Green Card & Visa News

The United States government runs a diversity program called the Diversity Lottery (DV) Program, that enable 50,000 people from all over the globe to come and settle in the United States. Like any other citizen of the country. They would be allowed to work earn and have equal rights there by law, and the best part is that it’s permanent and not time bound.

There are a couple of eligibility criteria for the program. These primarily circles around the education and previous work experience of the individual. About Education – The applicants would be required to have completed 12 years of education primary and secondary combined. And 2 years of work experience which should not be in more than the last five years. In some field it would need at least two years of training or experience to perform.

The application would happen online from the State Department’s website. An electronic application would be required to be filled in for the Diversity program visas. No mails or otherwise would be entertained.

There are some silent features of this online lottery that happens for the American green card lottery. First all the participants are placed on the same platform and there are absolutely no chances of partiality or favoritism to happen in this lottery.

Secondly there are no charges associated with this lottery from the US State Department website though. But there is some amount of nominal charges, which is applicable if tried to apply through the USAFIS organization website.

Free airline tickets would be provided to the winners of the program, to travel to the United States and stay there. Also the participants would be allowed to send their photos through normal mail. But the point to be noted here are, this feature is not available from if applied through the US State Department website. This is just a feature of the USAFIS organization website. But that does not mean that there would be discrimination done while choosing the winners.

In case you are from a country which does not appear in the list of eligible countries, then you can apply after acquiring a citizenship of a different country that is a part of the list.