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There is this interview question that many people are concerned about, when you are at the interview desk, that is the DV lottery interview. This guide will focus on why are you going to the U.S answer and why do you want to go to the U.S interview questions.

DV Interview Question

The officer there, that is the consular, poses this question to you about, why are you intending to go to the United States? He or she may also ask you, what are you going to do in the United States?

This questions, when you look at it clearly and through experience and also through many testimonials, what the consul officer or the embassy is trying to deduce from you is, what are your laid plans of you immigrating to the United States? What have you planned about your stay there?

Remember very well that;

• this is not a temporary visa. It’s not a temporary stay. This is a permanent stay.
• this is not based on any merit. It was just a random selection and you are lucky.

Therefore, you’re not immigrating to the United States on the merit of your experience, your work experience. You’re not going there for a job position. You are just going there because you won the DV lottery.

So the consular officer will be wanting to know, how are you going to drive life over there? How are you going to sustain yourself over there? What are you going to do over there? What is the reason as to why you’re going over there? Why did you apply for the DV lottery? Those questions should run inside your mind.

What are you supposed to answer or how are you supposed to handle this question? Remember that you had applied for the DV lottery and you had a reason as to why you really longed to have a permanent stay in the United States.

You might be having one reason or the other. In most cases, if not all, is because you’re going to better your life.

Maybe the life that you are currently living, where you are now from whichever country you are in is not satisfactory enough. You want somewhere where you can better your life and that could be the reason as to why you played the lottery.

Since you have all those reasons, you have an answer to this question. Also, because you want to better your life, when you are successfully selected and you win the green card lottery, which means that you want to go there and do things that will better your life, e.g getting job employment, or doing some businesses.

Something to improve your life, of course, is something that will bring in some cash to better your life. So either you will seek for an employment, you will self-employ, or you do something that will bring resources to your family, resources to yourself to better your life.

Therefore, these things are the same things that you should base your answer when you’re answering the Consular officer.

If this question is asked to you, why are you going to the United States? Or what are you going to do in the United States? Then your answer should be around this argument.

You’re supposed to tell the Consular officer that you intending to go to the United States because you want to go there, live and work and also maybe study.

For example:

“I want to go and work and study”

That’s just a good example.

You can say that you want to go there and join the military, which is a very good answer as well.

The answer that you give will determine whether the consular officer will be confident enough in you to issue a visa to you. Because if you are asked, Why are you going to the United States? Or What are you going to do? And then you don’t have any answer, you become messed up.

Maybe you just won the green card lottery and you had no reason, and then you’re just joyous that you’re going to the United States. You don’t have any plan, then you lack an answer to that question. You become confused.

Maybe you say, I’m going there because I won the green card. Then the Consular Officer definitely will see that you don’t have any solid reason as to where you’re relocating to the United States. You might risk becoming a public charge, a person that will need government support to sustain his life over there. This is what the United States government does not want.

So if you don’t have any reason, then you risk your visa approval. You may not receive your visa.

The very best reason that you should have in your mind when applying for the DV lottery should be to better your life. Better your life means doing activities that will bring resources to your family. That’s a good reason to give there.

Be plain and simple and tell the consular officer that you want to go to the United States because you want to go there and work and also study, because you want to better your life as you better the economy of the United States.

I hope this guide have answered this DV interview question, why are you Going to the U.S.A? or what are you going to do in the U.S?

Thank you so much 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.

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

This guide will focus on the first email response you will receive from KCC, after you have submitted your DS-260 form, how to request for your Case Status from KCC and all the possible responses that you might get from KCC.

These responses come after you have sent KCC an email requesting the status of your case.

There are several email all along the DV journey that you can possibly get from KCC when you send a request email.

After the selection, you find out that you are successful and you have filled your DS-260 form and finished up submitting it. After some time, you may decide to request KCC to know the progress of your case. Below is the first kind of response that you can get from KCC.

The First Email Response From KCC

This is the sample email that you might receive in response, and the email says:

Thank you for your inquiry.

Your forms have been received and are currently processing. Allow several weeks for processing. Interviews are scheduled numerically based on case numbers that have completed processing.

Once the KCC has finished processing your DS 260, you will receive an email from Kentucky Consular Center giving you instruction to complete in order for your case to continue processing.

In order for the KCC to assist with inquiries regarding a specific Diversity Visa (DV) case, you must provide the principal applicant’s full name, complete case number, and the date of birth in the following format (MM/DD/YYYY), as entered in the original entry.

Please remember that KCC does not have the authority to tell you whether or not your specific case will be disqualified. Only a consular officer can do that at the time of your visa interview. Do not send any papers to Kentucky Consular Center. For additionally information, please refer to the following…………………..

This might be the first response that you might receive immediately after submitting the DS-260 form, and the DS-260 form has not yet been completely processed.

If KCC has not opened your DS-260 yet, or they are in the process of processing it, then this kind of email will come in response to your email requesting the status of your case.

As stated from the email, interviews are processed numerically, i.e in the interviews, they follow one another from the lowest case number all the way to the highest case number, on case numbers that have completed processing.

For all DS-260 forms that have been submitted and they have been processed, the interviews will be scheduled numerically.

But if you have not submitted your DS-260 form and your case is low, definitely you will not be scheduled for the interview before another one with higher case number that’s submitted before you.

How to Request Your Case Status From KCC

When sending the email request to KCC, you must provide three things, i.e

• the principal applicant’s full names as you entered in the original entry,
• the complete case number, including the preceding zeros, and
• the principal applicants birth date in this format, month, day, then year.

Every time you send a request email to KCC, include those three things.

KCC is not authorized to tell you whether you will be successful or disqualified. For you to get the results, whether you will be successful in the interview or not, this is the work of the Embassies and the consulates.

The consular officer after interviewing you and receiving the details from KCC and going through the details, he or she is the one to determine whether you will be successful or disqualified.

This will be the first letter before your DS-260 has been opened by KCC or is in the process of being processed.

Below are other email responses that you might receive from KCC:

• The Third Email Response From KCC | When Requesting Your Case Status From KCC
• The Second Email Response From KCC | When Requesting Your Case Status From KCC
• The Fourth Email Response From KCC | When Your Case is Current for DV Interview Processing
• The Fifth Email Response From KCC | When Your DV Interview Has Been Schedule At U.S Embassy

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.

What Papers Are Given After The DV Interview? Many people are waiting for the DV results to come out, which is in few months’ time. While others are still continuing with their interviews, some are also waiting for the second notification letters, 2NL.

