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The last day to fill out a green card lottery questionnaire: experienced tips

Online registration for the DV-2021 Green Card Lottery opened on October 2, 2019 at 12:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) and will continue until tomorrow at 12:00 pm EST on November 5, 2019. . Let us remind you what you need for this - please note, there are innovations!

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ForumDaily posted detailed instructions for completing the questionnairealready translated into Russian. BUT here You can review the original in English on the US Department of State website.

Until September 30 next year, you can check the results of the DV-2020 green card lottery - this can only be done on the official website of the lottery. ForumDaily wrote about the citizens of which countries won the most green cards in 2020. If you haven’t won or are planning to participate for the first time in the DV-2021 drawing, ForumDaily’s instructions are for you.

We also collected all the information that lottery applicants need to know. Green Card.

How to find out if you can participate in the lottery

There are only two main conditions that all participants must comply with:

  • born in a lottery country (this includes all countries of the former Soviet Union and Israel);
  • have a completed secondary education or 2 years of work experience during the last 5 years in a specialty that requires 2-year vocational training. If you do not have a secondary education (that is, you have not completed high school), you can prove the work experience, we told on how to do it right.

Documentary evidence of education or work experience does not need to be attached to a registration application, but they will need to be shown to the consular officer during an interview for an immigration visa. If you are unable to prove education or work experience, your application will be disqualified even after winning.

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  • Important: working in the field of marijuana production, consuming “grass”, or even admitting that an immigrant has tried it at least once in his life, may shut the doors to him in the USA forever.
  • В our material You can find out about 10 the most common mistakes when applying for participation in the green card lottery.
  • ForumDaily also wrote answers to the most common questionsthat arise when participating in the Green Card lottery.

How to fill out a form

This is the main stage of participation in the lottery, so you need to approach it as carefully and carefully as possible. You can fill out the questionnaire from October 3 to November 6 2018.

You can fill out the form only on the site: www.dvlottery.state.gov. Please note that the site has the extension .gov, because sometimes fraudsters create fake sites with the .net extension, .com and others.

remember, that participation in the lottery is free. You should not pay for registration, nor for filling out the questionnaire, or for anything else until you win. It is also strongly recommended not to use the services of intermediaries: the questionnaire is simple, accessible even for people with a minimum level of English, filling takes about 20 minutes.

As soon as you start filling out the questionnaire, you will have exactly 1 hourto enter all the information. If you are late, you have to start all over again.

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You must include in the application form their current spouses, even if you do not live together, and children under 21. In addition, each spouse can fill out a questionnaire separately. Thus, the chances of winning a family will increase. Read more about how to indicate relatives in the questionnaire, read in material ForumDaily.

IMPORTANT. In 2019, the USA introduced a new rule for submitting documents for participation in the green card lottery. Each applicant must indicate the number, series and validity of your passport. Such an innovation has perplexed many residents of the countries of the former USSR, since the cost of a document is often not affordable for the middle class. Read more at this link.

Also from June 1 to 2019, applicants who participate in the lottery will have to provide access to social networkswhich they used in the last 5 years preceding the filing of the application. We are not talking about logins and passwords, immigration agents are asked to provide them with simple links to accounts or username.

Tips experienced

Edition "Country» I studied numerous forums where potential immigrants correspond. There, one of the frequently asked questions is related to the countries where the person was born, lives now and from whom he participates. Let's clarify these points.

Column “country of birth”: if a person was born in Ukraine before the collapse of the USSR, you need to write the modern name of the country - Ukraine.

Regarding the column: “the country from which you are participating” is the country where the person was born. It could also be the country of birth of the husband/wife or one of the parents.

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If a citizen of Ukraine was born on the territory of Russia, then the Russian Federation is indicated in this column. If a person was born on the territory of Ukraine, but received Polish citizenship and resides there permanently, Ukraine is indicated in this column.

“The country in which you currently reside” is the country in which the person is physically permanently located (and where the interview will take place at the US mission).

Also, potential immigrants often ask each other which city of birth to indicate, if the settlement has changed its name. For example, Kirovograd or Kropyvnytskyi. Answer: specify both names with a hyphen.

Nowadays, Ukrainian foreign passports indicate the region of birth of the citizen, and not the city, if it is not a regional center (example: Kharkov region, and not the city of Izyum). Please note that when filling out the application form for a green card, you must indicate the name of the city - Izyum.

Users recommend translating the names of settlements into English from the Ukrainian language. However, the owners of the green card claim that the translation from Russian (for example, Konstantinovka) also suits the Americans.

