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Bangladeshi natives are excluded from The Department of State will only [Public Notice: 7637] DV–2013, while Polish and South accept completed E–DV entry forms Sudanese natives are included. submitted electronically at http:// Bureau of Consular Affairs; www.dvlottery.state.gov during the Registration for the Diversity Diversity Visa Registration Period registration period between noon, Immigrant (DV–2013) Visa Program Entries for the DV–2013 program must Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT–4), be submitted electronically between Tuesday, October 4, 2011, and noon, AGENCY: Department of State. noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT–4) ACTION: Notice. (GMT–4), Tuesday, October 4, 2011, and Saturday, November 5, 2011. noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) We will disqualify ALL entries for an SUMMARY: This public notice provides (GMT–4), Saturday, November 5, 2011. individual if more than ONE entry is information on how to apply for the Applicants may access the electronic received for that individual, regardless DV–2013 Program. This notice is issued DV entry form (E–DV) at http:// of who submitted the entries. You may pursuant to 22 CFR 42.33(b)(3) which www.dvlottery.state.gov during the prepare and submit your own entry, or implements sections 201(a)(3), 201(e), registration period. Paper entries are not have someone submit the entry for you. 203(c), and 204(a)(1)(I) of the accepted. Applicants should not wait A successfully registered entry will Immigration and Nationality Act, as until the last week of the registration result in the display of a confirmation amended, (8 U.S.C. 1151, 1153, and period to enter. Heavy demand may screen containing your name and a 1154(a)(1)(I)). result in Web site delays. No entries will unique confirmation number. You Instructions for the 2013 Diversity be accepted after noon, EDT, on should print this confirmation screen Immigrant Visa Program (DV–2013) November 5, 2011. for your records and keep this information until at least June 30, 2013. Requirements for Entry The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program You will be able to check the status of is administered on an annual basis by To register for the DV–2013 program, your DV–2013 entry by returning to the the Department of State and conducted you must be a native of one of the listed Web site and entering your unique under the terms of Section 203(c) of the countries. See the ‘‘List of Countries by confirmation number and personal Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Region Whose Natives Qualify’’ below. information. Paper entries are not Section 131 of the Immigration Act of In most cases, this means the country in accepted. 1990 (Pub. L. 101–649) amended INA which you were born. However, there You must submit all required 203 and provides for a class of are two other ways you may be able to photographs. If you do not, your entry immigrants known as ‘‘diversity qualify. First, if you were born in a will be disqualified. Submit recent immigrants.’’ Sections 201(e) and 203(c) country whose natives are ineligible but photographs electronically with the of the INA provide a maximum of your spouse was born in a country E–DV entry form of: you; your spouse; 55,000 Diversity visas (DV) each fiscal whose natives are eligible, you can each unmarried child under 21 years of year to be made available to persons claim your spouse’s country of birth, age at the time of your electronic entry, from countries with low rates of provided both you and your spouse are including all natural children as well as immigration to the United States. listed on the selected entry, are issued all legally-adopted children and The annual DV program makes visas, and enter the United States stepchildren, even if a child no longer permanent residence visas available to simultaneously. Second, if you were resides with you or you do not intend persons meeting the simple, but strict, born in a country whose natives are for a child to immigrate under the DV eligibility requirements. A computer- ineligible, but neither of your parents program. You do not need to submit a generated random drawing chooses was born there or resided there at the photo for a child who is already a U.S. selectees for DVs. The visas are time of your birth, you may claim citizen or Legal Permanent Resident. distributed among six geographic nativity in one of your parents’ country We will not accept group or family regions, with a greater number of visas of birth, if it is a country whose natives photographs; you must include a going to regions with lower rates of qualify for the DV–2013 program. separate photograph for each family immigration, and with no visas going to To enter the DV program, you must member. Failure to submit the required nationals of countries that have sent meet either the program’s education or photographs for your spouse and each more than 50,000 immigrants to the work experience requirements. You child listed will result in an incomplete United States during the past five years. must have either a high school entry to the E–DV system. We will not Within each region, no single country education or its equivalent, defined as accept the entry and you will have to may receive more than seven percent of successful completion of a 12-year resubmit another entry. If you fail to the available DVs in any one year. course of elementary and secondary submit the correct photograph of each For DV–2013, natives of the following education; OR, two years of work individual, your application, along with countries are not eligible to apply experience within the past five years in those of all of your derivatives, will be because the countries sent a total of an occupation requiring at least two disqualified at the time of the visa more than 50,000 immigrants each to years of training or experience to interview. the United States in the previous five perform. The U.S. Department of Labor’s A digital photograph (image) of you, years: O*Net OnLine database at http:// your spouse, and each child must be

