The American Government used to allow natives of many countries to participate in a computer random name selection every year to issue American immigrant visas. These randomly selected winners will be allowed to apply for the US Immigrant visa using the normal visa procedures and at the end they must go for the visa interview at one of the US consular office to proof their eligibility to obtain the required visas. Those who are staying in the USA and if they are selected under this program can contact the USCIS office to change their current status to LPR Status if they meet the eligibility requirements.
If you are selected as a winner while you are staying legally in the USA, it is better to get assistance from professional immigration offices or law firms to assist you to change your current status to the American LPR status.
This program is officially called as diversity visa lottery program and many African and North and South American country people used to call it as green card lottery program. People may think this is a simple lottery program and winning it will allow them to have the rich American life for them and for their family. But it is wrong. This true and reliable program is covered with tougher rules, time limit and involves a heavy non refundable visas fees of US$ 819 for the primary applicant and each of his/her dependants.
It is clearly stated by the State department those who want to participate in this lucky draw name selection must meet certain eligibility requirements to apply for the program. If they don't have them, they are seriously advised not to participate in the program. Also this winning this program and proofing their eligibility will allow that person to live and work permanently in the USA. So the authorities are expecting you to provide all the true personal information from the beginning of the DV lottery application. Failure to comply with this will lead to rejection from the program at any time.
Each fiscal year dv lottery has its own name. For example, the DV 2014 visa lottery program is named and designed for the fiscal year 2014 to accept entries from eligible people in the year 2012, through the application form which is provided in the internet by the US State Department in their specially designed official visa lottery web site.
The application form is officially called as E-DV entry form and it will be available for a period of thirty days only.
Also take note that the next DV Lottery application form for the DV-2014 will request to provide each application to provide their digital photo file, personal email address along with their personal details in the entry form. Those who have failed to provide all of them will be informed that their application forms will not be accepted by the internet server.
Those who want to apply must download the application forms from the official web site and should fill it within the given 60 minutes of time and it should submit back as instructed. If they couldn't do it in time, then they must download a new one and have to start the process again. The form can't be saved and used as it is an online submission form. People living in the USA too can apply for this program, if they meet the eligibility. Also they can apply for their eligible relatives and friends too regardless of in which country they are living today. Don't forget a person can apply only one entry as a primary applicant. If submitted more than one entry, all the entries will be rejected regardless of who has submitted them.
No one can guarantee that you will be a winner.
On acceptance of your entry you will get a Confirmation number page which you can save or print. The unique number will allow you to check your status online whether you are selected for the program or not for further processing. Online result checking facility for the DV-2012 visa lottery program is available from 15th July 2011 in the internet. The facility will be available till 30th June 2012.
Also the selected people for the DV 2012 are being called for the interview according to their case numbers at those Embassies which they had chosen through the visa application forms. Some time they may have to travel to the nearest Embassy in other country, if their country doesn't have US Embassy which can do the interviews under the diversity visa lottery program.
DV-2012 will close on 30th September 2012 and the selection under this fiscal year program will go null.
DV 2011 was closed on 30th September 2011and nearly 50,000 immigrant visas were issued to people who met the rules at the interview from out of the selected 100,600 winners.
Those who had participated in the DV 2013 visa lottery program must wait till May 2012 to check their results in the online status check web site.
Those who want to apply for the DV 2014 must wait for the official announcement in the year 2012.
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