How to write your name

The name and surname must be specified in the variant of writing from the international passport.

If you have several international passports (for example, different citizenships) valid on the date of registration of the electronic application, you can choose to write from any of them. If in one of them or in several spellings coincides with the birth certificate - use it, and not others.

If you do not have a valid passport, but there is one or more expired, use the spelling of any of them. If in one of them or in several spellings coincides with the birth certificate - use it, and not others.

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If you do not have any passports, neither valid nor expired, use the spelling on the birth certificate, or marriage, if they are in Latin.

How to prepare the correct photo

The photo for the questionnaire must be taken within 6 months before submitting the questionnaire and showing how you look right now. A detailed description of the requirements for photography can be found in our material. Additionally, here You can customize your photo to the right proportions.

IMPORTANT: After you fill out the form and press the button Submit (“Send”), you should receive a notification with the confirmation number. You definitely need to save it - without it you won’t know if you won a green card or not.

It is important not to miss your chance because of an annoying little thing - errors in the profile or the wrong photo. Photos when checking profiles are given HUGE Attention. How exactly the photos are checked and why you need to clearly follow the instructions, read in ForumDaily.

How to know the results

The only way: from 5 May 2020 of the year to 30 of September 2021 of the year, using your confirmation number, you can check the status of the application on the website: www.dvlottery.state.gov.

The Department of State will not send any electronic or ordinary letters. The only email you can get from the US Department of State is a reminder to check your status after the lottery. Moreover, an official institution never asks for money transfers. Be especially careful when applying through an intermediary.

Important! Keep your confirmation number up to 30 September 2021 year in case you receive additional notifications.

Answers to the most popular questions about the lottery can be found at link.

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If you won the Green Card: the next steps

ForumDaily previously published step-by-step instructions for those who won the Green Card. Here are the key points you'll need to make.

The site Consular Electronic Application Center you need to fill out an immigration visa application form - form DS-260. It is filled in English. In the questionnaire you need to specify personal data, marital status, provide information about the place of work, study, criminal record.

Necessary documents to be collected before the interview: the full list is listed here. All documents that are not in English should be accompanied by a certified translation. No notarization or apostille is required.

Medical examinations can only be taken at special certified centers whose addresses can be found at Online. The cost of this procedure is on average $ 215 for each family member planning to immigrate (in different countries the price may differ by $ 10-15), and vaccination is paid separately. More on this. Read in our material.

Interview. You will be required to receive originals and translations into English of all documents, the results of the medical examination and the very invitation to an interview. On the spot, at the embassy, ​​you need to pay a visa fee for each family member. But this is not a guarantee that the coveted visa to the United States is in your hands. An interview is no less important stage than preparing documents or a medical board. The main purpose of the interview is to make sure that it was the people who came for the interview who submitted the applications, fingerprints and verified them with the database, see the results of the medical examination and check the availability of all documents.

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What awaits those who won the Green Card on the US border can be found in the story of Kazakh Ruslan, who won the green card in 2017 year and told about everything that he had to go through before the justification in the United States.

The huge popularity of the lottery leads to the fact that fraudsters want to take advantage of it to steal money or data of people who want to move to the United States. How not to fall for scammers when participating in a lottery, read here.

After coming to the USA

In addition to the thousands of questions that will immediately face the new residents of the United States, do not forget about the paperwork. What already писал ForumDailyIt is worth making a few basic documents: arrange bank cards, social security number and US ID.

US government does not provide no airline tickets, no apartments, no cash assistance for applicants who have received DV visas. If you apply for an immigrant visa through the DV lottery, you need to prove that you will not become a potential recipient of social assistance in the USA. Such evidence may include both your own funds and your US commitment (Affidavit of Support, Form I-134) from a relative or friend living in the United States of America, as well as / or an American job invitation the employer.

You have won a green card, which means you must know about the rights and obligations of its holder. Your continued residency may affect your ability to obtain US citizenship in the future. And this is always worth remembering. More details - in our material. It is worth getting acquainted with the most common misconceptions and mistakeswho make the winning lottery.

If you have not won the green card

Do not despair. Not all those who are lucky can eventually go through the whole process and get a green card. Therefore, you can check your result again later - the data may change. For verification, you must enter your confirmation number on the website, issued after registration in the lottery. If you see a letter with a barcode and your data on the page that opened, you won! However, before receiving the treasured green card, you need to go through several stages as quickly as possible. More about them in special material ForumDaily.

If you are in doubt about any details or you have questions, be sure to read our detailed material, which is completely based on official data: Green Card Lottery in questions and answers.

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