DIVERSITY VISA PROGRAM

The Diversity Visa Program for immigrants is a mandatory lottery program for obtaining the Permanent Resident Card of United States of America. The other name for the Diversity Visa Program is green card lottery.
This lottery program is conducted by the department of the state of the U S under the conditions and terms prevailing under the section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. New class which has been offered under section 131 of the Immigration Act of 1990 to the immigrants is known as the diversity immigrants.

According to this act 55,000 permanent resident visas are granted annually to those who wish to live and work permanently in the United States of America. If any country has sent more than 50000 immigrants in the past five years do not have the eligibility to obtain the diversity visa.
Lottery is made available to the people of those countries where the immigration rates turn out to be extremely low. If the visa is obtained through the Diversity Visa Program the immigrant is allowed to bring the spouse or any children below the age of 21 years to the United States of America.
The Department of the State of the United States conducts lottery annually and the selection of the applicant is done at a random basis. Some of the initial 50000 applicants may not qualify for the visas. But sufficient entries will be selected for the Diversity Visa Program so that all the diversity visas can be issued.
After the issuance of the 50000 visa the lottery will be closed for the fiscal year. Hence selected applicants should be prepared with the prompt action. Kentucky Consular Center computer does the random selection and hence there is no assurance that the visa will be received. The selected applicants will receive the notification of their selection by mail between the months of May and July 2008 at the respective addresses that has been provided in the application form.
The Kentucky Consular Center will send the necessary appointment letters of the applicants selected before 4 – 6 weeks prior to the interview that has been scheduled with U S consular officers. Visas will be given to the applicants depending upon the availability of the visa number.
There are mainly two requirements to be fulfilled in order to qualify for the Diversity Visa Program. The applicant should be from the country that has the eligibility. The department of the state declares the countries that are not eligible for the application.
A successful completion of the elementary and secondary education is necessary for the applying under the diversity visa program.