With the 7 May, the results of the Green Card Lottery will be known: how to check and what to do after a win

Check the status of applications for drawing green cards in the lottery for 2020 year (DV-2020) will be possible in a couple of days - from 7 May 2019 year to 30 September 2020 year, reports U.S. Department of State.

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How to check results

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.

This is the only way to learn about the results of the lottery. The State Department will not send any electronic or regular letters.

The only email you can receive from the US Department of State is a reminder to check your status after the lottery. Moreover, the official institution never asks to make money transfers. Be especially attentive if you submitted an application through an intermediary.

It is worth remembering that winning the lottery does not guarantee receiving a green card. To immigrate to the USA, you must meet all the requirements that are presented applicants for immigration visas.

If you are already in the United States at the time you receive a notification about winning a green card, you have the opportunity change your status in the US to immigration. Read more about this at the official website of the program.

The green card is a certificate of a permanent resident of the United States who does not have the citizenship of this state. It, among other things, gives the right to work, benefits to education and the opportunity to apply for citizenship.

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Also, before 30 September 2019, you can check the results of the lottery green cards for the year 2019 (DV-2019). After this date, persons who won the lottery will no longer be able to submit a corresponding application for a green card.

Registration for the DV-2020 raffle took place from October 3 to November 6 2018; to participate in the DV-2019 raffle - from October 18 to November 22 2017.

What to do after receiving notification of a win

1. Fill in the visa application form

The site Consular Electronic Application Center you need to fill 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.

If from the moment of registration for participation in the lottery you have changed the family composition (got married, gave birth to a child), then new members of the family should always indicate in their form DS-260, otherwise you can be disqualified.

For each family member - a separate form of DS-260. This is an important nuance, and if you fill out one form for the whole family, you immediately leave the “get a green card” marathon.

When the DS-260 form is full, the exposure page should be saved on the computer and then printed. It, among other documents, you need to take with you to the interview. The date of the interview will be sent to you after you fill out the DS-260 form.

2. Wait for an answer

First you will receive a letter with the following text: Has been received and routed to the appropriate group. This is a standard letter which means that your visa application has been received. And in 7-10 days, another email will arrive, this time addressed to you personally.

It may ask you to clarify the data or inform you that your profile is being processed. In the end, after some time (from several weeks to several months), you will be told the date of the interview.

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3. Collect documents

Bye consular center examines your questionnaires and sets the date of the interview, do not waste time. Collect and translate into English the documents that you need. All documents that are not in English must be accompanied by a certified translation. No notarization or apostille is required.

You need to prepare originals and translations of the following documents:

1. Passport
2. Birth certificate
3. Diplomas confirming education
4. Employment history
5. Certificate that you have no criminal record. If you lived in several countries, then such help is needed from each country. If you have been convicted, you can still apply for a green card, but be sure to provide a certificate stating that you have already been punished.
6. Marriage / divorce certificates
7. For those who served in the army - military ID
8. Statement of account
9. Documents on the valuation of real estate
10. Help with the work that you are an employee / owner of the company.

4. Check your health

When you were given the date of the interview - it's time to get a medical examination. This can be done only in special certified centers whose addresses can be found at Online.

Passing a medical commission is needed to determine if you or someone from a family member has any diseases from the list that restricts entry to the United States. It includes, in particular, diseases of a mental nature, the active form of tuberculosis, leprosy, and others. Before 2010, HIV was included in the list, but now this virus does not interfere with obtaining a visa.

The list of diseases that impede obtaining an immigration visa, consists of two lists that can be found here и here.

After passing medical examination you receive a sealed envelope, which must be handed over to the consul during the interview.

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5. Pass the interview

The medical examination is over, the envelope for the consul is in hand, the interview date has been set. At the interview, you will be required to provide originals and English translations of all documents, the results of the medical examination and the invitation to the interview itself. On site, at the embassy, ​​you need to pay a visa fee - $330 for each family member. But this is not a guarantee that the coveted US visa is in your hands. An interview is no less important a stage than the preparation of documents or a medical examination. However, there is no need to specially prepare for it or read any scientific treatises or everyday advice on the Internet. You will be asked standard everyday questions.

The main goals of the interview are to make sure that the people who applied were the ones who came for the interview, to take fingerprints and check them with the database, to look at the results of the medical examination and to check the presence of all documents.

It is important to remember: winning a green card is only half the battle, the main thing is how you can realize yourself in America. For example, read the story Hollywood producer Valerie Philwhich won the green card in the lottery and did not want to move for a long time.

However, remember that besides the lottery Green Cardthere is at least nine other ways stay in the USA for permanent residence.

In addition, everyone who came to the United States should make a few basic documents: arrange bank cards, social security number and US ID.

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