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instructions for the green card lottery = diversity visa lottery - immigrant program
The congressionally mandated green card lottery = diversity immigrant visa program is administered on an annual basis by the Department of State and conducted under the stipulations of Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
Section 131 of the Immigration Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-649) amended INA 203 provides for a class of immigrants identified as "diversity immigrants". Section 203(c) of the INA provides a most of up to 55,000 green cards = diversity visas every fiscal year to be made available to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States .
The annual green card lottery = diversity visa lottery program makes permanent residence visas accessible to persons meeting the easy, but strict, eligibility requirements . A computer generated arbitrary lottery drawing chooses selected for green cards = diversity visas .
The visas , however, are distributed among six geographic regions with a superior number of visas going to regions with lower rates of immigration and with no visas going to nationals of countries sending more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. over the period of the past five years. Within every region, no one country may obtain more than seven percent of the available green cards = diversity visas in any one year.
For this year, natives of the following countries are not eligible to apply because they sent more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. over the period of the previous five years:
BRAZIL, CANADA, CHINA (mainland-born), COLOMBIA, EL SALVADOR, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, HAITI, INDIA, JAMAICA, MEXICO, PAKISTAN, PHILIPPINES, PERU, RUSSIA, POLAND, SOUTH KOREA, UNITED KINGDOM (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories and VIETNAM. Persons born in Macau SAR, Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan are eligible .
The Department of State implemented the electronic registration system start with green card lottery = diversity visa lottery - immigrant program - 2005 in order to make the green card = diversity visa process supplementary efficient and secure. The Department utilizes exceptional technology and other means to identify those who commit fraud for the purposes of illegal immigration or who submit multiple entries.
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registration period
Paper entries will not be accepted. Applicants are strongly encouraged not to stay until the last week of the registration period to enter. Intense demand may result in website delays.
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requirements for entry
* To enter the green card lottery = diversity visa lottery - immigrant program , you should be a native of one of the listed countries. See List Of Countries By Region Whose Natives Qualify.
Native of a country whose natives meet the criteria: In the majority of cases, this means the country in which you were born. There are two additional ways you may be able to qualify . Primary, if you were born in a country whose natives are ineligible but your spouse was born in a country whose natives are eligible , you can declare your spouse's country of birth provided both you and your spouse are on the selected entry, are issued visas and enter the U.S. at the same time.
Second, if you were born in a country whose natives are ineligible, but neither of your parents was born there or resided there at the time of your birth, you may declare nativity in one of your parents country of birth if it is a country whose natives qualify for the green card lottery = diversity visa lottery - immigrant program.
* To enter the lottery, you should meet either the education or work experience requirement of the green card lottery = diversity visa lottery - immigrant program program .
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education or work experience
You should have EITHER a high school education or its equivalent, defined as successful completion of a 12-year course of elementary and secondary education . Alternatively, two years of work experience within the past five years in an occupation requiring at least two years of training or experience to perform. The U.S. Department of Labor's database will be used to verify qualifying work experience. For more information about qualifying work experience, see Frequently Asked Question 13.
If you cannot get together these requirements, you should NOT submit an entry to the green card lottery = diversity visa lottery - immigrant program.
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