When to serve?
Those wishing to take part in the green card drawing should send applications for the DV-2020 program in electronic form at dvlottery.state.gov, starting at noon (EDT) (GMT-4) on Wednesday, 3 October 2018 of the year, and no later 12:00 (EAST) (GMT-5) Tuesday, 6 November 2018.
The State Department recommends not to delay the application. Last week, usually, registration site works in the busiest mode, which can lead to delays. The same can be said about the early days. As we said earlier, last year, the first applications were canceled, and the reception time was shifted due to a system bug. All, who sent them during this period, got the opportunity to reapply. Be sure to follow any updates on the green card, until the application process is over.
Whoever is late is late. IN 12 hours 6 November reception will be closed, do not try to send your applications after that and do not forget, that registration is only available online, paper applications are not considered.
Remember! The law only allows one application per person per year. Re-forms will be disqualified until the next draw..
What are the requirements for participants What is required to participate in the Green Card Lottery. Lottery rules
The first rule of the Green Card lottery
Important point, be born in the country to participate in the lottery. If she is excluded, there are two ways to participate: - choose the country of birth of the spouse as the country of participation(and) - choose the country of birth of the parents as the country of participation. The list of countries changes every year. Those countries are excluded, of which the last 5 years in the USA more than 50000 man.
Natives of all other countries can participate in the lottery.
The second rule of the lottery
Persons with complete secondary education can take part in the DV-2020 drawing. If not, then another option is possible: for the last 5 years of work experience in the specialty of at least two years, and she needs to spend at least two years on training. Documents confirming education or work experience are not attached to the application form. But they will need to be shown to the consul for an interview..
Completing the Education section:
If you weren't in high school (10 — 11 classes) and did not study anywhere else, then specify Primary school only.
If you studied in 10 — 11 classes (or vocational school, technical school, college), but never got a diploma, then indicate High school, no degree
With a diploma of complete secondary education (11 high school classes), then indicate High school degree.
If you graduated from the College, Vocational school, college, technical lyceum (you have a specialty), point to Vocational School.
If you studied at the Institute and did not finish your studies (but passed at least 1 session), specify Some University Courses.
If you received a bachelor's degree or (according to the Soviet system) specialist, specify University Degree
note! Distance education, usually, not recognized!
If you have received a bachelor's degree (specialist) continued their studies and passed even one session after that, specify Some Graduate Level Courses.
If you have a master's degree, specify Master Degree.
If you have passed the candidate minimum and passed at least one postgraduate course, указывайте Some Doctorate Level Degree.
If you have a PhD or Doctor of Science degree, specify Doctorate Degree.
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
Country of Compliance with DV Program
Instead of your country of birth, you can choose the country of birth of your spouse or parents. If your country is not eligible or has less chance of winning, than this country, вы можете выбрать эту страну. Вот список стран, whose natives are eligible for DV-2020: АФРИКА Алжир Ангола Бенин Ботсвана Буркина-Фасо Бурунди Камерун Кабо Верде Центрально-Африканская Республика Чад Коморские острова Конго Конго, Democratic Republic of Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Джибути, Egypt * Экваториальная Гвинея Эритрея Эфиопия Габон Гамбия Гана Гвинея Гвинея-Бисау Кения Лесото Либерия Ливия Мадагаскар Малави Мали Мавритания Маврикий Марокко Мозамбик Намибия Нигер Руанда Сан-Томе и Принсипи Сенегал Сейшельские острова горная цепь Леон Сомали Южная Африка южный Судан Судан Свазиленд Танзания Идти Тунис Уганда Замбия Зимбабве * Faces, born in areas, operated until June 1967 years of Israel, Jordan, Syria and Egypt, payable according to Israel, Jordan, Syria and Egypt. Faces, born in the Gaza Strip, are responsible to Egypt; faces, born in the West Bank, are paid for Jordan; faces, born in the Golan Heights, несут ответственность за Сирию. ASIA Афганистан Бахрейн Бутан Бруней Бирма Камбоджа Особый административный район Гонконг ** Индонезия Иран Ирак Израиль* Япония Иордания * Кувейт Лаос Ливан Малайзия Мальдивы Монголия Непал Северная Корея Оман Катар Саудовская Аравия Сингапур Шри-Ланка Сирия* Тайвань** Таиланд Восточный Тимор Объединенные Арабские Эмираты Йемен * Faces, born in areas, operated until June 1967 years of Israel, Jordan, Syria and Egypt, payable according to Israel, Jordan, Syria and Egypt. Faces, born in the Gaza Strip, are responsible to Egypt; faces, born in the West Bank, are paid for Jordan; faces, born in the Golan Heights, несут ответственность за Сирию. ** Гонконг С.А.