The annual Diversity Visa Lottery also known as the Green Card Lottery is a US government program that makes 55,000 Permanent Resident cards available every year to persons from “underrepresented countries,” which have been less represented in employment and family-based preference categories in the United States of America and who meet two basic eligibility requirements. This years (2018) Green Card Lottery Program is called DV-2020 (the year successful applicants may enter the United States of America on the green card they won), and is now open to all individuals worldwide who meet two basic entry requirements. The Program makes Permanent Resident Cards available to the winners, authorizing the winners and their families to live, study and work in the United States of America as permanent residents. The Green Card Lottery program is a United States congressional-mandated program for receiving a United States Permanent Resident Card, also popularly known as a USA Green Card, due to the green color of the Permanent Resident Card.
Regions
The diversity visas are distributed among six geographic regions. More visas are given to the regions that had
lower rates of immigration. Also, if a particular country sent more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. within past
five years, the citizens of that country are not eligible to participate in the green card lottery. With each
geographical region, no single country may receive more than seven percent (3,500) of the available DVs in any
one fiscal year.
Currently, around 80% of the diversity visas are received by Africa and Europe.
Ineligible Countries
Natives of the following countries were not eligible to apply in DV-2013 because those countries sent more than
50,000 immigrants to the U.S. in the previous five years: BANGLADESH, BRAZIL, CANADA, CHINA (mainlandborn),
COLOMBIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, ECUADOR, EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, HAITI, INDIA, JAMAICA,
MEXICO, PAKISTAN, PERU, PHILIPPINES, SOUTH KOREA, UNITED KINGDOM (except Northern Ireland) and its
dependent territories, and VIETNAM.
Persons born in Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR, and Taiwan are eligible.
Complete details about the eligible countries.
Qualifying Education / Work Experience and Occupations
In order to be eligible to enter in the diversity visa lottery, you must have at least a high school education
(defined as successful completion of a 12-year course of elementary and secondary education, comparable to
such high school education in the U.S.) or its equivalent or have, within the past five years, two years of work
experience in an occupation that requires at least two years’ training or experience. Only formal courses of study
meet the education requirements. Correspondence programs or equivalency certificates (such as the G.E.D.) are
not acceptable.
As long as the course of study completed is equivalent to a U.S. high school education, it is permissible to have
your education completed in less than 12 years or more than 12 years.To see whether your occupation qualifies,
Visit Department of Labor O*Net Online Database.
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