What is the purpose of the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program?

The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program provides individuals from countries with relatively lower levels of recent immigration to the United States an opportunity to apply for a visa and permanent residency (a green card). About 50,000 diversity visas are typically issued each year.

Why does the U.S. have the visa lottery?

The lottery aims to diversify the immigrant population in the United States, by selecting applicants mostly from countries with low numbers of immigrants to the United States in the previous five years.

What are the benefits of DV lottery?

The DV Lottery or the Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery is a program from the United States that chooses a number of immigrants from all over the world to enter the US and obtain a green card. This program helps people and families who otherwise wouldn’t have the chance to immigrate to the US.

Can I work with diversity visa?

If you are admitted, you will enter as a Lawful Permanent Resident, also called a green card holder, and will be permitted to work and live permanently in the United States.

Is there a lottery for green card?

The DV Lottery, also known as the Green Card Lottery, makes a limited number of immigrant visas available every year to people meeting certain eligibility requirements: You must be a foreign citizen from a country with a low immigration rate to the United States.

Does green card Lottery affect visa?

Simple answer: No! Keep applying for the DV Lottery and this will have no affect on any future visa applications. Also, you do not have to mention on your visa applications that you applied for the DV Lottery. They are separate entities and they do not care.

Is a green card good for life?

How long is a Green Card valid? If you are a Lawful Permanent Resident, then your residence and work permit for the USA is valid for life. Nevertheless, the physical Green Card as an identity document only has a term of ten years and must be renewed in time.