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General Information

The US Diversity Visa Program for the year 2008 is called American Green Card Lottery DV-2010. DV-2010 ended at Noon Eastern Standard Time on December 1, 2008.

In March we will post information about the next Green Card Lottery for the year 2009. It will be called DV-2011.

Winners in the Green Card Lottery may receive an Immigrant Visa, and American Green Card, and the right to live and work in the United States of America..

Click here to go to
Instructions on How to Enter the American Green Card Lottery DV-2011, which will be posted in March 2009.

Winners can receive a
U.S. Permanent Residence Diversity Visa in American Green Card Lottery DV-2011.

The US Government will accept only online entries and digital photos.

Click here to
Go to Instructions on How to Enter Green Card Lottery
and to see the current US Government entry requirements.

Each year the US Government, through its American Green Card Lottery Diversity Visa Program, makes available 55,000* immigrant visas to persons meeting the eligibility requirements.

Each eligible applicant must submit entry data and digital photos.

AMERICAN GREEN CARD LOTTERY ACCESS CENTER ACCEPTS YOUR ENTRY DATA EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR. However, keep in mind that our entry data form is NOT your official entry into the Lottery.

Over 95% of all photos we receive need corrections to meet the U.S. Government's requirements. Photos that are not taken correctly will immediately disqualify the entry. Also, if the digital resolutions are not exactly correct, the U.S. Government's official entry web site will not accept your photos.

OUR DIGITAL PHOTO REVIEW AND DIGITAL PHOTO SIZE CORRECTION SERVICES
  1. Go to http://www.americangreencard.com/howenter.htm to confirm you meet the education or work requirements to enter the Green Card Lottery. A list of elgible countries is here.
  2. Take your required digital photos or scan existing photos. Complete photo instructions are at http://www.americangreencard.com/howenter.htm .
  3. Check to see if your photos will be accepted by the U.S. Government on their "Photo Validator" page at http://www.dvlottery.state.gov/photo.aspx (web page only available again after October 2009).
  4. If the U.S. Government approves your digital photos at http://www.dvlottery.state.gov/photo.aspx (web page only available again after October 2009), then go ahead and submit your entry and photos at no charge at the U.S. Government's official entry site.
  5. If the U.S. Government rejects your digital photos, you may email them to us at info@americangreencard.com , along with confirmation of how you are sending the $60 service fee for EACH digital photo you email to us for size correction.Be sure you email the photos as "attachments" to your message. Click here for a complete list of service fee options.
  6. After receiving our service fee, we review the digital photos you email to us, and we let you know what corrections are needed.
  7. We then email your corrected digital photos back to you. It is your responsibility to make sure that your email service provider allows you to receive digital photos as attachments to messages in your inbox. We can only return corrected digital photos as attachments to a reply to your original message.
  8. You then go to the U.S. Government's official entry site at http://www.dvlottery.state.gov/application.aspx (web page only available again after October 2009) and submit your entry and corrected digital photos. After you submit your official entry, the U.S. Government immediately emails confirmation of receipt of your entry directly to you. You can then use their information to track your entry.

More detailed information about how to enter Green Card Lottery DV-2011 will be posted in March 2008 on our web page www.americangreencard.com/howenter.htm .


Applicants for the U.S. Diversity Program Immigration Visas are initially chosen through a random computer-generated lottery drawing. Immigrant visas are apportioned among six geographic regions, with a greater number of visas going to regions with lower rates of immigration--and no visas going to countries sending more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. in the past five years. No one country can receive more than 3,500 diversity program visas in any one year.

The following countries were NOT eligible to enter Green Card Lottery DV-2010: BRAZIL, CANADA, CHINA mainland-born (Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taiwan were eligible), COLOMBIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, ECUADOR, EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, HAITI, INDIA, JAMAICA, MEXICO, PAKISTAN, PHILIPPINES, PERU, POLAND, SOUTH KOREA, UNITED KINGDOM and UK dependent territories (except Northern Ireland which was eligible), and VIETNAM.

The official U.S. Government's list of eligible countries for the next Green Card Lottery DV-2011 will not be released until approximately September 2009. We will post that list immediately after it becomes available. Please check web page http://www.americangreencard.com/eligible.htm in September 2009.

If the winner files a successful application, he or she can enter the U.S. and exchange the immigrant visa for a Green Card, issued by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). If the winner is already in the U.S., he or she can get a Green card from INS without leaving the country.

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*The Nicaraguan and Central American Relief Act (NCARA) passed by Congress in November 1997 stipulates that beginning with DV-99, and for as long as necessary, 5,000 of the 55,000 annually-allocated diversity visas will be made available for use under the NCARA program.
Please Note: Any and all information contained throughout this web site is not intended to be legal advice and should not be taken as such. The American Green Card Lottery Access Center is not affiliated with any governmental agency.

There is no charge to enter the Green Card Lottery, but we do charge a fee for our services. American Green Card Lottery Access Center will be pleased to assist you with the correction of your photos required to enter the next Green Card Lottery DV-2011. DV-2011 is the name of the Lottery for the year 2009.
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