Green Card Lottery News.

Here you can find all the latest news on the American Green card lottery which is officially called as a DV Lottery. There are many rumors about the next DV Lottery in the internet and news papers. We try to give you all the latest things to you. Also if you find any good ones just send them to mail@dvlotteryhelp.com

DV 2013 Entrants numbers expected to be low.
7:17 AM 12/3/2011

There is a big change is expected from the number of applicants who had applied for the DV-2013 American visa lottery program. This because the top application sending country Bangladesh natives are removed from the eligible list by the US State Department as they have reached the cut out limit as per their calculation based on the last 5 year's Immigrant to the USA.

In the 2010 held DV 2012 visa lottery program, nearly 15 million people did sent their E_DV entries in to the system from all over the world. In these eligible DV Lottery entries, nearly 7 million came from the Asian country Bangladesh. So for this DV 2013 American visa lottery program nearly 8 million people are expected to had submitted their E-DV entries making the total number to be half as the natives of Bangladesh are ineligible to participate in that program.

As per dvlotteryhelp.com web site, Bangladesh, number of winners selected for the Green card lottery in the recent years is shown here.
DV 2009 - 6,023
DV 2010 - 6,001
DV 2011 - 5,999
DV 2012 - 2,373

So far the eligible country name list for the DV 2014 is not published in the visa bulletin. So it was not known whether any other countries are included or made ineligible for the forth coming visa lottery program that is going to be held in this year 2012 for the fiscal year 2014.

Those countries with higher number of immigration to the USA are normally not included in the eligible country list to participate in the annual diversity visa lottery program held by the US Government.

Source: http://www.visawebs.info/?tag=lottery

Atlanta Single Father Wins Lottery For The Second Time In Three Years.
Believe in second chance?
Delma Kinney who is 50 and going to turn 51 on Dec 5th recently had won a $1 million dollar and his winning is the second one within the last 3 years. The $1 million dollar prize money came to him by playing the instant game Super Millions. In the year 2008 too, he won $1 million playing another instant game.

http://www.lotterypost.com/blogentry/60980

Diversity Visa Program (DV-2013) Registration
The following message is posted in the American Government web site in the visa news section.
Diversity Visa Program (DV-2013) Registration

The registration period for the United States Diversity Visa (DV-2013) Program begins Tuesday, October 4, 2011, at noon (EDT), and concludes on Saturday, November 5, 2011, at noon (EDT). For more information, review the Press Release and the DV-2013 Instructions. Entrants for DV-2013 are advised to submit their entries early in the registration period because excessive demand might slow down the system as the deadline nears. There is no charge for submitting an entry in the DV Program. The Department of State strongly encourages entrants to complete and submit their own entries. There is no need to use an agent or intermediary.

Source: http://travel.state.gov

Connecticut Lottery $254 million, Winners Deny Claiming Ticket for Client.
Mystery in the winning of the $254 million Powerball jackpot in Connecticut. Three wealth managers who work for wealth management firm Belpoint Capital in Greenwich, claimed their lottery winning on Monday. The winning ticket from the Nov. 2 drawing was unclaimed for so long and some people suspect them that there is another person to be in the lottery winning. Read more about this story.

Winning, and losing, the green card lottery Of the 15 million people around the world who entered their names in the U.S. green card lottery this year, Tarik Ansari was one of the lucky minority, fewer than 1 percent, who made it to the final stage.

No Place for a "Diversity Lottery" in a Rational Immigration Policy. The House Judiciary Committee recently approved H.R. 704, a bill that would abolish a provision of U.S. immigration law called the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program,

Scammers fleece North Vancouver family of $1,638.
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What would replace the U.S. Green Card Lottery?

Class Case Over Green Card Lottery Dismissed.
A federal judge dismissed a class action from people who were told they won a chance to get a green card, only to be informed the U.S. State Department voided the results of its annual visa lottery due to a computer malfunction.

Green Card Lottery may get cancelled in U.S.

2nd 'green card lottery' held after results voided.

Congress now has diversity visas in its crosshairs

House Committee Approves Bill to Eliminate U.S. Visa Lottery.

Editorial: Congress should fix visa lottery, not eliminate it.

Diversity Visa Lottery faces new questions as economy struggles.

Bill to abolish visa lottery moves to full House.