Saturday, August 8, 2009

Previous years entries statistics

The table below displays the total entries received by the State Dep. during the previous years of the Green Card lottery program. For paper based programs, the high number of "Disqualified Forms" is due to missing information, wrong format, wrong addressing and other misinterpretation of the requirements. For electronic based program, the high number of "Eliminated" entries is due to exact duplicates and elimination through facial recognition technology.
Program Period Qualified Eliminated
DV-2009 Oct 4, 2007 - Dec 3, 2007 9.1 million --
DV-2008 Oct 4, 2006 - Dec 3, 2006 6.4 million --
DV-2007 Oct 5, 2005 - Dec 4, 2005 5.5 Million 82,447
DV-2006 Nov 5, 2004 - Jan 7, 2005 6.3 Million 36,555
DV-2005 Nov 1, 2003 - Dec 30, 2003 5.9 Million --
Entries Received Qualified Disqualified
DV-2004 Oct 7, 2002 - Nov 6, 2002 10.2 Million 7.3 Million 2.9 Million 28%
DV-2003 Oct 1, 2001 - Oct 31, 2001 8.7 Million 6.2 Million 2.5 Million 29%
DV-2002 Oct 2, 2000 - Nov 1, 2000 13 Million 10 Million 3 Million 23%
DV-2001 Oct 4, 1999 - Nov 3, 1999 13 Million 11 Million 2 Million 15%
DV-2000 Oct 1, 1998 - Oct 31, 1998 10.5 Million 8 Million 2.5 Million 24%
DV-99 Octo 24, 1997 - Nov 24, 1997 5.8 Million 3.4 Million 2.4 Million 41%
DV-98 Feb 3, 1997 - May 5, 1997 6 Million 4.7 Million 1.3 Million 22%

Green card Lottery Basics

The official name of the green card lottery program is the Diversity Visa Program (DV). The U.S. State
Department provides over two hundred different types of visas for people to work and live in America
legally. However, the DV program is the most unique one out there. Many of the visas the U.S Department
issues contain strict set of qualifications. With the DV program, all that is needed is some basic education requirements and a bit of good luck. Millions of people apply each year, but only 50,000 received a Green
Card through the DV program.

The intention of the program is to make America more diversified, which means a balance of different ethnicities joining into the melting pot of America. Before 1965, many of the U.S. immigration laws favored a Northern European immigration wave. However, The United States Congress decided to give this opportunity to relatives of American citizens or permanent residents, regardless of origin, and Asians, Africans, and Latin Americans began arriving in record numbers. In 1995, Congress decided the lottery should cover the whole world-except those countries thought to be overrepresented in the immigrant pool. Winners of the green
card lottery also qualify for citizenship.

The DV lottery program is headquartered in Williamsburg, Kentucky. The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg registers and notifies the winners of the diversity lottery. The actual submission date for the
Green Card Lottery usually takes place between October-December. Those applicants who correctly filled
out the application are assigned a computerized generated number. Once the deadline for submission of
applications has passed, the computer then randomly picks over 100,000 applications for further consideration
in the D.V program. Through the months of March-August of the following year, people who won are sent their winner documents by regular mail.

Selection in the Green Card Lottery program does not automatically translate into a Green Card. After an
applicant has been chosen for further consideration, he or she will go through a series of steps with U.S. officials such as a security background check, a personal interview with a U.S. Consul and many forms to
fill out before she or she is grantedgranted a Green Card. Only after all checks out a person may be granted
a Green Card.

1 Comments:

At August 9, 2009 at 11:28 PM , Blogger Mark Tyler said...

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