What are the requirements for DV-Lottery?

To take an interest in the Green Card Lottery, you should fulfill General Requirements and Education/Training Requirements. Both are depicted underneath.

General Requirements

To enter the Lottery, a candidate must have the capacity to claim nativity in a qualified nation. Nativity, as a rule, is dictated by the candidate's place of birth.

Persons from ALL COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD ARE ELIGIBLE to partake in the Green Card Lottery, EXCEPT persons conceived in the accompanying nations:

BRAZIL, CANADA, CHINA (territory, aside from Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR, and Taiwan), COLOMBIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, EL SALVADOR, GREAT BRITAIN (and its ward territories*, with the exception of Northern Ireland), HAITI, INDIA, JAMAICA, MEXICO, PAKISTAN, PHILIPPINES, PERU, POLAND, RUSSIA, SOUTH KOREA and VIETNAM.

*The taking after ward zones of Great Britain are not qualified to take an interest in the Lottery: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn, St. Helena, Turks and Caicos Islands.

You may in any case qualify to take an interest in the Lottery regardless of the fact that you were conceived in one of the ineligible nations recorded previously. There are 2 special cases:

In the event that your life partner was conceived in a qualified nation, then you can guarantee your mate's nation of birth.

In the event that one of your folks was conceived in a qualified nation, then you can guarantee your guardian's nation of birth.

A short explanation clarifying how you fulfill this special case must be incorporated on your application.

Instruction/Training Requirements

To enter, a candidate must have EITHER:

A secondary school training or its equal, characterized in the US as fruitful finishing of a 12-year course of rudimentary and auxiliary instruction, OR

2 years of work experience inside the previous 5 years in an occupation requiring no less than 2 years of preparing or experience to perform.

Photograph Requirements

All lottery applications MUST contain a late photo of the candidate, his/her companion (spouse/wife) and all unmarried kids under 21 years old, including all normal kids and also all legitimately received and stepchildren, regardless of the possibility that the kids no more live with the candidate. Gathering or family photographs won't be acknowledged; there must be a different photograph for every relative.