United States Diversity Immigrant Visa Program Lottery

Better known as the Green Card Lottery or the Visa Lottery, the Diversity This program allows people from countries with low immigration

diversity visa program and an increase in employment visas The diversity visa program allotted visas known as “lottery” or “diversity” visas to natives of

diversity visa lottery application BACKGROUND In FY 1995, Congress established a Diversity Visa Program that authorized up to 50,000 immigrant visas annually to persons from countries that were

diversity green card lottery Each year the Diversity Visa Lottery Program makes available 55,000 immigrant visas to aliens from selected countries (note that 5,000