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May 24, 2019 at 2:32 pm
Hello Brit if your case number shows you are to be interviewed on may but you sent your documents on april when do you expect having the 2NLS that’s concerning 2019 winners
May 24, 2019 at 3:00 pm
http://britsimonsays.com/dv2019-selectees-not-yet-interviewed-please-read-this/
May 25, 2019 at 12:15 am
Hello Simon,
I sent my required document on February 9 and received the Automatic reply but till now have not been summoned for an interview. What should be my next move? Should I wait and be patient as you said because I read somewhere that it takes 30 to 90 days to be schedule for an interview and so far am on the 73 day. Kindly advice me what to do
May 25, 2019 at 12:28 am
http://britsimonsays.com/dv2019-selectees-not-yet-interviewed-please-read-this/
May 24, 2019 at 2:39 pm
Can you help me with any low how can I solve this issue….. Because my passport is Somalian and I’m not stable here im not permanent I’m tempopraly worker
May 24, 2019 at 7:39 pm
There is no solution. You will be disqualified.
May 24, 2019 at 3:03 pm
Hi Brit, I really need your help. Indeed, I found a sponsor who is the uncle of a close friend. But currently I am in the embarrassment because with the sponsor we really do not know what to level with “relationship with sponsor” not to disqualify me. I need your help and your opinion because my interview is scheduled for the middle of June.
CNAF00015XXX
May 24, 2019 at 7:40 pm
If asked, tell the truth. That’s all.
May 24, 2019 at 3:17 pm
Dear Simon,
My wife is a main applicant. We have an interview on June 20th. My wife is pregnant and we took our medical. My wife got the XRay and the doctor said they will provide us the report. But she told my wife no need to take the vaccines.
1. Without taking vaccines the CO will approve our visa or not?
2. As per your experience please advise me whether we can get the visa or not?
Thanks in advance
May 24, 2019 at 7:42 pm
1. If the doctor did not require vaccinations that will be OK.
2. I know nothing about your case.
May 24, 2019 at 10:12 pm
Thanks BRIT
May 24, 2019 at 5:27 pm
Dear Brit,
If we apply from one country and temporarily move to another country before submitting ds 260, can we plan the interview in the temporary country? Will they inform us where to get the medical from or can we choose the country?
May 24, 2019 at 7:48 pm
You interview where you live at the time of the interview. You have a medical based on which embassy you will have the interview.
May 24, 2019 at 8:00 pm
Hello Dear sir Brit
I have question how many peoples exact who selected in Dv2020 in Africa?
Thank so much sir.
Kind regards
May 24, 2019 at 8:20 pm
We don’t know yet.
May 24, 2019 at 8:08 pm
Hi Brit,
I recived my interview date today.my number is as11xxx My questions are
1)my sponcer is a dv lottery winner 2015 is that okay?
2)what if he send his affadavit of support directly to the embassy?
May 24, 2019 at 8:22 pm
1. Yes
2. No he gives it to you.
May 24, 2019 at 8:50 pm
👍
May 24, 2019 at 8:30 pm
Hello Brit,
I need your help in this please, in primary occupation question in ds-260 form I chose other and wrote ACCOUNTANT in the explanation box.
Some ppl told me “you should’ve chosen BUSINESS”
Is that a problem?? Should I unlock my ds and update it??
May 24, 2019 at 8:49 pm
If you are accountant, your answer was correct.
May 25, 2019 at 12:36 am
Hi brit
Iam a dv2019 winner,i won in dv2020 too,my interview will be on 11 june 2019,but iam from yemen and live there,and yemen is banned,
-So what’s your advise to me???
Note that My cousin has American citizenship,and my birth place is saudi.
May 25, 2019 at 1:00 am
If they decide you are affected by the ban, your brothers citizenship wont help. So, you are probably wasting your money, but you probably want to try anyway.
