Okay. This one I'm trolling. I admit it. So sue me. ;-)
At any rate, the application period for the next (2019) Diversity Visa lottery is open now and the US Department of State wants to make sure potential applicants know about it as well as how to enter it. The cutoff date is November 22nd, so time's running out to try to infiltrate a couple dozen hardcore terrorists, I'd say. (Actually, the easiest way to do that is to just apply for a tourist visa or student visa and then just go to town when you get here, especially if you also crave martyrdom.)
"The 2019 entry period will run from 12:00 pm (noon), Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), Wednesday, October 18, 2017, until 12:00 pm (noon), Eastern Standard Time (EST)(GMT-5), Wednesday, November 22, 2017... we cannot accept (2019) entries after noon EST on Tuesday, November 22, 2017."
The controlling federal law for this program is Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. It directs the State Department to annually select, through a lottery system, 50,000 "diversity immigrants" from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. Such as Uzbekistan. Iran also sends a lot of people to the US via the lottery, and so does Nepal (they're cool with me... we could use a Nepalese-only Gurkha unit in the armed forces ;-).
According to the State Department applicants must meet "simple but strict" eligibility requirements to be eligible to participate in the lottery. These include having, at minimum, either a high school education or its equivalent OR two years of work experience within the past five years in an occupation that requires at least two years of training or experience to perform.
The lottery is based on a computerized random drawing and the visas are distributed across six different geographic regions. Also, no single country may receive more than 7 percent of the available diversity visas within a single year.
Some countries are not allowed to participate in the drawing this year, as more than 50,000 citizens from each country have immigrated to the US in the previous five years. These are:
Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada (ed. THANK GOD ;-), China (mainland-born), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.
Though there's no fee to apply for the lottery, selectees must still pay all required visa application fees as well as undergo what I'm sure is a really strict, tough, thoughtful and deeply probing interview -- conducted by a 22-year-old graduate of Yale or Harvard, most likely -- at a US embassy or consulate.
New_DV-2019_Restart_Plain_Language_Instructions_and_FAQs_.pdf
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
At any rate, the application period for the next (2019) Diversity Visa lottery is open now and the US Department of State wants to make sure potential applicants know about it as well as how to enter it. The cutoff date is November 22nd, so time's running out to try to infiltrate a couple dozen hardcore terrorists, I'd say. (Actually, the easiest way to do that is to just apply for a tourist visa or student visa and then just go to town when you get here, especially if you also crave martyrdom.)
"The 2019 entry period will run from 12:00 pm (noon), Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), Wednesday, October 18, 2017, until 12:00 pm (noon), Eastern Standard Time (EST)(GMT-5), Wednesday, November 22, 2017... we cannot accept (2019) entries after noon EST on Tuesday, November 22, 2017."
The controlling federal law for this program is Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. It directs the State Department to annually select, through a lottery system, 50,000 "diversity immigrants" from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. Such as Uzbekistan. Iran also sends a lot of people to the US via the lottery, and so does Nepal (they're cool with me... we could use a Nepalese-only Gurkha unit in the armed forces ;-).
According to the State Department applicants must meet "simple but strict" eligibility requirements to be eligible to participate in the lottery. These include having, at minimum, either a high school education or its equivalent OR two years of work experience within the past five years in an occupation that requires at least two years of training or experience to perform.
The lottery is based on a computerized random drawing and the visas are distributed across six different geographic regions. Also, no single country may receive more than 7 percent of the available diversity visas within a single year.
Some countries are not allowed to participate in the drawing this year, as more than 50,000 citizens from each country have immigrated to the US in the previous five years. These are:
Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada (ed. THANK GOD ;-), China (mainland-born), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.
Though there's no fee to apply for the lottery, selectees must still pay all required visa application fees as well as undergo what I'm sure is a really strict, tough, thoughtful and deeply probing interview -- conducted by a 22-year-old graduate of Yale or Harvard, most likely -- at a US embassy or consulate.
New_DV-2019_Restart_Plain_Language_Instructions_and_FAQs_.pdf
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
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big kahuna: Nov 2, 17 5:10