Cost of Diversity Visa Lottery

All DV winners/selectee preparing for the DV lottery interview, below are things you need to get/know before you attend the DV interview:

1. You are supposed to be punctual when attending the DV lottery interview.
2. You are supposed to come with all the civil documents that you have, plus all the proof documents that are required.
3. Remember to have the original documents or certified documents and their copies.

Produce a copy of the original documents and go with both the original documents or the certified documents and their photocopies.

4. Remember that all people in your application must attend the interview in person, including children under the age of 14. Basically, everyone must attend the interview in person.
5. Remember, if you don’t have sufficient proof documents or because of other reasons, you might get an administrative procedure.

You might be given a yellow paper, and on that yellow paper, it will clearly tell you which documents or which requirement is insufficient. And once you’re given this letter, you should act immediately without wasting no time.

If it’s documents that are needed in addition to what you presented, go ahead and produce them as fast as possible and present them.

If it is information that has been omitted, provide that information as fast as possible. Don’t waste any time.

6. Remember to go with your visa fee.

Don’t forget to go with a visa fee for all the members in your application. And more so, come with it in cash. Carry it in cash in your local currency. You don’t have to convert it to the United States dollars. Go with the money in cash and in the local currency. If this need to be converted to the United States currency, you will be informed there.

7. Prepare for the interview all of you as the members in the application.

If you are the principal applicant, prepare as the principal applicant and let your derivatives as well prepare for questioning. During the interview, the consular officer may spill the question over to your derivatives. Let them also be aware of that.

8. Let the information that you provided right from the onset during the application or the entry to the DV program all the way to the interview, be consistent.

There should not be discrepancies in the information provided in whichever level of the DV process. The details in the application should conform with the details in the DS-260 form and in the medical examination and also in the responses that you provide during the interview. They should be consistent.

In connection with that, no cooked up stories should be in your DV process. Everything should be straight and correct and truthful. Because if there is any doubt in your process, then that can lead to fraud and visa denial consequently.

9. Remember to comply with all the requirements that your embassy stated on the website, all the requirements that the embassy outlined, comply with them, leave none out.

Before you go for the interview, make sure you go through the checklist. Make sure you go through the requirements by your embassy and stick them to the letter. And again, never panic because it is the simplest of the interviews.

Questions are just directed to you based on your information. Only what pertains to you will be asked. There is no point of panicking. If at all the information you provided are truthful and legitimate, there is no point of you getting worried and panicking.

Be composed, be calm, and the questions are simple and easy. Answer them directly.

I hope this information will be useful to all DV winners preparing for their interview.

DISCLAIMER: This post and content is designed for general information only and is NOT legal advice. This site is not offering any Diversity Visa and is not the official site for DV Lottery program. The information presented in this post should not be construed to be formal legal advice.

If you have any questions about the DV lottery, please contact an immigration professional/officer or a licensed attorney.

This second notification letter, 2NL is the appointment to the Diversity Visa interview. As a DV winner, there are three conditions that must be fulfilled before you get this second notification letter (2NL).

When will you receive your Diversity Visa Interview Notification?

If you are there and you’re waiting for your second notification letter and you haven’t received, you should know that one or all of these conditions might have not been met. Even if two are met and one is not, you will not get your second notification letter. The three of the conditions must be met.

3 Conditions Before DV Winner Can Receive Second Notification Letter, 2NL

Below are three conditions that must be met or fulfilled for a person who is a Diversity Visa Lottery winner to receive the second notification letter, 2NL.

1. Your DS-260 form must have been processed by KCC

You should have already submitted your DS-260 form, duly filled and KCC has reached it, opened it and processed it and finished up with processing it, without any issue. That is the very first condition, DS-260 form completely processed by KCC.

2. Your case number must become current

Your case number should have fallen below the cut off numbers indicated in the Visa bulletin for that current period. If your case number is not yet current, meaning not within the cut off numbers, then definitely don’t expect any second notification letter to come to you. The case must be current.

3. There must be a slot for the interview in the embassy that you selected to take your interview from.

The embassies most of the time would be having a backlog, i.e a queue of many cases that they are still to handle and they are with them.

