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About Diversity Visa DV-2011 (2009)
What's new @ DV-2011: You must provide an email address this year as part of your entry, it is no longer optional. If you are selected, you will still receive an official letter from KCC by regular mail, but KCC may send other communications to you by email. Please provide a personal email address that you can access rather than using someone else’s address or a standard company address.
NOTE: The Department of State strongly encourages applicants to complete the application without the assistance of "Visa Consultants", "Visa Agents", or other individuals who offer to submit an application on behalf of applicants. In many cases, these facilitators substitute their address for an applicant’s address and thereby receive the selection notification instead of it being received by the actual applicant. Subsequently, the visa facilitators extort money from the selectees in order to receive the notification information that should rightly have gone directly to the DV selectee.
The Diversity Lottery program is an annual lottery run by the U.S. Department of
State. The DV Lottery offers up to 55,000 permanent resident visas each year to
randomly selected applicants from eligible countries. The Lottery is run once a
year, usually in October, and qualified applicants are randomly chosen by
computer.
The visas are distributed among six geographic regions, with a greater 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 each region, no single country may receive more than seven percent of the available Diversity Visas in any one year... read more
Procedures for submitting an entry to DV-2011
The Department of State will only accept completed Electronic Diversity Visa (E-DV) Entry Forms submitted electronically at www.dvlottery.state.gov during the registration period between noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), Friday, October 2, 2009 and noon, Eastern Standard Time (EST) (GMT-5), Monday, November 30, 2009... read more
Informations required for the electronic entry
There is only one way to enter the DV-2011 lottery. You must submit the DS 5501, the Electronic Diversity Visa Entry Form (E-DV Entry Form), which is accessible only at www.dvlottery.state.gov. Failure to complete the form in its entirety will disqualify the entry. Those who submit the E-DV entry will be asked to include the following information on the E-DV Entry Form... read more
List of countries by region whose natives are eligible for DV-2011
The list shows the countries whose natives are eligible for DV-2011, grouped by geographic region. Dependent areas overseas are included within the region of the governing country. The countries whose natives are not eligible for the DV-2011 program were identified by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), according to the formula in Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act... read more
Important Note: Notifications to those selected in the random lottery are not sent by e-mail. Official notifications of selection are sent by regular postal mail from the KCC. Should you receive an email notification about your E-DV selection, be aware that the message is not legitimate. It is only after you are selected, notified by an official letter sent via postal mail, and processing begins on your case, that you may receive follow-up email communication from the KCC. The KCC will not ask you to send money to them by mail or by services such as Western Union.
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