How to recover a lost confirmation number for a green card lottery: instructions
'08.06.2020'
Olga Derkach
If you have lost the verification code for the 2021 Green Card, the US Department of State will help you recover it. Recall that the results of the DV-2021 lottery became available online since June 6th.
Open registration for participation in the DV-2021 lottery was held from October 2 to November 5, 2019.
You can check the status of your application for the lottery participant until September 30, 2021 only on the official website www.dvprogram.state.gov (formerly it was called www.dvlottery.state.gov - both addresses are correct). On the site you will need to enter the confirmation number you received after registration, indicate the name, surname and year of birth of the applicant.
For those who, for whatever reason, have lost or cannot find their confirmation number, the Department of State website offers the option to restore the number.
To do this, the participant must indicate the year of the Diversity Visa lottery program, last name, first name, if any - patronymic, date of birth and email address that you used to register in the lottery. Here link on the form to fill out. And so it looks:
If you have a confirmation number, you can enter it along with the name and year of birth on this page.
It is worth remembering that winning the lottery does not guarantee receiving a green card. To immigrate to the USA, you must meet all the requirements that are presented applicants for immigration visas.
If you are already in the United States at the time you receive a notification about winning a green card, you have the opportunity change your status in the US to immigration. Read more about this at the official website of the program.
The green card is a certificate of a permanent resident of the United States who does not have the citizenship of this state. It, among other things, gives the right to work, benefits to education and the opportunity to apply for citizenship.
Also, until September 30, 2020, you can check the results of the drawing of green cards in the lottery for 2020 (DV-2020). After this date, persons who won the lottery will no longer be able to submit a corresponding application for a green card. Registration for participation in the DV-2020 draw was held from October 3 to November 6, 2018.
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Step-by-step instructions on what to do after receiving notification of a win
- Fill in the visa application form
The site Consular Electronic Application Center you need to fill immigration visa application form - form DS-260. It is filled in English. In the questionnaire you need to specify personal data, marital status, provide information about the place of work, study, criminal record.
If from the moment of registration for participation in the lottery you have changed the family composition (got married, gave birth to a child), then new members of the family should always indicate in their form DS-260, otherwise you can be disqualified.
For each family member - a separate form DS-260. This is an important nuance, and if you fill out one form for the whole family, then you immediately drop out of the “get a green card” marathon.
When the DS-260 form is completed, the confirmation page must be saved on the computer and then printed. She, among other documents, must be taken with him for an interview. The date of the interview will be sent to you by e-mail after you fill out the form DS-260.
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Fill in the questionnaire better by myself. For example, Riga's Elena Cherevchenko did not receive a green card in 2013 due to contacting intermediaries. She collected all the necessary documents, underwent a medical examination, but during the interview she was in for a big trouble.
“I was relaxed at the interview, joked, smiled, it seemed that everything was going smoothly,” says Elena. - When I talked about the place of study and about my specialty related to fish diseases, I took it myself and said that in the company where they helped me fill out the questionnaire, they were also surprised what kind of education I received. When I realized that I had done a great stupidity, saying that I had not even seen the questionnaire in my eyes and it was completely filled out for me, it was already too late. It's been 3 years and I'm still worried about that stupid moment. "
Igor Veizberg also witnessed a similar picture. He has been living with his family in New York for more than 15 years - he arrived with a green card.
In an interview, Igor’s family traveled from Odessa to Warsaw.
“Several immigration officers and several applicants were sitting in the same room,” Igor recalls. - My wife and I were asked if we want to go to America. We answered that we want. This concludes our interview, we signed the papers that were given to us. The same thing happened at the next table - there a young guy talked to the officer, who was also handed papers for signature. And then the officer asked why the signature on the questionnaire and the current autograph are different - in the 2000s, the questionnaire for participation in the lottery was filled out manually and sent by mail. The guy hesitated and said that his uncle had filled out the questionnaire for him. The officer immediately crossed out the sheet signed by the guy and replied that he would not receive a visa to America. "
- Wait for an answer
First you will receive a letter with the following text: Has been received and routed to the appropriate group. This is a standard letter which means that your visa application has been received. And in 7-10 days, another email will arrive, this time addressed to you personally.
Here are options for what can be written in it:
Your forms have been processed. If you received such a letter, it means that your questionnaires are in the processing stage, which can last up to 4 months.
It will not affect the processing of your case. This means that, filling out the questionnaire, you did not specify the number of your business, but at the same time your application is still accepted for processing.
KCC to begin the processing of your case. It means that Kentucky Consular Center waiting for your questionnaires, but not yet received them.
The information. This means that you indicated in the request information that is different from what you gave when you filled out the form for participation in the lottery.
The DS 230 Part 1 You submitted for the principal was incomplete. This means that in your questionnaires found inaccuracies that need to be corrected.
It received a copy of the amount of mail processed at a time. or It is acceptable for your visa processing. If you received a letter in which one of these phrases appears, then your questionnaire has already been received, processed, and within a few weeks you will be given the date of the interview.
Your case number is now current for interview processing. This letter comes to those who find out the date of the interview in a few days.
Has been scheduled at ... In the letter with such text you will see the date of the interview itself.
