Basic information

The United States Diversity Visa program issues 50,000 official green cards each year. Usafis another program that issues Visa to immigrants, Winners of the lottery program may receive a Visa or Green Card and the right to live and work in America.

Official dates have been announced this year by the United States Government. Those dates are posted online. The programs start at noon at Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), and GMT-4 on Friday, October 2, 2009 until noon. The dates have passed, but if you hurry now you can meet the November 30, 2009 deadline. This data starts on Eastern Standard Time (EST) and GMT-5 on Monday.

Who is eligible?

According to the government web site, eligibility is based on your country of birth. Natives typically define someone who was born in a specified country despite of his or her individual current country of residency or his or her nationality.

For immigrants, native defines someone who is at liberty to be indicted to another country other than the country in which the person was born. You will find more details about immigration laws under Section 202 section B of the Immigration & Nationality Act.

An example would be if you were born in an area or country that was not eligible to receive the US Green Card for this year’s Diversity Program. In this case, you can claim chargeability to that country where your derived spouse was born, yet will not receive a DV-1 except if your spouse is eligible to receive the DV-2. Both of you must have entered into the US together with the assigned DV. In contrast, if you have a child who may be charged to one of your parent’s country of birth, then you may qualify.

If you were born in one of the ineligible countries listed at the government web site for this year’s Diversity program, you may be charged to that country of your birth of either parent providing that your parents’ was living in an ineligible country during the time of your birth.

If you studied in the country, legally naturalized, or was not born in that country you may not qualify for the Green Card. If you have claimed an alternative of chargeability then you must provide that information on your E-DV electronic entry form listed under question number six. You may be disqualified if you provide false information to the government.