DV 2013 Program: Beginning
on May 1, 2012 at noon Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), entrants from DV
2013 (those who submitted entry between October 4, 2011 and November 5, 2011)
may check the status of their entry using the confirmation number through
Entrant Status Check on the E-DV website. Be advised that additional DV 2013
entrants MAY be selected beginning October 1, 2012. The DV-2013 registration
period was from October 4, 2011, until November 5, 2011.
Entrant Status Check is the
ONLY means of informing you if your entry was selected or not. All entrants,
including those NOT selected, may check the status of their entries through the
Entrant Status Check on the E-DV website www.dvlottery.state.gov. Entrants will need to
use the information from their confirmation pages saved at the time of entry.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you
have lost your confirmation information, you will not be able to check your DV
entry status. KCC will not be able to resend the confirmation page information
to you.
Instructions for the 2014
diversity immigrant visa program (DV-2014)
The congressionally mandated
Diversity Immigrant Visa Program is administered on an annual basis by the
Department of State and conducted based on United States law, specifically
Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). This law provides
for a class of immigrants known as “diversity immigrants”, with visas made
available to persons from countries with historically low rates of immigration
to the United States. For fiscal year 2013, 50,000 diversity visas will be
available.
The annual DV program makes
visas available to persons meeting simple, but strict, eligibility
requirements. A computer-generated, random drawing chooses selectees for DVs.
The visas are distributed among six geographic regions, and within each region,
no single country may receive more than seven percent of the available DVs in
any one year. Visas are allocated to nationals of countries with historically
lower rates of U.S. immigration. Nationals of countries who have sent more than
50,000 immigrants to the United States over the past five years are not
eligible to apply for the Diversity Visa program.
For DV-2014, natives of the
following countries1 are not eligible to apply because the countries sent a
total of more than 50,000 immigrants to the United States in the previous five
years:
BANGLADESH, BRAZIL, CANADA,
CHINA (mainland-born), 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.
Changes in eligibility this
year:
For DV-2014, natives of
South Sudan and Poland are now eligible for selection, while Bangladesh natives
are now ineligible.
The Department of State
implemented the electronic registration system beginning with DV-2005 in order
to make the DV process more efficient and secure. The Department utilizes
special technology and other means to identify those who commit fraud for the
purposes of illegal immigration or those who submit multiple entries.
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