Introduction to the US dv lottery program
Millions of lives have been changed through the US Diversity Visa Lottery program run annually by the Department of States of the United States of America. The program which provides diversity immigrants from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States of America every year will soon be opening to receive entries across the globe to live the American dream.
Adagya will take you through the instructions and the procedures for applying the US dv lottery program without any assistance of a facilitator.
Entry period for US Dv Lottery Registration
Every year, entry into the US Dv lottery program begins between October 7th and 10th November. Between these months, the applicant can access the portal and register for the US dv lottery program.
Entry Requirement for US Dv Lottery Application
- Entry requirement into the US dv lottery program seeks applicants who are from countries with low immigration rate in the United States. List of qualified countries in the program can be found on the portal whereas the disqualified or banned countries are exempted from the list. However, if an applicant is from a country disqualified from the US dv lottery program and married to a spouse from a qualified country, then the applicant maybe accepted into the program using his or spouse’s country.
- The applicant must either have more than 2 years of working experience in an occupation from the labor department of the United State in order to be accepted into the US dv lottery program or have completed at least high school education or a 12 year course formal education.
- Passport has recently become a requirement in the application process of the US dv lottery program. The applicant must provide details of their passport in order to be accepted into the program. However, exemptions has been made for applicants in the following category; stateless persons, applicant who cannot obtain a passport and have a passport waiver document. They are required to provide proof to be accepted into the entry.
How To Apply for the US dv lottery program
- The applicant will log on to the official website for the dv lottery program. On the page, there is a section for the instruction to the program and Begin Entry where the forms can be found. Applicants are advised to carefully read the instructions before beginning the application process.
- Input the capture or authenticity code to begin application. The code is case sensitive and must be input as it is been displayed accordingly before to proceed.
- The form is opened and categorized into Part One, and so on if applicant is including their family. On the part One, the applicant will fill in his or her personal details which includes: Name, Gender, Date of birth, City of birth as on the passport, Country of birth, Country of eligibility for which the applicant is making their application.
- Next on the form is the passport detail of the applicant which includes the passport name, passport number, date of issue and country for where the passport was issued.
- A passport size photo of the applicant is uploaded on the form. The photo specification for the US dv lottery program is a digital passport size photo of 600 by 600 pixel.
- Next the postal address, country where the applicant is living now, phone number and email address of the applicant will all be needed at this stage.
- Next on the form is the educational background of the applicant. The least educational requirement should be a high school diploma and more than 2 years working experience in an occupation requiring years of learning.
- Also the marital status and the number of children will all have to be provided. Failing to include your family in the US dv lottery program may result in difficulty traveling with your family should the applicant win.
- Finally, the applicant will click on the Submit button to submit the application. The application will be directed to an overview page where the applicant will have to check for errors and verify that all the information provided is accurate. After successful submission, a confirmation number will be given to the applicant that will be used to access the outcome of the result in the given date for checking.
Recommended reading Photo Specification For The US Lottery Program
Conclusion
Filling out the application accurately and providing the necessary requirements may increase the applicant’s chances of being selected in the draw. The confirmation number should also be well taken care of as it will be needed in checking for the result. Applicant must also note that submitting multiple applications to manipulate the system will render all the application rejected and disqualified.
Thank you for reading and making adagya.com your best travel blog. Share and follow my social media handles and lets get interactive.