May 24, 2019 at 8:37 pm
Thank you sir and I appreciate you for all your support
May 24, 2019 at 8:45 pm
Dear Simon,
I and my wife went current for July 2019, but we did not get an interview yet. We’ve sent all the documents they have asked for in their email on April 11th. I’ve followed your advice and sent an email to KCC few days ago and asked if there are any problems with the docs. I’ve received an email from them today that starts with “Collect and submit your documents promptly. Your case will not be scheduled for a visa interview at a U.S. embassy or consulate until KCC has received and processed all required documents.”
I am confused now, since they have not provided any details. I’ve checked everything, and our documents meet their requirements. I can resend them again, but I am afraid of getting the same answer. I do not want to waste precious time. What is the best course of action now? Could it be due to lack of a military record(I have never served in the military, so I could not provide them with a military document)?
I would appreciate your advice. Thank you for creating such a wonderful website.
May 24, 2019 at 8:53 pm
You have to ask them again in a few days time.
May 24, 2019 at 9:12 pm
&When do you think it’s proper time to get an answer?
May 24, 2019 at 9:18 pm
Sorry, the question is send by mistake
May 24, 2019 at 10:33 pm
Hello Simon,
Hope you are doing well. My brother and his wife had interview for DV2019 this month. The officer refused visa after asking few questions. The reason for denial was because he mentioned three different birth years . He initially filled out wrong year but corrected in his DS260 application. My question is:
How do they request for second interview or appeal the decision? Is there a way to ask for second chance?
Thank you,
Habe
May 24, 2019 at 11:01 pm
There is no appeal process – and by the sound of it your brother created suspicion about his identity, so that would not be overcome. This is a simple process. Accuracy and honesty is critical.
May 24, 2019 at 11:31 pm
Thank you Simon..
We were thinking to hire lawyer and write explanations to the embassy. Just to trying every possible chances. Do you think they will reconsider?
May 25, 2019 at 12:07 am
What explanation is there for your brother not being able to get his own personal details straight?
May 25, 2019 at 12:15 am
Yes. He said he was nervous and not used to the Gregorian calendar. Our country official calendar is different.
May 25, 2019 at 12:27 am
Well OK, that seems like a reasonable excuse BUT they are used to the conversion differences in some embassies. I suspect there was more to the refusal than we are discussing, BUT if you want to try with a lawyer you can do so. However there is no guarantee the embassy will even agree to another conversation – they are certainly not obliged to do so.
May 25, 2019 at 12:08 am
Hello britsimon
I have applied for the dv littery 2020 and my confirmation no,20207vsjy3xedu50.
When i signed all my family name and date of birth the answer came unspesified.i am sure i entered all correctly.it reply error.would help me what is the main problem, how can i identified to check my status in dv 2020.
May 25, 2019 at 12:11 am
You are probably entering something wrong. Read the tips here:
http://britsimonsays.com/dv2020-basic-questions/
May 25, 2019 at 1:06 am
I do not think the problem from me i know all criterias and i tried.how i get to inter the signature i remain with only not tried
May 25, 2019 at 3:19 am
Email me the details. Britsimon3 at gmail.
May 25, 2019 at 5:00 pm
I sent all you inquered inbox email at britsimon3@gmail.com have you seen it i am waiting the result
May 25, 2019 at 12:27 am
Derrick
Hello Simon I wish to know after the visas are approved is there any other bill to pay and how much thanks
May 25, 2019 at 4:53 am
http://britsimonsays.com/dv-lottery-fees/
May 25, 2019 at 2:36 am
hello mr simon
how many visas dedicated for each country for FY-2019? is it possible to know that ?
May 25, 2019 at 3:16 am
There is not a per country allocation.
May 25, 2019 at 2:40 am
Hello B
My sister won the DV 2018 and she been in the US for more than seven 7 months now but she didn’t apply for her green card and her Visa has expired.
My questions are: what can she do?
2. Can you please show me the link to apply for her green card?
May 25, 2019 at 3:16 am
She probably hasn’t paid the fee. She should contact USCIS.
May 25, 2019 at 5:11 am
Hi britt
thank you for this site.
May 25, 2019 at 5:29 am
I’ve a question, my case nr is 2020AFXXX29XXXXX
I played single because i was in a divorced process and separated.
