What do I need to bring to my DV Lottery interview?
What do I need to bring to my DV Lottery interview?
Each applicant (including each applying family member) must bring the following required documents to the green card lottery visa interview.
- Appointment letter.
- DS-260 confirmation page.
- Valid passport of each applicant.
- 2 identical photographs of each applicant.
- Medical exam results in sealed envelope.
How green card lottery winners are selected?
Selection and Notification The winners of the Diversity Visa lottery are chosen at random by a computer program, with a certain number of visas allocated to each region of the world and no one country receiving more than 7 percent of the Diversity Visas available in any given year.
What are the chances of winning the Diversity Visa Lottery?
For the past three decades, the Diversity Visa Program has awarded a path to legal permanent residence to about 55,000 people each year from countries with low levels of immigration to the U.S. Each applicant has a less than 1% chance of winning a green card.
Is it hard to win the green card lottery?
The chances of winning a Green Card vary from year to year due to the number of participants and the legal requirements. That means almost every 25th applicant actually receives a Green Card. Statistically, the chances of winning a Green Card are higher than the odds of winning money in the lottery!
How many people apply for the diversity lottery?
The diversity lottery was conducted under the terms of section 203 (c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act and makes available *50,000 permanent resident visas annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. Approximately 105,628 applicants have been registered.
How do I Check my DV interview date and time?
The e-mail will instruct you to log into the Entrant Status Check on the Electronic Diversity Visa (E-DV) website, using your DV entry confirmation number, to view the date, time and location of your interview. Print this information to take with you to your interview.
Will dv-2013 numbers be used for fiscal year 2013?
Since it is likely that some of the first *50,000 persons registered will not pursue their cases to visa issuance, this larger figure should insure that all DV-2013 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2013 (October 1, 2012 until September 30, 2013).
How many people applied for the dv-2013 program?
Applicants registered for the DV-2013 program were selected at random from 7,941,400 qualified entries (12,577,463 with derivatives) received during the 30-day application period that ran from noon, Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, October 4, 2011, until noon, Eastern Daylight Time on Saturday, November 5, 2011.