Based on the recent visa bulletin that came out, there is promising in terms of the cut-off numbers. But the problem lies with the embassies and the speed at which they are processing, e.g some of the embassies in the region of Africa.

For those that are waiting for the results for the DV-2024, the results should be out by May 6.

Today, we will focus in those documents/papers that you may be given after a successfully DV interview.

5 Papers/Documents You Are Given After The DV Interview

Below are the documents that you can be issued after the interview, depending on the situation of your interview and they come in a paper form, it might be of different color.

Different Colour Paper that may be issued to you

For example, you can have a green paper issued to you after the interview, you can have a yellow paper/slip given to you after the interview. You can have a pink paper/slip given to you after the interview.

You can also have a white paper/slip given to you after the interview or even a blue paper issued to you after the interview.

Let now discuss these five papers that you may get after a DV lottery interview and their content and also their meaning, and what should you do after you have been given this paper.

Of course majority are wishing to be given the green paper after the interview. This is because it is the green paper that contains the information that congratulates you upon having a successful interview.

It tells you, congratulations, your visa has been approved, and this is the paper that many people are longing for after the interview.

Green Paper/Document

The first paper/document/slip is the green document, the document/slip that congratulates you of a successful diversity visa interview.

It says:

Dear Immigrant Visa/Diversity Visa Applicant.

Congratulations! Your visa has been approved. Please immediately register with DHL courier service for each traveling applicant. Instructions are attached to the sheet.

DHL will alert you by email when your passport or travel document is ready for collection and include a receipt number, and also the DHL Air way bill number.

Below is a sample of the Green Letter given after the DV interview

So depending on the country in which you come from, the courier services may be different. Others may also be told to come to the embassy directly to collect their visa. But this is the basic content of the green paper. It congratulates you on your winning the visa, and on your visa getting approved. It goes on to give you the details about what you’re required to have when you’re going to collect your passport through the courier services.

You’ll need your identification card and you’ll need the proof of your DHL airway bill number. If you’re taking for your child, you’ll be required to present the birth certificate for the child.

But if you cannot go by yourself as a principal applicant to collect the documents, then you can send someone. But the person you send, you must issue the person with an authorization document letter to go with to the courier services, together with your identification documents.

The authorization letter should have been signed by you and should indicate that you are authorizing the person to take the documents or to collect the documents on your behalf.

Green document/paper is the document that you get once you become successful in your visa interview and your visa has been approved. This is the document that all the winners in the DV lottery would like to get.

There are other documents that you may get which fall under the 221G, that is a temporary visa refusal and you will be required to take certain steps once you get those documents for your visas to be approved.

This is the first guide on those five different documents and papers that you can be given after the interview. To know more about the other documents/papers and everything about it, read more>>>>>

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.

Who Can Sponsor You for DV? In today’s guide, we will learn about who qualifies to be your sponsor, as a DV winner or who qualifies to financially sponsor a green card holder or an immigrant.

Who a sponsor?

A sponsor is someone that accepts to be held responsible for an immigrant expenses while he or she settles in the United States.

The United States government will consider the income and the assets of the sponsor as available to sponsor the immigrant or to support the immigrant in whatever thing he requires as he settles in the United States.

A sponsor can financially support anyone, a relative, an employee, a person outside his or her family, or any person that intends to immigrate to the United States.

Who Can Sponsor You for DV? | How To Get The Right Sponsor / Host

Below are the qualities or qualifications of a person to become a financial sponsor of an immigrant to the United States?

• This financial sponsor must be above 18 years of age and not under 18 years of age.
• The financial sponsor must be a United States citizen or a United States permanent resident.
• If you don’t qualify as a United States citizen or the holder of the permanent residence, then you should have a domicile in any of the United States territory or possession.
• The sponsor must prove income of not less than 125 percent of the federal poverty line. For the military personnel, the poverty line may be at 100%, but for any other citizen or any other sponsor, the poverty level should be at 125% or more than 125% of the federal poverty level.
• To qualify as a sponsor, also, you have to be a lawful citizen or a lawful permanent resident of the United States.

This means that, you should not have involved yourself in criminal activities, especially criminal activities involving the minor, children under the age of 17 years of age.

For example, if you have a criminal record of committing an offense against a minor sexually, then you can be disqualified to act as a sponsor.

• If you are found in possession of the children pornography or distribution of such items, then you are disqualified to be a sponsor.
• If you are also found in minor sexual performances, you get disqualified as a sponsor.
• If you are also involved in crime regarding children kidnapping, you are also disqualified as a sponsor.
• If you are engaged in activity involved around requesting and performing sexual acts to minors, then you are disqualified to become a sponsor.

Therefore, you should be as lawful as possible and don’t involve yourself in such activities that harms the minor, for you to become a qualified sponsor for an immigrant.

Finally, the sponsor must be willing to fill the Form I-134 and submit it.

Financial Qualification of the Sponsor

One of the requirements has been that the sponsor must meet 125% or more of the federal poverty level. So the sponsor’s income should be at that level.

But if the sponsor’s income alone does not reach this level, the 125% of the federal poverty level, he can join it with the property that he or she owns.

If he or she has a house, a car, a farm, he can combine the entire wealth for him or her to meet this level.

So he or she can include all the possession that he or she has to meet this level, 125% of the federal poverty level.

Alternatively, if the sponsor does not meet the 125% of the federal poverty level, then they can sign a joint or they can jointly sign with another sponsor, and they will do this by filling in the Form I-864, the both of them and submit them. So they can jointly sponsor an immigrant.

Some Frequently Asked Questions

Questions: When your sponsor fill it you are going to print it out or your sponsor will be submitting it

Answer: You print it out

Question: Can a retired US citizen qualify to sponsor someone.

Answer: Yes.

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.

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

In this guide, we are going to learn how DS-260 forms is been processed by KCC. This guide is very important because it will help majority of people that are already in the process and waiting for their Second Notification Letters, 2NL.

It is also very much important for those who applied for the DV lottery 2024 and are waiting for the results or in a later year and you have applied for the DV lottery program, this is very important for you to understand.

After you have been successfully selected a winner in the DV lottery program, the next step entails you filling in the immigrant visa application form, and for the DV program, it is normally called the DS-260. This is the very first thing that you’re supposed to do.

Make sure within the very first days when the results are out, you should check your results, and if you’re selected to immediately begin filling in the DS-260 form that early.

Another important thing to note is that this DS-260 form should be filled in the correct way. It should not be filled hastily. Don’t read in a haste. Do it slowly but correctly.

It should not be done in one sitting. You can do it bit by bit, saving those bits for several days. It is not done in a hurry to prevent you making some mistakes that might cost you.

