Generally the green card process is a complex process. Green card allows you to stay permanently in US and work over there. Just from historical point of view, this card used to be green in colour from where it derives its name.

To be on the safer side and to prevent any ill-happenings caused by resident’s green card is issued after a long checking of one’s identity which shall be clean over years. The processes that we discuss here to get a green card for Indians in US will focus on investment from an alien entrepreneur and green card lottery. However it is worth nothing that Indians are ineligible to apply for green card lottery because in past five years more than 50000 green cards were given to Indian immigrants so this process cannot be used to procure a green card.

To get a green card as an entrepreneur:

1. The investor must demonstrate a qualified investment made in a new commercial enterprise. A sum of at least one million US Dollars must be invested in new enterprise or at least five hundred thousand dollars must be invested in a site where unemployment has been experienced for 50% population. The investor might also buy an existing firm resulting in new enterprise.
2. Jobs must be created for the residents of US and lot of business through export etc. must be offered.
3. If the above mentioned criteria are satisfied with some additional terms and conditions then the applicant can fill up I-526 form to further process his application. With this application all the documents supporting his earlier projects and finances are submitted. All his income, property and bank balance statement are given to prove his investment. 3000 green cards per year are issued in this category.
4. Once the form I-526 is approved the applicant is given a condition green card that is valid for a period of 2 years and has to be renewed after that.
5. To become a lawfully permanent resident I-829 form has to be filled along with application for renewal of green card on its second anniversary.

Diversity visa lottery is also popularly known as Green card Lottery that puts certain requirement before an individual applicant before his/her permanent residency is approved. One such requirement is that person winning the Diversity visa lottery should be able to present his/her confirmation page information. The information required by winner for Green card lottery can be easily obtained from websites. The only constrained is that information available is up to June 30, 2010.

All winning candidate of the diversity visa lottery received notifications and results through individual mails at their mailing address. Normally the winner receives mails between the period of May and June. All notification is done through official government letters and emails are no way used for such notifications. Official government letters holds seal of U.S Department of state Kentucky consular centre. This letter contains the necessary details and direction that helps in supplementing other requirements. Applicants are informed about the other important forms or documents and fees of immigrant application that has to be handed over.

Between the months of October to September, winners of Lottery for green card are issued Visas. It is very important for applicants to obtain their diversity visa or modify status before the end of current fiscal year.

All those who were not lucky enough to qualify for the green cards would not be given any sort of regret notification. For all those unlucky applicants, the E-DV website is now available which helps them in assessing their status online.

So, who all are interested for lottery for Green card, the application process will open on October, 2010. Get ready with your document because you never know you may be the lucky one out of fifty five thousand.

The Green Card Lottery for immigrating to the United States is supposed to start soon. Yes, starting 2^nd October the applications for the lottery would be accepted, under the diversity visa 2011 program. Popularly this scheme is also known as the Green Card Lottery by lots of people around the world.

For decades now the United States has been a destination of choice for millions of people for the purpose of immigration. They look for a better living standard in the United States and through this program the dream of a lot of people now would come true. Under the Green Card lottery program the immigrants would not require sponsors for themselves, who are already residents of the United States. The activity of accepting the applications for the Green Card lottery would last for approximately 2 months and post that the same would be closed. The last date for submitting the application has been declared to be as the 30^th Nov 09.

There would be approximately 50000 visas that would be made available to people all over the world under the diversity visa 2011 program, to citizens of countries all over the world. The lucky people are to be chosen by a lucky draw. The people selected in this random selection procedure would get an opportunity to be a citizen of the United States come stay and work here. But this does not happen without having to fulfill any conditions.

The eligibility criteria which are mandatory, for any one to be eligible for the diversity visa 2011 program are.

1. The person should have a high school certificate or equivalent for the educational qualification.
2. Or with in the last 2 years the person should have atleast a work experience for a work type that would essentially require a two year training time.

The Unites States government would allow both the spouses to submit their applications which could be helpful in the procedure of making their chances better towards getting selected in the diversity visa 2011 program.

To apply for the diversity visa 2011 program otherwise known as the Green Card Lottery does not necessarily mean that you have to get in touch with a lawyer or an immigration agent, provided you are able to prepare the paperwork your self. Its extremely important that do prepare the paperwork correctly else your application would stand rejected in the lottery.

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.