Category DV Lottery

The government have modified the page that was originally the announcement of the DV pause. This should be closely followed by guidance to the embassies to allow them to start issuing visas on the 221g cases – although we may… Continue Reading →

Judge Davila has certified the class (actually as three subclasses) and granted a Preliminary Injunction stopping the government from pausing the DV cases. It’;s a great win that covers both plaintiffs in the Medani case and also non plaintiffs. So… Continue Reading →

Just a couple of hours ago, Judge Leon published his decision on the Ivanov lawsuits (which includes the three combined lawsuits of Ivanov, Chersak and Saito). He decided to give a “plaintiffs only” decision saying that the DV pause and… Continue Reading →

Over this past weekend there were a great many reports of IV interviews being cancelled with little or no notice. These cancellations came with no explanation and no new appointments. As time went on it became more clear that this… Continue Reading →

Because the CLINIC judgement is so impactful, I think it is worth a few minutes to understand how the order was decided so we can understand better how these cases gets decided. The decision had “wins” for both sides, and… Continue Reading →

The VB was released late this afternoon, and it is a “nothingburger” as far as DV is concerned. There was no announcement of DV2027, no numbers for October interviews – nothing. Just a repeat of the final DV2026 numbers. For… Continue Reading →

A District Judge (Judge Vargas) has vacated the 75 country pause policy in the CLINIC V Trump case. This summary judgement affects ALL cases (DV included) where the case was refused because of this policy. The DV pause policy remains,… Continue Reading →

I tell people every year to NOT lie during the DV process and lies will come back to haunt you. The article below is an example of what can happen if you ignore that valuable advice. The rules say you… Continue Reading →

This is the final visa bulletin of DV2026! I got the numbers slightly before the public release, but I believe this will be published within a short time. Good increase in the numbers – this is the “hail Mary” effect… Continue Reading →

OK – the new VB just got published and we see some good increases across the regions! One more VB after this one. Let’s hope that follows through to some good 2NL numbers and then the pauses are dropped. We… Continue Reading →