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Green Card Lottery and Diversity Visa Lottery refer to the same U.S. Government visa program
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In spite of the popular name Green Card Lottery, winners in the Diversity Visa program do not win a green card but a chance to apply for an immigrant visa. Succesful applicants will be issued an immigrant visa and immigrant visa holders will attain legal permanent residence or green card status upon admission to the United States.
If you do not qualify for employment-based or family-based immigration, the most common way to obtain a green card is via the diversity visa lottery More...
Application is to be made electronically with the Kentucky Consular Center.
PLEASE NOTE: The Department of State has only one Kentucky Consular Center. Other organizations using similar names have no connection to the Department of State or KCC. There is no fee charged by the Department or KCC for sending an entry to the lottery program. Applicants selected in the Diversity Visa random drawing are notified by the Department of State, Kentucky Consular Center by letter, NOT e-mail and are provided instructions on how to proceed to the next step in the process. No other organization or company is authorized by the Department of State to notify Diversity Visa lottery applicants of their winning entry. See our Fraud Warning.
A Diversity processing fee is only charged when a winning lottery entrant applies for the Diversity visa. At the time of the visa application at a U.S. consular office, each applicant (the DV entrant and any accompanying family members) will be charged, upon issuance of the DV Lottery immigrant visa, a 375 USD Diversity Lottery visa fee, plus a 335 USD immigrant visa processing fee and a 45 USD visa security enhancement surcharge.
The DV-2011 lottery registration period runs from October 2, 2009 until November 30, 2009.
Information on participating in this year's diversity visa lottery: DV 2011 .