The United States of America is still considered a country of great opportunity and attracts a lot of immigrants from all over the world. However, obtaining the right to legally live and work in the United States can be challenging. One way to do this is by winning a special lottery.
What is a green card
The so-called green card (Green card) is a certificate confirming that its holder has a permanent residence permit in the United States and the right to work in the country. There are several options for becoming a green card holder: inviting an employer, reuniting with relatives, marrying a US citizen. However, if you do not have special working skills or relatives in America, you can always count on luck, because every year the government holds a special diversification lottery in which 50 thousand green cards are drawn.
The main task of the lottery is to attract immigrants to America from those countries whose representatives are almost absent in the United States. There is also a downside to the issue: residents of states from which more than 50 thousand people immigrated to America in 5 years are not allowed to participate in the lottery. In addition, certain requirements are imposed on the participants in the lottery regarding their education and qualifications. So, for example, the applicant must provide documents confirming the presence of a complete secondary education or two years of work experience in a specialty that requires training for at least two years. Finally, you need to convince the US government that if you win, you will not become a dependent, that is, provide data on annual income or availability of a sponsor.
Features of the Internet lottery
Applications for participation in the lottery are accepted only on the official website of the US government. Filling out the form is carried out in English, and in case of the slightest inaccuracies or errors, the questionnaire is automatically canceled, so you should be extremely careful when filling out the questionnaire. It should also be borne in mind that the deadline for accepting applications is limited: as a rule, an application can be submitted only within one month. Re-registration in the same lottery is not allowed, so you should not delegate the filling of the questionnaire to an intermediary company and at the same time try to fill in the registration data yourself.
The situation with many consultants and intermediaries in the field of drawing green cards in general raises serious concerns in the US State Department. The fact is that many cases of fraud with green cards are annually recorded, including blackmailing the winners, filling out questionnaires by correspondence, organizing fictitious marriages with the winners (according to the lottery rules, his spouse and underage children), fake lottery sites that charge "participation fees." If you are going to take part in the diversification lottery, keep in mind that it is free and is held on only one site - it does not have any official representative offices. Entrusting the filling out of the questionnaire with the intermediary firm, make sure of the reliability and integrity of the organization, or better, study the instructions and submit the application yourself.