If you want to go to the Kentucky Consular Center yourself (Kentucky Consular Center), where all questionnaires are processed, and to find out at what stage your case is now, you can send a request to the email address: [email protected] or call 1-606-526-7500 from 7:30 a.m. to 16 p.m. At the beginning of the conversation, you must immediately give the case number (Case number), the country in which the questionnaire was filled in, the name, surname and date of birth of the winner of the lottery.
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- Collect documents
Bye-bye Kentucky Consular Center examines your questionnaires and sets the date of the interview, do not waste time. Collect and translate into English the documents that you need. All documents that are not in English must be accompanied by a certified translation. No notarization or apostille is required.
You need to prepare originals and translations of the following documents:
- Passport
- Birth certificate
- Diplomas confirming education
- Employment history
- Help that you do not have a criminal record. If you have lived in several countries, such references are needed from each country. If you have a criminal record, you can still qualify for a green card, but be sure to provide a certificate that you have already been punished.
- Marriage / divorce certificates
- For those who served in the army - military ID
- Statement of account
- Documents on the valuation of real estate
- Help with the work that you are an employee / owner of the company.
- Check your health
When they told you the date of the interview, it's time to undergo a medical examination. This can be done only in special certified centers, the addresses of which can be found at Online... The cost of this procedure is on average $ 215 from each family member planning to immigrate (in different countries, the price may differ by $ 10-15), and vaccination is paid separately.
Walkthrough medical commission is needed in order to determine if you or someone from a family member has a disease from the list that restricts entry to the United States. In particular, it includes mental illness, an active form of tuberculosis, leprosy, and others. Until 2010, HIV was included in the list, but now this virus is not an obstacle to obtaining a visa.
After passing medical examination you receive a sealed envelope, which must be handed over to the consul during the interview.
- Pass the interview
The medical board is behind, the envelope for the consul is in his arms, the date of the interview is set. For the interview, you will need originals and translations into English of all documents, the results of the medical examination and the invitation to the interview itself. On the spot, at the embassy, you need to pay a visa fee - $ 330 for each family member. But this is not a guarantee that the coveted visa to the United States is in your hands. An interview is no less important than the preparation of documents or a medical examination. However, you don't need to specially prepare for it and read some scientific treatises or everyday advice on the Internet. You will be asked everyday routine questions.
The main goals of the interview are to make sure that the people who came for the interview were applying, to get their fingerprints and check them with the database, to see the results of the medical examination and to check the availability of all documents.
Ruslan Yurin, a former Muscovite and now a resident of Denver, recalls that in an interview with her husband, they were asked to take turns answering questions about where they met and what the apartment in which they live looks like: “Everyone was asked only a couple of questions, and then both were asked if we were confident that we wanted to immigrate to the United States. ” As Ruslana later found out, those married couples who have recently been married are separated for interviews - to make sure that it is not a fictitious marriage.
If you have been interviewed, you will be granted a semi-annual visa. It is during 6 months that all family members, or only the main applicant, will need to enter the United States, otherwise the visa will be canceled. Also, after passing the interview, you will be given a sealed envelope that you need to give to the officer at the airport.
An important point: if the main applicant is not able to travel to the US, then without him the family also can not enter the country.
This is exactly what happened with Andrey, who asked not to give his last name. Andrey is a Muscovite, a plastic surgeon, a successful doctor. I never thought about leaving for the USA. But his parents, sister and close friend played the lottery for 3 years, and then persuaded Andrey to submit an application. Further - the classics of the genre. It was Andrey who won the green card. Together with his family, he went through the entire registration procedure, and when it came time to fly to the USA - as luck would have it, he had the peak of employment at work. The family had to wait until Andrei could find time to travel to America. As a result, a month before the end of the six-month term, the family flew to Chicago, where their friends live. And Andrei still hasn't made a final decision - whether he wants to stay in America.
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Winning is just the beginning
Every year, the US government allocates 55 thousands of immigrant visas that are raffled Green Card... There are always many more applicants - each year, on average, up to 9 million applicants participate in the drawing. Despite the fact that there are 55 thousand visas, more people always receive notifications of their winnings.
The reason is that not everyone brings what they started to the end: someone is not ready to bear the costs associated with obtaining visas, someone does not pass a medical examination or an interview, some applicants are refused due to incorrectly prepared documents. Therefore, the news that you have won the green card is not yet a reason to celebrate. This is just a signal for the start of a marathon lasting about a year.
So, if you are among the lucky ones and become the winner of the green card lottery, do not rush to pack your bags right now, quit your job and arrange farewell parties. The process of applying for an immigrant visa for Ruslana Yurina from Moscow lasted almost a year after she found out about the win in May 2013.
“We collected and sent all the required documents in 2 weeks,” Ruslana recalls. - But only 10 months later, in March 2014, did they learn that the interview would take place in early April. It lasted about 10 minutes. We were immediately told that they were giving green cards. Exactly a week later, they brought our passports with visas to our home. ”
A month later, Ruslana and her husband flew to Denver, where she still lives happily. Their family has doubled since that time - the couple had twins.
What else do you need to know
Everyone who comes to the US should do a few basic documents: get bank cards, a social security number and an American identity card.
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The owner of the green card, along with the opportunity to constantly live and work in the United States, gets the right to reunite with his family. If he has children, spouse or spouse left at home, he may pick them up to america.
Remember: both having a visa and owning a green card does not guarantee that you cannot be expelled from the United States. Exist legal basis for deportation green card holder from the USA.
