DV 2013 Entrants: Please keep your confirmation number until at least September 2013, even if you are not selected on May 1, 2012. The Department of State may select more DV 2013 entries on October 1, 2012.
DV 2013 Program: Entrants in the Diversity Visa 2013 program may check the status of their entries through Entrant Status Check on the E-DV website beginning on May 1, 2012 through September 30, 2013. Please remember to keep your confirmation, since more DV 2013 entrants may be selected on October 1, 2012. If you have lost your confirmation information, you will not be able to check your DV entry status. We will not be able to resend the confirmation page information to you. - DOS
Note that there is absolutely no charge to download and complete the Electronic Diversity Visa Entry Form from the State Department's website. There is no fee either to enter the DV lottery. It is completely free. Be very cautious if a website or company charges any type of fees for participation in the DV program.
The DV-2010 Lottery online entry already ended on December 1, 2008. Participants may check the status of their lottery entries at http://www.dvlottery.state.gov.
For DV-2010, natives of the following countries are not eligible to apply because the countries sent a total of more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. in the previous five years:
BRAZIL, CANADA, CHINA (mainland-born), COLOMBIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, ECUADOR, EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, HAITI, INDIA, JAMAICA, MEXICO, PAKISTAN, PHILIPPINES, PERU, POLAND, SOUTH KOREA, UNITED KINGDOM (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and VIETNAM.
Persons born in Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR, and Taiwan are eligible.
For the first time, people who submitted lottery entries may check their status online. You will need your confirmation page information to do that. Because this information will be provided only once – at the time of your entry – it is extremely important that you print or write down your confirmation information for later use. If you lose this information, you will still receive a letter from the Kentucky Consular Center by mail notifying you of your selection, if you win the lottery.
Individuals NOT selected will NOT receive any notification. But for DV-2010, people don't have to keep on waiting, and can simply check their case status starting July 1, 2009.
Entries for the DV-2010 Diversity Visa lottery must be submitted electronically, at this address: http://www.dvlottery.state.gov/
As usual, all entries by an individual will be disqualified if more than ONE entry for that individual is received, regardless of who submitted the entry.
A person may submit DV-2010 entry regardless of whether that person is already in the U.S. or in another country.
The DV-2009 Green Card Lottery online entry begins at Noon EDT on October 3, 2007, and ends at Noon EST on December 2, 2007. Only electronic submission is accepted. Paper entries will not be accepted. Detailed instructions for the DV-2009 lottery has been published by the Department of State.
Results of DV-2009 can be found here.
The DV program provides up to 55,000 Diversity Visas each fiscal year to natives from countries with low rate of immigration to the United States, which means sending less than 50,000 immigrants over the last five years. For DV-2009, the following counties are NOT eligible:
BRAZIL, CANADA, CHINA (mainland-born), COLOMBIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, ECUADOR, EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, HAITI, INDIA, JAMAICA, MEXICO, PAKISTAN, PHILIPPINES, PERU, POLAND, RUSSIA, SOUTH KOREA, UNITED KINGDOM (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and VIETNAM. Persons born in Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taiwan are eligible.
To enter the DV-2009 lottery, you must be born in an eligible country (see exceptions in the instructions) and meet the education or work experience requirement (generally high school or above). There is also strict requirement for digital photos of you and your dependents. All qualified entries will be randomly selected by a computer program. Winners will be notified by mail (never by email) between May and July 2008, and will receive further instruction and fee information associated with the immigration process. Individuals not selected in the drawing will NOT receive any notification.
One individual may submit only one entry, and multiple submissions will automatically disqualify all entries, regardless of who submitted them.
Before proceeding to completing the DV forms, make sure you have read the instructions carefully and have all information available, including: full name, date of birth, city of birth, country of birth, country of eligible or chargeability, entry photos, mailing address, country of current residency, as well as information of your spouse and all children.
