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The results of the green card lottery are already known: where to check and what to do next

Already today, May 7, from 12:00 you can check the status of the application for the green card draw in the lottery for 2023 (DV-2023). The information will be available until September 30, 2023. ForumDaily tells how and where to check the results correctly, and what to do next.

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You can check your status only on the official website www.dvprogram.state.gov (it was previously called www.dvlottery.state.gov - both addresses are correct). On the site, you will need to enter the lottery participant number, indicate the name, surname and year of birth of the applicant. If on the opened page you see a letter with a barcode and your data, you won.

This is the only way to learn about the results of the lottery. The State Department will not send any electronic or regular letters. The only email you may receive from the US Department of State is a reminder to check your status after the lottery draw. And even more so, an official institution never asks for money transfers. Be especially careful in this if you applied through an intermediary.

It is worth remembering that winning the lottery does not guarantee receiving a green card. To immigrate to the USA, you must meet all the requirements that are presented applicants for immigration visas.

If you are already in the United States at the time you receive a notification about winning a green card, you have the opportunity change your status in the US to immigration. Read more about this at the official website of the program.

The green card is a certificate of a permanent resident of the United States who does not have the citizenship of this state. It, among other things, gives the right to work, benefits to education and the opportunity to apply for citizenship.

In addition, until September 30, 2022, you can check the results of the green card draw in the lottery for 2022 (DV-2022). After this date, persons who won the lottery will no longer be able to apply for a green card.

However, before receiving the coveted green card, you need to go through several more stages as quickly as possible, about which we wrote earlier.

What to do after receiving notification of a win

Fill inthe visa application form

The site Consular Electronic Application Center you need to fill immigration visa application form form DS-260in English. In the questionnaire, you must specify personal data, marital status, provide information about the place of work, study, and the presence of a criminal record.

If your family composition has changed since the moment of registration for participation in the lottery (you got married, gave birth to a child), then the new family members must be indicated in your DS-260 form, otherwise you may be disqualified.

For each family member - a separate form DS-260. This is an important nuance, and if you fill out one form for the whole family, then you will automatically be eliminated from the list of winners.

When the DS-260 form is completed, the confirmation page must be saved on the computer and then printed. She, among other documents, must be taken with him for an interview. The date of the interview will be sent to you by e-mail after you fill out the form DS-260.

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Fill in the questionnaire better yourself, and do not rush to fill it out, but rather wait a few months. Why so, we told in our material.

Wait answer

After filling out the questionnaire, you need to wait for a response from the Consular Center in Kentucky (Kentucky Consular Center). First, you will receive an email with the following text: Has been received and routed to the appropriate group... This is a standard letter which means that your visa application has been received. And in 7-10 days another letter, addressed to you personally, will be sent to your e-mail.

Here are options for what can be written in it:

  • Your forms have been processed. If you receive such a message, it means that your profiles are in the processing stage, which can last up to 4 months.
  • It will not affect the processing of your case. This text suggests that, when filling out the questionnaire, you did not indicate the number of your case, but at the same time your questionnaire was still accepted for processing.
  • KCC to begin the processing of your case. Here we are talking about the fact that Kentucky Consular Center waiting for your questionnaires, but not yet received them.
  • The information... You are informed that you have provided information in your request that is different from what you gave when you filled out the application for participation in the lottery.
  • The DS 230 Part 1 You submitted for the principal was incomplete. This text says that there are inaccuracies found in your questionnaires that need to be corrected.
  • It received a copy of the amount of mail processed at a time. or It is acceptable for your visa processing. If you received a letter in which one of these phrases occurs, it means that your questionnaires have already been received, processed and within a few weeks they will name the date of the interview.
  • Your case number is now current for interview processing. This message comes to those who find out the date of the interview in a few days.
  • Has been scheduled at ... In the letter with such text you will see the date of the interview itself.

If you want to go to the Kentucky Consular Center yourself (Kentucky Consular Center), where all questionnaires are processed, and to find out at what stage your case is now, you can send a request to the email address: [email protected] or call 1-606-526-7500 from 7:30 a.m. to 16 p.m. At the beginning of the conversation, you must immediately give the case number (Case number), the country in which the questionnaire was filled in, the name, surname and date of birth of the winner of the lottery.

What to do if your household has changed after you filed Forms DS-260

If the household changes before the DS-260 is filed, then it's easy. But what if the situation changes after you have already submitted the form? Even then there is a way out.

The most common reason for this unexpected change in family composition is the birth of a child or the death of one of the persons named in the application. And although in the first case, the applicant most likely knows that there will be a replenishment in the family, he cannot indicate it in the documents, because the existence of the child at the moment has not been documented.

What to do in this case? If you have not yet been interviewed at the embassy, ​​you can still file a separate form DS-260 for a newborn child. And if the child was born after the interview and obtaining a visa, but was born outside the United States and therefore cannot be a citizen of the States, then there is an facilitated family reunification process called follow-to-join.