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submitted online with the E–DV entry settings must be for True Color or 24-bit 4. City Where You Were Born. form. The image file can be produced color mode. Color photographs must be 5. Country Where You Were Born— either by taking a new digital scanned at this setting for the The name of the country should be the photograph or by scanning a requirements of the DV program. See the name currently in use for the place photographic print with a digital additional scanning requirements where you were born. scanner. below. 6. Country of Eligibility or Entries are subject to disqualification Chargeability for the DV Program—Your and visa refusal for cases in which the Technical Specifications country of eligibility will normally be photographs are not recent, have been The submitted digital photograph the same as your country of birth. Your manipulated, or fail to meet the must conform to the following country of eligibility is not related to specifications explained below. specifications or the system will where you live. If you were born in a automatically reject the E–DV entry country that is not eligible for the DV Instructions for Submitting a Digital form and notify the sender. program, please review the instructions Photograph (Image) When taking a new digital image: The to see if there is another option for The image file must adhere to the image file format must be in the Joint country of chargeability available for following compositional specifications Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) you. For additional information on and technical specifications, and can be format; it must have a maximum image chargeability, please review ‘‘Frequently produced by taking a new digital image file size of 240 KB; the minimum Asked Question #1’’ of these or using a digital scanner to scan a acceptable image resolution and instructions below. submitted photograph. Entrants may test dimensions are 600 pixels (width) × 600 7. Entry Photograph(s)—See the their photos for suitability through the pixels (height). Image pixel dimensions technical information on photograph photo validator link on the E–DV Web must be in a square aspect ratio specifications. Make sure you include site before submitting their entries. The (meaning the height must be equal to photographs of your spouse and all your photo validator provides additional the width). The image color depth must children, if applicable. See Frequently technical advice on photo composition, be 24-bit color. [Note: Color Asked Question #3 below. along with examples of acceptable and photographs are required. Black and 8. Mailing Address—In Care of, unacceptable photos. white, monochrome images (2-bit color Address Line 1, Address Line 2, City/ Compositional Specifications depth), 8-bit color, or 8-bit grayscale Town, District/Country/Province/State, will not be accepted.] Postal Code/Zip Code, and Country. The submitted digital image must Before a photographic print is 9. Country Where You Live Today. conform to the following compositional scanned, it must meet the compositional 10. Phone Number (optional). specifications or the entry will be specifications listed above. If the 11. E-mail Address—Provide an e- disqualified: The person being photographic print meets the print color mail address to which you have direct photographed must directly face the and compositional specifications, scan access rather than using someone else’s camera; the person’s head should not be the print using the following scanner address or a standard company address. tilted up, down, or to the side; the head specifications: Scanner resolution must Notifications to those selected in the DV height or facial region size (measured be at least 300 dots per inch (dpi); the program are not sent by e-mail. Official from the top of the head, including the image file format in JPEG format; the notifications of selection will be made hair, to the bottom of the chin) must be maximum image file size must be 240 through Entrant Status Check (ESC), between 50 percent and 69 percent of KB; the image resolution 600 by 600 available from May 1, 2012, on the E– the image’s total height. The eye height pixels; the image color depth 24-bit DV Web site http:// (measured from the bottom of the image color. [Note that black and white, www.dvlottery.state.gov. E-mail or mail to the level of the eyes) should be monochrome, or grayscale images will notifications about your E–DV selection between 56 percent and 69 percent of not be accepted.] are not legitimate. You may receive the image’s height; the photograph follow-up e-mail communication from should be taken with the person in front Information Required for the Electronic the Department of State informing you of a neutral, light-colored background; Entry to review ESC for new information dark or patterned backgrounds are not There is only one way to enter the about your application. acceptable; the photograph must be in DV–2013 program. You must submit the 12. What is the highest level of focus; photos in which the person being DS–5501, the Electronic Diversity Visa education you have achieved, as of photographed is wearing sunglasses or Entry Form (E–DV entry form), which is today? You must indicate which one of other items that detract from the face accessible only online at http:// the following represents your own will not be accepted; photographs of www.dvlottery.state.gov. Failure to highest level of educational applicants wearing head coverings or complete the form in its entirety will achievement: (1) Primary school only, hats are only acceptable if the head disqualify your entry. To ensure that the (2) High school, no degree, (3) High covering is worn for religious beliefs, form is completed accurately, the school degree, (4) Vocational school, (5) and even then, the head covering may Department of State strongly encourages Some university courses, (6) University not obscure any portion of the face of applicants to complete the application degree, (7) Some graduate level courses, the applicant. We will not accept without the assistance of ‘‘Visa (8) Master’s degree, (9) Some doctorate photographs of applicants with tribal or Consultants,’’ ‘‘Visa Agents,’’ or other level courses, and (10) Doctorate degree. other headgear not specifically religious individuals who offer to submit the 13. Marital Status—Unmarried, in nature; we will not accept forms on behalf of applicants. married, divorced, widowed, legally photographs of military, airline, or other Those who submit E–DV entries will separated. personnel wearing hats. be asked to include the following 14. Number of Children: Entries must Color photographs in 24-bit color information on the E–DV entry form: include the name, date, and place of depth are required. Photographs may be 1. Full Name—Last/Family Name, birth of your spouse and all natural downloaded from a camera to a First Name, Middle Name. children, as well as all legally adopted computer file, or scanned to a computer 2. Date of Birth—Day, Month, Year. children and stepchildren who are file. If you are using a scanner, the 3. Gender—Male or Female. unmarried and under the age of 21 on

