The US green card lottery, or Diversity Immigrant Visa program, grants approximately 55,000 visas annually to citizens of countries with low US immigration rates. Winners can eventually become citizens and there is no cost to apply. Eligibility rules change yearly.
Approximately 55,000 people each year win the US green card lottery, also called the Diversity Immigrant Visa program, which allows them to live and work in the United States as permanent residents who could eventually become citizens. The program awards visas on a random basis which is why the program is known as a lottery. Individuals who are eligible to enter the United States through the lottery program must be citizens of countries with low US immigration rates.
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There is no cost to apply for the US Green Card Lottery.
Green Card lottery winners who are not married to US citizens can apply for citizenship after five years of living in the United States. Those married to US citizens only have to wait three years before applying for citizenship.
For the 2013 lottery, people from countries that sent at least 50,000 immigrants to the United States during the previous five-year period were not eligible. Among the countries whose citizens were not eligible to participate in the 2013 lottery were Canada, Mexico, Brazil, India and South Korea.
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