DV 2010 Visa Lottery.

DV-2010 is the diversity visa program which is going to accept entries this year 2008 to issue 50,000 PR visas for the fiscal year 2010. The lottery will accept entries only through the online EDV form which will be available through the Official American Government’s web site. This year the web site will accept entries from eligible people for the DV2010 lottery program from 2nd October 2008 to 1st December 2008. Till 2nd October 2008 the web site will not accept entries and after 1st of December 2008 the web site will stop accepting entries from those people who want to apply for the program. This applying period will be 60 days.
Those who are new to the dv lottery must take note, that the lottery winner will not directly given away with an American Immigrant visa. Instead of it he will be given a chance to apply for the immigrant visa, where he must go through the normal procedure's for the visa application. Also will have to pay the visa fees and must proof the required eligibility at the interview in the nearest consular office.

The applicant must be born in an eligible country.
Must be more than 18 years of age, at the time of applying for the green card lottery.
Must have successfully completed High School Education after 12 year of schooling Or should have 2 years of work experience within the last 5years after studying /learning it for 2years.(You must read the DV 2010 instruction for more information on this).
Married person must include spouse and all the children who are unmarried and under the age of 21 including all legally adopted children, children from previous marriages.(Except those children, who are American citizen or LPR holders.)
Each applicant must submit a photo in digital file format according to the dv 2010 instruction, along with their dv application form.
If applicant is married must submit all the dependant's separate photos in digital file format according to the dv 2010 instruction, along with their information.

Those who meet all the legal requirements and are lucky enough to be selected at random will be among the 50,000 people who will benefit by the permanent-residency lottery offered every year by the USA to citizens of countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. The lottery will be totally free of charge and will accept only electronic forms. This means that handwritten or printed applications sent by mail will be discarded. Another important point is that there is no other website authorized to receive the electronic forms. If another portal appears, it is fraudulent. The program uses a computerized shuffle to select applicants from six geographical regions: Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, North America and the zone that includes Central America, the Caribbean and South America. To make the lottery more equitable and to give a chance for all to qualify, the State Department gives priority only to citizens of countries that in the previous five years have received fewer than 50,000 immigrant visas from the United States. For that reason, some countries cannot participate in this edition, such as China and India.. Every application, which includes the spouse and minor children, must be accompanied by a digital photograph in JPEG format, in color. The photograph must be taken head-on. A person from a country not allowed to participate in the lottery can still apply on the basis of the nationality of his or
her spouse or parents, as long as the spouse or parents are natives of a country allowed to participate. The applicants' forms and photographs must be delivered electronically to the only site authorized by the US State Department to receive applications during the 60 days window of opportunity.