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The green card lottery -
The first free
website
This site provides all the information you need to file your
application with the U.S.A. State Department for the Green Card
lottery. This is an official lottery of the U.S.A. Government where
you do not win any money, but the prize can be very valuable to you
if you would like to move to the U.S.A. Winners of the green card
lottery, 50,000 a year, receive the status of permanent residents
and can move to the US with their immediate families without any
restrictions, time limits, or any other conditions other that be
law-abiding.
Moving legally to the USA today is very difficult. Visa regulations
are complex, joining your relative can take several years, or you
need to have very strong professional qualifications in certain
fields.
The Green Card Lottery is an amazing opportunity for those who are
really keen to moving to the USA, but can't or do not want want to
go through the slow costly and uncertain immigration procedures.
Certainly, winning the lottery is uncertain as well. But the
lottery is free, and does not require that you have family
here.
Furthermore, the visa you are granted if you win is the best of
them all. A Green Card is like a visa for life: it entitles you to
settle, work and live permanently in the USA. After 5 years of
residence, you will be able to apply for citizenship; in the
meantime, you can live in the US like one, working -and paying
taxes of course - sending your kids to school, buying a home.
 Why this site?
I won the green card lottery years ago, and created this site in
1998, and at the time it was very difficult to find information on
the Internet; after going through that process, I had the idea to
provide what we could not find years ago, a comprehensive and free
source of information on the DV Lottery.
If you appreciated this site, please make a donation to Médecins Sans
Frontières; it's an
independent humanitarian aid agency, they will put your money
to good use.
Structure of the site
- The original sections of the site, in English
and Italian,
provide instructions on the requisites to apply, the application
itself, the documentation you have to provide if you win the DV
Lottery. These sections are more stable, and are updated only when
necessary.
- Another section, the Notebook, is updated more
frequently with
accounts on interviews, vaccinations and the like. Plus, it
contains tips on moving to the US, bringing your stuff with you,
looking for a job, finding a home, etc.
- The Forum is where can ask about your
particular situation, or
ask questions to people who have moved to the US, or simply discuss
topics about studying, living and working to the US.
- Recently, we have added some blogs to open up
the possibility
for members of the Forum to write about topics that interest them.
You can start your own blog on topics related to living and moving
to the US. As for the rest of this site, there are no charges for
opening and maintaining your blog.
Before starting, please read the Disclaimer
carefully.
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