The general idea is that you should fill your DS-260 form as early as is required.

How DS-260 Forms Are Processed By KCC

After submitting the DS-260 form, the next process is for it to get processed, and this is done by KCC. Remember, everyone who was selected a winner for DV program all over the globe is filling the DS-260 form and submitting.

The KCC normally process the DS-260 form in the order of their submission. If you have a very high case number and you submit it earlier than the person who had a low case number, your DS-260 form will be processed before that with the low case number. They are processed in the order of submission.

This comes as a very important question, especially to those with very low case numbers. If you have a very low case number, ensure that you fill in your DS-260 very early, so that it might be processed amongst the early submitted ones and stay in wait for your number to become current.

By so doing, if your case was to be scheduled for interview in the first month of the fiscal year, that is October, then you will be scheduled because you submitted it early and it was processed.

If you fail and you have a very low case number that was supposed to be scheduled for October interviews, but you fail to submit it early enough, maybe you submitted it in July or in August, then when the interviews for the month of October will be scheduled, your DS-260 form might not have been processed, and that means you won’t be scheduled for that month.

Then you’ll keep wondering, why have I not been scheduled yet? I’m current, my number is current. That is the very reason.

So that about How DS-260 Forms Are Processed By KCC.

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.

There are two ways in which you can prove to the consular officer or to the United States government that you’re not going to become a public charge once you land in the United States. This guide will point out those Documents A Sponsor Should Give You For DV Interview.

These two ways include:

1. You can choose to have enough Savings in your bank and produce a Statement of the savings, present it before the consulate officer that will be interviewing you and use it as a form of proof that you can sustain yourself when you start life in the United States.
2. By producing an affidavit of support from a sponsor who is already in the United States, either a Citizen of the United States or a permanent resident.

This sponsor is supposed to fill the form called Form I-134 and give you the copy to present it during your interview. There are documents that should accompany the Form I-134, which your sponsor should provide for you to accompany the Form I-134, for it to act as a sufficient affidavit of support.

Documents A Sponsor Should Give You For DV Interview

Below are the document that should accompany the Form I-134:

• Copy of the green card of the sponsor, or if the sponsor is a citizen, the national identity card copy or the driver’s license.
• Form 1040, the tax compliance form of the sponsor. Remember, to qualify as a sponsor, the sponsor has to have complied fully with the taxation in the United States. In place of the form 1040, the sponsor can give you a W2 form instead.
• A copy of pay-slip, just to act as the proof that indeed your sponsor is earning the salary, the income. So let your sponsor give you maybe an annual pay slip copy as approved of the salary, i.e the pay slip.

Those three documents are supposed to accompany the Form I-134 for it to act as an affidavit of support. Once you present these documents, together with the Form I-134, then you are fully secured and your visa can get approved.

Remember that majority of the embassies will request for this affidavit of support, either the financial statement or the Form I-134 from the sponsor.

So, if you’re preparing to go for your interview, ensure that you are obtaining an affidavit of support from the sponsor, or you are preparing the financial statement. If you fail to produce one as a means of proving that you will not become a public charge in the United States, then definitely you will be put to the administrative processing until you produce these documents.

Some Frequently Asked Questions

Question: Can I present additional i-134 form apart from my sponsor to make sure. We are three (applicant, spouse and son/daughter).

Answer: Just one form i-134 is enough.

Question: What time should I-134 be fill? Can the sponsor fill prior to the scheduling of interview?

Answer: It’s better after 2NL.

Question: Is i-134 filled before the interview or after the interview?

Answer: Before interview.

Question: My sponsor is in USA, how can i get the i-134 Form from my sponsor, since am not USA yet?

Answer: Let him/her fill it and scan it and send it to you.

I hope the information is very useful and 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.

In this guide, we will learn some common DV lottery interview Questions expected during DV Interview and the sample answers. Before going for the interview, you need to know about the DV lottery or green card interview questions.

Learn sample answers to some of the top questions related to the DV lottery (green card) interview process, providing valuable insights for those seeking permanent residency in the U.S.

A consular officer conducts a DV lottery interview at the U.S embassy or consulate in your home country. In the interview, the officer will ask you a series of questions to determine your eligibility for the DV program and your admissibility to the United States.

Whether you’re a first-time applicant or have previously entered the DV lottery, this guide will provide you with valuable information to help you navigate the interview process with confidence.

DV Lottery Interview Top Questions and Sample Answers

These are what you can expect during the interview and how to prepare for them. Below are some common DV lottery interview questions that are asked most of the time.

Question: What is the purpose of your trip to the United States?

Sample Answer: I have been selected for the diversity visa program and plan to immigrate to the United States.

Question: Have you ever been to the United States before?

Sample Answer: No, I have never been to the United States before.

Question: What do you know about the diversity visa program?

Sample Answer: The diversity visa program, also known as the Green Card lottery, is a program that provides a chance for people from certain countries to immigrate to the United States. It is a random selection process and winners are chosen through a computer-generated lottery.

Question: How did you find out about the diversity visa program?

Sample Answer: I found out about the diversity visa program through the U.S Department of State’s website.

Question: What is your educational background?

Sample Answer: I have a bachelor’s degree in business administration from (your college name).

Question: What is your current occupation?

Sample Answer: I currently work as a (say your job title and your company name).

Question: Do you have any family or friends in the United States?

Sample Answer: No, I do not have any family or friends in the United States.

Question: How do you plan to support yourself in the United States?

Sample Answer: I plan to find employment once I arrive in the United States?

Question: Have you ever been convicted of a crime?

Sample Answer: No, I have never been convicted of a crime.

Question: Have you ever violated U.S immigration laws?

Sample Answer: No, I have never violated U.S immigration laws.

Question: What was your longest stay in the U.S?

Sample Answer: I have never been to the U.S before, so this will be my first trip.

Question: What visa was you on for that stay?

Sample Answer: N/A, as I have never been to the U.S before.

Question: Have you ever had any immigration problems?

Sample Answer: No, I have never had any immigration problems.

Question: What is your highest level of education?

Sample Answer: In this answer, you can say your highest level of education.

Question: Where did you get your bachelor from?

Sample Answer: I received my bachelor’s degree from [your university name.]

Question: Do you have any children?

Sample Answer: No, I do not have any children. But if you have, please say Yes and also say how many they are.

Question: Have you ever been married?

Sample Answer: No, I have never been married. But if you are married, please say Yes.

Other DV lottery (Green Card) Interview Common Questions

It is important to answer these questions truthfully and accurately. Any misrepresentation or false information could result in your visa application being denied.

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.

