The
U.S. diversity immigration program, more commonly known as the
Immigration Lottery, makes available 55,000 permanent residence
visas each year to persons meeting the eligibility requirements.
However, the Nicaraguan and Central American Relief Act (NACARA)
passed by Congress in November 1997 stipulates that beginning
with DV-99, and for as long as necessary, 5,000 of the 55,000
annually-allocated diversity visas will be made available for
use under the NACARA program. Visas are apportioned among six
geographic regions with a greater number of visas going to regions
with lower rates of immigration, and no visas going to countries
sending more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. in the past five
years. No one country can receive more than 3,500 diversity visas
in any one year. Each year a 30-day period is selected for the
filing of the Lottery application There is no special form for
the lottery and you DO NOT need a lawyer or any other agency to
file for you. The selection of winners is made at random and no
outside service can improve an applicant's chances of being chosen
or guarantee an entry will win. Any service that claims it can
improve an applicant's odds would be promising something it cannot
deliver.
The Department of State made the following comment:
"There is NO initial fee, other than postage, required to
enter the DV-2004 program. The use of an outside intermediary
or assistance to prepare a DV-2004 entry is entirely at the applicant's
discretion. Qualified entries received directly from applicants
or through intermediaries have equal chances of being selected
by computer. There is no advantage to mailing early, or mailing
from any particular place. Every entry received during the mail-in
period will have an equal random chance of being selected within
its region. However, more than one entry per person will disqualify
the person from registration."
To get more information and a free application
with instruction go to the usimmigrationlottery.com
site using the link below.
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