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The enrollment time frame for the 2020 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (Visa Lottery) has started! The U.S. International safe haven is upbeat to respond to some basic inquiries concerning the DV program.

Q: What is a Diversity Visa (DV)?

An: A DV is an uncommon sort of outsider visa in which candidates are chosen by lottery. Not at all like most worker visas, DVs don’t require a candidate to have a relative or manager in the United States to support them. Any person who meets the prerequisites can enter the lottery to win an opportunity to apply for the visa.

Q: When is the lottery open?

A: The lottery opens just once every year, toward the beginning of October. The lottery section period during the current year started October 3, and keeps running until 12:00 early afternoon, New York Time, Tuesday, November 6, 2018.

Are Guyanese qualified to take an interest in the DV Lottery?

A: Yes! Guyanese conceived in Guyana or in another DV-qualified nation may take an interest.

Q: What are the prerequisites for the DV Program?

A: There are just two prerequisites. In the first place, you more likely than not been conceived in a passing nation. Second, you should meet the instruction/work experience prerequisite, which is that the candidate must have either a secondary school training or its comparable (that is, effectively finishing a 12-year course of formal rudimentary and optional instruction), or have no less than two years of work involvement inside the previous five years in an occupation that requires somewhere around two years of preparing or experience to perform. Thinking about whether your occupation qualifies? You can check your occupation at http://www.dvlottery.state.gov

Q: How would I apply for the DV Lottery?

A: Submit your entrance. The main way you can do this is through the Diversity Visa site – www.dvlottery.state.gov – before the passage time frame closes. Every individual may just enter once every year. Different applications from a similar individual consequently exclude such individual’s entrances for the year. Peruse the guidelines all around cautiously; they are amazingly strict. Any inability to pursue the guidelines will exclude your application or, on the off chance that you win, will make your visa application be denied.

Q: How much does it cost to enter the Diversity Visa Lottery?

A: Nothing. It is allowed to enter the Diversity Visa Lottery. Try not to give con artists a chance to deceive you into paying an expense. Try not to enter at any site other than www.dvlottery.state.gov.

Q: What happens after I submit my entry?

A: You will get a one of a kind affirmation number after you present your entrance. It is vital that you hold this affirmation number, since you will require it to check the status of your entrance, and, on the off chance that you are chosen for the DV program, to plan a visa meet. Keep your exceptional affirmation number private and in a sheltered spot.

Q: What family members should be included in my entry?

A: You should incorporate your companion on the off chance that you are legitimately hitched, regardless of whether he/she doesn’t live with you or does not mean to move to the United States. You should incorporate the majority of your living youngsters who are unmarried and under 21 years old at the season of your DV lottery passage, paying little mind to whether they are your common kids, your progression kids (regardless of whether you are presently separated from that tyke’s parent), your companion’s kids, or kids you have formally embraced. Regardless of whether they won’t move with you, they should be incorporated. Inability to do as such will make your visa application be denied on the off chance that you win the lottery. Try not to incorporate your folks, life partner, precedent-based law mate (if not wedded lawfully), kin, and different relatives, regardless of whether they rely upon you, as your DV lottery passage will be excluded in the event that it incorporates any individual who isn’t your tyke or legitimate mate.

Q: What if my spouse or children do not intend to immigrate?

A: You should at present incorporate them in your entrance. Try not to stress, in the event that you win they won’t be required to move to the United States. Be that as it may, on the off chance that you don’t show them, you won’t most likely move either.

Q: How do I find out whether I’ve been selected for the DV Program?

A: Using the affirmation number you got when you presented your entrance, you may check your status on the DV lottery site starting May 7, 2019. Extra champs might be included after that date. The DV Lottery site is the main methods for advising people about regardless of whether they have been chosen for the DV Program. Any notice you get via mail, email, or phone expressing you have won is phony, regardless of whether it professes to originate from the Embassy or the U.S. State Department.

Q: What happens if my entry is selected?

An: If you are chosen, the site will give you the guidelines on the most proficient method to apply for the visa. Know that you should in any case get an arrangement opening and fit the bill for the visa. Determination does not mean you will get a visa. Try not to leave your place of employment, sell your home, or settle on other significant choices until you have met and been issued the visa.

Q: Should I hire a visa consultant to help me through the DV process?

A: We urge you to finish the section structure yourself, without assistance. On the off chance that another person encourages you, even a “Visa Consultant,” “Visa Agent,” or another person who offers to help, you ought to be available when your entrance is arranged with the goal that you can give the right responses to the inquiries and hold both the affirmation page and your one of a kind affirmation number, just as access to the email account utilized in your accommodation. You will require this data to see whether you won, and provided that this is true, to get further directions. Keep in mind, there is no expense to enter the lottery, and nobody can promise you will win.

Q: Where can I find more information about the DV Lottery?

A: The main authentic wellspring of data for the DV Program is the U.S. Bureau of State DV lottery site: www.dvlottery.state.gov. There are many phony sites that attempt to trick DV lottery participants, charging expenses or taking individual data. Try not to be tricked. Keep in mind, entering the DV lottery is free, and the best way to enter is through the site www.dvlottery.state.gov.

“Ask the Consul” from the U.S. International safe haven’s Consular Section responds to inquiries concerning U.S. movement law and visa issues. On the off chance that you have a general inquiry regarding visa arrangement, it would be ideal if you email it to us at AskGeorge@state.gov. We select inquiries normally and distribute the appropriate responses in Stabroek News. Data about visas and travel can be seen at gy.usembassy.gov, travel.state.gov, and www.dhs.gov.

Candidates are firmly urged to set up their own records and stay away from outsider guidance. Guidelines change habitually and non-U.S. government guides every now and again give lacking, fragmented and off base data.

Other than the sections you see printed here, we can’t react to questions sent to Ask the Consul. If you don’t mind contact the Visa Information Service on phone number 225-8732 or 703-439-2359 on the off chance that you have procedural inquiries, or email visageorge@state.gov for case-explicit data.