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Applicants may access the electronic Diversity Visa entry form at www.dvlottery.state.gov

2009 Diversity Visa Lottery Program Registration

October 2, 2007

Applications for the 2009 Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery will be accepted between noon Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), Wednesday, October 3, 2007 and noon Eastern Standard Time (EST) (GMT-5) Sunday, December 2, 2007. 

The annual DV program makes diversity immigrant visas available to persons meeting the simple, but strict, eligibility requirements. A computer-generated random lottery drawing chooses selectees for diversity visas. The visas, however, are distributed among six geographic regions with a greater number of visas going to regions with lower rates of immigration, and with no visas going to nationals of countries sending more than 50,000 immigrants to the United States over the period of the past five years.  Within each region, no one country may receive more than seven percent of the available Diversity Visas in any one year.

Applicants may access the electronic Diversity Visa entry form at http://www.dvlottery.state.gov/ during the registration period.  Paper entries will not be accepted.  Applicants are strongly encouraged not to wait until the last week of the registration period to enter.  Heavy demand may result in website delays.  No entries will be accepted after noon EST on December 2, 2007.

More information is available here: http://travel.state.gov/pdf/2009DVInstructions.pdf