The U.S. Department of State (DOS) recently conducted a second random lottery to select "winners" of the 2012 Diversity Visa (DV) lottery. The DV 2012 new "winners" have been finalized and posted. All DV 2012 applicants must check the official lottery website in order to...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has had to void the results of the 2012 Diversity Visa Lottery. These results were posted on the DOS website in early May 2011. However, due to a computer programming error, the selection of winners was not made in...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) annual diversity visa (DV) lottery is often a vehicle used by unscrupulous individuals to take advantage of foreign nationals seeking permanent residence in the United States. While the DV lottery is a genuine U.S. government program, it is important...
The beginning of each fiscal year marks the start of another U.S. Department of State (DOS) diversity visa (DV) "green card" lottery opportunity. The start of fiscal year 2011 (FY11) on October 1, 2010, means that it is time to begin another lottery cycle for...
October 1, 2009 marks the start of fiscal year 2010 (FY10). Thus, eligible diversity visa lottery winners for 2010 (DV-2010) can move forward with their permanent resident (or "green card") cases. The lottery program allocates 50,000 visa numbers for immigrant visas each year to certain...
The New York State Attorney General's Office announced the shutting down of three New York businesses that had been providing fraudulent immigration legal services. Details can be found in an August 20, 2009 press release. This is reported to MurthyDotCom and MurthyBulletin readers to raise...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has a new online feature for tracking the status of diversity lottery (DV) applications. This allows individuals who applied for the DV lottery for fiscal year (FY) 2010 to check the status of those applications online. This will allow...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has announced that it will accept 2010 Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery applications from 12:00 noon Eastern Daylight Time on October 2, 2008 to 12:00 noon Eastern Standard Time on December 1, 2008. The only way to apply is through...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has announced that it will accept 2009 Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery applications from noon Eastern Time (ET) on October 3, 2007 to noon ET on December 2, 2007. The only acceptable way to apply is through the DOS online...
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 Diversity Lottery registration period closed on December 3, 2006. The U.S. Department of State (DOS) reports that over 6.4 million individuals applied for the lottery, which gives 50,000 individuals the opportunity to obtain a green card through the program each...
