Tips When Applying for USA Green Card Lottery

Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery, commonly known as the USA Green Card Lottery is Open for Application. Learn Tips When Applying for USA Green Card Lottery

You must provide all of the following information to complete your entry. Failure to accurately include
all the required information may make you ineligible for a DV.

Name

last/family name, first name, middle name – exactly as it appears on your passport, if you have a passport(for example, if your passport shows only your first and last/family name, please list your last/family name and then first name; do not include a middle name unless it is included on your passport. If your passport includes a first, middle and last/family name, please list them in the following order: last/family name, first name, middle name). If you have only one name, it must be entered in the last/family name field.

Gender – male or female.

Birth date – day, month, year.

City where you were born.

Country where you were born–Use the name of the country currently used for the place where you were born. Country of eligibility for the DV program – Your country of eligibility will normally be the same as your country of birth.

Entrant photograph(s)

Recent photographs(taken within the last six months) of yourself, your spouse, and all your derivative children included on your entry. See Submitting a Digital Photograph for compositional and technical specifications. You do not need to include a photograph for a spouse or
child who is already a U.S. citizen or a Lawful Permanent Resident, but you
will not be penalized if you do.
DV entry photographs must meet the same standards as U.S. visa photos.
You may be ineligible for a DV if the entry photographs for you and your family members do not fully meet these specifications or have been manipulated in any way. Submitting the same photograph that was submitted with a prior year’s entry will make you ineligible for a DV. See
Submitting a Digital Photograph (below) for more information.

Mailing Address – In Care Of

Address Line 1
Address Line 2 City/Town
District/Country/Province/State Postal Code/Zip Code Country

Country where you live today.

Phone number (optional)

Email address –An email address to which you have direct access and will continue to have direct access through May of the next year.

Highest level of education you have achieved, as of today:

Primary school only
Some high school, no diploma
High school diploma
Vocational school
Some university courses
University degree
Some graduate-level courses
Master’s degree
Some doctoral-level courses
Doctorate

Current marital status:

Unmarried
married and my spouse is NOT a U.S. citizen or U.S. Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR)
married and my spouse IS a U.S. citizen or U.S. LPR
divorced
widowed
Legally separated

Enter the name, date of birth, gender, city/town of birth, and country of birth of your spouse, and a photograph of your spouse meeting the same technical specifications as your photo.

Failure to list your eligible spouse or, listing someone who is not your spouse, may make you ineligible as the DV principal applicant and your spouse and children ineligible as DV derivative applicants. You must list your spouse even if you currently are separated from them unless you are
legally separated.

Number of children

List the name, date of birth, gender, city/town of birth, and country of birth for all living, unmarried children under 21 years of age, regardless of whether they are living with you or intend to accompany or follow to join you, should you immigrate to the United States.
Submit individual photographs of each of your children using the same technical
specifications as your own photograph.

Be sure to include:

• all living natural children;
• all living children legally adopted by you; and,
• all living stepchildren who are unmarried and under the age of 21 on the date of your electronic entry, even if you are no longer legally married to the child’s parent, and even if the child does not currently reside with you and/or will not immigrate with you.

Married children and children who are already aged 21 or older when you submit your entry are not eligible for the DV program.

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