DV Lottery for Sri Lanka.
DV Visa lottery program allows Sri Lanka born people to apply for the program even if they are living abroad. Holding another passport or citizenship is also not a problem to participate in the DV-2013 DV lottery program. This is a simple program but it is covered with strict rules. One person can apply only one entry as primary applicant with his name in any given year. As Sri Lanka born people are eligible to participate in this DV Lottery program, the US visa lottery program may allow 500 - 900 visas to Sri Lanka born people out of the 50,000 PR visas which are going to be issued worldwide.
Sri Lanka born people can apply themselves or can use an agent like "BBS Netting" to apply for them to participate and check their lucky. We recommend you to apply through the companies as they too will have your confirmation number and they too will check your selection status. In the year 2011 plenty people had lost their DV-2012 confirmation number and now they can't check their results online. This is the only mean to check the DV-2012 online results, so these people are out of the dv2012 visa lottery program.
So saving a small amount, some time may cost your winning.
According to the US embassy in Sri Lanka, those Sri Lankan people who want to participate (living abroad too can send their entries through
E-DV) must have Six passes in the GCE examination including the compulsory subjects or must have 2 years of work experience within the last five years in a profession that requires at lest two years of training or experience to perform it. That job must be approved by the American DOL for the visa lottery according to the DV Lottery instructions.
The Department of State Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky, WILL NOT NOTIFIES the lottery winners by mail as before between May and July. If they want to confirm their selection for the program, then they will have to check their results online with their confirmation number and personal information.
All the winners must proof their eligibility to the US consular office by paying a non refundable visa fee of US$ 819 for the main applicant and this diversity visa fees should be paid to all his/her dependants too, on the day of their visa interview.
If a father wins the visa lottery program with wife and two eligible children, then he must pay US$ 819 X 4 = US$ 3,276 in total or equivalent in local currency on the day of his interview only to the US Embassy and all the dependants too must attend the interview along with the primary applicant.
The visa fee can be paid in US$ or local currency to the consular office in the form of bank draft drawn in favor of the US Consular office. From the year 2011 there is a change about the police clearance procedure as the winner must get his police clearance from the Police head quarters in Colombo, Srilanka. It may take 3- 4 weeks of time and the fee to obtain it is Rs 500/-. For the higher educational certificates from the education department, once the requirement is submitted by the applicant and the token must be hand overed to the consular office before the interview date on any day between Monday to Thursday and the consular office will collect the original O/L, A/L certificates from the Sri Lanka Examination Department.
Sri Lanka DV Lottery winner's Medical examinations should be done according to the Colombo US Embassy Instructions.
Under the Diversity Visa lottery program DV 2008, 318 cases were qualified for immigrant visa interviews.
For the DV 2010 - 792
For the DV 2010 - 650
For the DV 2011 - 515
For the DV 2012 - 708
For the DV 2013 - Not Announced.
The next American Green card lottery is DV-2013 and it will available to apply this year 2011.
Announcement from the Colombo US Embassy (Sri Lanka) regarding DV-2013 American visa lottery program.
Diversity Visa Lottery Program for 2013 is Now Open for Applications!
You may register for the DV program through this website from noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), October 4, 2011, until noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT4), November 5, 2011.
Presentations on U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery Program
The Immigrant Visa section of the American Embassy in Colombo will hold a presentation on the Diversity Visa Lottery Program in Colombo on October 13th 2011 at 5:30 pm, St. Paul's Milagiriya Church Hall, Colombo 04
Diversity Visa Program allows people born in certain countries to migrate to the United States legally. Many winners from Sri Lanka migrate to the United States every year. The officers from the American Embassy will explain the process of the program with translations, participants will get free handouts with the important points of the program.
Similar presentations were held in Anuradhapura, Kilinochchi, Jaffna, Batticaloa, Polannuruwa, Trincomalee, Kalutara, Matara and the Maldives.
If you need any questions to be answered regarding the DV Lottery send them to mail@dvlotteryhelp.com
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