Congressionally-mandated lottery program

Potential immigrants are allowed to register for the lottery for one month that normally starts in October and ends in November. The registration period is usually only one month long, so it is important to keep track of the dates of its opening and closing. This includes foreign workers that are waiting to obtain a green card through the labor certification program.

Apply here at www. There is no fee for applying online, however if selected there are visa processing fees. Diversity Visa Lottery based on the country of birth of your parents or spouse if you were born in a non-qualifying country.

The registration period for DV is October 6, , to November 9, This registration is for the fiscal year which begins in October and ends in September What this means is that selectees cannot be issued visas until October to September You will be able to check your results of DV in May Subscribe to our newsletter if you need a reminder and to stay informed about the latest DV Lottery news!

The first of these credit card-sized IDs bore green writing and a greenish photo. Meanwhile, the Green Card has changed its color several times. For a while, it had even been pink, since a light green shade is used again. Since the DV program has already been executed three times in February, once in November, and several times in October.

The responsible institution changed in The formerly appointed National Visa Center in Portsmouth had to hand the processing over to the Kentucky Consular Center, which since then has been in charge of the receipt and evaluation of the applications. In the first year, it was still possible to enter several applications per person into the DV lottery. This lead to a few persons applying hundreds of times and thus most probably receiving a Green Card. The effects were a completely overloaded institution and injustices in the distribution, as better-off persons could file more applications.

Since then each person is only entitled to submit one application per year and has to trust in Fortuna. The Immigration and Naturalization Service INS determines the eligible countries and application rules based on a calculation laid down in law.