What is the U.S. Green Card Lottery?

Each year, the Diversity Lottery (DV) Program makes 50,000 immigrant visas available through a lottery. if you receive a visa through the Diversity Visa Lottery Program you and your family will be authorized to live and work permanently in the United States.

Official U.S. Government Program

The Green Card Lottery program was established under the Immigration and Nationality Act and was approved by the U.S. Congress

The Immigrant Diversity Visa Lottery has been established in the 1996 Immigration Act in order to give immigration opportunity to natives from countries other than the main source of immigration to the U.S.A. This official U.S. government program aims to diversify the American population by creating an immigration opportunity to live, work and study in the U.S.A.