This guide is about Marriage, Fiancé and Spouse Issues in DV Lottery, and how it affect your Visa Approval.

Some Frequently Asked Questions About Marriage in DV Lottery

• Can I marry after applying the DV lottery or after winning DV lottery?
• Will marrying after applying for DV lottery reduce your chances of getting the visa approved?
• If you applied as married and got separated or divorced, how do you go about it?

When you applied for the DV lottery, continue with life as normal, and if you are planning to marry, continue with the marriage process and get married. Even though you applied as a single, because at that time you are not married, continue with the marriage process and get married legally.

By you doing so, you don’t risk or reduce your chances of getting your visa approved once you win the DV lottery. You don’t reduce or risk so long as you continue with your marriage process legally and you end up marrying legally, there is no reduction in your visa approval or winning the DV lottery.

Don’t allow anyone get you discouraged from getting married after applying for DV lottery. Though there are some things you need to take note of, i.e

• Once you get married and you are filling the DS-260 form, you need to add your spouse in the DS-260 form.

You add him or her in your DS-260 form. Don’t leave your spouse out. Even if you applied as single and you’re married, you add your spouse in your DS-260 form.

• The other thing is that, you will be required to prove the legality of your marriage and that is by producing the marriage certificate.

In all embassies, you have to prove that you are legally married to this spouse.

• You will have to prove the evidence of your existing relationship even before the results were out or even before you applied for the DV lottery.

You need to arm yourself with the proof documents of your existing relationship, prior the application or the DV results.

If you do those things, the certificate and the proof, you are very safe. Nothing will hinder you from getting your visa approved.

• If you applied as married and got separated or divorced, how do you go about it?

If you applied the DV lottery as married because you are married, but later on you got separated, you are now living separate ways or you got divorced, what should you do? You just indicate in the DS-260 form that you are divorced or you are separated. But you need to have the separation documents or the divorce papers with you.

If you don’t have the divorce papers or the separation documents, then you cannot claim that you are divorced, because these proof documents will be requested. If you cannot prove it, then you definitely will not succeed in the DV interview.

Only if you have the documents should you feel separated. But if you are separated or you consider yourself divorced, yet you don’t have the papers, you’ll have to continue as married.

And if you continue as married, when you go to the interview, you just simply say that your spouse is not willing to immigrate with you and that’s why they are not in the DV interview. They refuse to immigrate with you, and by so doing, you’ll be successful.

So if you don’t have proof papers of divorce or your separation, continue as married, and say that your spouse is not willing to immigrate with you, by that you’ll be safe and your visa will be approved.

• When your spouse refuses to relocate with you

If you are married but your spouse refuses to immigrate with you to the U.S, that is not a problem and it will not reduce your chances of getting selected. You just indicate that your spouse is not immigrating with you.

When you go to the interview, you will go as the spouse not immigrating with you, and you’ll get your visa approved if you are successful, it will not hinder you from getting your visa. If he or she does not want to go with you, it is well and good. You just indicate not immigrating with you.

But note this, if during your DV application, your country of birth was not qualified for the DV program, and you went ahead to use your spouse’s country of birth and the spouse’s country of birth was eligible for the DV lottery, if you used the country of eligibility of your spouse, and at this point that spouse refuses to immigrate with you, then that becomes a problem.

Because you by yourself, you are not eligible based on the country of your birth, but your spouse’s country of birth that you used is the one that made you eligible. So if he or she refuses to immigrate with you, you can’t proceed with the process because you’ll not get successful.

Because the country of eligibility that you choose was that of your spouse, what you need to do is to talk with your spouse, for him or her agree to proceed with you through the DV interview. After the interview, if you are successful, then the spouse can decide to remain behind and let you go. That would be the only way in this scenario.

• If you mistakenly selected married yet you are single, is it correctable?

When filling the DV lottery application form during the DV entry, you need to be extremely careful.

When you are selecting your status during the DV application and you are single, for example, but you mistakenly select that you are married, either to a United States citizen or not to a United States citizen, it is incorrectible. You cannot correct it. If it can be corrected, it would be during the DV interview.

During the interview, if you are able to express yourself to the consular, the interviewing consular officer, that you had made a mistake, it was erroneous that you selected married and the consular officer get convinced, then he or she can let you go through.

But the question is, how can you do that? How will the consular believe you? How will the consular know that you’re telling the truth?

It is a hard process, but if you can well explain that you mistakenly selected it and also prove that, then you can get your visa approved.

But know this, if you mistakenly did that mistake, your chances of getting the visa approved is very minimum.

When filling or entering the DV lottery, you need to be very careful on which boxes you are checking, let them be correct, take your time and don’t just rush through, make sure you select the correct status.

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 guide will specifically tackle the issue about the birth certificate and other alternatives for DV interview. Birth Certificate is very important in green card lottery.

The birth certificate is very important in many things in your life and more so during the diversity visa process. This is one of the documents and very important documents that are required during the DV interview.

You are supposed to produce original copies of your birth certificate and those of your derivatives, and if not, get the certified copies of the same. Also go along with the photocopy of them as well.

There are some individuals in several countries that are unable to obtain a birth certificate, maybe because of one reason or the other.

One reason as to why some may not be able to get an original or certified birth certificate is because of governmental issues and problems.

Another reason could be that the official record of your birth has been lost by the government institution or the civil institution, and those things happen.

If they cannot retrieve your birth records, then it might be hard for them to produce a birth certificate for you.

In all these cases, if you are unable to obtain a birth certificate for the DV lottery process, there are alternatives for this.

The DV Birth Certificate and Alternatives

1. The Baptismal Certificate

The first alternative for this is you might get a baptismal certificate. The baptismal certificate can stand in for the birth certificate, in this case, where you cannot obtain your birth certificate. But for the baptismal certificate to be legitimate, to be sufficient for this process, it should contain the date of your birth.

It should also contain the place where you were born, and it should also contain the names of both of your parents. These names must be in full.

So it should contain your names, the place of birth, the date of birth, the name of the parents, and they should be in full. In that case, it should stand in for the birth certificate.

2. Affidavit Certificate

If you cannot get the baptismal certificate, the other option is you get an affidavit certificate of your birth from a close relative and if possible, from the mother.

The affidavit of birth can stand in for the certificate of birth. The Affidavit certificate should state your names, it should state the date of birth, it should state the names of the parent, and the middle name of the mother should be in that affidavit of birth. The affidavit of birth also qualifies as a support document in place of the birth certificate.

3. Legal Adoption Papers

There’s also another option if these two are not possible. This is specifically for adopted children. So if you have an adopted child and you cannot retrieve the birth certificate, but you have the adoption papers, the legal adoption papers, they can stand in for the birth certificate.