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the date of your electronic entry (do not DV–2013 visas will be issued between registration, regardless of the source of include children who are already U.S. October 1, 2012, and September 30, the entry. citizens or Legal Permanent Residents), 2013. Selectees who provide Frequently Asked Questions About even if you are no longer legally married information requested in the E–DV Registration to the child’s parent, and even if the notification instructions will be spouse or child does not currently informed of their visa interview 1. What do the terms ‘‘Eligibility,’’ reside with you and/or will not appointment through the Entrant Status ‘‘Native,’’ and ‘‘Chargeability’’ mean? immigrate with you. Note that married Check on the E-DV Web site four to six Are there any situations in which children and children 21 years or older weeks before the scheduled interviews persons who were not born in a are not eligible derivatives for a DV; with U.S. consular officers at overseas qualifying country may apply? however, they may submit their own posts. Each month, visas will be issued Your country of eligibility will electronic DV entries. Additionally, U.S. to those applicants who are ready for normally be the same as your country of law protects children from ‘‘aging out’’ issuance during that month, visa- birth. Your country of eligibility is not in certain circumstances. If your number availability permitting. related to where you live. ‘‘Native’’ electronic DV entry is submitted before Applicants can compare their rank order ordinarily means someone born in a your unmarried child turns 21, and the number to the cut-off number shown for particular country, regardless of the child turns 21 before visa issuance, he/ each region under the DV section of the individual’s current country of she might be protected from aging out Visa Bulletin (http:// residence or nationality. For by the Child Status Protection Act and www.travel.state.gov/visa/bulletin/ immigration purposes, ‘‘native’’ can also be treated as though he/she were under bulletin_1360.html). Once all of the 21 for visa-processing purposes. If you 50,000 DVs have been issued, the mean someone who is entitled to be fail to list all eligible children, your program will end. Visa numbers could ‘‘charged’’ to a country other than the application, along with all of your be exhausted before September 30, one in which he/she was born under the dependents, will be disqualified at the 2013, since the number of selected provisions of Section 202(b) of the time of the visa interview. See entries is more than 50,000. Selected Immigration and Nationality Act. For Frequently Asked Question #11 below. applicants who wish to receive visas example, if you were born in a country 15. Spouse Information—Name, Date must act promptly. that is not eligible for this year’s DV of Birth, Gender, City/Town of Birth, Processing of entries and issuance of program, you may claim chargeability to Country of Birth, and Photograph. DVs to successful individuals and their the country where your derivative Failure to list your spouse will result in eligible family members must occur by spouse was born, but you will not be disqualification of the principal midnight, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) issued a DV–1 unless your spouse is applicant, and refusal of all visa on September 30, 2013. Under no also eligible for and issued a DV–2 applications in the case at the time of circumstances can DVs be issued or (derivative visa), and both of you must the visa interview. adjustments approved after this date, enter the United States together. In a 16. Children Information—Name, nor can family members obtain DVs to similar manner, a minor dependent Date of Birth, Gender, City/Town of follow-to-join the principal applicant in child can be ‘‘charged’’ to a parent’s Birth, Country of Birth, and Photograph. the United States after this date. country of birth. Include all children declared in In order to receive a DV to immigrate Finally, if you were born in a country question #14 above. to the United States, those chosen in the not eligible to participate in this year’s random drawing must meet ALL DV program, you can be ‘‘charged’’ to Selection of Applicants eligibility requirements under U.S. law. the country of birth of either of your The Department of State will use These requirements may significantly parents as long as neither parent was a computer software to randomly select increase the level of scrutiny required resident of the ineligible country at the individuals from among all qualified and time necessary for processing for time of the your birth. In general, you entries. Starting May 1, 2012, entrants natives of some countries listed in this are not considered a resident of a may enter their DV–2013 entry notice, including, but not limited to, country in which you were neither born confirmation number into the Entrant countries identified as state sponsors of nor legally naturalized if you only Status Check (ESC) available at http:// terrorism. visited the country, studied in the www.dvlottery.state.gov to find out country temporarily, or were stationed whether their entries were selected or Important Notice temporarily in the country for business not. The notification information No fee is charged to enter the annual or professional reasons on behalf of a provided on the site will provide further DV program. The U.S. government company or government from a country instructions for selectees, including fee employs no outside consultants or other than the country in which you information. Those selected in the private services to operate the DV were born. If you claim alternate random drawing are not notified by program. Any intermediaries or others chargeability, you must indicate such e-mail. You must logon to http:// who offer