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Diversity Visa Lottery Update
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<p><span style=”color: #000000;”>Almost anyone who has completed the equivalent of a U.S. high school education, or has worked for at least two years within the last five in a qualifying occupation, is eligible to enter the Department of State’s annual visa lottery program which issues 50,000 green cards to persons from countries with historically low rates of immigration to the U.S. Once selected in the drawing, “winners” must act quickly to be among the first to qualify for their visas.</span></p>
<p><span style=”color: #000000;”><strong>DV-2020 Lottery Program</strong></span><br>
<span style=”color: #000000;”> <strong>If </strong><strong>you participated in the DV-2020 Lottery Program</strong>, you may </span><a href=”https://www.dvlottery.state.gov/”><span style=”color: #0000ff;”>check online</span></a> <span style=”color: #000000;”>to see if you were selected in the lottery. Please note that the Department of State <strong>does not</strong> send selectee notifications or letters by regular postal mail or by e-mail. Any email communication you receive from the Department of State will direct you to review Entrant Status Check for new information about your application. The State Department has indicated that additional winners may be selected. If selected, please contact us immediately so that we can commence processing of your immigrant visa application.</span></p>
<p><span style=”color: #000000;”><strong>DV-2021 Lottery Program</strong></span><br>
<span style=”color: #000000;”> The State Department will conduct the DV-2021 Lottery starting on Wednesday, October 2, 2019 and concluding on Tuesday, November 5, 2019. You may apply on your own by going to the official website of</span> <a href=”https://www.dvlottery.state.gov/”><span style=”color: #0000ff;”>www.dvlottery.state.gov</span></a><span style=”color: #000000;”>. If you would like our assistance, please call 1-800-VISA-LAW </span><a href=”tel
800)%20847-2529″><span style=”color: #000000;”>(</span><span style=”color: #0000ff;”>1-800-847-2529</span></a><span style=”color: #000000;”>) or email us at</span> <span style=”color: #0000ff;”><a style=”color: #0000ff;” href=”mailto:lottery@wolfsdorf.com”>lottery@wolfsdorf.com</a></span>.</p>
<p><span style=”color: #000000;”>For the DV-2021 Lottery Program, natives of the following countries are <strong>not </strong>eligible to enter because the countries sent a total of more than 50,000 immigrants to the United States in the previous five years: </span><span style=”color: #000000;”>Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China (mainland-born), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam. Persons born in Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR, and Taiwan were eligible.</span></p>
<p><span style=”color: #000000;”> For an in-depth analysis of some of the complex issues in the DV lottery program, read our article at</span> <a href=”https://www.wolfsdorf.com/articles/DV_Article_2004-05.pdf”><span style=”color: #0000ff;”>“The Diversity Lottery – A Deceptively Simple Program (An Update)”</span></a> <span style=”color: #000000;”>by Bernard P. Wolfsdorf and Naveen Rahman Bhora. You may also refer to our blog titled</span> <span style=”color: #0000ff;”>“<a style=”color: #0000ff;” href=”http://connect.wolfsdorf.com/?p=1572″>You Won the DV Lottery, Now What?! Now Turn Your Lottery Number Into A Green Card: A Lawyer’s Guide to Navigating The DV Lottery</a></span><span style=”color: #000000;”><span style=”color: #0000ff;”>“</span> written by Bernard Wolfsdorf and Adam Francoeur.</span></p>
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<p>This post originally appeared on <a href=”https://wolfsdorf.com/blog/2019/10/01/diversity-visa-lottery-update/” target=”_blank”>Wolfsdorf Rosenthal</a>. Reprinted with permission.</p>
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<b>Wolfsdorf Rosenthal</b> is established in 1986, Wolfsdorf Rosenthal LLP is a full-service, top-rated immigration law firm providing exceptional immigration and visa services. With over 30 years of experience and offices in Los Angeles, New York, Oakland, San Francisco, Santa Monica, and Shanghai, the firm specializes in providing global immigration solutions for investors, multinational corporations, small businesses, academic and research institutions, artists and individuals.
Wolfsdorf Rosenthal attorneys are experts in their field and are featured contributors and speakers at local, national and global immigration forums and publications. They are also consistently recognized for their work and honored by the most prestigious awards on a national and global level.
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