Registration for DV-2025 (Green Card Lottery) Closes on Tuesday, November 7, 2023

The registration period for the Diversity Visa program for fiscal year 2025 (DV-2025) ends on Tuesday, November 7, 2023.

Registration for the DV program, commonly known as the green card lottery, runs annually between October and November and provides 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.

The State Department urges those interested in participating in the lottery to submit their entries well before the deadline date, as the system may get overwhelmed near the end of the registration period as participants normally rush in to complete their entries to beat the deadline.

The lottery period closes at 12pm EST on November 7th.  Entries submitted after the deadline will not be accepted.