This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 10/01/2024 "This public notice provides information on how to apply for the DV-2026 Program and is issued pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act. ... Applicants must submit entries...
State Department, June 27, 2024 "On June 25, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed the district courts’ decisions in Gomez v. Biden , Rai v. Biden , Goodluck v. Biden, and Goh v. Biden , which had ordered the...
State Department "DV-2025 Program: The online registration period for the DV-2025 Program begins on Wednesday, October 4, 2023, at 12:00 noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4) and concludes on Tuesday, November 7, 2023, at 12:00 noon, Eastern Standard...
DOS, Sept. 7, 2023 "The Diversity Visa (DV) program awards up to 55,000 immigrant visas per year and allows those from countries with low immigration rates to the United States, to enter for a chance to apply for a U.S immigrant visa. Since its launch in...
State Department, May 30, 2023 "Document Submission to KCC suspended for DV-2024 and onward. Effective for the Diversity Visa (DV) program for fiscal year 2024 (DV-2024) and onward, selectees only need to submit to the Kentucky Consular Center (KCC) the...
State Department "The online registration period for the DV-2024 Program begins on Wednesday, October 5, 2022, at 12:00 noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4) and concludes on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, at 12:00 noon, Eastern Standard Time (EST) (GMT...
DOS, Jan. 5, 2022 "If you are a Diversity Visa (DV) selectee for the 2022 DV program year with a case assigned to U.S. Embassy Kabul or Baghdad, you should request reassignment of your DV case to another embassy or consulate that processes immigrant visa...
State Department, Dec. 9, 2021 " Document Submission to KCC for DV-2022 Effective immediately, individuals who were randomly selected to participate in the diversity visa (DV) program for fiscal year (FY) 2022 (DV-2022 selectees) only need to submit to...
DOS, Oct. 25, 2021 "The Department of State is aware of the various court orders regarding the reservation and adjudication of DV-2020 and DV-2021 diversity visas, which are summarized below. We will publish additional public guidance on this website regarding...
On Twitter, Charles Kuck reports : " Judge Mehta orders @Travelgov to begin issuing DV2020 visas, to provide interim reports and conclude visa issuance of 9,095 visas by 9/30/22. Congrats to those who will FINALLY be receiving their DV2020 visas!"
State Department "The online registration period for the DV-2023 Program begins on Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at 12:00 noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), and concludes on Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 12:00 noon, Eastern Standard Time (EST) (GMT-5...
Rai v. Biden "[T]he court will order Defendants to undertake good faith efforts to expeditiously process and adjudicate 2021 diversity visa applications and derivative beneficiary applications by September 30, 2021, and to reserve 966 diversity visa numbers...
DOS, Sept. 12, 2021 "On September 9, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia preliminarily enjoined the Department of State from applying the November 2020 prioritization policy guidance to diversity visa (“DV”) 2021 applicants and ordered...
Filazapovich et al. v. Dept. of State "For the foregoing reasons, the court (1) grants the Goh Plaintiffs summary judgment on their claims that the No-Visa Policy is contrary to law and Defendants unreasonably delayed their visa applications; (2) denies...
Arreguin Gomez v. Biden "Defendants shall process DV-2020 applications in a random order until all 9,905 diversity visas have been granted. The parties shall notify the court by August 25, 2021, whether they have agreed to a time within which to process...