Green Card Lottery

To be eligible to enter the lottery, you must meet general and education/training requirements. Both are described below.

General Requirements

To enter the lottery, an applicant must be able to claim nativity in an eligible country and must meet either the education or training requirement of the lottery program.

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US Green Card Visa, Lottery year 2024 (eDV-2026)

 DV-2025 Daily Update

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On an unpublicized date following the end of this year's lottery period, a computer will randomly select applications from among all the qualified applications received.  If your application is selected, you will be sent a notification letter that provides further instructions and contains information on fees connected with immigration to the United States.  (Spouses and unmarried children of successful applicants under age 21 may also apply for visas to accompany or follow to join the successful applicant.)  Winners who are living abroad will be instructed to file a formal application at the nearest US consular office; those already living in the US will be instructed to apply at the nearest branch of the Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS) for a change of status.  All notification letters will Not be sent only results has been avaliable on Late May 2025.  Only winners will be contacted.  US embassies and consulates will not be able to provide a list of successful applicants.  www.greencard-us.org The online registration period for the current eDV-2026 Program will begin on January and will end at noon EST on Nov. 5, 2024.

The Green Card US GLOBAL is now accepting applications for the eDV-2026 Green Card Lottery.   You are encouraged to apply early to ensure your registration in the lottery. 
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55,000 DV visas are available in Fiscal Year 2026, but more than that number of applicants will be selected in the lottery drawing.  A total of about 90,000 applicants, both principal applicants and their spouses and children, will be selected.  Since it is likely that some of the first 55,000 applicants who are selected will not pursue their cases to visa issuance, this larger figure will ensure the use of all available DV-2025 visas, but it also risks some registrants being left out.  Being selected a winner in the visa lottery does not automatically guarantee issuance of a visa.  All applicants that are selected will be informed promptly of their selection.  Each month, visas will be issued (visa number availability permitting) to those applicants who have appropriately responded to their notification and are ready for issuance during that month.  Once all of the Fiscal Year 2026 visas have been issued, the program for the year will end.  Therefore, selected applicants must be prepared to act immediately when informed of their successful lottery entries.  Processing of entries and issuance of diversity visas to successful applicants and their eligible family members must occur by September 30, 2026.  Under no circumstances can diversity visas be issued or adjustments approved after this date, nor can family members obtain diversity visas to follow to join the applicant in the US after this date.

We are always excited to learn of our clients' success stories.  If you are selected a winner in this year's Green Card Lottery, please let us know!

DV-2025 Information [the Year 2024]

Green Card US GLOBAL is now accepting applications for the Year 2024 - eDV-2026 Green Card Lottery. You are encouraged to apply early to ensure your registration in the lottery. 

Nativity in most cases is determined by the applicant's place of birth. However, if a person was born in an ineligible country but his/her spouse was born in an eligible country, such person can claim the spouse's country of birth rather than his/her own. Also, if a person was born in an ineligible country, but neither of his/her parents was born there or resided there at the time of the birth, such person may be able to claim nativity in one of the parent's country of birth. If you were born in any of the following countries, you cannot participate in this year's Green Card Lottery:

You may still qualify even if you were born in one of the countries listed above.

There are two exceptions. If your spouse was born in an eligible country, then you can claim your spouse's country of birth and be eligible to enter the lottery. If you were born in a country of which neither parent was a native, then you may claim the country of birth of either parent and be eligible to enter the lottery. A short statement explaining how you meet this exception must be included with your application. "Native" ordinarily means someone born in a particular country, regardless of the individual's current country of residence or nationality. But for immigration purposes “native” can also mean someone who is entitled to be “charged” to a country other than the one in which he/she was born under the provisions of Section 202(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. For example, if a principal applicant was born in a country that is not eligible for this year’s DV program, he/she may claim “chargeability” to the country where his/her derivative spouse was born, but he/she will not be issued a DV-1 unless the spouse is also eligible for and issued a DV-2, and both must enter the U.S. together on the DVs. In a similar manner, a minor dependent child can be “charged” to a parent’s country of birth. Finally, any applicant born in a country ineligible for this year’s DV program can be “charged” to the country of birth of either parent as long as neither parent was a resident of the ineligible country at the time of the applicant’s birth. In general, people are not considered residents of a country in which they were not born or legally naturalized if they are only visiting the country temporarily or stationed in the country for business or professional reasons on behalf of a company or government.

Education/Training Requirements

To enter, an applicant must have EITHER a high school education or its equivalent, defined in the US as successful completion of a 12-year course of elementary and secondary education, OR two years of work experience within the past five years in an occupation requiring at least two years of training or experience to perform.

If you meet the general and education/training requirements, complete your application today! If you do not meet the above requirements, you cannot participate in this year's Green Card Lottery Program.