DV 2016 Instructions and Registration Period Released

DV 2016 Entry period

DV 2016 Program online applications will be accepted from Wednesday, October 1, 2014 at 12:00 noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4) to Monday, November 3, 2014 at 12:00 noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4).  No late entries or paper entries will be accepted. The law allows only one entry by or for each person during each registration period. The Department of State uses sophisticated technology to detect multiple entries. Individuals with more than one entry will be disqualified.

Applicants may access the electronic Diversity Visa entry form (E-DV) at www.dvlottery.state.gov during the registration period. There is no cost to register for the DV Program.

After you submit a complete entry, you will see a confirmation screen containing your name and a unique confirmation number. Print this confirmation screen for your records. Starting May 5, 2015, you will be able to check the status of your entry by returning to www.dvlottery.state.gov, clicking on Entrant Status Check, and entering your unique confirmation number and personal information. Entrant

Status Check will be the sole means of informing you of your selection for DV-2016, providing instructions on how to proceed with your application, and notifying you of your appointment for your immigrant visa interview.

The annual DV program makes visas available to persons meeting the simple, but strict, eligibility requirements.  Every DV lottery entrant must have at least a high school education or its equivalent as defined by local requirements or have two years of work experience within the past five years in an occupation requiring at least three years of training or experience.  Applicants who do not meet the educational or work experience requirements will be disqualified.

A computer-generated, random lottery drawing chooses selectees for Diversity Visas.  The visas are distributed among six geographic regions globally, with a greater number of visas going to regions with lower rates of immigration, and with no visas going to nationals of countries sending more than 50,000 immigrants to the United States over the past five years.  Within each region, no single country may receive more than seven percent of the available Diversity Visas in any one year.

The congressionally mandated Diversity Immigrant Visa Program is administered on an annual basis by the Department of State and conducted under the terms of Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).  Beginning in 2005, the Department of State implemented an electronic registration system in order to make the DV process more efficient and secure.  Special technology and other means are used to identify those who commit fraud for the purposes of illegal immigration or those who submit multiple entries.

Read More about DV-2016 Program Official instructions at the following Link:

Click to access DV_2016_Instructions_English.pdf