US Green Card Lottery for the Fiscal Year 2023 Now Open

One of the easiest ways to get a US green card is back and is now accepting entry submission. Under the Diversity Visa 2023 lottery, around 50,000 people can get green cards.

Registration for the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program for Fiscal Year 2023 (DV-2023), popularly known as the visa lottery, officially opened up on 6 October 2021.

The Department of State, which administers the program announced on its Twitter account that the electronic enrollment period is rolling out only through the Electronic Diversity Visa Program.

Eligible foreign nationals interested in immigrating legally to the United States must submit their applications electronically. Online entries are accepted no later than 9 November 2021 at 12 PM. EST.

“Do not wait until the last week of the registration period to enter as heavy demand may result in website delays,” officials recommended.

No late entries or paper entries will be accepted and the law allows only one entry per person during each entry period. Attempting to enter the program more than once automatically disqualifies the applicant.

2023 Diversity Visa Program

The 2023 Diversity Visa Program provides permanent resident visas to foreign citizens in countries with low immigration rates to the United States in the previous five years.

Participation in the DV-2023 program is free and the application process is quite simple. Winners are determined through a randomized computer drawing.

Applicants must meet simple but strict eligibility requirements to qualify, according to the Department of State, which distributes immigrant visas among six geographic regions. The program is widely popular around the globe because it does not require a US sponsor to immigrate.

For the DV-2022, the program received 7,336,302 qualified entries.

If you participated in the Diversity Visa program in the last two years, find your application status now.

You will need your online registration confirmation number, your last name and date of birth to check on your standing. https://t.co/8odOZqjJAU pic.twitter.com/g7aXdwpTt7
— USAGov (@USAGov) September 27, 2021

Egypt, Sudan, Russia, and Algeria won the most immigrant visas to legally immigrate to the US as legal permanent residents.

Eligible Applicants for 2023 Green Card Lottery

To enter the program, individuals must be citizens of qualifying countries, determined by the number of immigrants who have come to the United States from that country in the past five years, and meet basic educational requirements:

Requirement 1: Country of origin
Every foreign national can apply for the DV-2023, except natives from these countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China (including Hong Kong), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, Venezuela and Vietnam.
Requirement 2: Education/Work experience
Individuals must have at least a high school diploma or its equivalent, or two years’ work experience over the past five years in an eligible field that requires at least two years of training.

How to Enter the 2023 Green Card Lottery

Applicants must submit entries for the DV-2023 program electronically at Electronic Diversity Visa Program with the entire “E-DV Entry Form” completed.

The following information is required to complete the process:

Name — last name, first name, middle name — as it appears on your passport
Gender
Date of birth (day, month year)
City of birth
Country of birth
Country of eligibility for the DV-2023 program
Passport number
Recent photograph (of the applicant, spouse, and children) that meets the Department of State’s requirements
Postal address
Country of current residence
Phone number (optional)
Email
Highest academic level achieved
Current marital status
Number of children

You can also apply for the US Diversity Greencard Lottery with the simplified process with a firm like IaM.

Announcement of DV-2023 Winners

According to the Department of State’s instructions, DV-2023 participants must go to the Entrant Status Check web page to find out whether their entry has been selected using the confirmation number received when they submitted their forms.

The results will be available from 8 May 2022 through at least 30 September 2023.

It is important that applicants retain the unique confirmation number received after completing the entry, as well as a printout of the confirmation screen.

If selected, an individual will be directed to a confirmation page that provides further instructions, including legal fees related to immigration to the United States.

All winners, including family members, must be issued immigrant visas by 30 September 2023, to be able to obtain a green card under the visa lottery category.

But first, selectees go through a strict consular interview process.

Interviews for the DV-2023 program will begin in October 2022 for selectees who have submitted all pre-interview paperwork and other information as requested in the notification instructions.

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