All entries must be submitted electronically during the registration period, when applicants may access the Electronic DV Entry Form DS-5501. Paper entries will not be accepted.
Applicants are strongly encouraged not to wait until the last week of the registration period to enter. Heavy demand may result in website delays. No entries will be accepted after noon, EST, on November 3, 2011.
What is the Green Card Diversity Visa Program?
The Diversity Immigrant Visa program is a United States congressionally-mandated lottery program for receiving a United States Permanent Resident Card. It is also known as the Green Card Lottery. The lottery 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). Section 131 of the Immigration Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-649) amended INA 203 to provide for a new class of immigrants known as “diversity immigrants” (DV immigrants). The Act makes available 50,000 permanent resident visas annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.
The visas are distributed on a regional basis, with each region sending fewer immigrants to the US in the previous 5 years receiving more diversity visas. Currently, Africa and Europe receive about 80% of the visas in the lottery. In addition, no single country can receive more than 7% of the total number of visas (3,500).
In order to allow for those who do not pursue immigrant visas, more ‘winners’ are selected in the lottery than there are visas available. Hence being selected from the lottery does not guarantee an immigrant visa to the U.S. To receive a diversity visa and immigrate to the United States, ‘winners’ must meet all eligibility requirements under U.S. law. Requirements include at least a high school diploma, or its equivalent, or two years of work experience in an occupation requiring at least two years training.
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) is the basic body of immigration law. Before the INA was created in 1952, a variety of statutes governed immigration law but were not organized in one location.
The INA is divided into titles, chapters, and sections. Although it stands alone as a body of law, the Act is also contained in the United States Code (U.S.C.). The code is a collection of all the laws of the United States. Title 8 of the U.S. Code is but one of the fifty titles and deals with “Aliens and Nationality”. When browsing the INA or other statutes you will often see reference to the U.S. Code citation. For example, Section 208 of the INA deals with asylum, and is also contained in 8 U.S.C. 1158. Although it is correct to refer to a specific section by either its INA citation or its U.S. code, the INA citation is more commonly used.
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
The 1952 act is also known as the McCarran-Walter Act, named after the bill’s sponsors: Senator Pat McCarran (D-Nevada), and Congressman Francis Walter (D-Pennsylvania). The new Act kept many of the same immigration policies from earlier statutes with some major changes:
* Racial restrictions and gender discrimination were eliminated
* The policy of restricting immigrants from certain countries remained but the quota formula was revised
* Selective immigration was introduced by giving a quota preference to aliens with much-needed skills and relatives of U.S. citizens and alien residents
* Introduced a reporting system whereby all U.S. aliens were required to report their current address to the INS each year
* Established a central index of aliens in the U.S. for use by security and enforcement agencies
President Truman was concerned about the decisions to maintain the national origins quota system and to establish racially constructed quotas for Asian nations. He vetoed the McCarran-Walter Act because he regarded the bill as discriminatory. Truman’s veto was overridden by a vote of 278 to 113 in the House and 57 to 26 in the Senate.
Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965
The original 1952 Act has been amended many times over the years. By far the biggest change occurred with the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965. The bill was proposed by Emanuel Celler, cosponsored by Philip Hart and heavily supported by Senator Ted Kennedy.
Major amendments in the 1965 Act included:
* Abolished the national origins quota system, eliminating national origin, race, or ancestry as a basis for immigration to the United States.
* Established a preference system for relatives of U.S. citizens and permanent residents, and for persons with special occupational skills, abilities, or training
* Established two categories of immigrants not subject to numerical restrictions: immediate relatives of U.S. citizens and special immigrants
* Maintained the quota restriction, expanding limits to world coverage by limiting Eastern Hemisphere immigration and placing a ceiling on Western Hemisphere immigration for the first time. However, neither the preference categories nor the 20,000 per-country limit were applied to the Western Hemisphere.
* Introduced a prerequisite for the issuance of a visa that an alien worker will not replace a worker in the United States nor adversely affect the wages and working conditions of similarly employed individuals in the U.S.
In Congress, the House of Representatives voted 326 to 69 in favor of the act while the Senate passed the bill by a vote of 76 to 18. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the legislation into law on July 1, 1968.
Current Reform Bills
Immigration reform bills to amend the current INA have been introduced into Congress in recent years. Most notably, these bills include the Kennedy-McCain Immigration Bill of 2005 as well as the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, introduced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and co-authored by a bipartisan group of 12 senators including Sen. Ted Kennedy and Sen. John McCain. None of these bills, however, have made it through Congress.
The most current version of the INA may be found on the USCIS website under Immigration and Nationality Act in the Laws & Regulations section.
Source: USCIS, US State Department
Disclaimer
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Showing posts with label DV 2013. Show all posts
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DV 2013. US Visa Lottery
DV 2013 US Visa Lottery program is the best and genuine way to immigrate to the USA within short period, with little education and money. Can you believe every year nearly 50,000 people are getting the American Green card through this easy to immigrate American program? This program is designed to issue 50,000 immigrant visas to the eligible people in the fiscal year 2013 through the computer random draw name selection, is going to accept entries in the year 2011. This program is popularly known as green card lottery throughout the North America, South America and in some African countries.
Application form for this green card lottery will be available online with the name E-DV entry in the American Government's official web site for a period of 30 days only. The program is endorsed by the US senate to issue Immigrant visas to people from countries which are sending less people to the USA within the last 5 years period.
This is not an easy USA immigration program as some American people say.
This program may look simple to play, but it is governed with strict rules.
First of all, to participate in this program, the applicant must be native of an eligible country.
Secondly they must have the required education or work experience as required by the U.S Government.
Thirdly if selected must provide a sponsor through the form I-134 from a U.S citizen or US LPR holder.
They have to provide Medical examination reports only from those doctors who are nominated by the U.S consular offices.
The DV Lottery winners must provide police clearance certificate for the last 10 years from those places they were living. Further more they have to pass the background check by the U.S.A authorities from some sensitive departments .
At the moment the official web site doesn't provide the DV 2013 application form. The form will be available free for a period of thirty days and there after it will be closed. The available dates will be published in the media with the dv2013 opening date and closing date information by the U.S State department. The DV-2013 lottery winners will not get the visas right away. But will be allowed to apply for the American immigrant visa following the normal immigration visa procedures. Once issued with the visas they may go to the America and can change their status to LPR status and can stay and work legally as long as they wish.
Application form for this green card lottery will be available online with the name E-DV entry in the American Government's official web site for a period of 30 days only. The program is endorsed by the US senate to issue Immigrant visas to people from countries which are sending less people to the USA within the last 5 years period.
This is not an easy USA immigration program as some American people say.
This program may look simple to play, but it is governed with strict rules.
First of all, to participate in this program, the applicant must be native of an eligible country.
Secondly they must have the required education or work experience as required by the U.S Government.
Thirdly if selected must provide a sponsor through the form I-134 from a U.S citizen or US LPR holder.
They have to provide Medical examination reports only from those doctors who are nominated by the U.S consular offices.
The DV Lottery winners must provide police clearance certificate for the last 10 years from those places they were living. Further more they have to pass the background check by the U.S.A authorities from some sensitive departments .
At the moment the official web site doesn't provide the DV 2013 application form. The form will be available free for a period of thirty days and there after it will be closed. The available dates will be published in the media with the dv2013 opening date and closing date information by the U.S State department. The DV-2013 lottery winners will not get the visas right away. But will be allowed to apply for the American immigrant visa following the normal immigration visa procedures. Once issued with the visas they may go to the America and can change their status to LPR status and can stay and work legally as long as they wish.
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