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OFFICIAL GREEN CARD LOTTERY REGISTRATION| DV2023 Green Card- Opens!

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The official Green Card lottery registration for the Diversity Visa Lottery 2023 fiscal year opens on October 6th at noon Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4) to November 9th noon Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5).

Each year the United States government makes available 55,000 immigrant visas to people from countries with historically low immigration rates to the Untied States of America. Selection is a randomly done by computer.  The number of available diversity visas are distributed amount the six regions by State Department: Africa region(AF), Asia Region (AS), Europe Region (EU), Oceania Region (OC), North America (NA), South America and Caribbean (SA).

Selected applicants must complete immigrant visa application, complete medical exams and pass their interview at a U.S. Embassy post to obtain a visa.

DV2023 Instructions for the application has been published to help applicants understand the requirements and the FAQs

It is FREE to apply and there’s no need to pay to apply. You can easily do it yourself by watching my YouTube video explanation of the process available on Wofoy TV channel

Click this link to take you to the official application>> DV2023 GREEN CARD LOTTERY APPLICATION

On October 6th, these will be some of the local times that you can begin gaining access to the website:

Ghana 4pm local time

Liberia 4pm local time

Kenya 7pm Local time

Uganda 7pm Local time

Cameroon 5pm Local time

South Africa 6pm Local time

Ethiopia 7pm Local time

GOOD LUCK to you all

 

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Is Green Card Lottery DV2023 Cancelled? Diversity Visa Lottery

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Rumors have been going around on the internet about whether the diversity visa lottery will be cancelled for the 2023 fiscal year. The many hiccups by the U. S. State Department in dealing with  visa processing and interview backlogs for the DV2020 and DV2021 has led many to this speculation. Which is, if it is even worth continuing the program if the State department cannot handle interviewing all selectees and approving visas for  the qualified selectees who are able to pass their interviews.

These assumptions make sense but they are not facts!

The diversity visa program’s 2023 fiscal year application in October 2021 will not be cancelled due to various reasons I will explain below. You can watch my video discussion of this issue.

It would take an act of congress to cancel the diversity visa a.k.a. green card lottery program because the program was established by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990 (INA 1990). This was passed by both houses of congress and signed by George H.W. Bush. Therefore, for the diversity visa program to be canceled, it will have to go through similar process.

U. S. State Department as a branch of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not have the authority to cancel the diversity visa lottery program.  However, the State Department can petition congress to review the program. Even so, that would still be in the hands of congress.

Republican senators Tom Cotton, of the Senate Judiciary Committee (R-Arkansas) and David Perdue (R-Georgia) introduced legislation in 2017  called RAISE Act , that sought to eliminate the diversity visa program. Republican representative Bill Posey, of the Senate Judiciary Committee(R-Florida) also sponsor a bill called SAFE for America Act  to end the diversity visa program in 2017. Recent attempt has come from Republican senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana). Sen. Kennedy introduced Visa Lottery Repeal Act . So far, these have been some of the attempts to end the program.

The diversity visa 2023 application period is few days away for such a dramatic end to the program to take place. As I have explained above, it will need the act of congress to end or eliminate the program and few days to a new fiscal year is too short for this to happen.

Immigration proponents in the congress are fighting for an increase in the number of diversity visas from 55,000 to 85,000. Rep.  Grace Meng (D-NY) voted to include an amendment  on the House Appropriation Committee Infrastructure funding of Department of Homeland Security, that would rollover any unused diversity visas from 2020 and 2021 fiscal years to the subsequent years.

For these reasons, diversity visa lottery  will continue for now! Please subscribe to my YouTube channel for more videos and also, watch my prediction for DV2023 application start date!

Long live Green Card Lottery!!