Greencard Lottery Registry

US Diversity Visa Program is carried out by the US Government. This program, referred to as the “US Green Card Lottery”, provides non-US nationals a way to immigrate to the United States in the easiest and most cost-effective way. Every year the Congress of the USA authorizes issuance of 50 000 immigrant visas for the countries which are considered as “under-represented” (in regards of the immigration volume) in the USA.

The purpose of the Lottery is to provide an immigration opportunity for persons from countries other than the countries that send large numbers of immigrants to the US every year. That is why natives of some countries are not eligible to apply. Non-US nationals, natives of the countries determined by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service may apply.

DV lottery which is also called as Green Card lottery is currently not accepting entries from applicants. Next visa lottery DV 2010 is expected to be announced in September 2008 by the State Department.The program is strictly limited to one application per person as primary applicant, if anyone has applied more than one entry all the entries will be rejected without any notice regardless of who submitted them.

The congressionally mandated Diversity Immigrant Visa Program is administered on an annual basis by the Department of State and conducted under the terms 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 known as “diversity immigrants”. Section 203(c) of the INA provides a maximum of up to 55,000 Diversity Visas (DV) each fiscal year to be made available to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.

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