Green Card Visa Lottery
For such immigrants, within the Diversity Visa Lottery program, каждый финансовый год доступно 50 000 visas, which are distributed among six geographic regions, however, no country can count on more than 7 % visas within one year.
New Requirements for Immigrants - Public Charge
Public Charge
C 24 february 2020, new Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds rules entered into force. According to these rules, most immigrants to the United States must prove, that they will not become a burden to American society.
rules, introduce a number of criteria for assessing the suitability of an immigrant, who wants to get a US Green Card.
Winning the Green Card Lottery, obtaining an immigrant visa, or change of status in the United States, beginning with 24 february 2020 of the year, will be possible only on condition, that the foreigner will prove his financial and professional viability.
therefore, before starting the immigration process - assess your chances to go through it to the end in light of tough innovations.
Instructions have been developed for consular officers 9 FAM 302.8 (U) PUBLIC CHARGE — INA 212(A)(4). This document gives the immigration officer instructions on what cumulative factors to evaluate a potential immigrant.
- Receiving social assistance (benefits) from US government agencies, during 12 months in the last 36 months(receiving the money, food stamps, rental subsidies, medical care;
- Age. Under 18 or older 62 years is not a favorable factor;
- Health status. Lack of disease, hindering employment in the United States or could create a burden on US medicine;
- Family status (family composition, number of dependents). There must be a potential for financial support of the family at a level of at least 125% from the poverty level in the USA;
- Availability of finance and / or assets (the property, promotions, etc.);
- Annual income level ;
- No debts (credits, loans);
- The level of education (basic, professional, higher), received specialty;
- Profession, work experience in the profession, professional licenses, continuing education certificates;
- English language proficiency (language certificates);
- Past U.S. law violations (illegal stay, deportation, arrests, etc.);
I-864P U.S. Poverty Rate for Immigration
Confirmation of participation in the Green Card Lottery
After applying to participate in the lottery, confirmation of registration appears on the screen, which contains your name, as well as a unique confirmation number (Confirmation Number).
You must keep this confirmation, as you need a unique confirmation number to check the results.
Checking the results of the Diversity Visa draw
Each lottery participant, upon completion of the drawing of visas, can check the results of their participation and find out about the winnings on the official website, the above. For participants DV-2021, who applied in the fall 2019 - the results can be checked on the official website, beginning with 5 May 2020.
What you need to have to check your DV winning
To check the results, you must
have the following data:
1. Unique number, received upon successful registration in the drawing (Confirmation Number). If you lose your unique number, don't be upset, since the site provides an active link "Forgot Confirmation Number".
Using this service, filling in the required data, you will be able to recover the lost unique identification number of the DV Lottery participant confirmation;
2. Surname (your last name is Latin,
which was indicated when filling out the application for participation in the drawing);
3. Year of birth.