assistance to prepare DV information on the E–DV electronic www.dvlottery.state.gov and enter your entries do so without the authority or online entry form, in question #6. Please confirmation number into the ESC to consent of the U.S. government. Use of be aware that listing an incorrect receive information regarding your any outside intermediary or assistance country of eligibility or chargeability entry. Applicants must go to http:// to prepare a DV entry is entirely at the (i.e., one to which you cannot establish www.dvlottery.state.gov to confirm their entrant’s discretion. a valid claim) will disqualify your entry selection status and to receive further A qualified electronic entry submitted in most situations. instructions. U.S. embassies and directly by an applicant has an equal consulates will not be able to provide a chance of being randomly selected as 2. What are the procedures for this list of successful entrants. Successful does a qualified electronic entry Diversity Visa registration? entrants’ spouses and unmarried received from an outside intermediary The ESC page available on the E–DV children under age 21 also may apply on behalf of the applicant. However, Web site http://www.dvlottery.state.gov for Diversity Visas to accompany or receipt of more than one entry per will be the sole means by which you follow-to-join the principal applicant. person will disqualify the person from will be notified of your selection, or that

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you were not selected. The Department American Relief Act (NACARA) passed apply for the program each year during will not mail you official notification by Congress in November 1997 the regular registration period. letters, but will instead include stipulates that beginning as early as DV– 10. May a husband and a wife each instructions on how to follow up on 1999, and for as long as necessary, up submit a separate entry? your selection and pursue a DV visa to 5,000 of the 55,000 annually- application on your confirmation page. allocated DVs will be made available for Yes, a husband and a wife may each You will also be informed of your DV use under the NACARA program. The submit one entry if each meets the visa interview appointment date actual reduction of the limit by up to eligibility requirements. If either is through the ESC page. The Department 5,000 DVs began with DV–2000 and is selected, the other is entitled to of State will not send anyone letters by likely to remain in effect through the derivative status. mail informing them of their interview DV–2013 program. 11. What family members must I include appointment. on my E-DV entry? The ESC page will be available for 6. What are the regional diversity visa DV–2013 beginning May 1, 2012. If you (dv) limits for DV–2013? On your entry, you must list your applied for the previous year’s DV–2012 The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration spouse (husband or wife), and all program, you may check the status of Services (USCIS) determines the DV unmarried children under 21 years of your entry until June 30, 2012. All other regional limits for each year according age, with the exception of children who requirements for DV–2013 remain the to a formula specified in Section 203(c) are already U.S. citizens or Legal same. of the Immigration and Nationality Act Permanent Residents. You must list (INA). Once the USCIS has completed your spouse even if you are currently 3. Are signatures and photographs the calculations, the regional visa limits separated from him/her, unless you are required for each family member, or will be announced. legally separated (i.e. there is a written only for the principal entrant? agreement recognized by a court or a Signatures are not required on the 7. When will entries for the DV–2013 court order). If you are legally separated Electronic Diversity Visa Entry Form. program be accepted? or divorced, you do not need to list your Recent and individual photographs of The DV–2013 entry period will run former spouse. You must list all your you, your spouse, and all children through the registration period listed children who are unmarried and under under 21 years of age (who are neither above. Each year millions of people 21 years of age at the time of your initial U.S. citizens nor Legal Permanent apply for the program during the electronic DV entry, whether they are Residents) are required. Family or group registration period. The massive volume your natural children, your spouse’s photographs are not accepted. Please of entries creates an enormous amount children, or children you have formally refer to information on the photograph of work in selecting and processing adopted in accordance with the laws of requirements located in this notice. successful individuals. Holding the your country, unless such child is entry period from October 4, 2011, until already a U.S. citizen or Legal 4. Why do natives of certain countries November 5, 2011, will ensure that Permanent Resident. List all children not qualify for the diversity program? selectees are notified in a timely under 21 years of age at the time of your DVs are intended to provide an manner, and gives both the visa electronic entry even if they no longer immigration opportunity for persons applicants and our embassies and reside with you, or you do not intend from countries other than the countries consulates time to prepare and complete for them to immigrate under the DV that send large numbers of immigrants cases for visa issuance. You are strongly program. to the United States. The law states that encouraged to enter early in the The fact that you have listed family no DVs shall be provided for natives of registration period, since excessive members on your entry does not mean ‘‘high admission’’ countries. The law demand at the end of the registration that they later must travel with you. defines this to mean countries from period may slow the system down. We They may choose to remain behind. which a total of 50,000 persons in the will accept no entries after noon EDT However, if you include an eligible Family-Sponsored and Employment- Saturday, November 5, 2011. dependent on your visa application Based visa categories immigrated to the forms that you failed to include on your United States during the period of the 8. May persons who are in the United original entry, your case will be previous five