What are the steps to access the United States visa lottery

The government of USA announced that on October 6 it will begin to receive applications for the “visa lottery” corresponding to fiscal year 2023, a period for which nationals of Venezuela as well as Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica and the Republic have been excluded. Dominicana, among others.

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, or “green card.”

Between 11 million and 14 million citizens of the countries that Washington includes in a list participate in itwho can submit their applications for free on the US Department of State website.

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The rules of the draw exclude countries that have sent more than 50,000 migrants to the United States in the last five yearsRather, it opens up participation to citizens of countries with historically low migration rates to the US.

This year the draw has a particular meaning given that US President Joe Biden lifted the restrictions on the program and in general the immigration bans ordered by his predecessor, Donald Trump.

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— Travel – State Dept (@TravelGov) October 5, 2021

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The requirements

The Infobae portal prepared a guide on the requirements to apply for the visa lottery:

Applicants must they will need to make sure their country of origin is eligible. The countries whose citizens will not be able to participate this year are:

The second requirement is related to formal education. United States immigration laws and regulations require that each program participant have at least a high school education or its full equivalent or have two years of work experience out of the last five in an occupation that requires at least two years of training or experience. If the applicant does not meet the education or work experience requirements, they will not be eligible for the program.

Finally, Applicants who meet the two previous requirements must fill out a form on the visa program website: https://dvprogram.state.gov/.

In the questionnaire, applicants must submit personal information such as their names, country of origin, passport number, email, highest academic level achieved, postal address, among others. Applicants must upload individual recent photographs, on a white background where the faces of the applicant, spouse and children are displayed.

The only way that applicants will have to know the status of their application is through the website Entrant Status Check. There they will be able to find out if their entry has been selected using the confirmation number received when they submitted their forms.

Results will be available from May 8, 2022 until at least September 30, 2023.

Visa lottery since the 90s

In 2017, Donald Trump instituted a series of measures to prevent the entry into the country of citizens of countries with a Muslim majority, and the one that ultimately came into force imposed limits on migration from eight countries: Chad, Iran, Libya, Korea. of the North, Syria, Venezuela, Somalia and Yemen.

Shortly after his presidential inauguration on January 20, Biden issued a decree ending “discriminatory vetoes for entry into the United States.”

According to the State Department, in application of the rules imposed by Trump, Tens of thousands of visa applications were rejected in fiscal periods 2017, 2018 and 2019.

The visa lottery was established by a 1990 law and it is aimed at applicants who meet certain requirements such as having a high school education, at least two years of work experience and a clean record of criminal activities.

With information from EFE

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