The adoption papers should contain the full names of the child. It should contain the date of birth, the place of birth, if possible, the names of the parents, and the adoption details.

Legal adoption papers can stand in as a birth certificate for that adopted child.

Those are the papers that can replace the birth certificate. In case the original birth certificate or the certified birth certificate is unobtainable because of one reason or the other.

So nothing should hinder you from getting a successful DV interview because of the reason of lacking the birth certificate. Obtain one of those mentioned documents and you will be safe to proceed.

Question: What if I did a mistake during the process of typing my place of birth can I correct it before the results comes out and please how?

Answer: You will do it on DS-260, if selected.

Thanks for reading this guide. I hope the information is helpful.

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There’s this issue about document submission for DV interview, this guide will clarify that issue.

As a routine initially, there used to be that document submission procedure. After you have filled the DS-260 form and you’ve outlined your details in the DS-260 form, the next step that followed was to submit the document proofs or the supporting documents to the KCC. That was a requirement and that was before the DV lottery 2022.

But after the DV lottery 2022, this document procedure was scrapped off from the process, and you are no longer required to submit any document to KCC after you have submitted your DS-260 form.

Questions About DV Documents, Translations and Submission Before Green Card Lottery Interview Date

• At what point will you be needed to present the supporting documents?
• Are you supposed to send your supporting documents to your relevant embassy before you go for the interview?

Though many may have the knowledge about this.

After this document submission procedure was removed, and for the reason of facilitating or enhancing the speed of processing of cases by KCC, after it was removed, you are only required to have the supporting documents with you during the interview.

That mean that you are not supposed to send your embassy any document. No supporting documents should be emailed to the embassy. Gather them and get them ready.

The original documents together with their copies or certified documents together with their copies. You go with them to the embassy and during the interview, you don’t send any document prior to your interview. You go with them physically during your interview.

The other thing to add on this document submission is that, remember that your documents must be in English and if they are not, you should get a certified translation of the documents to English.

Document submission for DV interview: Filling Education Level in DS-260 Form

Regarding filling in the DS-260 form on the area of your education background, some have this question on what they should fill if they are continuing with their courses and they have not gotten the certificate.

First of all, remember that you are supposed to fill the education details with the education that you are currently having the certificate. That is for you to be comfortable and on a safer side.

If at the time of filling in the DS-260 form, it happens that you don’t have the certificate, but you will get the certificate before your DV interview, then you fill in that course. But if at all you know you won’t be able to get the certificate at the time of your DV interview, then there’s no problem with you leaving it out.

Because after all, with only the high school diploma, you’re already qualified. And remember the DV lottery program, the success at the interview does not depend on your level of education.

It does not mean that if you have higher certificates more than another one with only the high school diploma, it does not mean that you have higher chances of getting your visa than this other person.

So only fill the education part with the education, whose documents you have and whose documents you can have before the DV interview. If you cannot obtain the document before the interview, then leave that indication out. Just proceed with the current qualifications that you have.

I hope you have learned from this guide. 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.

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

In this guide, you will those things you must not do before you get 2NL. You should not bother yourself with the following things before you receive your second notification letter, 2NL, for your DV interview.

Things You Must Not Do before you Get 2NL

• Don’t try to register for your interview appointment.
• Don’t try to book any medical examination.
• Don’t try to register any delivery service or the courier services.
• Don’t get vaccinations before you get your second notification letter.

These steps, they are only supposed to be done once you get your second notification letter. If you don’t have your second notification letter yet, you cannot do this because it won’t go through.

• Registering for your interview appointment

If you try to register for the interview, it won’t be possible simply because before you get a second notification letter, it means that the embassy has not yet received your details.

In other words, KCC hasn’t transferred your case to the embassy, so the embassy don’t have your details yet, and it is the embassy that conducts the interview once they get your information. Don’t try to register an online interview appointment.

• Booking for medical examination

Don’t book for any medical examination yet. If you have not gotten your second notification letter, don’t try to do that, because you will be required to have the details with you when booking the medical examination.

You’ll be required to send some details, and yet you’ve not yet received the second notification letter.

• Booking the courier services for your passport delivery

Don’t try to book any courier services for your passport delivery before you get your second notification letter.

• Getting vaccinations before you get your second notification letter

Another very important thing that you are not supposed to do yet is trying to get the vaccinations that are required by the United States government.

Don’t beat around trying to understand “what are the vaccinations that I want or that I’m supposed to go through,” and then you try to get them in the name of reducing their charges or costs during the medical examination. If you do that, you’re doing mistakes.

Don’t try to go around to get the vaccinations. The best thing you’re supposed to do is to wait for the second notification letter and then the specified medical facility. You visit it, you book an appointment with them, and they will administer all the required vaccinations, those that you don’t have.

Don’t bother yourself at all about getting these vaccinations before you get your second notification letter.

You need just to relax and wait. Then immediately you get a second notification letter, then you can go ahead with those mentioned processes.

Don’t do those four things listed and explained above before you get your second notification letter.

Read Also: Thing You Must do While Waiting For The Second Notification Letter, 2NL

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

This guide explains details about everything that you should know about the Police Clearance Certificate (PCC), which are very important for your DV interview.

If you are a selectee in the diversity visa program, and that means you are now waiting to complete the process, you are supposed to know about the Police Clearance certificate.

Very Important Things About PCC You Should Know and Do

1. The very first important thing that you should know is that, every person in your application that is above the age of 16 years, is required to have his or her police clearance certificate for the DV lottery interview.

2. Another thing is that, you should have the police clearance certificate that is not older than two years, and to be more specific, not older than 24 months. Though this brings contradiction because you can ask, in my country, the police clearance certificate only expires after one year or others may still say, in my country, it expires after six months. What do I do?

According to the regulations by KCC regarding the diversity visa is that a police clearance certificate is considered valid 24 months after you obtained it.

So the time you got issued with the police clearance certificate, count from that time and up to 24 months, the certificate still remains valid according to the embassies, the United States embassy.

Therefore, if in your country your certificate expires within a period of six months, it still remains valid for the DV interview until the 24th month.

3. The other thing that you’re supposed to know about the police clearance certificate, is that you need to have or to obtain police clearance certificates of all those countries that you have lived in for more than one year in your past life after the age of 16 years.

From all those countries and from the age of 16, you should get police clearance certificate from all those countries in which you have stayed for more than one year and you were above 16 years of age. You need to get the police clearance certificates from those countries.

