Diversity Visa Program

Diversity Visa Program is a comprehensive program to improve the rates of migration to the US from low admission countries Japan, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Singapore, Malaysia, etc. these countries have not sent at least 50, 000 people to the US in the past five years. Diversity Visa program offers 55, 000 green cards to the nationals of those countries which are considered eligible under the provisions of section 202(b) of the INA (Immigration and Nationality Act).

This act includes all the immigrants under the family sponsored and employment based visa categories. Since this number is liable to change, the USCIS adds the number each year and makes a separate determination for the list of eligible countries before every diversity visa program for the fiscal year starts. Sometimes a country which was eligible last year would become ineligible in the next due to the above fact.

Further you have to be academically equipped with a high school diploma or an equivalent or must have a work experience of 2 years in the past five years in a field that requires at least two years of training or experience.

There are also regional limits for the diversity visa program which is specified by the USCIS under the section 203(c) of the INA. Though the limit of diversity visa program for a fiscal year is 55, 000, the NACARA or Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act uses 5,000 diversity visas which reduce the availability of the Diversity visa to 50,000. The NACARA was passed by the congress in November 1997 which came into effect for DV-1999.

The entries for the Diversity Visa program must be filed within the stipulated period of time (not earlier or late) in electronic format with the US department of state official website. The Diversity Visa application is free of cost and can be filed either in the US or abroad. Only one entry per head is allowed with separate entries for husband and wide.

You must list all the unmarried children less than 21 years of age irrespective of the fact whether they are your natural children, your spouse’ children, children who are formally adopted, and also those children who do not accompany you or intend to migrate to the US.

The selected winners would be notified through mail by the Kentucky Consular Center after which you have to appear for an interview scheduled by the same.