Getting married after winning DV Lottery

Assume someone is applying the DV lottery, on the day of the application that person is unmarried. Maybe one month later, the person is married. What happens? What if i get married after DV lottery?

Will you be allowed to add your wife or your husband, if you got married after application or if you get married after the DV lottery results is out?

Above are some of the questions many individuals applying for DV lottery program asked regularly.

The answer to these questions is yes.

If you are among those that will be selected or have been selected successfully from the DV lottery program, there will be no problem at all to add that particular person (your spouse) but you can only do that when you are filling the DS-260 form.

Any change in marital status after applying for DV lottery program or after the results is out, it will not affect you negatively in any way.

The problem will be if on the day of your DV lottery application, you are married and you lie, you say you are single, or you are single, you lie, you say you are married.

But if you are single and you get married after the DV lottery application, you’ll be able add your spouse when filling the visa form, i.e DS-260 form, and then you’ll be able to go together to the United States, if you both of you pass the DV interview successfully.

The only difference is this way, on the DS-260 form, if you are married on the day of application and you include you are married, when you go to the visa form (DS-260), when you put your confirmation number and everything, you sign in to the DS-260, you will also see the name of your wife or your husband, and if you have children, their names will be already in the DS-260 form.

But if after the DV lottery application you go and get married after or you have a child later, you will manually add those dependents in that particular form (DS-260). That’s the only difference.

But obviously, you need to have evidence to prove that you got married after the application or after the results, to show that the marriage is the bonafide marriage, not the scam, immigration scam or immigration fraud. Maybe you want just to get the benefit of the immigration to go to America through Green Card lottery.

What if I get married after submitting DS-260?

Report the marriage and provide documentary evidence at your interview. The consular official should request that your spouse file their own application for a derivative immigrant visa (and pay the fees.)

The consular official will interview you both to determine the genuineness of the marriage. If they are convinced your marriage is genuine and you both otherwise qualify for visas, you’ll be issued DV immigrant visas. You must then either immigrate together or you must immigrate first followed by your spouse.

I hope the information is very clear.

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.

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.

Getting married after winning DV Lottery: There are some frequently asked questions concerning DV lottery, such as, is marriage after Green Card Lottery even allowed? Or Can I get married after the DV lottery results are out?

In this guide, you will learn in full details, the answer to some of the questions regarding the issue of getting married after winning DV Lottery.

Question: Is marriage after Green Card Lottery even allowed? Or Can I get married after the DV lottery results are out?

The simple answer is yes, you are allowed to get married after winning DV Lottery. But as long as the marriage is the real marriage, is a bonafide marriage.

You will need to have evidence to prove that you got married in the real marriage, not to get married so that your spouse that you married comes with you to the United States of America.

Unlike the person who got married maybe before DV lottery, that person will just showed the marriage certificate, that’s all, but the one who got married after the DV lottery result are out, you might be asking some other questions to show maybe the marriage photos, the wedding photos or the engagement photos.

They might ask you those questions or they might ask any other evidence beyond just the marriage certificate.

If you are Christian, Muslim, whatever, you can get the letter from the pastor/priest or from the Imam or from the local government leader. They might ask some extra evidence to prove that you are married.

But yes, you are allowed to get married after the DV lottery results are out. But remember that they have the reason to suspect that this might be some sort of shady business.

Make sure that you have extra evidence, even if without being asked, so that you can avoid any type of questioning and be able to be given the visa to go with your spouse to the United States of America.

Question: If a DV lottery winner got married before his interview appointment, can he add his wife information with his DS-260 form?

There is no problem here if your marriage is real and a not a sham one to get 2 green cards out one winning entry, mostly for financial gain.

Be prepared to be subject to some scrutiny at the interview about your marriage, but if you knew your partner for a while and you are married for reals, there should not be much of a problem.

Your marriage WILL be thoroughly tested to see if it is genuine. If there is any hint of fraud, you will be declared inadmissible.

Marriage fraud is one of the most common immigration crimes. If is a federal crime with very severe penalties for U.S citizens who participate. For the immigrant, it means never getting into the USA for life.

Remember: Winning the DV lottery DOES NOT guarantee you a visa. It just moves you to the front of the line for processing. If your petition is evaluated and found to be fraudulent in any way, you will be denied the same as anyone else.

If you have plans to marry shortly after the announcement of the results, you may decide to hold back submission of your DS-260 until you have married, so that you can include your spouse on the first submission of the forms.

However, if you have already submitted your DS-260 and marry while you are waiting for interview, you can request KCC to unlock your form (email is best) and then modify your DS-260 to include your new spouse (including modifying your own entry to reflect your new marital status).

In the email requesting the form unlocking, include a scan of the marriage certificate which will be added to your KCC file (later sent to the embassy or Field office if doing adjustment of status).

If the marriage happens after the case has been passed to the embassy for a scheduled interview, you should still inform KCC as a precaution but your actual approach is to handle the change direct with the embassy.

Some embassies are relaxed about who attends the interviews, others are very unrelaxed, so in some cases you will have to contact the embassy or ask KCC to contact them on your behalf to get your spouse added to the interview schedule.

I hope you find this guide helpful, please share it to others to learn too. Thanks.

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.