Official Web Site of the DV Lottery.
Official web site of the US DV lottery program is published and maintained by the US Department of the State in the internet for the benefit of the general public who wants information on the DV Lottery or wants to apply for the program during the application submitting period. This is the one and only official web site that is designed to provide information, application and to accept that E-DV entry by the U.S Government.
This web site is operated by the U.S State department to accept entries for the Diversity visa lottery program every year. This web site provides DV lottery application forms during the 30 days of accepting period every year, allows you to check your digital photo file size as whether it is acceptable or not for the lottery and allows you to check your online result status for the last year held DV Lottery draw too.
Although the lottery may looks like money making program but it is not like that. It is a free to apply program and it is only a random name selection program which will provide 50,000 US immigrant visas in any of the given fiscal year lottery.
The official web site is kept open throughout the year for the benefit of those general public who are interested in the green card lottery program. But it will accept entries each year on a pre announced dates of 30 days only. The web site is specially designed to provide online
E-DV application forms to the visitor. And then it will accept it within 60 minutes if the required fields are field and the image files are attached.
If the time is passed more than 60 minutes it won't accept the application form and the applicant will be informed to get a new form and to apply again. If any of the required fields are not filled it will not accept the entry and will show it in red color text display. Like wise if the required photo image files are attached or the file size is bigger it will display that error reason to be corrected.
Also the official web site is designed to give you a confirmation display with your name and with a unique confirmation number once your entry is accepted in to the lottery system for that year. Also they provide a web link to check your image file size through the official site. If you show an image file that is stored in your PC or laptop to check, the site will check and will show you the result as whether it is acceptable or not.
Further more the DV Lottery official site before provided two kinds of application forms and submitting methods. One is secured one and the other is not secured one. The secured one may take time to give you the result when you have submitted it. Now there is only one kind of application form is provided with out any selection.
Also some kind of internet browsers has trouble in accessing the official site -http://www.dvlottery.state.gov - during the entry submission period. Most suitable browser for the DV lottery application form is internet explorer as per the instruction of the authorities.
There is no field for signature of the applicant or his dependants in the DV Lottery official website for the applicant to sign. The same web site will assist all the applicants to check their status online - DV Lottery Results - for the lottery in the coming year.
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