DV or "Green Card" Lottery
The congressionally-mandated Diversity Immigrant Visa Program makes available 50,000 permanent resident visas annually, drawn from random selection among all entries, to persons who meet strict eligibility requirements from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.
The online entry registration period for the DV-2011 Lottery begins at Noon EDT on October 2, 2009 and ends at Noon EDT on November 30, 2009. No registration is possible before and after the deadlines. We encourage submitting your online application early. People trying to apply in the final days of the registration period may experience system delays due to heavy demand.
Please use the following link for more information and the entry website: http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants
/types/types_1322.html.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Please be aware that the U.S. Government’s Diversity Visa Lottery is administered by the U.S. Department of State Kentucky Consular Center (KCC) in Williamsburg, Kentucky. There is no initial application fee for the Diversity Visa application. Lottery winners will receive notifications from the KCC by regular mail to the postal address provided in the application.
A number of firms giving the semblance of being entities of the U.S. Government are contacting individuals in this region in connection with the Diversity Visa. Although applicants are free to appoint and pay for an agent, they should guard against unreasonable fees, (false) guarantees of a better chance of winning the lottery, or demands for a new round of previously undisclosed fees in order to receive lottery results. The selection of winners is made at random and no outside service can improve an applicant’s chances of being chosen or guarantee that an entry will win. Please click here to read the Warning note on fake DV program sites.