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Initially, the DV lottery was administered entirely by mail, and only winners were notified. The entry form moved to an online system starting in DV-2005, but still only winners were notified, by mail. [6] Starting in DV-2010, all applicants are able to verify online whether they were selected. [22]
Almost 10 million people from around the globe qualified last year to enter the 2023 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, popularly known as the visa lottery, which makes available up to 55,000 ...
The application process is simple and free.
Adjustment of status is submitted to USCIS via form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status. If an immigrant visa number is available, the USCIS will allow "concurrent filing": it will accept forms I-140 and I-485 submitted in the same package or will accept form I-485 even before the approval of the I-140.
@Jexplorer8421: The visa bulletins containing the results of DV-2023 and DV-2024 show the number of entries, but not the number of applicants including dependents as the previous bulletins used to show. I hope that this number is eventually published in the DV statistics page so we can complete the tables here.
A U.S. Department of State estimate from August 2022 is that 11,095,302 people (annually) fill Form DS-160 or Form DS-156 (and since DS-156 is filled only in exceptional cases, the majority of these would be Form DS-160) and that filling the form takes an average of 90 minutes per person.
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The Immigration Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101–649, 104 Stat. 4978, enacted November 29, 1990) was signed into law by George H. W. Bush on November 29, 1990. [1] It was first introduced by Senator Ted Kennedy in 1989.