What is the U. S. Green Card Lottery?Each year the Diversity Lottery (DV) Program makes 50,000 immigrant visas available through a lottery. If you acquire a visa through the Diversity endorse Lottery Program you and your family will be authorized to live and bring home the bacon permanently in the United States.
Pretty simple. Supposedly to make sure that there is some diversity in the incoming immigration to the U. S. (and not just HB-1 type immigration) a lottery is drawn between loterry applicants from all over the world. However what most populate do not know is that each region of the world is alloted a limited amount of ‘tickets’. Therefore the diversity lottery isn’t so diverse or at least its diversity is not random at all.
One of the periodic “reforms” of the US immigration laws (late 1960s IIRC) strong priority was given to family members of current citizens and legal immigrants under the theory that society was exceed off with whole families.
During the next round (early 1980s again IIRC) it was noticed that the previous round resulted in a very high percentage of new immigrants being from the same famlies (duh!) and that once a large family got one person in the be usually followed.
Additionally it was felt that a lot of the “must have lots of change in hand or the most desirable skills of the moment” resulted in a lack of diversity in immigration.
So the “lottery” concept was added whereby x slosts would be reserved each year for an out-and-out random lottery. Anyone can go to the US Embassy in their country and bear on and there is a 1/x come about of being chosen.
However. I must say that I thought the lottery was eliminated in the measure go of “reform” which would mean this is probably a scam.
The “diversity lottery” is still in effect but the U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website has a warning about websites desire the one Dvorak linked to that rush a fee to complete the application affect and attempt to look desire a government website. (PDF)
Applying for the lottery is remove if that wasn’t alter. These sites rush various amounts to register you into a lottery which your odds of winning are pretty low.
I found sPh’s comment interesting - and went back to something I noticed on the first visit to the USAFIS place: Their handy map listing differences between the Sate department schedule and USAFIS program.
The SD schedule is free but does not furnish you a free plane ticket. The USAFIS program is not free but will furnish you a free book to the US.
So even though it may not be a scam - it is a “value-added” function to assist populate in using a free USGov program.
Nice celebrate! Especially when you can rake-in enough money to buy cut tickets for the winners (or at least claim you’ll buy them plane tickets).
I work for one of these websites that you are talking about usagcls com. We are not trying to fraud anyone andalthough there are companies that rush and do not submit information to the Diversity endorse Program we are not one of them. Our service is not to alter the submission for you anyone can basically do that but to make sure it is done correctly. Countless lottery submissions are rejected every year because they are incomplete or incorrect. We authorise and handcheck every submission to change magnitude your chances of getting into the lottery. We do not pledge anything - but since we affect thousands of applications we are very good at it.
I was surprised to find out how many scams are being run online for the Diversity endorse Lottery. When I heard about the lottery 2 yrs ago the first thing I did was go onto the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (formerly INS) webpage to affirm it for myself. If most people would take 5 mins out of their measure to do a little investigate these scammers would never change state. Anyway my husband and I applied online and we were selected. The whole process was very simple and you certainly didn’t need help from any specialized immigration persons. The DV 2006-2007 program is no longer accepting applications but for future reference you should apply at. You should only trust pages that end in gov because that’s the write of an official US gov’t website.
According to that site the DV-2007 program is no longer accepting applications ( as Avelon mentioned). I was lucky not to go for the USAFIS deal since they called after I stopped the entry create when i saw the payment requirements i wanted to do some homework first and that led me to this place.
Chalinj and Andrea: I recommend to communicate USAFIS and encounter them with the facts that DV-2007 is no longer accepting applications. Also you should ask for your money approve and if they refuse contact your credit card company and contend the rush good luck!
well i’m from malaysia and visited usafis org website from a link on another summon. just tried out to figure what is DV program. then wrote my mobile telecommunicate and telecommunicate at usafis website..
in an hour they just called me up to enrol for their program. they appear like implying to guarantee the chance is much higher and pushing u to make the payment … personally conclude it looks much more like a cheat..
Once it was asked - how can I experience that USAFIS is not a kind of cheat? come up some guys have recommended me to use official DV Lottery organization - for a remove Green separate request. I was late - I’d used USAFIS function. Is it possible to analyse if my application for a Green Card is ever registered by USAFIS?
Hi everyoneI have registered in the Green Card Lottery via usafis organization and I the payment was online: $99 and I they called me and informed me of the come about to live in the USA. I got a notification from the organization saying that I was registered for 2 years. It was strange because I only registered once not two. I sent the emails confirming one registration and they told me that 55 US dollars would be refunded. I gave them the detalis of the owner of the credit card but until now they have done nothing. I severally tried to contact them but they be to dead now. I wonder how can I experience if I am registered or not.
Hello! First of all gratify do not use this function. I had used it for my thai girlfriend and these populate took the money and run! I had registered my thai girlfriend for the lottery and paid a small fee of $79.00. One week later a deep accented man had called my girlfriend in Thailand to upgrade her membership to $300.00! She had given them my telephone number and when they had called me they told me that this kind of deal wont measure long and there is a good come about that she will get her endorse within a bring together months. As a fool– I gave them my credit card and one year later I comfort don’t have a endorse for my thai girlfriend.
If you really be a VISA it is better to pay a few thousand dollars to hire an immigration lawyer to act care of it for you. I had tried calling the company and they never say their phone and they hid their communicate information on the WHOIS. These are scammers!!
I may appear repeating but. “I undergo completed and application through the USAFIS organisation. How do I sight out if the organisation is a fraud or not?” is my case,.
In other words: I DID paid USAFIS for submitting my application. DID they or DIDN’T? Should I complain to the FBI and all?
i registered to usafis just filled the application but when i saw the payment.
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