Registration for DV-2025 (Green Card Lottery) Tomorrow – Tuesday, November 7th at 12pm EST

The registration period for the Diversity Visa program for fiscal year 2025 (DV-2025) ends tomorrow, Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 12pm EST.

Registration for the DV program, commonly known as the green card lottery, runs annually between October and November. This year’s registration period began on October 4, 2023.

The program provides on a lottery basis up to 55,000 green cards to natives of countries with low immigration rates to the United States. Countries that sent more than 50,000 if its citizens to the United States in the previous five years are ineligible to participate in the lottery, which is run by the United States Department of State.

For DV-2025, native of the following countries are ineligible to participate in the program: Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, The People’s Republic of China (including mainland and Hong Kong born), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Republic of Korea (South Korea), Venezuela, and Vietnam. Natives of Macau SAR and Taiwan are eligible.

To be eligible, an individual participating in the lottery must be a citizen of an eligible country and also have either at least a high school education or two years work experience in an occupation that requires at least two years of training or experience to perform.

Registration for entry into the lottery is done exclusively online by submitting Form DS-5501 on the DV program website (https://dvprogram.state.gov) and is free of charge.