2017 DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAM

The congressionally ordered Diversity Immigrant Visa Program is regulated every year by the Department of State. Segment 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) accommodates a class of migrants known as "differing qualities foreigners" from nations with verifiably low rates of movement to the United States. For Fiscal Year 2017, 50,000 Diversity Visas (DVs) will be accessible. There is no expense to enlist for the DV program. Candidates who are chosen in the system ("selectees") must meet basic, however strict, qualification prerequisites with a specific end goal to fit the bill for an assorted qualities visa. Selectees are picked through a randomized PC drawing. Differing qualities visas are appropriated among six geographic districts and no single nation may get more than seven percent of the accessible DVs in any one year. For DV-2017, locals of the accompanying nations are not qualified to apply, in light of the fact that more than 50,000 locals of these nations moved to the United States in the past five years: 

Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China (territory conceived), Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (aside from Northern Ireland) and its subordinate domains, and Vietnam. Persons conceived in Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR, and Taiwan are qualified. Was your companion conceived in a nation whose locals are qualified? In the event that yes, you can assert your• mate's nation of conception—gave that both you and your mate are named on the chose section, are issued assorted qualities visas, and enter the United States at the same time. Is it safe to say that you were conceived in a nation whose locals are ineligible, yet in which neither of your parents• was conceived or legitimately inhabitant at the season of your introduction to the world? In the event that yes, you may guarantee the nation of conception Entry period Entries for the DV-2017 project must be submitted electronically at www.dvlottery.state.gov between twelve, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), Thursday, October 1, 2015, and twelve, Eastern Standard Time (EST) (GMT-5), Tuesday, November 3, 2015. Try not to hold up until the most recent week of the enlistment period to enter, as overwhelming interest may bring about site delays. No late passages or paper sections will be acknowledged. The law permits one and only passage by or for every individual amid every enrollment period. The Department of State uses refined innovation to identify different sections.