What is the visa lottery ?
The government of the United States of America has opened the window for the reception of applications of the Visa Lottery that draws this year 55,000 green cards.
The process begins every year at noon on October 1st and ends regularly on November 22 of each year.
The 55,000 residences are awarded through the Diversity Visas (DV) program for immigrants. Contestants are first pre-selected through a random electronic lottery. In a second stage must meet a number of requirements.
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Regarding the sending of applications, the government always alerts the participants of the draw to fill out and submit the electronic registration form "as soon as possible".
The request for participation requests is excessive as the deadline approaches and "could cause delays on the program website".
The digital page for us on your behalf to fill out the application for participation in the Visa Lottery is:
https://www.martorelloffice.com/planilla.htm
The document must be filled to 100% without leaving any blank field.
The Department of State also warns that, according to the rules of the contest, only applications that are sent up to the deadline will be accepted, at noon on November 22. "No visa lottery application will be accepted after this deadline."
Date of notice of the winners
The pre-selected lottery draw for the Visa Lottery will be notified by postal mail between May and July of the following year.
Since the 2013 draw, the State Department does not send preselection notices by e-mail, but by ordinary mail.
If you are shortlisted, along with the pre-selected notice, the contestant will receive via the same (ordinary mail) a package of instructions on the steps he has to take to complete the visa application residency application process.
In the last three raffles the State Department receives an annual average of 12 million eligible applications.
In the last draw participated an approximate 15.6 million contestants.
The countries eligible to participate in this year's draw are the following:
Asia
Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malasya, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal,North Korea, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand,United Arab Emirates,Yemen, Macau S.A.R.
Asian countries not accepted within this year's Diversity Program:
Ciuna - (mainland-bom), Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, South Korea, Philippines, and Vietnam.
La S.A.R. de Hong Kong y , Macau S.A.R. Taiwán have not been accepted and are listed above.
África
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Canieroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic,Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic, Cote D'iviore (Ivory Coast), Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Tee, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya,Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria,Republic Of Theliberia, Rwanda, Sao Tome And Principe, Senegal, Seychelles,Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Europe
Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belguim, Bosnia And Herzegovina,Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark Including Components And Dependent Areas Overseas,Estonia, Finland, France Including Components And Dependent Areas Overseas, Germany, Georgia,Slovenia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lichtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia the former, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro,Netherlands Including Components And Dependent Areas Overseas, Northern Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vatican City, Yugoslav Republic Of.
European countries that have not been accepted as participants in this year's Diversity Program are the following:
Poland, Great Britain. At Britain United Kingdom incluyendo las áreasdependientes que se citan a continuación: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn, St. Helena, Turks And Caicos Islands. Obsérvese que porcondicionesdelPrograma de Diversidad de esteaño, Irlanda de Norte is treated separately, so it has been accepted and figured among the corresponding areas.
North America
Bahamas
In North America Canada has not qualified for this year's Diversity Program.
Oceania
Australia Including Components And Dependent Areas Overseas, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Federated States Of, Nauru, Newzealand Including Components And Dependent Areas Overseas, Palau, Papua New, Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Western Samo.
South America, Central America, and the Caribbean
Antigua And Barbuda, Honduras, Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Guatemala, Grenada, Guyan, Nicaragu, Panam, Paragua, Saint Kitts And Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenaadines, Suriname, The Grenadines, Trinidad And Tobago, Uruguay, Ecuador, Venezuela.
Countries have not qualified for this year's Diversity Program:
Brazil, Colombia, DominicanRepublic, El Salvador, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, and Peru.
Tracking online participation
In the State Department, contestants will also be able to find out the status of their application (whether or not they were pre-selected) on the Internet page specially authorized by the Department of State (DOS) http://www.dvlottery.state.gov/ESC/
The application to participate in the lottery of the Visa Lottery, as well as the download and filling of the registration form, can be done at the following link https://www.martorelloffice.com/planilla.htm
To make the payment, you can do it in the following link: https://www.martorelloffice.com/pagos.html
To view the terms and conditions of participation, you can do so by going to the following link:
https://www.martorelloffice.com/terminos-y-condiciones.html
We caution people who are looking for fraud, money requests, emails and Internet sites that pretend to be official US government sites and really are not.
For more inquiries about Visa Lottery fraud, check out this digital page from the State Department at www.dvlottery.state.gov. The contest rules state that each person can enter the draw only once, and each spouse can sign up for Separated which would give a double chance to a family to win.
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