4 PREREQUISITES TO APPLY FOR US VISA LOTTERY PROGRAM AS EXPATS IN KUWAIT

  • 18/09/2022

Kuwait City: The Diversity Visa Lottery Program (DV Lottery) granted 52 Kuwaitis a permanent "green card" for residency in the United States in 2021, compared to 37 in 2020 and 81 in 2018. These individuals are among the 4,498 citizens of "eligible" Asian nations who obtained "green cards" in 2021, according to data released by the US State Department.


The 52 individuals were not identified by nationality in the statistic provided to the newspaper, but the US Embassy in Kuwait did mention the requirements for applying "free of charge" online for a "diversity immigration" visa, which is also open to citizens and expatriates.

People who were born in one of the eligible nations were eligible to apply. They also had to have a secondary school diploma or its equivalent, at least two years of practical experience in a profession whose practise required at least two years of training or experience, and they had to have indicated their country of birth on the application form. 

According to the most recent guidelines for the Diversity Visa (DV) Program for Immigrants for the year 2023, the US Embassy Consular Department in Kuwait reported that approximately 55,000 people from nations with low rates of immigration to the United States over the previous five years may be eligible for an immigrant visa that entitles its holder to a green card (permanent residence) in the country. 

The statement pointed out that the US State Department annually administers the DV program, which is legally created and there is no cost to register for it, and applicants who are selected in the program must meet simple but strict requirements, as the Department determines those selected through a random computer fee between six Geographical areas, and no single country may receive more than seven percent of the available DV in any one year. For DV-2023, the statistic stated that citizens of 19 countries are ineligible to apply, because more than 50,000 citizens of these countries have immigrated to the United States in the previous five years.

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