Year 2018

Further to my request yesterday there was a superb response of scraping around 13000 cases and we have a newly updated set of data.   Here are the latest summary numbers  from the CEAC data (published on Xarthisius’ site).  … Continue Reading →

Understandably there are far fewer people working on scraping data. Many people left out this year probably don’t want to put in their effort – that is understandable. However, we need people to keep scraping. The CEAC data is critical… Continue Reading →

****UPDATE – please read to the end to see who is affected****   So – in the last week to two weeks people from EU and AF (and some signs of OC region selectees receiving the same warning). regions are… Continue Reading →

2NLs are starting to be sent for September interviews. Again, as has been the pattern for the last few months, these are earlier than normal especially given the 15th as  a VB release date, I expect we will see similar unusual… Continue Reading →

We have many DV2019 selectees with very basic questions. Let me try and address the most frequent ones here in the hope that people will read this. If you ask a question and I give you a link to this… Continue Reading →

AFRICA 39,500 ASIA CURRENT EUROPE 25,775 NORTH AMERICA (BAHAMAS) CURRENT OCEANIA 1,450 SOUTH AMERICA, and the CARIBBEAN 1,715   The above numbers are for the final VB that relates to DV2018. And oh my – they have really continued the… Continue Reading →

The Supreme Court has upheld the travel ban. They were split 5-4 on “party lines”, meaning Justice Gorsuch (appointed by Trump) delivered him his victory. That is the final verdict and means the terms of the travel ban as currently… Continue Reading →

*** Update *** July 1, 2018 We now have the full list of 2NLs sent for August interviews. Whilst they have scheduled more cases than we have been seeing in DV2018, there is still an obvious problem.  There are 2187… Continue Reading →

2NLs are starting to be sent for August interviews. Again, as has been the pattern for the last few months, these are earlier than normal especially given the 15th as  a VB release date, I expect we will see similar unusual… Continue Reading →

AFRICA CURRENT Except: Egypt:      21,325 ASIA CURRENT Except: Nepal:       6,950 EUROPE 23,325 NORTH AMERICA (BAHAMAS) CURRENT OCEANIA 1,400 SOUTH AMERICA, and the CARIBBEAN 1,585     This is for August interviews and is the penultimate VB… Continue Reading →