United States Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV-2024) Lottery

United States Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV-2024) Lottery

United States Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV-2024) Lottery

It is no news that USA is the most sought after for so many individuals across the globe in terms of education, business, leisure and name it but unfortunately, so little of these individuals are able to gain entrance into the country as a result of so many challenges which will be addressed in this article. If you fall into the above mentioned category of people who are looking to gain legal entrance into the USA then, you are invited to submit application for the United States Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV-2024) Lottery that gives more than 50,000 randomly selected applicants the chance to Live and Work in the United States of America.

The United States Diversity Immigrant Visa Program is an initiative of the Department of State  which on a yearly basis, administers the statutorily created Diversity Immigrant Visa Program of the Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) that provides for a class of immigrants known as “diversity immigrants” from countries with historically low rates of immigration to the United States.  In 2024 up to 55,000 Diversity Visas (DVs) with free registration will be made available to eligible applicants.

You might be wondering why applicants from Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China (including Hong Kong SAR), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, Venezuela and Vietnam are not eligible to apply? Well, that is because more than 50,000 natives of the above countries immigrated to the United States in the previous five years.

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Eligibility for the United States Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV-2024) Lottery:

  • Applicants must be natives of countries with historically low rates of immigration to the United States.
  • Applicants whose spouse is a native of a country with historically low rates of immigration to the United States.
  • Applicants whose parents was born or legally resident in the USA at the time of their birth must claim the country of birth of one of their parents to be eligible.
  • Applicants must posses at least a high school education or its equivalent, defined as successful completion of a 12 years course of formal elementary and secondary education.
  • Applicants must have two years of work experience within the past five years in an occupation that requires at least two years of training or experience to perform.  Kindly note that  Department of State will use the U.S. Department of Labor’s  Online database to determine qualifying work experience.

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Application Deadline: November 8, 2022.

Kindly visit the official website for more information

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