US Department of State will answer questions on drawing green cards

With the help of Facebook Live, the US Department of State will conduct a live chat to answer questions about the diversification visa lottery, better known as the green card lottery.

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The event will take place on May 10 from 10:00 to 11:00 US East Coast time. Details - by link.

The chat is scheduled three days after the results of the next lottery on the draw of green cards became known. They can be checked from 7 May from 12: 00 EST.

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You can check your status on the site. www.dvlottery.state.gov, to do this, enter the confirming number of the lottery participant, as well as indicate the name, surname and year of birth of the applicant.

If you found a letter with a barcode and your data on the page that opened, you won. Results will be available for review before 30 September 2020.

Read more about the process of checking the results in our material.

However, many applicants cannot verify their status, since the lottery site is frozen almost immediately after the results and continues to hang for the second day in a row. At the time of writing, the problem with the site has not been resolved.

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If you were able to verify your result and you became a happy owner of a green card, then to obtain it you need to take more 5 mandatory steps, which are described in detail in our material on link.

The Green Card Lottery is an annual lottery in which approximately 50 permits for permanent residence in the United States (green cards) are awarded. Citizens of many countries can participate in it, with the exception of those whose number of immigrants exceeds 7% of the total. A computer system randomly selects winners from all correctly completed entries.

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