Р. (Asia region), Macau S.A.R.. (Region of Europe, paid for Portugal), and Taiwan (region of Asia) really eligible and listed here. For purposes of the face diversity program only, born in Macau S.A. R. получить право из Португалии. ЕВРОПА Албания андорра Армения Австрия Азербайджан Беларусь Бельгия Босния и Герцеговина Болгария Хорватия Кипр Чехия Дания (including components and dependent areas abroad) Эстония Финляндия Франция (including components and dependent areas abroad) Грузия Германия Греция Венгрия Исландия Ирландия Италия Казахстан Косово Киргизия Латвия Лихтенштейн Литва Люксембург Специальный административный район Макао ** Македония Мальта Молдова Монако Черногория Нидерланды (including components and dependent areas abroad) Северная Ирландия*** Норвегия (including components and dependent areas abroad) Польша Португалия (including components and dependent areas abroad) Румыния Россия Сан-Марино Сербия Словакия Словения Испания Швеция Швейцария Таджикистан Турция Туркменистан Украина Узбекистан Ватикан ** Macau S.A.R.. whether it meets the requirements and stated above and only for the purposes of the diversity program; faces, born in Macau S.A. R. получить право из Португалии. *** Только для целей программы разнообразия Северная Ирландия рассматривается отдельно. Северная Ирландия квалифицируется и входит в число квалификационных зон. СЕВЕРНАЯ АМЕРИКА Багамы ОКЕАНИЯ Австралия (including components and dependent areas abroad) Фиджи Кирибати Маршалловы острова Микронезия Федеративные Штаты Науру Новая Зеландия (including components and dependent areas abroad) Palau Папуа – Новая Гвинея Самоа Соломоновы острова Тонга Тувалу Вануату ЮЖНАЯ АМЕРИКА, ЦЕНТРАЛЬНАЯ АМЕРИКА И КАРИБСКИЙ БАССЕЙН Антигуа и Барбуда Аргентина Барбадос Белиз Боливия Чили Коста Рика Куба Доминика Эквадор Гренада Гватемала Гайана Гондурас Никарагуа Панама Парагвай Сент-Китс и Невис Санкт-Люсия Святой Винсент и Гренадины Суринам Тринидад и Тобаго Уругвай Венесуэла Вот список стран, whose natives are not eligible for DV-2019: АФРИКА Нигерия ASIA Бангладеш Китай (mainland born) Индия Пакистан Южная Корея Филиппины Вьетнам ЕВРОПА Великобритания (United Kingdom) includes the following dependent areas: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cayman islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, остров Святой Елены и Острова Теркс и Кайкос. СЕВЕРНАЯ АМЕРИКА Канада Мексика ЮЖНАЯ АМЕРИКА, ЦЕНТРАЛЬНАЯ АМЕРИКА И КАРИБСКИЙ БАССЕЙН Бразилия Колумбия Доминиканская Респблика Эль Сальвадор Гаити Ямайка Мексика Перу
What you need to know about the Diversity Visa Lottery 2020
In financial 2020 year will be available 50 thousand. green card. It's a good news, because in recent years, experts have called every lottery the last, and literally until the last days of September we were not sure: Does the next DV start.
The State Department selects the winners at random, as always. Visas are awarded annually to participants in six geographic regions, and no country can get more 7% DV in one year. Countries, of which more than 50 thousand. man for 5 years, are also excluded from the lottery. In DV-2020, people from: Bangladesh, Brazil, Of Canada, China (mainland), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (excluding Northern Ireland) and territories under his control, as well as Vietnam. Faces, born in Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taiwan, are eligible to participate.
Applicants must meet simple, but strict requirements.
Why it is very important to check the correctness of my photo
This is due to the fact, that your application for participation in the lottery will be rejected later, if your photo does not meet all the requirements, but when you upload a photo to the DV lottery form, she takes any photo, wrong or right, without any notifications. If you upload an incorrect size photo or a car photo instead of your own photo, you will not see an error message and your photo will be accepted, no matter what. therefore, when you send your application, there is no way to find out, whether your photo is correct or not. But later, all applications with incorrect photos will be disqualified.
Therefore, it is very important to know, is your photo suitable, before filling out the form
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.»
How to fill out an electronic form for the Green Card-2020
E-DV or DS-5501 forms can be completed online at: dvlottery.state.gov.
All applications are free.
Before you start filling out the form on the site, be sure to make sure, that you have the latest browser version.
The State Department strongly recommends filling out the application form yourself, without a "visa consultant", "Visa agent" or other intermediary
But if someone does help, be sure to be near, follow, so that all items are filled in correctly.
After you send (correctly completed) shape, you will see a confirmation screen - with your name and unique confirmation number.
Important! Save confirmation page and unique number. Without this information, you will not be able to access the online system., to check the registration status.
Beginning with 7 May 2019 year you can check the status of the application at dvlottery.state.gov
We press the button "Check the status of the participant", and then enter your unique confirmation number and personal information.
Make sure, that email account, specified in the E-DV recording, you can use it in 2019 year.
The official website of the Green Card is dvlottery.state.gov
It is necessary to fill out the form only on the official website of the Green Card - https://www.dvlottery.state.gov/
For filling you are given 60 minutes, but it's better to meet 30 minutes, so that there is time to check everything and fix it if necessary.
so, to start filling out the Green Card Lottery Participant Form, you need to click on the green button "Begin Entry".
