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The Diversity Immigrant Visa program, also known as the green card lottery, is a United States government lottery program for receiving an immigrant visa followed by a permanent resident card. The Immigration Act of 1990 established the current and permanent Diversity Visa (DV) program.
For Fiscal Year 2025, up to 55,000 green cards will be available through the visa lottery. To qualify, applicants must meet simple but strict eligibility requirements:
The lottery will determine who gets an option to file H-1B visa petition with USCIS. As of the most recent H-1B season, on March 31, 2023 USCIS notifies the selected registrants. During the FY 2024 H-1B lottery, there were 758,994 eligible electronic registrations and 110,791 people selected for an H-1B visa. [22]
The H-1B1 visa (and associated H-1B1 status) is a variant of the H-1B visa in the United States for nationals of Singapore and Chile. The version for Singapore is called the H-1B1-Singapore and the version for Chile is called the H-1B1-Chile. These categories were introduced with the Singapore–United States Free Trade Agreement and Chile–United States Free Trade Agreement respectively ...
Bids tripled from 2021 to 2023 after the government said it would no longer require people to mail bulky paperwork to be eligible for the lottery, saying that time-consuming, expensive task could ...
Almost 10 million people from around the globe qualified last year to enter the 2023 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, popularly known as the visa lottery, which makes available up to 55,000 ...
In North Carolina, H-1B employers include school districts like Nash Public Schools (58 visa approvals in 2023), Halifax County Public Schools (44), and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (27) as well ...
The lottery to determine the order of the top four picks in the 2025 draft took place on November 17, 2024. It was televised on ESPN in the United States and streamed on TSN+ in lieu of TSN network due to the latter airing the CFL's 111th Grey Cup with CTV in Canada. The four non-playoff teams in 2024 qualified for the lottery.