Everything You Need for the 2024 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV-2024)
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Toward the start of every federal fiscal year (October), the Department of State conducts a lottery called the Diversity Immigration Visa Program (DV-2024). If an individual is chosen, they are eligible to apply for permanent residence (i.e., a green card). Anybody can register as long as they are a native of an eligible country (oversubscribed nations are not eligible, so the list of nations is likely to change every year), and have at least a high school diploma (or equivalent) or at least two years of work experience.
The congressionally mandated Diversity Immigrant Visa Program is administered every year by the U.S. Department of State and is conducted under the terms of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). This lottery gives a limit of up to 55,000 Diversity Visas (DV) each fiscal year. To be made available to people from nations with low rates of immigration to the United States. Those granted a DV visa become permanent residents of the United States.
(DV-2024) Diversity Immigrant Visa Program
The yearly DV program makes diversity immigrant visas available to people meeting the basic, but strict, eligibility requirements. A computer-generated random lottery drawing chooses selectees for DVs. The visas, however, are distributed among six geographic regions. With a more number of visas going to regions with lower rates of immigration. And without any visas going to nationals of nations sending more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. over the past five years. Within every region, no one nation might get more than seven percent of the available diversity visas in any one year.
The application period runs from early afternoon Eastern Sunshine Time, Wednesday, 5th October 2022. Through early afternoon Eastern Standard Time, Tuesday, 8th November 2022.
[The US to open 100,000 visa appointment slots, and resume student visa interviews in November]
Eligibility
To be eligible for the DV 2024 Program, an individual should generally:
- Be a native of a qualifying “low admission country” by one of the following. Born in a qualifying country, married to someone born in a qualifying country, or born to someone who was born in a qualifying country;
- Have at least a high school education or it’s same(i.e., 12-year course of formal elementary and secondary education; GEDs are not considered an equivalent for purposes of DV-2024)
- In the past five years, have worked at least two years in an occupation that requires at least two years of training or experience.