Until they finish up with these cases to avail a slot that KCC can now transfer your case to the embassy for the interview, then you don’t expect any second notification letter. In other words, you can say it also depends with the performance of the embassy. How fast in handling the current cases is your embassy.

If your embassy is slow and therefore handles these cases in a slow manner, then it may take longer for your case to be transferred to the embassy because there would not have been a slot for the interview availed to KCC for them to send your case number to the embassy.

So, condition number three is that there must be the capacity of the embassy to receive your case for them to schedule for your interview.

That is, that about the three conditions that must be met before you will you receive your interview notification.

In Summary

You should have submitted your DS-260 form and the DS-260 form processed completely by KCC and then your case number must be current and there must be a slot for the interview in your embassy that you selected.

If all those three are fulfilled, then you definitely will receive your second notification letter, 2NL, for your Diversity Visa interview. But if they are not fulfilled, even if a single condition of the three then don’t expect the second notification letter.

Thanks for reading this guide.

DISCLAIMER: This post and content is designed for general information only and is NOT legal advice. This site is not offering any Diversity Visa and is not the official site for DV Lottery program. The information presented in this post should not be construed to be formal legal advice.

Cost of Diversity Visa Lottery: After selection, how much are you supposed to arm yourself with to comfortably go through the process until you land in the United States? In this guide, we will discuss about how much the Diversity Visa will cost you after you’ve realized you’ve been selected from the lottery.

Filling of DV application is completely free. Filling in the DS-260 is also completely free. It does not require any payment.

But once you receive your second notification letter, that is the 2NL, then expenses start inquiring.

READ NOW: What is Second Notification Letter, 2NL, in DV Lottery Program?

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1. Medical Examination

After getting the second notification letter, you will be required to go through a medical examination in a medical examination office or facility specified by the Embassy in which you’ll get your interview.

When you go for these medical examinations, you are required to pay some fee for your medical examination. And the total amount of money required during the medical examination will depend upon many factors. E.g

• How many Vaccinations will you be required?
• How many people are with you?

So, if you are a family of five, you need to prepare yourself with enough money to cater every single individual in your family.

If you’re one person, then you will pay less. It depends with the number of people that you have in your application, it depends with the age that you are in and also it depends upon how many Vaccinations you will have to go through.

Note: Medical examination have to be done in office or facility specified by the Embassy in which you’ll get your interview.

2. Visa Fee

The other expense that you have to prepare for is the Visa fee and this Visa fee, you will only pay it during the interview in terms of cash. So you walk in with the cash because you will not be required to enter with any electronic gadget inside the Embassy. So you have to carry it in cash.

What is the amount?

You need to get the current and actual amount from U.S embassy in your country home. The amount is per head. So if you are a single person, you will only pay for your Visa fee. But if you are a family of three, then you have to pay for each person.

3. Green Card Fee

The other expense that you are supposed to prepare yourself for is the green card fee. The green card fee is totally different from the Visa fee.

This green card fee, you are supposed to pay it once you land in the United States, or you can decide to pay for it immediately your Visa is approved.

The green card fee is the fee that is used to facilitate the processing of your green card, once you enter the United States.

The total amount per head and you need to contact the U.S embassy for more details information.

Generally, those are the major expenses that each and every diversity visa winner will have to incur.

Other expenses

Apart from that, there might be other side expenses. For example,

i. if when selected, you have a family but the family does not have the passports. Remember, you have to pay for the passport because every person will have to have his or her passport. That’s a side expense.

ii. You will be required to apply for the police clearance certificate.

iii. Another major side expense is the ticket. The flight ticket to the United States. The flight ticket to the United States will also vary depending upon many factors.

The country in which you come from, the number of stops that you will have. It will also depend on the time that you book for your flight. It depends with many things. It varies with seasons, so there is no fixed price for the flight ticket. But it depends with all those factors, where you come from and many other things.

This guide will get you ready as you’re waiting for your interview or as you are waiting for your chance of getting selected.

I hope this information is useful to you.

DISCLAIMER: This post and content is designed for general information only and is NOT legal advice. This site is not offering any Diversity Visa and is not the official site for DV Lottery program. The information presented in this post should not be construed to be formal legal advice.

If you have any questions about the DV lottery, please contact an immigration professional/officer or a licensed attorney.