Did you know that You Can Win DV Lottery With These Mistakes? In this guide, you will learn those mistakes that will not really affect you in the DV selection. Even if you commit these mistakes, you are likely to get selected but during the visa processing, you will be affected.
The winners of the Diversity Visa lottery are chosen at random by a computer program, with a certain number of visas allocated to each region of the world.
There are mistakes that you might have done in the application, and those mistakes will not affect your chances of getting selected. You may get selected even with those mistakes.
Those mistakes, some of them can be corrected in the DS-260 form. If you get selected and you did some of those mistakes, you can rectify them when filling the DS-260 form.
You Can Win DV Lottery With These Mistakes
- If you make a mistake when typing your name.
The first mistakes that people did and will never affect the selection chances is having mistakes on your name. Maybe when filling the application in the DV lottery, you omitted some letters in your name, or maybe you changed some letters in your name, that will not affect your selection.
Maybe you omitted a letter or you changed a letter, that one will not affect you at all during the selection process, you can be selected with that mistake.
In any case, they don’t have your name. They don’t know you. They just believe in the name that you’ve given, you provided because that is what they take you as. So even if you are called Jon, that is J-O-N, but on the application you filled J-O-H-N, that is not a factor that will deny your selection. You will get selected with that error, but when filling the DS-260, you need to rectify it, you need to correct it.
Also, you might have exchanged your names. Maybe the surname is not the name that you’re supposed to use, the last name you used it on the surname and the surname on the last name, that is the family name. If you did that, that will not also affect you.
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- If you made errors selecting your date of birth, that will not also affect you.
The other one is errors when entering your birth dates. If you were born maybe on 5th of January and by mistake, you selected 10th of January, that will not affect your selection. They don’t know when you’re born. They don’t have a document like a birth certificate to counter-check because you don’t submit any document in the application.
So whatever date you will provide, that will be taken as the correct date of your birth. If you mistakenly selected wrong date of birth, that will not deny you selection chances.
The system does not filter to know in which date you are born, if it is correct or not, wrong birth date will not affect you during the selection. But remember, during checking of your entry status, you will need your birth date, and if you inserted wrong, chances are that you not be able to get through to check whether you were selected.
What you’ll have to do is you need to correct it and put the correct birth date when filling the DS-260 form if you get selected. That is not a mistake that should worry you in this selection process.
- Wrong City of Birth.
The other mistake that will not affect you is by selecting the wrong city of birth. City of birth has brought a lot of confusion to many people, but this issue have been clarified on this guide below.
Importance of Country of Birth and Country of Eligibility In Diversity Visa Program
If by any chance you selected the wrong city of birth and you are worried that you might not get selected, that should not be a worry anymore. Even with the wrong city of birth, you will get selected or you may get selected if you are lucky.
If you typed wrong City of birth, that mistake cannot affect you. You can get selected with that mistake. You need to correct the city of birth when filling the DS-260 form, if you become successful.
- Country of Eligibility.
If you selected the wrong country of eligibility, that also will not affect you during the selection. But it will affect you later, during the processing and it will end up denying you the visa. It will not affect you during the selection, you can be selected even if you chose the wrong country of eligibility.
For DV-2025, natives of the following countries and areas are eligible to apply…..view list
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Which country of eligibility did you choose? If you lied about the country of eligibility, the chargeability country, you will get selected, yes, but you will not succeed in the whole process. You will be denied your visa because you will have committed fraud. Remember, fraud leads to permanent disqualification.
- Wrong Address.
If you used a wrong address, that will not affect you at all. You can get through the selection process with a wrong address.
If the current address that you filled in the application was not the correct address, that mistake will not deny you chances of getting selected. What you’ll have to do, you might get selected with that error, but on the DS-260 form, you can correct that one.
The current address you can always correct it on the form DS-260. You should not get worried if you used the wrong current address location.
- Wrong country of Residence.
If you lied when selecting the country of residence, that will not affect you in the selection process. You will get selected even after putting the wrong country of residence.
- Wrong Email.
You will not be affected by inserting the wrong email. But consequently, later on after selection, remember KCC uses this email to communicate to you and also the embassy will use this to communicate to you in any case.
Also, incase you forgot your Confirmation Number, you’ll need to enter your email address to retrieve your Confirmation Number.
So if you put the wrong email or you mistyped it, it will not affect you in the selection. That is, you can get selected with that mistake, but how will they communicate to you?
- Level of Education.
If when you are selecting the level of education, you erroneously selected a different one which you didn’t intend, that will not affect you at all. You will get through the selection process well. But after selection, it might affect you grievously. You might or even get denied your visa.
By selecting the wrong level of education during the selection process, you will not be affected only later on the visa interview process.
- Marital status.
You are married, then you apply a single that will deny you your visa. Yes, you’ll get selected, but it will not go successful, you will be deny visa because you left your family. Omitting your derivative will not affect you getting selected but getting the visa you won’t get it.
If you by mistake choose or selected the wrong marital status, it will also not affect you at all during the selection process.
If you are single and you selected married, you will not be affected. You can be selected with that error. If you are married and you lied about your status and said you are single, you will also not be affected.
- Lieing about the number of children you have.
You will get through the selection process even if you lied about the number of children that you have. Even if you lied about the number of children, you will not be affected in the selection process only later on it might deny you the visa but during the selection you will not be affected.
If you lied about the number of kids, maybe you have one kid but you decided to put three maybe because you have your nephews and nieces, you want to include them, that will deny you visa out rightly. Yes, you will get selected but your visa will be denied because nieces and nephews are not part of your derivatives.
- Wrong information about your Spouse and Children.
Providing wrong information about your spouse will not affect you during the selection. Inserting wrong information about your kids will not affect you during selection only will it affect you later during the visa processing but during selection it will not affect you.
- False Information
Another major mistake that will not affect you in the selection process, but later on they will affect you is providing false information. Let’s say for example, you selected the country of birth as country A, and in real sense, you were not born in that country. Let’s say you did that because your country was not eligible.
So you wanted to use some other countries, you wanted to lie about your country of birth so that you can become eligible. With that, you’ll get selected but you will not get through. Lieing about your country of birth that is fraud. You will not get through the process. You will be selected, yes, but through the process, no, you won’t make it.
- Derivative Issue
The other thing is providing wrong information regarding the derivative issue. Let’s say, for example, you are married, but due to some reasons, you decide that you want to go alone to the U.S, and therefore you want to fill as single and leave your spouse out. That is a very grievous mistake.
Those are the mistakes that will not affect you getting selected but getting the visa you will be deny.
Note: Please try as much as possible not to do these mistakes. Never do these mistakes because you’ll get selected but during the visa processing, you will be affected.
Thank you for reading this guide. I hope you find this guide informative.
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