DV lottery guide
This presentation above should answer most questions for DV2016 applicants. You will find links to some important articles and a guide on completing your DS260.
I will update the presentation with additional detail as needed – so feel free to ask questions and give me feedback.
If you cannot see the version above please use this link to access the article directly.
June 11, 2017 at 8:08 pm
Hi britsimon your direction makes me to an end to complete ds260 form.it is the first time to me .my question is
1) Is their a form now we fill the selective service system ds 1810 here with ds260?
2) What are the cases that someone will not be reach for an interview?
June 12, 2017 at 12:25 am
1. No – you will it online once you move to the USA.
2. If they don’t become current, or don’t fill in their DS260.
June 11, 2017 at 8:27 pm
Hi…brit…..with lack of knowledge……i made electronicaly signing others application…..can i recorrect the signing of electronicaly…..?
June 12, 2017 at 12:24 am
I don’t understand.
June 12, 2017 at 8:02 am
Hi britsmon….i am finalizing ds 260 form with the help of you.i do have another question.
1) can i sign and submit ds 260 form for my brother by telling him all rules and regulations of ds 260 forms and selective service system ds 1810? i tell him rights and responsibilities him……,
2) Is thier a place in a form ds 260 that he definately puts his signature that fits with passport signature……? this question makes me to late to finish sign and submit ds 260 form?
June 12, 2017 at 2:14 pm
1. Yes
2. No
June 12, 2017 at 11:50 am
hello brit, i am a dv 2018 winner and i have filled up ds 260. Today i saw a post about ds 1810 and wanna ask you, do i have to fill up this too? Soon i am trying 27 on august..
Any Suggestion??
June 12, 2017 at 2:05 pm
No you don’t need it.
June 13, 2017 at 12:47 pm
Hello Brit i fill out the DS 260 and submited in the end of page what next i need to do i give them my email so how long its take my case is EU000XX do i need to call them thanx
June 13, 2017 at 1:34 pm
Now you just wait.
June 14, 2017 at 4:20 am
Hi britsimon…..
1) I just sign & submit ds 260 .next what i remaining….?is there another form now i fill?
2) Can i unlock my ds 260 form ,if there some modifications aftet sign and submit ds 260?
3)can i use my brothers email in my ds 260 for me because of network availability?
June 14, 2017 at 4:52 am
1. Refer to the guide.
2. Yes
3. Yes
June 12, 2017 at 2:20 pm
Please Mr. Simon i head that Ghana is not part of 2019 DVLOTTERY please is true
June 12, 2017 at 2:25 pm
I don’t know. We will have to wait for the formal announcement.
June 13, 2017 at 11:35 am
How winners are selected?
June 13, 2017 at 1:39 pm
Randomly.
June 14, 2017 at 1:49 pm
I live in Sierra Leone West Africa,what are the requirement for a sirra Leonean to be qualify for a visa through the D.V Lottery
June 14, 2017 at 2:06 pm
I don’t know country specifics.
June 14, 2017 at 4:26 pm
Hi Simon,
Wondering if I should include my middle name as a given name on the form? My middle name is not on my passport but on my birth cert. Also my dv lottery application form included my middle name.
Thanks
June 14, 2017 at 5:55 pm
It is odd that your passport doesn’t have the middle name. Normally the advice is to match to the passport – but that is because the passport is a good reflection of legal name as established by the birth cert. So – your call.
June 15, 2017 at 4:45 pm
hello MR Simon
im dv lottery winner
in the 1st application i wrote ( Cairo ) in the City of birht field but actually its (Kalyoubia ) in the birth certificate and i correct this mistake in DS260 i wrote it same as birth certificate
this could cause any problems in the interview ???
June 15, 2017 at 5:05 pm
the two cities that i wrote in the same country and the same region
June 15, 2017 at 8:59 pm
No
June 15, 2017 at 10:00 pm
Hello Mr Simon am dv winner 2018 and just got married resently. Please this are my questions:
1. Is it necessary to include my name on her passport
2. Will she be question the reason why she didn’t add my name to her names at the interview?
3. Will she attend the interview with me when it is my turn or we will enter one after the other
4. Can that call for a rejection at the interview
June 15, 2017 at 11:48 pm
1. That is up to both of you and laws in your country.
2. No
3. Together
4. If you married after the results were announced there is a little more risk. In that case you take evidence that the relationship existed (like photos emails etc).
June 16, 2017 at 9:30 am
Hello Mr Simon please I need your advice serious in this my case am from Ghana dv 2018 but I have been tested hepatitis positive and DNA is under the lower limit of detection my liver function normal. I went through the diseases link but am not all that OK
1. I need your advice if I will be disqualified base on that
2. I can it be possible that I may not be disqualified base on the disease
3. Please I want to know if that disease will disqualified me at the end
4 if you are to stay with some one in the U S what are the possible information that the will be in need from you about that person at the interview
5. When ask at the interview what type of work will you like to do when you get to U S? Please can you say schooling as you are a dv winner
6. Wouldn’t that answer from question 5 disqualified me
June 16, 2017 at 5:57 pm
1, 2 and 3 are all the same question! http://britsimonsays.com/faq/what-are-the-diseases-that-can-cause-denial/
4. They might ask relationship to that person etc.
5. Answer the truth. That’s all. It’s not hard.
6. See 5.
June 17, 2017 at 2:40 pm
Hello Mr Simon am DV2018 winner in Ghana I have just got married on January this year and I want to create a ds260 for her and am hoping to have a child very soon. Here are my questions:
1. Do i have a great chance of insurance of the visa
2. Since Ghana is more strict what documents should i go along side with me at the embassy apart from my educational certificate, birth certificate and marriage certificate
3. I hope when my wife give birth i can create a ds260 for my child
4. Is there any disadvantage of moving with your spouse in this lottery
5. Processing your case as single or processing your case as couples which one is more advantageous
6. Apart from the disease listed on the diseases link synphilis tuberculosis leprosy gonorrhea can you be disqualified because you we not able to vacinnated for hepatitis B only
June 17, 2017 at 3:04 pm
1. No, Ghana refuses a lot of cases. Your case will be judged on whether you followed instructions, were honest and meet the requirements.
2. If you want to have the best chance you will READ THE INTRUCTIONS!!!
3. Yes
4. No
5. Processing truthfully is best.
6. No
June 20, 2017 at 11:40 am
Hello and thank you for the good job you’re doing here!
I am a winner of DV-2018. I submitted my DS-260 and I am getting married two weeks from now. After KCC unlocks my form so I could add my husband, how should I complete for children, given the fact that he is divorced and has a daughter that lives with his ex-wife. How is a step child defined. If I marry him, his daughter automatically becomes my step daugher, so I should also include her as my child in my DS-260? Thank you! Kind regards.
June 20, 2017 at 2:49 pm
Yes, you then both list the child as your child, but if the plan is not to take her to the USA, you don’t create a DS260 for the child.
June 21, 2017 at 1:46 pm
Hello Mr Simon am a dv2018 winner from Ghana and I got married last year December my questions is as follows:
1. Please can I add my wife to my case without creating dv260 for her
2. Will my wife allow to join me later in the U S without facing any challenge? Since am financial in capable now to finance all of us
3. Hope adding her to my case without moving to U S with her at the same time will not disqualified me
June 21, 2017 at 2:10 pm
1. If you want her to have a GC, you create a DS260 for her. If you don’t want her to have a GC, you simply list her as your spouse on your DS260.
2. You can sponsor her later. It will cost a lot more money and take 2 years, rather than the easy and cheap DV process – but it is possible.
3. That is OK.
June 21, 2017 at 1:56 pm
Also if you are hepatitis B positive and you were not able to take the vaccine for it will the CO disqualified you base on that one alone. But you were vaccinated for the rest of the diseases, Many thanks to you
June 21, 2017 at 2:10 pm
That doesn’t cause denial.
June 21, 2017 at 4:19 pm
1.When moving to u s with less then one year baby will you pay for her visa fee at the embassy or children’s are exempted
2. Will the child also pass through all the medical examinations
3. Will my spouse also go through all the processes as a principal applicant do?
4. Please can i get access to my initial entries online at the website just to review my data
June 22, 2017 at 7:40 pm
1. Yes – everyone pays the fees.
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. No
June 21, 2017 at 8:14 pm
Hello! We applied for the lottery in 2016 and in May discovered we won. However, my number is 2272 in the Oceana region. Do I have a change of getting an interview/green card? I’m very anxious about my number being so high. Thanks!
June 22, 2017 at 2:12 am
Honestly, no there is no chance. Sorry.
June 23, 2017 at 7:24 pm
Even with the holes and possible photo disqualifications? ☹️
June 23, 2017 at 8:29 pm
The holes (about 7% of case numbers in OC region) are already accounted for. We don’t know what they will do about cases with DV2017 photos, BUT for your case to become current, you would need a MASSIVE number of cases to be disqualified. Previous comparable years (2014 and 2015) did not get above OC1490.
June 22, 2017 at 3:37 am
Dear Brit,How long does it take to change an interview date for CP and how do I go about it?
Jus got my 2NL and realized am scheduled for August 10th in Harare Zimbabwe, Case Number AF35*** but wont be able to make the interview date as I arrive back in Zimbabwe on the 12th of August. Do I have enough time for processing if I change my interview date?There are a total of 106 DV2017 selectees for Zimbabwe.
June 22, 2017 at 8:40 pm
Changing the interview date would be a silly risk. If you have to do that and accept the risk – contact the embassy.
June 23, 2017 at 6:02 am
i am laura winner of lottery 2018 a Cameroonian i recently moved to China before the results so i which to know if i can choose china for my interview
June 23, 2017 at 12:54 pm
Yuou update your address in the DS260 (unlock first). The once resubmitted, email KCC and ask to change the interview location.
June 24, 2017 at 12:21 am
Hello Mr britsimon thanks for your awersome support
1. my wife name appeared on her passport, birth certificate and school certificate as Mahama Yidana Sadia but on our marriage certificate the name appeared as Sadia Mahama will the omission of the middle name Yidana on the marriage certificate cause for denial?
2. In Ghana the visa fees $330 per applicant from my research if you have less then one year baby will you as a parent pay the same amount for the baby? If you are going out of the country with the baby
June 24, 2017 at 4:24 am
1. If she is the winner, possibly a risk, yes.
2. Everyone pays the fee.