On that day my statue was married because the divorced was on going, but as you know, if i choose married to respect the statue as of that day then i wouldn’t play because she will never give me her pictures and without a spouse picture it is impossible to play the dv as married.
Also, she had our 2 kids and she said she does not want them to live in the US.
So,i also could not play with the kids because she refused to let me take picture of them.
I then played single.
Now we are divorced with all legal papers from court.
On the DS-260, i do not need pictures to write my kids names, so i can just write their names.
My question is should i say no kids in DS-260 to be inline with the single and no kids statue i played last year?
Or
should i mention them?
We have 50-50 powers on the kids.
Thanks.
May 25, 2019 at 1:39 pm
So you knew the rules and broke them. You should not complete the DS260 because you will be committing immigration fraud.
May 25, 2019 at 5:46 pm
How could I have played married when I will 100% need picture of her to attached and she will never give me?
I knew the rules but I could not get her picture and I had to play.
Is there any chance of making it given that I have court papers as evidence?
May 25, 2019 at 6:12 pm
No. The rules are very clear. You didn’t “have to” play.
May 25, 2019 at 6:35 pm
What if i fill DS-260 as single and no children, which is how i played and also never married before, Do you see any chance?
May 25, 2019 at 8:10 pm
I am not going to help or encourage you to commit fraud.
May 25, 2019 at 6:59 am
Hello Mr Brit,
Is it possible that KCC send 2nls to selectees from a specific country in batches and in 2 or 3 different days ?
May 25, 2019 at 1:40 pm
Yes
May 25, 2019 at 7:14 am
Hello,
I am currently finishing my university studies and I am planning to graduate in June. In the visa application there was a question about the level of education. I answered that I finished high school. What shoud I do if I graduate after I send the DS-260 application?
May 25, 2019 at 1:42 pm
Nothing. You will have listed your attendance anyway, so at the interview you can show the degree.
May 25, 2019 at 9:22 am
Good afternoon dear brit
I want ask you question about disability person , my friend won dv lottery in 2020
But he is dead person. Will he get chances or rejected in medical ? Deaf person get Visa or not?
May 25, 2019 at 1:58 pm
I’m pretty sure a dead person can’t pass the medical. Even if he did, how would he do in the interview? He would need an affidavit of support from a living person for sure.
A deaf person on the other hand would be OK, but may need to satisfy public charge concerns of coping with the disability.
May 25, 2019 at 3:56 pm
Sorry for wrong question, he is not dead person ,he is deaf would co approve Visa or not? In FAQ IT IS NOT STATED AS DISEASE AS MEDICAL REPORT.
May 25, 2019 at 9:36 am
Hello Brit,
My sponsor is in the process of filling I134 form and there is a section that she has to indicate whether she intends or do not intend to make specific contributions to the support of the beneficiary.
1, Should she select the “intend” option?
2. If the “intend” option is selected, she has to indicate the nature and duration of contributions which in my case is room and board, should she put a limit in terms of duration ?
3. She sponsored someone three years back and the person is already a citizen and the sponsorship is expired, will the embassy have issues because of this?
Note: she is my inlaw
May 25, 2019 at 2:00 pm
1. Yes
2. No limit.
3. No
May 25, 2019 at 11:23 am
Thanks god my interview is July 24-th.thank you Brit for everything. Sorry if I bodied you.
May 25, 2019 at 11:24 am
I have last step. Interview. I think everything will be good.
May 25, 2019 at 11:40 am
Hi when you received confirmation mail about documents also what ranges between your Case number?
May 25, 2019 at 11:51 am
Turan what is your case no range and when did you submit your documents and when did you get your confirmation email ?
May 25, 2019 at 3:44 pm
Hi Brit I am winner diversity lottery 2020 but during my time of playing i mistakenly choose MACAU in the Asian region instead of Sierra Leone in Africa will this be a problem?
May 25, 2019 at 5:14 pm
Yes – you will be disqualified.
May 25, 2019 at 5:15 pm
I assume you have an EU number?