On the same note, if you have a police clearance certificate from those countries and you took them long time ago, but at the time you are departing from that country, the certificate had not expired. That certificate, you can use it during your diversity visa interview.

If you are living in a certain country and you stayed there for more than one year, and while living there, you had obtained a valid police clearance certificate, and at the time you are moving out of that country permanently, the certificate had not expired.

The same certificate, you can use it at this time, even if you got it long time ago. You can use it as the police clearance certificate during your DV interview.

4. The other thing that you need to know about the police clearance certificate is that, if you are currently a selectee, you are a DV winner, you can obtain the police clearance certificate now and you will still be able to use that certificate in your DV interview.

Because from the time you check your results to the time the DV program fiscal year ends, that time does not even cover 24 months because it’s from May of this year and up to September of the following year. And if you count the months, 24 months will not have expired.

If you’re reading this guide at this time and you are a DV lottery winner, you can still apply for the Police Clearance Certificate at this time and it will still be valid at the time you’re going for the interview.

It is safer for you to get your Police Clearance certificate if you are DV selectee as quickly as possible to avoid unnecessary delays at your interview.

Because you can get your second notification letter and you’ve not yet applied for the Police Clearance certificate, and let’s say in your country it takes some time to get that Police Clearance certificate and you cannot be able to get the Police Clearance certificate before the interview date, then you’ll be risking your dates because you cannot attend the interview without the Police Clearance certificate.

So the earlier you obtain your Police Clearance certificate, the better for your interview, and that means it might not lead to any delay or postponement of your interview on the reason that you are not able to get the Police Clearance certificate on time.

It’s better to get the police clearance certificate as early as you can to prevent such circumstances from occurring.

Those are some of the basic and important things regarding the Police Clearance certificate. Take note of them and act accordingly.

Some Questions and Answers About Police Clearance Certificate (PCC)

Question: Is there a format for this dv rotary pcc or its common one?

Answer: No, every country has a different format.

Question: Supposing I win green card and get married to US citizen afterwards, had applied as single, can I still continue as single or they will know that am married? And my spouse would also be my host too.

Answer: When you win fill married and add him on DS-260.

Question: I have a passport as a main applicant, supposed I be selected on May this year, is it possible for me to use that passport to fill for my children??

Answer: Yes, but just for DS-260 submission then get the children passports because you can’t get through the interview without their passports.

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.

Important Things To Do When Invited For DV Interview: If you are a DV selectee and you are waiting for your interview, of course, first of all, you’ll have to receive the second notification letter, after you have become current and your DS-260 form has been processed.

This guide specifically targets after you have received your second notification letter, 2NL.

For those that don’t know or who are new, the second notification letter 2NL is the appointment letter to your DV Lottery interview.

After you have gotten this second notification letter, there are basically four (4) important things that you should do in this DV program for your success.

• Immediately you get your second notification letter, 2NL, you have to read through it. And once you read through it, you will realize that there is a link provided within the body of the letter. That link is very important and it’s meant for you.

You should click on that link and it will direct you to the page that provides you with what you are required to do or the steps that you should follow after that letter.

After you have clicked the link and you visited that page, the next thing that you are supposed to do, that is very important, is you are supposed to visit your specific interview location, the embassy that you are to take your interview from. That’s what you’re supposed to do.

Once you get to that embassy page, you’ll find the specifications for you as the DV lottery winner getting ready to the interview. And three things normally follow here:

• The first thing is that you have to register for your interview appointment. You have to register for your interview appointment. It’s important to note this, “not all embassies require you to register.”

Note: Majority of the embassies will require you to register for the interview appointment. And therefore, it’s very important that you visit your exact or your specific embassy to know this. If you are required to register for the interview appointment, you will find it there and you have to do it.

• The second thing, very important that you are supposed to do, is you are supposed to register for a delivery service, and this is depending on the embassy.

Again, not all embassies will require you to register for the courier services for the delivery of your passport.

Remember, if your interview goes successfully, the passport document will have to remain behind with the embassy for them to process your visa and stamp the visa on your passport.

After they do so, they need to send the passport back to you, which is the reason as to why you’re supposed to register for the courier services for the delivery of your passports.

Some embassy will require you to come back to the embassy to receive your passports. That’s why it’s important that you visit your specific embassy page to know the details.

If you’re required to book a courier service for the delivery, then you ought to do so.

• The third thing that you’re supposed to do is, you’re supposed to book for your examination appointment, immediately you get your second notification letter.

And why so? Because you only have a short period of time, a short window in between the second notification letter and the interview appointment date.

Within this short time, you are supposed to have undergone the medical examination at the specified medical center.

You are supposed to act immediately, contact the medical center or the medical facility that has been specified by your embassy and schedule a date for the medical examination.

You should do as quickly as possible because you might find the medical facility jammed with a queue of people attending the medical examination for various visas.

So do it and act quickly for you to get an opportunity for the medical examination before the interview date.

The other thing, for some countries, you will be required to certify your secondary education.

What does this mean? You’re supposed to register with the examining body in your region for them to transfer a certified document proof of your high school diploma. Some countries need so.

Therefore, if you visit your embassy page, you will find these specifications, whether you are needed to register with the examination body to get the certified document, and if they need that, you have to follow that.

Those are the basic and the very important steps, immediately you get your second notification letter, you should be knowing this.

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.

Let discuss on how to successfully change your DV interview location. This guide will teach you how to change your diversity visa interview location.

There are some risk that majority of DV applicants might have owing to the fact that some embassies are under-performing with regards to the diversity visa lottery interview.

Having the middle case number or the high case number, you are at a higher risk if you are in these embassies. There’s one possible thing that you can do, and that is rescheduling your interview location.

First of all, you need to be in that new country for you to change the Embassy location, that is the interview location.

Correct Way to Successfully Change Your DV Interview Location

In this guide, you will learn the correct way to request for interview location change from KCC.

• You need to be in that new country.
• You need to request KCC to unlock your DS-260 form and update the interview location with a new address that you intend to take your interview from.
• Then after resubmitting the DS-260 form, then you send email.
• You will write to KCC informing them that you have changed the interview location and that they should take notice of that and change your interview location.

Remember, they might not do it at the first request, and if they don’t do it at the first request, if they don’t change the interval location at the first request, email again and request again.

The Email You Should Send

Below is a format/sample email that you should write to KCC:

Subject: Request to Reschedule DV Interview Location from [Embassy 1] to [Embassy 2, which is the Embassy that you had filled, the Embassy that you have updated].

Dear Sir/Madam,

I’m writing to request a reschedule of my diversity visa (DV) interview location from [Embassy 1] to [Embassy 2]. My case number is [Insert your case number], date of birth [MM/DD/YYYY], and my name is [Insert your full names as you filled in the DS-260 form].

