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Opp Type: | RESIDENCY PROGRAM |
Level | Non-Degree /Short Program |
Number of Opportunity | 54,833 |
Language Requirement | Not required |
Gender | Male/female |
Field of study | |
Funding Type | Fully Funded |
Duration | |
Deadline | 2024-11-07 |
Location | USA |
The Diversity Visa (DV) program, also called the US DV lottery or Green card, was founded in 1990 by the USA Immigration Act starting in 1995. Fifty-five thousand immigrant visas are available for countries with historically low rates of immigration to the United States.
Successful
applicants can live, work, and study in the USA permanently.
As of the State Department, for the 2023 DV program, there have been more than 54,000 issuances/adjustments of status worldwide out of the 54,833 DVs available for FY 2023. Additionally, under U.S. immigration law no single country can receive more than seven percent of the available DVs in any one fiscal year.
These immigrant visas are distributed among six regions of the
world:
Which countries are eligible for the United
States Diversity Visa program?
Almost
all countries around the world are eligible to apply to the US DV program
except the countries listed below.
The following countries are not eligible to apply for the DV program 2024 because more than 50,000 people from these countries have immigrated to the USA:
Note:
People born in Macau SAR and Taiwan are eligible to apply.
Note:
all countries other than those listed above are eligible to apply.
When to apply to the USA Diversity Visa
(DV) program?
Each
year, the DV lottery registration is open for a specific period. The State
Department has announced that the application for the USA Diversity Visa
Program (DV LOTTERY ) 2025 will start in early October 2023 and will end in
early November.
Last
year, The DV Lottery 2024 began on October 5, 2022 (Wednesday 12:00 pm EDT or
8:00 PM Afghanistan time) and finished on November 8, 2022 (Wednesday 12:00 pm
EDT or 8:00 PM Afghanistan time).
Who is eligible to apply for the USA Green card?
Necessary Information to complete your entry
The requirement of the photo:
Passport requirement:
For
DV 2022, and 2023, the Main applicants needed a valid traveling
passport. Fortunately, this year, the DV program has removed this requirement
and does not need the details of the passport.
Note: Do not submit an entry to the DV program unless you meet the above requirements.
How to apply?
The
person meeting the above requirement can fill out the online application form
available only on the DV Lottery Official Website.
Steps:
Please
pay attention to print and/or save a pdf file of this confirmation because the
DV program does not send you any confirmation of your application, and the
confirmation number is the only way that you can check your result when it is
announced.
Remember
to include your family name, and first name according to your passport (middle
name if it is included in your passport). List your name in the following
order: last/family name, first name, middle name, and if you have only one
name, enter it in the last/family name field.
We
encourage you to apply by yourself. If other facilitators offer help, you
should be present at the time of entry to provide correct answers to the
questions, retain your unique confirmation number, and print out your confirmation
screen. It is essential to keep the printout of your confirmation page and
confirmation number.
You
also should keep access to the email account listed in your E-DV entry.
Complete
your Electronic Entry for the DV-2025 Program via the dvprogram.state.gov before
November 7, 2023.
You can read the guidelines here as well.
Result
Announcement:
the
Result for US DV 2025 will be announced on May 5th 2024. The US Diversity Visa
(DV) 2024 result was announced, on May 6th, 2023, at noon US time, and you can
check your result at the link below. Due to the enormous traffic from all over
the world, the website may not be working in the first hours of the result
announcement. Do not worry; you can check it later as well.
if
you applied for DV 2024, 2025 you can check your results until the following
dates, in order: 30 September 2024- 30 September 2025.
Have you forgotten your confirmation
number?
If
you have forgotten/lost your confirmation number, do not worry; you can
retrieve it easily.
Information required:
Last name,
Name,
Date of Birth and
email address
Check this link,
select the year of DV you applied for (2024/2025), fill in the required info
(such as your Last name, Name, Date of Birth, and email address), and type the
authentication character shown on the page and click submit to retrieve your
confirmation number.