Month October 2018

2NLs are starting to be sent for December interviews (DV2019). I have only seen a couple of people saying they have received their 2NL, so it is likely that they are spreading out the 2NLs over time – possibly the… Continue Reading →

  AFRICA       9,800 Except: Egypt  6,200 ASIA 2,900 Except: Iran    2,200 Nepal  1,500 EUROPE 6,600 NORTH AMERICA (BAHAMAS) 11 OCEANIA 290 SOUTH AMERICA, and the CARIBBEAN 475     This is for December interviews and is… Continue Reading →

Now that DV2018 is over, and the dust is settling, it is natural that people want to know why the cutoff number in EU was so low compared to previous years, what happened, and will that repeat. So – I… Continue Reading →

As many of you will know, we are able to extract the CEAC data which shows whether each case was approved, refused and so on. Xarthisius (a DV winner himself) created the software solution to do that, and a number of… Continue Reading →

The registration period for DV2020 is about to open (about 1 hour from now) – so a few pointers to help make it successful.   The entry period is from October 3 to November 6 and it opens at Noon… Continue Reading →

OK – DV2018 ended 2 minutes ago. So – for any DV2018 case not already approved, there is now NO CHANCE of being approved. It is possible that some (very few)  cases might have been approved in the last day… Continue Reading →