In this case, after receiving a green card, the new parent must file Form I-824 (Application for Action on an Approved Application or Petition) for the child. This will allow the baby to get a visa to the United States.

The applicant has a criminal record or a criminal case has been opened against him

Most often, applicants are denied a visa if the consul sees that they may pose a danger to US residents or property. Having a criminal record or an open case may be one of these reasons.

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But it all depends on the crime itself or the accusation. It is also important to consider that an open criminal case in itself is not considered a decisive factor that can deprive you of a green card. It all depends on the related information. But having a criminal record can be a huge hurdle.

There is a number of categories of crimes, accused of which are considered inadmissible in the US. Applicants with such convictions will be denied a green card.

Gather documents

Bye-bye Kentucky Consular Center examines your questionnaires and appoints the date of the interview, do not waste your time. Collect and translate the documents you need into English. All materials that are not in English must be accompanied by a certified translation. No notarization or apostille is required.

You need to prepare originals and translations of the following documents:

  1. Passport
  2. Birth certificate
  3. Diplomas confirming education
  4. Employment history
  5. Certificate that you have no criminal record. If you lived in several countries, then such certificates are needed from each country. If you had a criminal record, you can still apply for a green card, but you must provide a certificate stating that you have already been punished.
  6. Marriage / divorce certificates
  7. For those who served in the army - military ID
  8. Statement of account
  9. Documents on the valuation of real estate
  10. Reference from the work that you are an employee / owner of the company

Get a medical check-up

Once you've been given a date for the interview, it's time for a medical check-up. This should be done only in special certified centers, the addresses of which are available on Online. The price of this procedure is on average $215 per family member planning to immigrate (it can vary by $10-15 in different countries), and vaccination is paid separately. There is a list of mandatory vaccinations that an immigrant must have (the list may vary slightly depending on the age of the applicant):

  • Mumps, measles, rubella
  • Polio
  • Tetanus and diphtheria toxoid
  • Pertussis
  • Haemophilius influenza type B
  • Hepatitis B
  • Chickenpox
  • Flu
  • Pneumococcal pneumonia
  • Rotavirus
  • Hepatitis A
  • Meningococcus
  • COVID-19

If you have already had some or all of your vaccinations, take your vaccination report to your doctor. The report will require a certified English translation. If you have not yet been vaccinated, your doctor will prescribe vaccinations for you. An additional visit may be required depending on the type of vaccination. On the advice of a physician, he or she may grant certain vaccination waivers.

Passing a medical examination is necessary in order to determine if you or any of your family members have diseases from the list that restricts entry into the United States. It, in particular, includes mental illness, active form of tuberculosis, leprosy and others. Until 2010, HIV was also on this list, but now such a virus is not an obstacle to obtaining a visa.

The list of diseases that impede obtaining an immigration visa, consists of two lists that can be found here и here.

Find out how the immigration medical examination works and what you need to bring with you. here.

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After passing medical examination, you will receive a sealed envelope that must be handed to the consul during the interview without opening it.

Pass the interview

The medical board is behind us, the envelope for the consul is in our hands, the date of the interview has been set. For the interview, you will need originals and translations into English of all documents, the results of the medical examination and the invitation to the interview itself. On the spot, at the embassy, ​​you need to pay a visa fee - $ 330 for each family member. But this is not yet a guarantee that the coveted US visa is in your hands. An interview is no less important than the preparation of documents or a medical examination. However, no special training is required. You will be asked household standard questions.

The main goals of the interview are to make sure that the people who came for the interview applied, as well as to take fingerprints and check them against the database, look at the results of the medical examination and check the availability of all documents.

If you pass the interview, you will be granted a six-month visa. It is within 6 months that all family members, or only the main applicant, will need to enter the United States, otherwise the visa will be canceled. After passing the interview, you will be given a sealed envelope, which you need to give to the officer at the airport (also not printed).

Important point: if the main applicant is unable to travel to the United States, then the family cannot enter the country without him.

Winning is only the beginning.

Each year, the US government allocates 55 immigrant visas, which are drawn in the green card lottery. There are always a lot more applicants - every year an average of up to 9 million applicants participate in the draw. Although there are only 55 thousand visas, more people always receive notifications of winnings.

The reason is that not everyone finishes what they started: someone is not ready to bear the costs associated with obtaining visas, someone does not pass a medical examination or an interview, some applicants are refused due to incorrectly prepared documents. Therefore, the news that you have won a green card is not a reason to celebrate success. This is just a signal to start a marathon about a year long.

Everyone who came to the USA should make several basic documents: bank cards, social security number and American ID.

The green card holder should definitely know his rights and obligations: read in our material.

ForumDaily wrote about what state aid can a green card holder count on и how to track the delivery of your green card and other immigration documents.

The owner of the green card, along with the opportunity to constantly live and work in the United States, gets the right to reunite with his family. If he has children, spouse or spouse left at home, he may pick them up to america.

Remember: both having a visa and owning a green card do not guarantee that you will not be expelled from the United States. Exists legal basis for deportation from the United States of the green card holder.

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