May 25, 2019 at 4:04 pm
Hello Sir,I put my place of birth x in edv but in all my documents is Y .
Im belong to Bamyan a province of Afghanistan living in kabul city of afghanistan in my documents (passport ) my place of birth is bamyan but mistakenly I write place of birth as kabul in edv will it effect my dv case number is 2020AS00022XXX still not fill ds260
May 25, 2019 at 4:24 pm
Hi Sir, I can pay the green card fee in the US there is a problem with that in the immigration entry?
May 25, 2019 at 4:24 pm
Hi.
EU35XXX.
What do you think about my CN?
Do you suggest me to wait with DS-260?
When is next visabulletin, any predictions when we gonna be sure how many people been selected?
Regards
May 26, 2019 at 5:50 am
Yes, wait. We will know more within the next couple of months.
May 25, 2019 at 4:55 pm
May24 was resived conformation mail. I send in kcc my doc. April8 and there resived required mail april15.
May 25, 2019 at 5:25 pm
Hi Brit,
When completing my DS-260, I entered my 3 undergraduate degrees all of which required completion of my 12 year schooling in South Africa. I however didn’t include my actual high school certificate in the DS-260. Is this going to be a problem? I will take it along with me and include when requested to submit supporting documentation, however only thought to include my 3 bachelor’s degrees in the DS-260.
Regards,
May 25, 2019 at 6:11 pm
You were supposed to document secondary schooling from about age 12, but if you’re DV2019 no need to update. Take everything to the interview.
May 25, 2019 at 7:11 pm
Hello Brit.
Would you please check your email britsimon3, the letter is subject “dv-2019 – critical question”.
May 25, 2019 at 8:27 pm
So I remember you. Around mid May last year you were making a number of ridiculous sarcastic and childish comments talking about X and Y axis of a chart I had made, complaining about my article being incomplete, complaining about other people wanting their privacy and also complaining that the Canadian process was so much better than the American system. Quite frankly, in about 2 days you showed you were not a nice person and had nothing but complaints. Now it turns out you were refused in your interview because you left your wife off the original entry and added her on the DS260.
The CO correctly disqualified you.
In May of last year you were asking how to add your wife as a derivative but you were so busy complaining and insulting me I didn’t bother to ask you whether you had correctly completed the original entry. Someone that complains as much about everyone else as you do SURELY read the instructions and followed the instructions – right? Oh, it seems not.
Maybe you should have spent more time reading, and less complaining. I could not have saved your case, but I could have predicted your denial and saved you the fees.
May 26, 2019 at 2:18 am
Please, no rude. The CO didn’t disqualified me. And can you please answer our question. I’m sorry if I did wrong things last year. I was so inexperienced.
May 26, 2019 at 2:28 am
I DID added my spouse on first entry.
May 26, 2019 at 2:30 am
No you did not. If you had, you would not have had to add applicant to the ds260.
May 26, 2019 at 2:54 am
Do you mean that if the spouse was added on first entry, so the information about spouse also will be added on the ds 260 automatically?
May 26, 2019 at 3:08 am
Correct.
May 26, 2019 at 2:29 am
I wasnt rude, although coming from you that is ironic.
I answered already. You applied single, so the denial was justified.
May 26, 2019 at 2:31 am
Why do you think that I’ve applied as a single when the Visa status check clearly shows that my wife’s case was created at the same time as my mine?
May 26, 2019 at 2:46 am
Again the CO didn’t disqualify us. And please answer the question about the Visa status check, because if I “didn’t” add my spouse, then the status check should have been show only my case number, but it shows two cases and more over my wife’s case WAS created at the same time as mine. So, logically it means that I did added her on my first entry.
May 26, 2019 at 3:21 am
Please, Simon, could clarify the issue about the Visa status check pagr in my case.. please..
May 26, 2019 at 3:23 am
Please, Simon, could you clarify the issue about the Visa status check page in my case.. please..
May 26, 2019 at 3:59 am
It shows your entry date. Nothing to do with derivatives.
May 26, 2019 at 4:15 am
But if I did choose “unmarried” and didn’t add any derivatives (I don’t have a kids) then that visa check page would show only my case and nothing else, isn’t it?
May 26, 2019 at 5:10 am
No – because you added your wife in May and CEAC wasn’t available until January.
May 26, 2019 at 5:17 am
Also, okay, if imagine that I choosed unmarried, then later after the win we decided to marry with my wife, and add her on DS 260, then that day should become her case creation date, right? Not the same date as my case creation date, just logically it should be like that.
May 26, 2019 at 5:41 am
No. It would not be like that. AGAIN, the case creation date is the date YOU entered the lottery. It’s that simple. There is NO connection between that date and a derivative. There is NO logic in your argument, and since you clearly added your spouse on the DS260 it is OBVIOUS that the allegation is correct.
May 26, 2019 at 6:31 am
Of course there are “no” logic in my words… Even though it’s a common sense, why not to use the date when a new derivative was added on ds260 as the date for case creation..
May 26, 2019 at 2:51 pm
Because that would be idiotic. The field is ***CASE*** ***CREATION***. THat is a one time event, that happened during the lottery entry and has absolutely NOTHING to do with case updates, derivative updates, anyone’s birthday and so on. It also has nothing to do with anything except the case of the principal applicant. Just the date the CASE was CREATED.
Surely this must be clear to you now.
May 25, 2019 at 7:46 pm
Hi there..i have i queation.
They say i need a 12 school ,high school, i finished 11 years then i was one year in army and after that i finish 1 year school more, so here in my country i have 12 high school, bit will they refuse me for that ?
May 25, 2019 at 8:52 pm
Possibly. You might want to prepare a work experience case too.
May 25, 2019 at 7:47 pm
Hello Brit
I’ve read most of the articles you’ve written. I love them, they are very informative.
My question is, my case number is 2020AF33xxx, can I send my DS-260 now? . Because I’m single and I don’t want to get married anytime soon. Mean no derivatives.
Please advise. Thank you
May 25, 2019 at 8:08 pm
You can send it now, or you could wait a few months. Sending it now won’t speed up the process.
May 26, 2019 at 2:08 am
hello Brit,
when will KCC ask me to send further documents I already send Ds-260 on 21 may?
May 26, 2019 at 2:28 am
I cant answer unless you tell me year region and case number range.
May 26, 2019 at 4:54 am
2020as000047**
May 26, 2019 at 5:13 am
You will wait several months.
May 26, 2019 at 3:02 am
Hello Sir, Im belong to Bamyan a province of Afghanistan living in kabul city of afghanistan in my documents (passport ) my place of birth is bamyan but mistakenly I write place of birth as kabul in edv will it effect? my dv case number is 2020AS00022XXX and as per your recommendation I have not fill ds260.
May 26, 2019 at 4:01 am
No problem, but dont submit yet.
May 26, 2019 at 7:44 am
Hi Brit
I and my husband both have nearly $14000 deposits and we already have a sponcer.
1)my question is do we have to show both?
2)if so $14000 is enough?
3) Only affadavit of support is enough?
May 26, 2019 at 2:52 pm
Take both.
May 26, 2019 at 9:03 am
Hi Brit,
Is travel ban for asia region can be good or bad to other countries when on scheduling interviews?
Thank You
May 26, 2019 at 2:56 pm
It helps selectees from non banned countries.
May 26, 2019 at 10:12 am
dear brit
i would ask another question
bone increase in knee problem denial or not
May 26, 2019 at 2:58 pm
No problem.
May 26, 2019 at 2:35 pm
Also, one follow up question please regarding educational institutions – would I include universities I attended but transferred from? I.e. did not receive a qualification from that institution. I attended a university and moved to another from which I received my degree. the question asks all institutions ATTENDED tho, so I’m unclear. If I were to include the uni I attended, then what would I input into Degree Received? NA? Thank you!
May 26, 2019 at 3:15 pm
Yes it says attended. So it means attended. Degree received, none. It’s not a trick question form.