I had initially scheduled my diversity visa interview at [Embassy 1], but I have since relocated to [Insert your new address] in [Country 2, the country you are at now].

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, I will not be able to travel back to [Country 1] for the interview.

Therefore, I kindly request that you consider rescheduling my new interview location to [Embassy 2], which is more accessible to me. This will enable me to attend the interview at a convenient location and fulfill the requirements for the diversity visa.

I have attached all the necessary documents and proof of residence in [Country 2], and I would be grateful if you could consider my request and provide me with a new interview appointment at [Embassy 2].

Thank you for your attention to this matter, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely.

[Insert your name].

Note: It’s not a must that you include this statement.

“I have attached all the necessary documents and proof of residence in [Country 2], and I would be grateful if you could consider my request and provide me with a new interview appointment at [Embassy 2].”

It’s not a must that you attach the proof document. But it will be very important if you can obtain a document that proves your current address, your new address. If you can find any document that you can use to prove your new address, it might be a utility bill, it might be a bank statement, it might be any document that points to the address where you are at now.

If you have those documents, you have an upper hand in this case. But if you don’t have any document or proof this, just leave this clause out and don’t attach anything and send and see whether they will change the interview location.

At first trial, they might or might not change it. So you need to send another email if they don’t act on the first one and request again.

So if you have document to prove your residence, then it’s good for you. But if you don’t have it’s not necessarily that you attach the document, just email them and let them know that you have relocated and they need to change your interview location.

I hope this guide on how to change your diversity visa interview location is well informative.

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In this article, you will learn a new policy by USCIS on green card renewals and removing conditions on green cards.

USCIS has yet again implemented a new policy regarding green card renewals, and in certain cases, USCIS is going to be extending green cards for up to 48 months. There’s some good news to this and some potentially not so good news that will be covered in this article.

New policy from USCIS on Removing Conditions on Green Card

This policy has to do with basically a way that USCIS is going to be extending green cards for certain applicants that need to apply to remove the condition from their green card.

What does this means? In certain cases, people that get their green card get a conditional green card for a period of two years, and at the end of that conditional period of their green card, they are required to apply to remove the condition from their green card.

In particular, there are two classifications of conditional green card holders.

• For certain people that get their green card through marriage, and
• for investors that get their green card based on making an investment in a U.S business.

For that certain classification of people that have to apply to remove their condition after they got a conditional green card through marriage, application process requires them to file a form I-751. That’s the application type for people that need to apply to remove the condition from their green card based on getting a conditional green card through marriage.

The second classification of people, the investors, when they need to apply to remove the condition from their green card, they have to file a form I-829.

That’s just for you to know the different processes that are involved and the different categories of people that have to apply to remove the condition from their green card.

As mentioned early, in certain cases, people have to apply to remove the condition from their green card by filing either a form I-751, or a form I-829.

Basically, in both of those cases, the green card is valid for two years. And at the end of that two year period, the person has to apply to remove the condition from the green card.

When the applicant is applying to remove the condition from their green card, what happens when that green card expires and their application to remove the condition to get the permanent green card is still processing? How does that applicant demonstrate proof of valid status in the United States? How do they demonstrate proof of that?

In the past, USCIS has issued a receipt notice. So basically, when you file the Form I-751, or you file the Form I-829, when you submit that application, USCIS will give you a receipt that confirms that they have received your application.

In the past, USCIS has included language on that receipt notice that acts to extend the applicant’s green card. So basically, the applicant can provide their expired green card along with the receipt notice, and that receipt notice has special language that extends the green card beyond the expiration date listed on the green card.

The news is that USCIS has now modified this policy. So now the receipt notice for those applicants will act to extend the green card for 48 months, that’s four years.

The good news is that ultimately, this is a benefit to conditional green card holders, because essentially, USCIS is now extending the period of time that the receipt notice will act to extend the conditional green card. It’s now 48 months.

So that receipt notice that USCIS will issue will now act to extend the green card for 48 months from the date of the expiration on the green card. And ultimately, that’s a benefit.

Although this is potentially not such great news, USCIS is doing this because processing times for the form I-751, and the form I-829, they’ve increased over the last year.

Ideally, these processing times would go down, so that there would be no need for this policy to be implemented. But unfortunately, as USCIS clearly mentions in the update, over the last year, these processing times have increased.

And the reason for the need for this protocol and this updated policy is to account for the fact that these processing times have gone up. So from that standpoint, it’s potentially not the best news.

That’s the update. This new policy has been implemented where applicants for Form I-751, and applicants for Form I-829 that are properly filing these forms, when they get the receipt notice from USCIS, it will act to extend the green card for 48 months from the date of the expiration on the green card.

I hope you found this information very valuable and you learned a lot from this article.

Source: Ashoori Law

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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.

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What is the Second Notification Letter in the green card application process? What is Second Notification Letter, 2NL, in DV Lottery Program? In this guide, we will learn all about the Second Notification Letter, 2NL for DV Lottery Winner.

The Second Notification Letter 2NL in DV Lottery Program

The Second Notification Letter, 2NL is the letter that you receive sometime after you have filled in your DS-260 form and it shows your interview appointment details.

When you applied for the DV lottery successfully, you check the results using your confirmation number, at the time the results are out, through the DV entrance check page, and you get the first notification letter that you are the DV lottery winner.

What is the next step after winning the DV lottery?

Then, the next thing you will do is to fill the visa form, which is called the DS-260 form.

At one point, while you are waiting, you will receive a letter telling you that on this day, it is the day of the interview for you at the U.S Embassy of your country of residence. That letter is called the Second Notification Letter, 2NL.

For example, at the U.S Embassy in Nairobi, for Kenya, at the U.S Embassy in Accra, for Ghana, at the U.S Embassy in Freetown, for South Africa, etc. DV interview holds at the city where the U.S Embassy is located in your country.

That letter telling you the interview schedule date is at this day, at this location is what we call the second notification letter, 2NL.

It is the notification letter which is very crucial because not everybody who is the winner gets that letter. There are some people that don’t get invitation to go to the visa interview. Congrats to you, if you are one among those that received or will receive the 2NL.

From the day you received the second notification letter to the interview date, in most cases, you have at least six weeks in between.

During this period, you need to go and do your medical exam before you go to the interview. Make sure that once you receive the second application letter you go for your medical as soon as possible.

Note: Not every doctor is going to do the medical for you. There are designated medical doctors, physicians in your country who have contracted with the U.S Embassy to do the medical for the DV winners or for any person processing to go the United States through immigrant visa or green card.

