Over 900,000 entries for the Annual Diversity Immigrant Visa Program have already been submitted for 2011. This was just during the initial week \u2013 a 63% increase over last year.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Department of State initiated the registration period for DV-2011 on October 2, 2009. The Diversity Visa Program \u2013 this year referred to as DV-2011 \u2013is congressionally mandated visa category which selects individuals through a random drawing and makes available 55,000 immigrant visas every year, drawn from all entries and issued to persons who meet strict eligibility requirements and who are from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. Successful applicants receive notification of their selection via mail between May and July 2010, and will be permitted to begin the Immigrant Visa application process in October of 2010. DV-2011 immigrant visa must be issued by September 30, 2011.<\/p>\n
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