years. Each year, U.S. States apply for the program? disqualified. This only applies to those Citizenship and Immigration Services Yes, you may submit an entry while who were family members at the time (USCIS) adds the family and in the United States or in any another the original application was submitted, employment immigrant admission country. not those acquired at a later date. Your figures for the previous five years in spouse may still submit a separate entry, 9. Is each applicant limited to only one order to identify the countries whose even though he or she is listed on your entry during the annual E–DV natives will be ineligible for the annual entry, as long as both entries include registration period? diversity program. Because there is a details on all dependents in your family. separate determination made before Yes, the law allows only one entry by See question #10 above. each annual E–DV entry period, the list or for each person during each 12. Must I submit my own entry, or may of countries whose natives are not registration period. Individuals for someone act on my behalf? eligible may change from one year to the whom more than one entry is submitted next. will be disqualified. The Department of You may prepare and submit your State will employ sophisticated own entry, or have someone submit the 5. What is the numerical limit for DV– technology and other means to identify entry for you. Regardless of whether an 2013? individuals who submit multiple entries entry is submitted by the individual By law, the U.S. diversity immigration during the registration period. Those directly, or assistance is provided by an program makes available a maximum of submitting more than one entry will be attorney, friend, relative, etc., only one 55,000 permanent residence visas each disqualified, and an electronic record entry may be submitted in the name of year to eligible persons. However, the will be permanently maintained by the each person and the entrant remains Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central Department of State. Individuals may responsible for ensuring that

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information in the entry is correct and Zone’’ to find out the designated Job selected. Entrants should print and keep complete. All entrants, including those Zone number and Specific Vocational their own confirmation page not selected, will be able to check the Preparation (SVP) rating range. information from the time of their entry status of their entry through the official until at least June 30, 2013. (Status 14. How will successful entrants be DV Web site. Entrants should keep their information for the previous DV selected? own confirmation page information program, DV–2012, is available online until at least June 30, 2013, so they may The Department will individually until June 30, 2012.) independently check the status of their number all entries received from each entry. region. After the end of the registration 17. How many individuals will be period, a computer program will selected? 13. What are the requirements for randomly select entries from among all education or work experience? There are 50,000 DV visas available the entries received for each geographic for DV–2013, but more than that number The law and regulations require that region. Within each region, the first of individuals will be selected. Because every entrant must have at least a high entry randomly selected will be the first it is likely that some of the first 50,000 school education or its equivalent or case registered; the second entry persons who are selected will not have, within the past five years, two selected the second registration, etc. All qualify for visas or pursue their cases to years of work experience in an entries received during the registration visa issuance, more than 50,000 entries occupation requiring at least two years’ period will have an equal chance of will be selected by the Department of training or experience. A ‘‘high school being selected within each region. State to ensure that all of the available education or equivalent’’ is defined as Beginning May 1, 2012, selected DV visas are issued. However, this also successful completion of a twelve-year entrants will be able to receive further means that there will not be a sufficient course of elementary and secondary instructions at http:// number of visas for all those who are education in the United States or www.dvlottery.state.gov/. The Kentucky initially selected. All applicants who are successful completion in another Consular Center (KCC) will continue to selected will be informed promptly of country of a formal course of elementary process the case until those selected to their place on the list. Interviews for the and secondary education comparable to be visa applicants are instructed to DV–2013 program will begin in October a high school education in the United appear for visa interviews at a U.S. 2012. The Kentucky Consular Center States. Only formal courses of study consular office, or until those qualifying will notify selected applicants via the meet this requirement; correspondence to change status in the United States ESC on the E–DV Program Web site, programs or equivalency certificates apply at a domestic USCIS office. (such as the G.E.D.) are not acceptable. http://www.dvlottery.state.gov/, four to Documentary proof of education or Important Note: Notifications to those six weeks before the scheduled work experience must be presented to randomly selected will not include interviews with U.S. consular officers at information about your application. Should the consular officer at the time of the overseas posts. Selectees will receive e- you receive an e-mail or mail notification mail communications from the visa interview. that mentions the status of your E–DV What Occupations qualify for the Department of State alerting them that a selection, be aware that the message is not visa appointment has been scheduled Diversity Visa Program? To determine legitimate. You may receive a follow-up e- eligibility based on work experience, mail communication from the Department of after they have responded to the definitions from the Department of State informing you to review ESC for new notification instructions on the ESC. Labor’s (DOL) O*Net Online Database information about your application. We will Such e-mails will direct selectees to http://www.onetonline.org/ will be used. not ask you to send money by mail or by check their interview appointment The O*Net Online Database groups job services such as Western Union, in any e- details on ESC and will not contain experience into five ‘‘job zones.’’ While mail generated by the Department of State. information on the actual appointment many occupations are listed on the DOL date and time. Each month visas will be Web site, only certain specified 15. May selectees adjust their status issued to those applicants who are ready occupations qualify for the Diversity with USCIS? for issuance during that month, visa Visa Program. To qualify for a Diversity Yes, provided they are otherwise number availability permitting. Once all Visa on the basis of your work eligible to adjust status under the terms of the 50,000 DV visas have been issued, experience, you must have, within the of Section 245 of the INA, selected the program for the year will end. Thus, past five years, two years of experience individuals who are physically present visa numbers could be exhausted before in an occupation that is designated as in the United States may apply to the September 30, 2013. Selected applicants Job Zone 4 or 5, classified in a Specific USCIS for to who wish to receive visas must be Vocational Preparation (SVP) range of permanent resident. Applicants must prepared to act promptly on their cases. 7.0 or higher. ensure that USCIS can complete action Random selection by the Department of How Do I Find the Qualifying on their cases, including processing of State’s computer software program does Occupations on the Department of any overseas derivatives, before not automatically guarantee that you Labor Web site? Qualifying DV September 30, 2013, since on that date will receive a visa. You must qualify for Occupations are shown on the registrations for the DV–2013 program the visa as well. Department of Labor O*Net Online expire. No visa numbers for the DV– 18. Is There a minimum age for Database. Follow these steps to find out 2013 program will be available after applicants to apply for the E–DV if your occupation qualifies: Select midnight on September 30, 2013, under program? ‘‘Find Occupations’’ and then select a any circumstances. specific ‘‘Job Family.’’ For example, There is no minimum age to apply for select Architecture and Engineering and 16. Will entrants who are not selected be the program, but the requirement of a click ‘‘GO.’’ Then click on the link for informed? high school education or work the specific Occupation. Following the All entrants, including those not experience for each principal applicant same example, click Aerospace selected, may check the status of their at the time of application will Engineers. After selecting a specific entry through the E–DV Web site and effectively disqualify most persons who Occupation link, select the tab ‘‘Job find out if their entry was or was not are under age 18.

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19. Are there any fees for the E–DV automatic revocation of the DV case. The DV–2013 instructions explain program? Any eligible spouse and/or children are clearly and completely what There is no fee for submitting an E– no longer entitled to the DV visa for that information is required to fill in the DV program entry. DV applicants must entry. form. Thus you can be fully prepared, pay all required visa fees at the time of 24. When will E–DV online be available? making sure you have all of the visa application directly to the consular information needed before you start Online entry will be available during cashier at the embassy or consulate. completing the form online. the registration period beginning at Details of required diversity visa and noon EDT (GMT–4) on October 4, 2011, immigration visa application fees will 28. If the submitted digital images do be included on the ESC. and ending at noon EDT (GMT–4) on not conform to the specifications, the November 5, 2011. procedures state that the system will 20. Do DV applicants receive waivers of automatically reject the E–DV entry any grounds of visa ineligibility or 25. Will I be able to download and save the E–DV entry form to a Microsoft form and notify the sender. does this receive special processing for a waiver mean I will be able re-submit my entry? application? Word Program (or other suitable program) and then fill it out? Applicants are subject to all grounds Yes. Since the entry was of ineligibility for immigrant visas No, you will not be able to save the automatically rejected, it was not specified in the Immigration and form into another program for actually considered as submitted to the Nationality Act. There are no special completion and submission later. The E- E–DV Web site. It does not count as a provisions for the waiver of any ground DV Entry Form is a Web form only. This submitted E–DV entry, and no of visa ineligibility aside from those makes it more ‘‘universal’’ than a confirmation notice of receipt is sent. If ordinarily provided in the Act, nor is proprietary word processor format. there are problems with the digital there special processing for waiver Additionally, it does require that the photograph sent, because it does not information be filled in and submitted requests. Some general waiver conform to the requirements, it is while online. provisions for individuals with close automatically rejected by the E–DV Web relatives who are U.S. Citizens or 26. If I don’t have access to a scanner, site. However, the amount of time it Lawful Permanent Resident aliens may can I send photographs to my relative in takes the rejection message to reach the be available to DV applicants as well, the United States to scan the sender is unpredictable given the nature but the time constraints in the DV photographs, save the photographs to a of the Internet. If the problem can be program will make it difficult for diskette, and then mail the diskette back fixed by the applicant, and the Form applicants to benefit from such to me to apply? Part One or Two is resent within sixty provisions. Yes, as long as the photograph meets (60) minutes, there is no problem. 