The land of opportunity, United States of America is one of the most favored places for migration.
One of their immigration programs, the diversity visa program is considered to be one of the easiest yet the most challenging migration procedure.
Basically the diversity visa program is a lottery held by the government of United States, it endows 50,000 winners with a permanent citizenship of United States.
As it is a visa allotted on the basis of lucky draw it is usually called diversity lottery or the green card lottery.
On an average 10 million people from all over the world enter this lottery, in hopes of winning a lifetime opportunity.
One should not have any special qualifications or merits to be eligible for this scheme.
All you need is a diploma from high school or its equivalent.
Even though the application procedure lasts for month starting in October, there are millions of applications received every year.
As opposed to what people might think the application procedure is free of cost, but it can only be done online.
The diversity visa program is a two edged sword.
At one end it provides people from underprivileged and hard up places a chance to improve their lifestyles and living conditions by migrating to the United States; they are not needed to have degrees from any superior schools and colleges, they just need the stars to be in their favor.
At the other end people who are qualified and have genuine skills can be overlooked, as merit is not considered here.
As this is a lottery and you can only apply once, there are no chances for you to improve your chances by applying again.
They have a policy that a single person can only apply once every year.
So the ratio is 1: millions! This is a very tough bargain.
The only eligibility is that of the country.
Here is the catch, not every country can apply for this immigration.
Not that easy is it? There are a number of countries who cannot opt for this and they would need to go with other procedures if the citizens from that country are hoping for immigration to the United States.
Seeing this is an opportunity to fool the people and capitalize on their hard earn savings, a number of organizations and websites have been seen that claim to be authentic and legitimate.
They lure people in by promising them to provide them with valuable information that would help increase their chances of being selected.
People should keep in mind that there is no way their chances can be improved by as this is a lottery.
Some websites even claim to be legitimate websites for the application of diversity visa, so whenever applying for the diversity visa stay clear of any such websites.
Although there are some authentic websites that provide guidance to the applicants, but even they cannot apply on your behalf or provide you with any spell that would improve your chances.
Some of these websites would charge you and some would not.
You should also be aware of any emails with.
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Always be careful when applying for this visa as there are a number of imposters in the world.