Alright, well… the 2012 Diversity Visa Lottery selection results are now out! If you’ve applied, you can check your status at the usual place – and you’d better remember your confirmation number, because otherwise you’re SOL – supposedly nobody can tell you what it is/was, and checking online is the only way to know if you’ve been selected.
Update: It looks like the lottery’s been invalidated due to a computer programming error! New results on the 15th of June.
If you don’t know what the Diversity Visa lottery is, well… in short it’s 50,000 “free” “green cards” to random people throughout the world with a minimum of a high school education and/or who have worked at least two years out of the last five in an occupation requiring at least two years of training. It’s a supposedly (conspiracy theories aside) a “random” program where random people of the world with no restrictions to age, gender or nationality (except some quotas which have been reached to enable everyone to have an “even” chance) have a period of two months every year (usually Nov-Dec) to apply, and the winners of the lottery are selected a few months after (usually April-May). Read More
