The online registration dates and official instructions to the annual diversity visa aka the 'green card lottery' for 2014. The green card lottery registration period runs from noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), Wednesday, October 1, 2014, to noon, Eastern Standard Time (EDT) (GMT-5), Monday, November 3, 2014.
This program was sponsored through the late Senator Edward Kennedy under section 203 (c) on the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1990 to aid even out the proportions of immigrants from different European countries which, at that time, were considered as skewed simply immigrants from Latin America and Asia. The DV Program now awards 50,000 green cards annually to citizens of countries which might be under-represented with regard to U.S. immigration visas. To meet the diversity goal, any country which includes admitted 50,000 immigrants in to the U.S. over the last five years isn't eligible.
Roughly 100,000 'winners' will likely be chosen randomly by computer by May 1, 2015 for interviews at U.S. consulates abroad, or for a local USCIS office for anyone living in the United States. Interviewees must bring evidence education or operate in a qualifying occupation, birth and marriage certificates, plus more, including evidence they've got a job browsing the United States or someone ready to pay their living costs until they discover a job to make sure they do not be a public charge.
Countries ineligible for your upcoming year or so 2014 lottery ('DV-2016) are: Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China (mainland-born), Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) as well as its dependent territories, and Vietnam. Applicants born in most other countries meet the criteria to enter.
Those eligible to the green card lottery can register electronically for the official U.S. government website at: during the 30-day open registration period. Applicants may also register whenever of year employing a highly rated lottery service. Ethical, fee-based lottery services represent a viable choice for several applicants who require or maybe want the relief knowing they've already help through the process from registering to finding an immigration lawyer if they win.
The green card lottery represents one with the few avenues for legal entry to the United States, for the people from African and Caribbean countries. But here poorer non-citizens are without lobbyists, not to say a significant amount of supporters in Congress. For this reason the lottery is on the chopping block for many people years by conservatives for instance Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) who comprehend the winners as being a threat to national security, as taking jobs faraway from Americans, or that this program admits a great number of 'undesirables' by using a process of 'chain-migration.'
However, the volume of immigrants admitted to your United States because of the lottery represents approximately 5% in the overall number. Independent immigration studies consistently show legal immigrants contribute on the economy, promote diversity, and help in reducing the deficit. The program covers itself via relatively steep fees charged to each and every alien and relative admitted to the USA.