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DV 2015, The 2015 Diversity Lottery

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Want a green card? Feeling lucky? Play the lottery, not the Powerball, but the DV 2015 Diversity Lottery.

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Robert Whitehill
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Want a green card?  Feeling lucky?

Play the lottery, not the Powerball, but the DV 2015 Diversity Lottery.

Beginning noon (EDT), October 1, 2013, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) will accept electronically submitted entries for nationals of countries under-represented in the US to obtain DV immigrant visas to come to the US as permanent residents.   The DV 2105 Lottery closes at noon (EDT) November 2, 2013.  It is 2013...no paper entries will be accepted.  Entrants will receive an entrant number, lottery ticket, can check their status and winners will be notified if their entry has been chosen beginning May 1, 2014.  It is important to note that there is only ONE ENTRY per person.

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