For security and protection against spam, you will be asked to enter a captcha. Enter the value from the picture in the field below and click on the "Submit" button.
We start filling out the application for a Green card. We fill in all the data in the questionnaire in Latin transliteration.
In the first section, be careful. The first field is Surname, and the middle name. Although in everyday life it is usually more customary to call the name first.
Middle Name is a kind of middle or middle name.
In our case, this may be a middle name, but if your middle name is not indicated in your passport, you can check the “No Middle Name” box and fill out nothing.
As a rule, Kazakhstani passports do not have a middle name - only a first and last name. We are looking at the passport, not an identity card.
Attention! It is impossible to take part in the Green Card lottery without a passport and its expiration date at the time of filling out the questionnaire must be at least 6 months. Further in 2 section choose gender - male or female
Further in 2 section choose gender - male or female.
IN 3 section indicate the date of birth. And here again, the foreign format for entering the date - first month, then day and after year.
in 4 section choose the city of birth. Precisely birth, not current place of residence. In addition, it is necessary to write exactly the modern name of the city.. Not Astana, а Nur-Sultan, eg.
IN 5 section choose the country of your birth.
IN 6 section, when, if your country is not in the list of participants in the Green Card Lottery, you can specify the country, eg, your spouse.
In the case of Kazakhstan, everything is fine and you can just leave "Yes".
IN 7 section we fill in the data from our passport.
We carefully fill in all our data as on a passport. You need to fill in the last name, name, passport ID, its end date and country, in which he was issued.
Option "B" provides for the absence of a passport, but under very difficult circumstances, at which, you cannot get a passport in your country. This does not apply to Kazakhstan for sure..
photo on the green card
IN 8 section you need to attach your photo, made in accordance with all the rules. Separately, according to the rules for the photo, there will be a section in the article below.
In section number 9 you need to specify the details of your postal address. We fill in everything also in Latin. In fact, this is your home address or where you are registered on a permanent basis, not temporarily.
IN 10 section specify the country, where you currently reside. It may differ from country to country, where you were born.
Next, we need to provide your phone number and email.
IN 13 section indicate the level of your education. for example, if you have higher education, then we indicate "University Degree".
The last couple of important sections remain.
Indicate your marital status - married, single or otherwise.
note, what about "married" is 2 paragraph. The only difference in them is whether the spouse is / US resident spouse
IN 15 section we indicate the number of minor children - up to 21 of the year. If there are no children at all, put it 0, as in the example above.
Click on the "Continue" button.
If you fill out the questionnaire at some active time of the day, it is highly likely that the site will be simply overloaded and the following error will appear.
There is 2 option of how to proceed - return to filling out the questionnaire at another time, eg, early in the morning or late at night, or perform simple surgery many times.
Just click back in the browser and again on the "Continue" button. Sooner or later you will break through and everything will work.
When writing an article, it took me about 15 repetitions, until everything worked.
After the site hangs, if you indicated that you are married or have children, then you will need to fill in all their data using the same algorithm, what we analyzed above, only more briefly in scope.
After that, the system will offer in a more compact form to check all the entered data and send the questionnaire.
At the very last step, there will be a page with congratulations on the acceptance of the application and your personal code for checking the winning in the lottery.
Be sure to save your verification code somewhere, which is in the "Confirmation Number" field.
Ways to get a Green Card
As written above, Green card is a residence permit, therefore, it can not only be won, but also get it in another way. There are a lot of ways to get a Green Card, below we will analyze the main.
Political asylum in the United States
Political asylum is granted by the US government to people who have fled their homeland due to persecution at home. There are main reasons why you can get political asylum: you are being persecuted for political reasons, your religion, вы подверглись расовой дискриминации или вы принадлежите к числу людей нетрадиционной сексуальной ориентации. All these reasons will need to be proved to the immigration officer. You can apply for political asylum, being only in the United States.
Получении рабочей визы H1B
Виза H1B выдается в том случае, if you were invited to work in an American company. Almost nothing depends on you here. Your employer gets this visa for you. He must prove to the US government, what exactly should you work for him. Also, the employer must prove, that I did not find a suitable candidate among those, who is in the country. Roughly speaking, a work visa can only be obtained by a highly qualified specialist with a rather rare specialty. Having worked on such a visa for two years, you will be able to apply for a Green Card.
Family reunion
If your close relatives live in the United States and are happy owners of citizenship, then they can apply for family reunification (close relatives are: mother, father, a son, daughter).
Important! This type of emigration can only be used by those, whose relatives are US citizens. Обладатель Зеленой карты не может подать на воссоединение с семьей!
Marriage with a US citizen
The Immigration Service carefully checks such marriages. When choosing this method, you will have to prove to the immigration office, that you really met before the wedding. This can be confirmed by joint photos or videos., common property, common bank accounts. At the same time, the timing of this evidence will be checked., how long do you meet. You can also be checked after marriage., do you live together and so on.