When does 2NL come?

• The second notification letter (2NL) will only come after your DS-260 has been processed by KCC.
• It will also come when your case becomes current.
• The 2NL would come after the document submitted had been processed by KCC.

Note: For DV-2022, things changed and the requirement that you are supposed to send your document was removed.

Find out more about 3 Conditions That Must Met Before Diversity Visa Winner Can Receive Second Notification Letter, 2NL

When will you receive the second notification letter (2NL)?

The 2NL will be sent to you by KCC a few weeks before your scheduled interview. It is normally around six weeks or so.

One interesting thing to note about the second notification letter, is that they are normally sent within the second half of the month that is between date 15 and the end of the month.

Another interesting thing to note about the 2NL is that there is normally a month gap between the time you receive your 2NL and the time for your interview.

Here’s an example:

If your interview is in the month of April, you would have received your 2NL in the month of February between the 15th and the end of February.

And if your interview is to be on March, you will have received your 2NL on January between date 15th and 31 January.

Normally there is a gap of a month in between.

Another thing to note about 2NL, is that all the cases that would have been processed by the end of a particular month will be current the following month in the Visa Bulletin.

For example, all the cases that KCC will have processed by the end of July or early August will appear in the Visa Bulletin of August as current.

Find out more about 3 Conditions That Must Met Before Diversity Visa Winner Can Receive Second Notification Letter, 2NL

How do you receive your 2NL notification?

2NL comes in two parts:

First of all, KCC will send a notification to the email that you filled in the DS-260, and that email will basically tell you that you have a pending update and it will direct you to the Entrant Status Check page (dvprogram.state.gov). The same place where you used to check for your results.

The second part will be when you click on that redirection and visit the Entrance Status Check and put in your details, you’ll see the second notification letter there.

Remember, the email does not have the second notification letter. It only notifies you that you have an update and redirects you to the dvprogram.state.gov, that page of the entrance status check.

When you visit that page and put in your details, you will find out that your first notification letter, the letter that you received when you were told you were selected, has been replaced by the second notification letter.

The second notification letter will basically contain your interview information. It will have your details, and secondly, it will have your interview details and the dates of your interview.

Second Notification Letter (2NL) for DV winner Sample

Finally, even if you forgot which email you had used, it’s not a must that you have an email for you to receive your second notification letter. You can just keep on checking on that entrant status page frequently, using your confirmation number, for you to see if you have received your second notification letter.

That’s all about the 2NL, and I hope that you have understood it.

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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?

Diversity Visa | Green card Lottery Expenses

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.

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

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.

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In this guide, we will learn 4 important points to consider when planning to immigrate to the United States.

4 Things to Understand Before Immigrating to the United States

1. Taxation.

When you’re planning your immigration future, you should consider the taxation consequences of whatever move you plan to make, whatever sort of immigration benefits you plan to get.

For example, if you have a non-immigrant visa, it may be taxed differently potentially than if you have a green card or citizenship to the United States, and those tax consequences may be very important for you to consider if you’re earning income abroad outside of the United States, etc.

Taxation consequences is very important. Whenever you’re planning your immigration moves to the United States, you should consult with a CPA, an accountant, or a tax attorney to understand whatever you plan to do in the United States, whatever sort of immigration benefits you plan to receive, how those will impact your circumstances from a taxation standpoint.

2. Work authorization.

Whatever sort of immigration benefit that you’re planning on receiving in the U.S, you have to see what level of work authorization it will give you. Certain sorts of visas will only give you work authorization to work for one particular company.

For example, the L1 visa. The L1 Visa is a visa that allows somebody to transfer from a foreign company to work for a related U.S Company.

The L1 visa only authorizes the beneficiary of that visa to work for the employer that’s petitioning for them for that L1 visa. However, the spouse of that L1 visa holder can get work authorization to work for any company in the United States. That’s an example of an L1 visa.

To contrast that with a green card. A Green card allows somebody to work for any company in the United States.

Whenever you’re considering your immigration goals, you have to understand fully what level of employment authorization you’re going to get based on that immigration benefit. Oftentimes, depending on that, it will certainly influence what sort of an immigration path you proceed with.

3. What are your obligations to remain in the United States based on the immigration benefit that you’re planning to obtain.

Different immigration benefits, for example, whether it’s a visa or a green card or citizenship, depending on what the benefit is that you’re getting, it will have a different requirement for you to be physically present in the United States.

For example, if somebody has a green card, they have a certain requirement to intend to reside in the United States, and basically, if the person that has a green card spends too much time outside of the United States, they could end up forfeiting that green card unintentionally just by spending too much time outside of the United States.

Whereas a visa, there are certain types of visas that have no requirement that you spend a particular amount of time in the U.S.

When you’re planning your immigration future, you have to think about how much time you’re going to be planning on spending in the United States.

Again, once you have a green card, you’re required to intend to reside in the United States. If you spend too much time outside of the United States, you could forfeit your green card, and all that effort that went into getting the green card could be pointless.

It is very important you consider how much time you plan to spend in the United States, as that will influence what option is most suitable for you.

4. How whatever immigration benefits you’re planning on getting to the United States will impact your citizenship that you have in any foreign countries outside of the United States.

There are certain countries where if you gain citizenship, for example, to the United States, you lose citizenship to that other country. Whenever you’re planning your immigration future, you have to carefully understand and analyze how whatever immigration benefits you get to the United States, how those benefits will impact your citizenship or your immigration status in other countries.

In summary

i. Consider the taxation implications of whatever immigration benefits you get to the United States. Different immigration statuses could potentially have different tax implications.

You have to make sure to either speak with a qualified accountant or a taxation attorney to fully understand how whatever immigration benefits you’re planning can impact you from a taxation standpoint.

ii. Different immigration benefits can come with different work authorization. You have to understand whatever immigration benefits that you’re applying for, what level of work, authorization they come with, because that will help you strategize the most appropriate option for you.

iii. The length of time that you plan to stay in the United States and your overall goals of how you plan to be in the United States. Different immigration benefits have different requirements with respect to how much time you plan to spend in the United States.

Based on how much time you actually plan to spend in the United States, it will impact what the best option is for you from an immigration standpoint.

iv. Carefully understand how whatever immigration benefits you plan to get, how those benefits this may impact your citizenship or your immigration status in other countries.

I hope you found this guide very helpful and you have learn 4 important points to consider when planning to immigrate to the United States.

If you know anybody that could benefit from this information, please make sure to share this guide with them.

Thank you so much for reading this guide.

Source: Ashoori Law

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