque de Soleil
 

I think you could of still gotten them..

Re: Won a contest for free tickets for Cirque de Soleil
 

so i guess we can't win the lottery then.

Re: Won a contest for free tickets for Cirque de Soleil
 

technically we are residents

DACA Recipients are considered Non-Permanent Residents.

https://www.housingwire.com/blogs/1-...-for-fha-loans

Re: Won a contest for free tickets for Cirque de Soleil
 

Contests or sweepstakes usually have language that says "open to U.S. residents" and legally you qualify because you live in the U.S and have a valid ID. I'd say just give them your ID and EAD and see what happens. They may have asked for "residency card" because I assume they are buying your airplane tickets and will need another form of government ID.

Is it anything like the contest here https://static01.cirquedusoleil.com/...962.1549397603

Re: Won a contest for free tickets for Cirque de Soleil
 

I called, they said I couldn’t pick up the tickets since I was a DACA recepient but that I could bring someone who was a citizen to pick them up. So my cousin will pick up the tickets for me. Glad this was taken care of but it was just another reminder on things I can’t do myself.

Re: Won a contest for free tickets for Cirque de Soleil
 

You are a US resident

Re: Won a contest for free tickets for Cirque de Soleil
 

Why do they need that? Because the value of the tickets is more than $600 so they would have to 1099 you?

Re: Won a contest for free tickets for Cirque de Soleil
 

You don’t even need to be legal to get a 1099 lol

Re: Won a contest for free tickets for Cirque de Soleil
 

Well if you fill out a W9 form, you have to be.