21. May persons who are already the photograph requirements in the Otherwise, the applicant will have to registered for an immigrant visa in instructions and the photograph is restart the submission process. An another category apply for the DV electronically submitted with, and at the applicant can try to submit an program? same time as, the E–DV online entry is application as many times as is Yes, such persons may apply for the submitted. The applicants must already necessary until a complete application DV program. have the scanned photograph file when is received and the confirmation notice they submit the entry online. The sent. 22. How long do applicants who are photograph cannot be submitted selected remain entitled to apply for separately from the online application. 29. Will the electronic confirmation visas in the DV category? Only one online entry can be submitted notice that the completed E–DV entry Persons selected in the DV–2013 per person. Multiple submissions will form has been received through the program are entitled to apply for visa disqualify the entry for that person for online system be sent immediately after issuance only during fiscal year 2013, DV–2013. The entire entry (photograph submission? from October 1, 2012, through and application together) can be September 30, 2013. Applicants must submitted electronically from the The response from the E–DV Web site obtain the DV visa or adjust status by United States or from overseas. which contains confirmation of the the end of the fiscal year. There is no receipt of an acceptable E–DV Entry 27. Can I save the form online so that carry-over of DV benefits into the next Form is sent by the E–DV Web site I can fill out part and then come back year for persons who are selected but immediately. However, how long it later and complete the remainder? who do not obtain visas by September takes the response to reach the sender 30, 2013 (the end of the fiscal year.) No. The E–DV Entry Form is designed is unpredictable because of the nature of Also, spouses and children who derive to be completed and submitted at one the Internet. If many minutes have status from a DV–2013 registration can time. However, because the form is in elapsed since pressing the ‘Submit’ only obtain visas in the DV category two parts, and because of possible button, there is no harm in pressing the between October 1, 2012, and network interruptions and delays, the ‘Submit’ button a second time. The E– September 30, 2013. Applicants who E–DV system is designed to permit up DV system will not be confused by a apply overseas will receive an to sixty (60) minutes between the form’s situation where the ‘Submit’ button is download and when the entry is appointment notification through the hit a second time, because you received received at the E–DV Web site. If more ESC Web site, from the Department of no confirmation response. You can try than sixty minutes elapse and the entry State four to six weeks before the to submit an application as many times scheduled appointment. has not been electronically received, the information already received is as is necessary until a complete 23. If an E–DV selectee dies, what discarded. This is done so that there is application is received and the happens to the DV case? no possibility that a full entry could confirmation notice sent. However, once The death of an individual selected in accidentally be interpreted as a you receive a confirmation notice, do the DV program will result in the duplicate of a previous partial entry. not resubmit your information.

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30. How will I know if the notification only receive e-mail communications become a public charge in the United of selection that I have received is from the Department alerting them to States. This evidence may be in the form authentic? How can I confirm that I perform an ESC. Such e-mails will of a combination of your personal have in fact been chosen in the random direct selectees to check their interview assets, an Affidavit of Support (Form I– DV selection? appointment details on ESC and will 134) from a relative or friend residing in Keep and print your confirmation not contain information on the actual the United States, and/or an offer of page until at least June 30, 2013. You appointment date and time. employment from an employer in the The Department of State’s Bureau of will need your confirmation number to United States. Consular Affairs advises the public that access information through the ESC only Internet sites including the ‘‘.gov’’ List of Countries By Region Whose available on the E–DV Web site http:// domain suffix are official government Natives Are Eligible for DV-2013 www.dvlottery.state.gov/. The ESC will Web sites. Many other non- The lists below show the countries be the sole means by which DV–2013 governmental Web sites (e.g., using the whose natives are eligible for DV–2013, entrants are notified of their selection, suffixes‘‘.com’’ or ‘‘.org’’ or ‘‘.net’’) grouped by geographic region. provided instructions on how to provide immigration and visa related Dependent areas overseas are included proceed with their application, and information and services. Regardless of within the region of the governing notified of their immigrant visa the content of non-governmental Web country. The countries whose natives interview appointment date and time. sites, the Department of State does not Status information will be available are not eligible for the DV–2013 endorse, recommend, or sponsor any program were identified by the U.S. from May 1, 2012. If you lose your information or material shown at these confirmation information, you will not Citizenship and Immigration Services other Web sites. (USCIS) according to the formula in be able to check your DV entry status, Some Web sites may try to mislead and we will not resend the confirmation Section 203(c) of the Immigration and customers and members of the public Nationality Act. The countries whose page information to you. Only the into thinking they are official Web sites randomly selected individuals will be natives are not eligible for this diversity and may contact you by e-mail to lure program (because they are the principal given additional instructions on how to you to their offers. These Web sites may pursue their DV visa application. You source countries of Family-Sponsored attempt to require you to pay for and Employment-Based immigration or may verify non-selection through services such as forms and information entering your confirmation number on ‘‘high admission’’ countries) are noted about immigration procedures, which after the respective