May, 2008

Diversity Visa Lottery 2009 (DV-2009) Results

DV 2009 Results will be announced to the winners with further istructions in 2008 between the months of may and july. Regular postal mail only will be used to announce the result to individuals to their addresses which were submitted in the EDV apply forms.

Please take note that winners will not be notified by E-mail or Phone or Fax.

In the winning notification you will get further instructions in the postal mail Such as paying the Visa fee and the Diversity processing fee to the Embassy or consulate at the time of interview, where they will give you official receipt for the payments.

You will not be requested to send money by post, westernunion or any other money service. If any one ask you to send money don't respond to it.
Also you have to provide letter from a relative or friend in USA to support you to prevent you from becoming a public Burden.

If you don't know to fill the forms you can get assistance from Inmmigration lawyers or Immigration consultants.

Finally if you don't have the required education/work experience according to the requirements, don't proceed with the processing.

The DV2009 lottery accepted entries from eligible people in the year 2007 for a period of 60 days and it is now closed. No more entries will be accepted for this program. Visas processing interview will start from October 2008 to August 2009.

Eligible winners will be issued vith visas till September 2009. No visas will be issued after september 2009 for the diversity visa 2009 program. In some part of the world this program is called as American Green Card.

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Diversity Visa Lottery 2007 (DV-2007) Results

The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2007 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 82,000 applicants have been registered and notified and may now make an application for an immigrant visa. 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-2007 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2007.

Applicants registered for the DV-2007 program were selected at random from over 5.5 million qualified entries received during the 60-day application period that ran from 12:00 AM on October 5, 2005, until midnight, December 4, 2005. The visas have been apportioned among six geographic regions with a maximum of seven percent available to persons born in any single country. During the visa interview, principal applicants must provide proof of a high school education or its equivalent, or show two years of work experience in an occupation that requires at least two years of training or experience within the past five years. Those selected will need to act on their immigrant visa applications quickly. Applicants should follow the instructions in their notification letter and must fully complete the information requested.

Registrants living legally in the United States who wish to apply for adjustment of their status must contact the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services for information on the requirements and procedures. Once the total *50,000 visa numbers have been used, the program for fiscal year 2007 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2007 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2007 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2007 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2007.

Only participants in the DV-2007 program who were selected for further processing have been notified. Those who have not received notification were not selected. They may try for the upcoming DV-2008 lottery if they wish. The dates for the registration period for the DV-2008 lottery program will be widely publicized during August 2006.

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*  The Nicaraguan and Central American Relief Act (NACARA) passed by Congress in November 1997 stipulated that up to 5,000 of the 55,000 annually-allocated diversity visas be made available for use under the NACARA program. The reduction of the limit of available visas to 50,000 began with DV-2000.

Diversity Visa Lottery 2007 Winners, by Geographic Region

AFRICA

ASIA

EUROPE

NORTH AMERICA

BAHAMAS , THE   -  12

OCEANIA

SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN

Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2007: Canada, China (mainland-born, excluding Hong Kong S.A.R., and Taiwan), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam