Year 2017

*** Update *** Travel ban lifted – for now.   The latest travel ban is due to go into force tomorrow. However, today, a judge in Hawaii has blocked the ban, in the same way that the previous ban was… Continue Reading →

Due to a technical issue, the DV-2019 entry period that began on October 3 has been closed. Entries submitted during October 3-10 are not valid and have been excluded from the system; they will not count as a duplicate entry…. Continue Reading →

I’d like to explain some things. First, I work for a living. I am one person. I sleep about 5 or 6 hours a night. I have a family. Because of all these things I cannot answer all your questions… Continue Reading →

AFRICA: 10,000 Except: Egypt: 6,200 Ethiopia: 6,300 ASIA: 2,500 Except: Iran: 2,150 Nepal: 2,000 EUROPE: 6,000 NORTH AMERICA (BAHAMAS): 4 OCEANIA: 400 SOUTH AMERICA, and the CARIBBEAN: 425 The “November” bulletin has been released. It includes details of case numbers… Continue Reading →

**** UPDATE **** The DV-2019 entry period is being restarted and extended. DV2019 entry period to be restarted     I am getting lots of people asking the same questions so I want to write this one time and refer… Continue Reading →

OK – as some of you will know, over the last few days many people have joined together and provided the hands and effort to solve CAPTCHAS on the CEAC system. Xarthisius coded a BRILLIANT tool that was able to… Continue Reading →

When people from all of the world can communicate, and work together to a common goal we can achieve great things. We (the Briotsimonsays readers) are showing that right now! It’s not even 48 hours since I asked for help on… Continue Reading →

***Quick Update*** I put out this request for help nearly 18 hours ago. Since then YOU have managed to capture an additional 16000 numbers – so we are almost 25% through the whole 2017 case number range. This is absolutely fantastic…. Continue Reading →

A lot of my understanding of the DV lottery process was built or enhanced by having the ability to analyze the data from the CEAC system. DHS makes this data publicly available in a website where anyone can check the… Continue Reading →

The “new” travel ban (discussed on this earlier post) is likely to cause problems to selectees from each of the selected countries. In my earlier article I have listed the selectee counts for the countries impacted by the ban. I… Continue Reading →