regional lists. the ESC, but you will receive no further are otherwise free on the Department of instructions. We will NOT forward the State’s Visa Services Web site or confirmation page information to you. through U.S. embassy consular sections’ Algeria U.S. Embassies and Consulates will Web sites. Additionally, these other Angola NOT provide a list of those selected to Web sites may require you to pay for Benin continue the visa process. services you will not receive (such as Botswana Randomly selected entrants will fees for DV immigration applications Burkina Faso receive notification instructions for the and visas.) Also, you should be wary of Burundi DV visa application process on the sending any personal information to Cameroon selectee confirmation page available these Web sites that might be used for Cape Verde through ESC on the E–DV Web site identity fraud/theft. Central African Republic http://www.dvlottery.state.gov/. The Chad 31. How do I report internet fraud or instructions note that selected Comoros unsolicited e-mail? applicants will pay all diversity and Congo immigrant visa fees in person only at If you wish to file a complaint about Congo, Democratic Republic of the the U.S. Embassy or Consulate at the Internet fraud, please see the Cote D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) time of the visa application. The econsumer.gov Web site, hosted by the Djibouti consular cashier immediately gives the Federal Trade Commission, in visa applicant a U.S. government receipt cooperation with consumer protection Equatorial Guinea for payment. Selected applicants agencies from 17 nations (http:// Eritrea applying for an immigrant visa at a U.S. www.econsumer.gov/english/). You may Embassy or Consulate should never also report fraud to the Federal Bureau Gabon send money for DV fees through the of Investigation (FBI) Internet Crime Gambia, The mail, Western Union, or any other Complaint Center. To file a complaint Ghana delivery service. Selected applicants about unsolicited e-mail, contact the Guinea who are already present in the United Department of Justice Contact Us page. Guinea-Bissau States, and who file for adjustment of Kenya status, will receive separate instructions 32. If I am successful in obtaining a visa Lesotho on how to mail DV fees to a U.S. bank. through the DV program, will the U.S. Liberia The E–DV entries are submitted on government assist with my airfare to the Libya the Internet, on the official U.S. United States, provide assistance to Madagascar government E–DV Web site at http:// locate housing and employment, Malawi www.dvlottery.state.gov/. The provide healthcare, or provide any Mali Department of State will not send subsidies until I am fully settled? Mauritania notification letters to the selected No. Applicants who obtain a DV visa Mauritius applicants. The U.S. government has are not provided any type of assistance Morocco never sent e-mails to notify individuals such as airfare, housing assistance, or Mozambique they have been selected, and there are subsidies. If you are selected to apply Namibia no plans to use e-mail for this purpose for a DV visa, you will be required, to Niger for the DV–2013 program. 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Rwanda Armenia Ireland is treated separately; Northern Sao Tome and Principe Austria Ireland does qualify and is listed among Senegal Azerbaijan the qualifying areas. Seychelles Belarus Sierra Leone Belgium Somalia Bosnia and Herzegovina South Africa Bulgaria South Sudan Croatia In North America, natives of Canada Sudan and Mexico are not eligible for this Swaziland Czech Republic year’s diversity program. Tanzania Denmark (including components Togo and dependent areas overseas) Tunisia Estonia Australia (including components and Uganda Finland dependent areas overseas) Zambia France (including components and Fiji Zimbabwe dependent areas overseas) Kiribati Persons born in the are Georgia Marshall Islands chargeable to Egypt. Germany Micronesia, Federated States of Nauru Greece New Zealand (including components Hungary and dependent areas overseas) Iceland Palau Bahrain Ireland Papua New Guinea Bhutan Italy Brunei Kazakhstan Samoa Burma Kosovo Solomon Islands Cambodia Kyrgyzstan Tonga East Timor Latvia Tuvalu Hong Kong Special Administrative Liechtenstein Vanuatu Region Lithuania , , and Indonesia Luxembourg the Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic Antigua and Barbuda Israel Macau Special Administrative Region Argentina Japan Malta Barbados Moldova Belize Monaco Kuwait Bolivia Laos Montenegro Chile Lebanon Netherlands (including components and Malaysia dependent areas overseas) Costa Rica Maldives Northern Ireland Mongolia Norway Dominica Grenada North Korea (including components and Guyana Oman dependent areas overseas) Qatar Romania Nicaragua Saudi Arabia Panama San Marino Singapore Paraguay Sri Lanka Serbia Saint Kitts and Nevis Syria Slovakia Taiwan Slovenia Saint Lucia Thailand Spain Saint Vincent and the Grenadines United Arab Emirates Sweden Suriname Yemen Switzerland Trinidad and Tobago Natives of the following Asian Tajikistan Uruguay countries are not eligible for this year’s diversity program: Bangladesh, China Turkmenistan Countries in this region whose natives [mainland-born], India, Pakistan, South are not eligible for this year’s diversity Korea, Philippines, and Vietnam. Hong program: Kong S.A.R. and Taiwan do qualify and Vatican City Brazil, Colombia, Dominican are listed above. Macau S.A.R. also Natives of Great Britain are not Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, qualifies and is listed below. Persons eligible for this year’s diversity program. Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, and born in the areas administered prior to Great Britain () Peru. June 1967 by Israel, Jordan and Syria are includes the following dependent areas: chargeable, respectively, to Israel, Anguilla, , British Virgin Dated: September 28, 2011. Jordan and Syria. Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Michael D. Kirby, Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn, Acting Assistant Secretary for Consular St. Helena, and Turks and Caicos Affairs, Department of State. Albania Islands. Note that for purposes of the [FR Doc. 2011–25900 Filed 10–5–11; 8:45 am] Andorra diversity program only, Northern BILLING CODE 4710–06–P

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