According to the U.S. Department of State (DOS), applications for the 2008 Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery will be accepted from noon (U.S. Eastern Time) October 4, 2006, to noon (U.S. Eastern Time) December 3, 2006. The DV Lottery Form will only be available through the...
Every year, there are unscrupulous individuals and organizations that try to use the U.S. Department of State (DOS) Diversity Visa Lottery Program to take advantage of foreign nationals. This year is no exception. A recent inquiry was made about certain lottery winner notifications that are...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) announced in late July 2006, that the Kentucky Consular Center has registered and notified the Diversity Visa Lottery Winners for 2007 (DV-2007). The lottery program allocates immigrant visa numbers to certain countries with low rates of immigration to the...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has issued instructions for entry into the Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 Visa Lottery. The instructions provide that registration will begin at 12:00pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on October 5, 2005 and will end at 12:00pm EST on December 4,...
Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 will end September 30, 2005. This will be the last day for "winners" of the FY2005 Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery to obtain the "green card." These individuals entered the DV 2005 lottery and received notification they were selected in late July...
The April 2005 Visa Bulletin, issued by the U.S. Department of State (DOS), brought some limited good news to those in the Employment-Based Third Preference (EB3) skilled / professional worker category. The news was not good for those in the EB3 "Other Worker" category. Those...
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) announced on February 10, 2005, that they received over six million entries during the two-month registration period for the DV Lottery program for fiscal year 2006. The registration ended at noon, January 7, 2005. The registrations were made electronically,...
On February 2, 2005, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) issued a Final Rule in the Federal Register that changes some of the fees the DOS charges for certain processes. The rule is effective as of March 8, 2005.The rule adds the $500 Fraud Prevention...
