Green card lottery statistics
The results of the draw for 2006-2015 year and percentage of each region:
Draw Year Total Winning Entries Regions, who participated and the number of winning applications for them.
According to this data, it seems, which annually in the drawing wins about 100 thousand applications, but not 55 as stated. But the real picture looks different, about half of the winning profiles are eliminated at the visa interview at the embassy.
Green card statistics for the countries of the European region, which accounts for about 30% of all valid visas (of the total per region), according to data from 1995 years to 2013 looks like that:
- Ukraine 19%
- Uzbekistan 15%
- Russia 9%
- Poland 6%
- Turkey 6%
- Albania 5%
- Moldova 4%
the remaining 36% shared among themselves the rest 60 countries, It should be noted, that Russia did not take part in the drawing with 2004 by 2008 of the year.
Countries participating and not eligible for the lottery
At the moment information on 2021 year not, however, given the experience of past lotteries, we can assume, that about 200 countries from 6 major regions, admitted annually. According to statistics for regions with 2013 by 2020 year list of countries, not participating in the green card lottery 2020 did not change, quite possibly, what's in the green card draw 2021 he will most likely remain the same:
- Great Britain (exception Northern Ireland)
- Brazil
- China (mainland)
- Canada
- Vietnam
- Philippines
- Pakistan
- Peru
- Nigeria
- India
- South Korea
- Jamaica
- Haiti
- El Salvador
- Colombia
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
The ban on participation for the above countries is justified by a large number of emigrants from them in previous years. Data, when countries were admitted, but refused to participate on their own initiative no, perhaps there were no such cases.
Stages of obtaining a Diversity Visa
Checking winnings
1. First of all, you need to check the results of the drawing on the official website https://dvlottery.state.gov. Will be redirected to https://dvprogram.state.gov/
Diversity Visa Participants 2021 can check the status of their records with 5 May 2020 years to 30 september 2021.
Don't be upset if there is no notification of your winnings, since in this case there are subtleties:
- when checking the results in the first days
after the draw, you may receive a false negative result, since these
days the server is most overloaded and there is a possibility of issuing a negative
result; - as practice shows, gain
quite possible in a later period, therefore it is necessary to re-
check in a few months.
Caution - scammers
Important!
The Department of State never asks you to transfer money by mail or
through money transfer systems.
If you received a letter, containing confirmation of winning the Diversity Visa Lottery, do not believe its content, since this letter is fraudulent.
The Department of State will never ask you to transfer money by mail or money transfer systems (eg, such as Western Union).
Verify that there are no grounds for disqualification
Before starting the process
obtaining a visa, make sure, that the Consulate has no reason for your
disqualification or refusal to obtain a visa. Especially in the case, if at
the help of third parties was applied when applying for the drawing.
Submit your Immigration Form DS-260
It is necessary to apply for immigration visa forms DS-260 for yourself and your immediate family members, which include: spouse(a), as well as children before 21 of the year, unmarried.
Prepare the necessary documents
To obtain a DV immigrant visa in 2020 financial year, You need:
- personal documents,
- documents on education and professional experience,
- military service (if applicable to you),
- no criminal record,
- availability of funds and tangible assets
Some documents you will need to send in advance to the Kentucky Consular Center.
Full documents all documents you will need for an interview at the US Embassy.
Translation of documents for immigration to the USA
Translation of required documents into English, beginning with 2019 year need to be prepared immediately after submitting the DS-260 immigration forms.
You do not need to affix an apostille. You don't even need to notarize the translation.
A certified translation is enough.
Translation must include a statement, signed by the translator, which says, что перевод является точным и переводчик компетентен для перевода.
Submit your documents to the Kentucky Consular Center
After submitting the immigration form, you will receive a request to send documents from the Kentucky Consular Center.
For DV-2020 winners, to KCC it was necessary to send:
- biographical passport page (international passports);
- birth certificate of all family members;
- Marriage certificate(if marriage after application);
- police clearance certificate for everyone, who is older 16 years;
- military ID for conscripts;
- documents, confirming the end of all previous marital relations (divorce certificate, spouse's death certificate, a copy of the court decision on divorce);
- in case of a criminal record or various forms of restriction of freedom, you must provide a copy of the decision of the court or other authority, imposed restriction of freedom, and sometimes other documents explaining this situation;
Не отправляйте бумажные документы в КЦК. Любые бумажные документы, sent to KCC, will be destroyed.
Documents, photographed or scanned with a mobile phone, are acceptable, но каждый документ должен быть полностью разборчивым. Неразборчивые или неполные документы должны быть повторно поданы и задержат рассмотрение вашего дела.
Отправляйте документы только на адрес электронной почты: [email protected] ;
Для любых вопросов обработки документов используйте адрес электронной почты: [email protected] .
After sending documents, you get from KCC, email with this content:
» Congratulations! Our records indicate that you have submitted all required documentation to the Kentucky Consular Center and are ready to be scheduled for an interview when your case number becomes current. Interviews are scheduled numerically based on case numbers that have completed processing.»
What is most important in the form of a lottery?
Primarily, remember: don't lie, write only the truth. Используйте только английские буквы. Допущенные страны
Обратите внимание на пункт о допущенных странах (Country of eligibility): you need to choose exactly the country of birth, а не место жительства. Сделайте правильное фото. Многие участники совершают ошибку именно на этом моменте. USCIS will automatically disqualify applications, whose photos do not meet the requirements
There are many requirements and conditions from background to head size. You can use special services, to take a photo, meeting all requirements, eg: https://ru.visafoto.com/diversity-visa-lottery-photo
