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Hello Mr Simon can you please tell me what this means. Case number AF17K from Morocco residing in Qatar

Thank you for your inquiry.

Your case number is now current for interview processing. If you are scheduled for an interview date, you will receive notification via email to check https://dvprogram.state.gov. If you need to make changes to your DS-260 you should contact the consular section where you will be interviewed, or bring the information about your changes to your interview appointment. Because your case is ready to be scheduled, KCC can no longer unlock your application.

Please monitor travel.state.gov for general updates to the DV Program and related regulations. You should also check the information posted by the Embassy or Consulate you chose for the location of your interview for operations details. The process for scheduling DV appointments has not changed from previous years. Selectees will be asked to check the Entrant Status Check (ESC) website by an email sent to the address they provided as soon as an interview is scheduled. KCC cannot predict when individual cases will be scheduled for interview, and you are not asked to take any additional steps if you have already provided all your documents and information. Please remember that selection for participation in the DV Program is not a guarantee of a visa or of a visa interview.

If you have a specific inquiry not related to scheduling an interview, you must provide the Principal Applicant’s full name, complete case number, and date of birth in the following format (MMDDYYYY) as entered on the original entry. Please remember that the Kentucky Consular Center does not have the authority to tell you whether or not your specific case will be disqualified. Only a consular officer can do that at the time of your visa interview. Do not send any paper documents to the Kentucky Consular Center.

Hey Mr.simon

If get H1B visa and move to US while waiting for DV interview, then do I need to come back to my home country for the DV interview or I can do it at US too? What are the steps plz

Asia case of 17K , then does that relocation delay processing?

Regards

Hi Simon!

Could you please tell how do you track the embassies’ operation?
I mean, how do you monitor which embassy is more or less busier than others?

Hi Simon,

My parents won the DV lottery, got their greencards and have applied and been granted re-entry permits before. However, they now know they will be unable to move to the USA permanently. Is there a process of giving up the green card formally? I don’t want them to struggle to get a tourist visa in the future as I live in the USA now.

Thanks so much
Vera

Since there is really no jump in majority of the regions except for some of the exception countries of the AF region, it means generally speaking many embassies did not exhaust their interview slots to request for what could make a jump. All of the 55k visas will be issued by the end of the program for sure. This year maybe slower in some months because last year’s February bulletin went up to 35k .I don’t see anything wrong. We may soon experience a leap given that the target must be reached. It’s still early and January will tell us more.

Hi Simon. How risky is it if someone has both a bachelor degree and a master degree but because the country change its Municipal adult education were some courses no longer are valid from high school technically dont have a high school diploma.
Is it enough with only those 2 for the education?

Hello sir,
Good morning,i trust you’re doing good as i am. I am a Dv 2024 winner from Ghana and my case number is 2024AF00036k. I can see that the Accra embassy is not performing well,so i have decided to change my interview location to Kenya i can see their performing very well.please is it advisable to do that thank you.

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Hello Brit,
i am pleased with your videos; it contains a lot of usefull info.
my question is
if a person traveled to another countery for more than 6 months and now can’t go to that countery so he can’t get a police certificate from that countery. what will happen in the interview ? please note that that person was under age of 18 at that time.
thanks in advance.

Hi brit.
Thank you for your wonderful help.
I know one of the winners. He may have made a mistake in filling out the DS. He answered that he did not work in professional, social, or charitable organizations. He may have worked in one of them, and an interview date was set for him.
1. Is this an important clause? 2. Is this considered a serious error? 3. How is this error handled?
4. Should he contact the embassy to try to open DS? Or 5. Leave it until the interview date?

Hello Mr. Brit, regarding the I-134 and income tax transcripts from IRS, do I have to submit the original documents or a scanned copy would be enough. Thank you

Hi Brit. I hope you are well.
Just a quick question
I won the dv lottery 2022 and travelled to the United States. I was the main applicant but my daughter was denied a visa to come to London for our interview to go to the US. My question is, now that I’m in the US is it possible for me to file for her under the status of winning the dv lottery? And if yes what is the process please.

Thank you

Hi brit
I would like to clarify some information I read concerning qualifying with work experience.
As follow:
If you don’t qualify by education, there is a small chance you will qualify by work experience. Most jobs do not qualify. You must have two years of experience, within the last 5, in a job on the list. If you would like to see the list of qualifying jobs, please ask a member of the staff. What matters is that your duties match those of the jobs on the list, not whether your title is the same. Here are some of the many jobs that do NOT qualify: carpenter, electrician, caterer, mason, clerk, secretary, nurse, hairdresser, tailor and auto mechanic.
1. If your job is qualified with zone 4 svp 7:0 to 8:0 according to the ONetonline.org with all the necessary documents to prove the qualification does it still stands a small chance to qualify or be eligible?

Hi Simon,
I was a DV 22 and already in the US all settled in TX. My son however was unlucky as he became 22 as we awaited our interview and was denied a visa. Hes now 23. I have recently filed a petition for him which will take years of course. Do you think I should try for a student visa? What are the chances of refusal/approval? We already tried a visit visa which was denied. He also applied for DV 2025, fingers crossed. Many Thanks!

Hi Britsimon

DV OC 2022 Winner from Australia, i’ve posted a few questions in the past few years. So i’ll be returning back to the US after an 11 month absence. I departed the US on the 1st Feb this year after learning about my mother’s cancer diagnosis so I could go back to Australia so I could spend time with her. I’m looking to back to the US around 17-20th the next month. My mother’s oncologist wrote a letter to US CBP office to explain my absence around my mother’s cancer diagnosis.

Before I fly back to the US, I was thinking of spending some time in London/Amsterdam just for about a week to see some friends/family. Do you think the CBP officer upon me entering the US again would be ok with this or could they see this as me not taking my US permanent residency seriously and potentially reject me coming back into the US since it is up to their discretion?

I also have not found a job yet, despite me applying for several online, though I have enough savings to last me a year. I’m still in the process of applying for more jobs though if I haven’t found one by the time I reenter the US is this too something that the CBP officer would look at?

Hello Simon, my case number is 12XXX AS (Ankara embassy)according to your educated guess, is that risky or safe and when could one expect an interview? Thank you a lot!

Hi, I have been selected for DV 2020 case. My case was at the time approved by KCC and sent to my local embassy, but then all processes stopped because of covid and I never got my interview.

I have been checked out in the process since the Gomez vs. Trump court order took forever. But since I have renewed plans to move I was wondering, what is the current status and is there any update to be expected regarding the 2020 DV Visa? Thank you in advance