Free Eligibility Check for Participation in the Green Card Lottery
Have you dreamt about obtaining a Green Card in order to legally live, work and study in the US? The easiest way to pursue this dream is
by applying for the “Diversity Green Card Lottery" program authorized by the American government. The first step in participating in the
Green Card Lottery program is to check if the country you were born from is qualified for the program.
Every year the US State Department issues a list of countries which are non eligible for the program. Non eligible countries are defined
as those from which the United States has received more than 50,000 immigrants during the last five years. Every year the lists changes!
Below, you will find a list of non eligible countries:
Canada
China (except Hong Kong S.A.R.)
Colombia
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Haiti
India
Jamaica
Mexico
Pakistan
Philippines
South Korea
United Kingdom
Vietnam
Poland (added to the DV-2007 list)
Brazil (added to the DV-2008 list)
Peru (added to the DV-2008 list)
The colored countries in the diagram below indicate those not eligible for the Green card Lottery program.
Even if your native country is non eligible, you shouldn’t be frustrated. You still may have a chance.
You can “pull” nativity from someone else. There are two ways to do this:
1. The first way is to pull nativity from your spouse if he/ she was born in an eligible country.
2. The second way is to pull nativity from your parents only in a case where both of them were born in an eligible
country and stayed in the non eligible country for a limited time (for example – worked there for limited time).
USAFIS Organization provides a free service to check your eligibility for all those countries.