Three separate members of the family applied in 2025 and four in 2026 without success. Also I am a member of the “Brits moving to the USA” Facebook group where someone claims to have been selected in 2025 but I suspect that she was not born in GB. I have reached out waiting for a response.
“David Berens hi David, I have double citizenship Romanian and British, I applied in 2023 and won in 2024 using my Romanian passport – It was not clear if I could apply with the UK one at that time but I chose the Romanian one as I expected fewer people to be interested in Romania. As far as I know each country has a capped numbers of winners – the lower the number of people interested the greater the chances to win, which I guess is what happened in my case.”
So as it stands there appears to be no winner that was born in the UK! I will consider joining a class action suit.
Appreciate the follow up. I hope this person understands that it is place of birth that is important, not citizenship. He is also incorrect about the increased chances in some countries.
But anyway – it seems that he probably applied as Romanian, and isn’t the one example of a GB charged selectee in DV2025 or DV2026.
Let them just cancel the whole dv 2026 results as early as now and have a re run so that participants from GB gets a fair chance,no need for a lawsuit.
It’s amazing that even Britons yearn to migrate permanently to America. I have always thought GB is great to live in coz of it’s being a 1st world country..Us in 3rd world African countries look for better lives in these 1st world countries unsuccessfully.So DV opportunities are God sent to us hence the quota for Africas should never be ‘donated’ to anyone ((sic), there are many selectees that anxiously wait and hope to get the chances especially if the embassies behave. So that ‘donation’ word is ever very annoying ..
Regions should be restricted to their quotas annually. Nkt!!!
Thank you so much for taking up this issue, I really appreciate your commitment to fairness.
I was born in GB and applied under that eligibility, and was not selected.
While I believe going to another country is a privilege and not a right, if the law permits it, us Brits deserve a fair chance like everyone else.
Your support means a lot, especially as many of us, it appears, feel overlooked and it is disheartening and isolating.
As you rightly said, if selectees do exist, that’s great, but if our suspicions are correct, it takes someone like you to push for the fairness we need.
It will be tough to push this along though – so I really hope there are GB selectees. The problem is that it will take some time of lawsuit. Those are expensive to mount, so would need to be group funded – but each person would still only have a 100-1 shot of selection. The lawsuit outcome cannot guarantee better treatment than “the same as everyone else”. So – how much will someone be prepared to spend on a 100-1 shot…
Sure it’s worth a point of principle argument if nothing else?!
I for one would be prepared to group fund an argument even if it means I have no direct benefit and so that others are not treated unfairly in any region like we did in the UK.
But it’s also a tricky one.
I’m prepared to argue a point of principle simply because it’s the right thing to do and part of US law. However I also appreciate that that it’s up to the US people to determine if they feel this part of the law is in need of fair play or to be scrapped all together.
From my POV. Yes I believe I should get a fair chance, but it’s also a privilege and not an automatic right.
I don’t think this should/would affect any existing winners, since the problem is small and could be isolated. But yes, I agree – I would like to find out what happened for the principle at the very least.
May 13, 2025 at 09:14
Three separate members of the family applied in 2025 and four in 2026 without success. Also I am a member of the “Brits moving to the USA” Facebook group where someone claims to have been selected in 2025 but I suspect that she was not born in GB. I have reached out waiting for a response.
May 13, 2025 at 20:28
Thanks David – please let me know if you get a reliable report of a UK winner.
May 14, 2025 at 12:11
Thanks Simon
I finally received the following reply:
“David Berens hi David, I have double citizenship Romanian and British, I applied in 2023 and won in 2024 using my Romanian passport – It was not clear if I could apply with the UK one at that time but I chose the Romanian one as I expected fewer people to be interested in Romania. As far as I know each country has a capped numbers of winners – the lower the number of people interested the greater the chances to win, which I guess is what happened in my case.”
So as it stands there appears to be no winner that was born in the UK! I will consider joining a class action suit.
May 14, 2025 at 16:09
Appreciate the follow up. I hope this person understands that it is place of birth that is important, not citizenship. He is also incorrect about the increased chances in some countries.
But anyway – it seems that he probably applied as Romanian, and isn’t the one example of a GB charged selectee in DV2025 or DV2026.
May 8, 2025 at 00:07
Let them just cancel the whole dv 2026 results as early as now and have a re run so that participants from GB gets a fair chance,no need for a lawsuit.
May 8, 2025 at 10:24
LOL – sure. Simple as that.
May 7, 2025 at 08:03
So if they investigate it is possible to restart the draw even winners may see their selection cancel?
May 7, 2025 at 09:40
Is it possible – yes. It happened in DV2012. However, that is different to what we are talking about here…
May 8, 2025 at 00:00
How is it different from 2012 case
May 8, 2025 at 10:24
The 2012 case was flawed for all regions, all countries. Not just one country.
May 6, 2025 at 02:57
I think GB need a fair chance as like their European counterparts and other regions.
Does it more likely to be a systematical error?
May 6, 2025 at 05:23
Yes
May 6, 2025 at 01:27
It’s amazing that even Britons yearn to migrate permanently to America. I have always thought GB is great to live in coz of it’s being a 1st world country..Us in 3rd world African countries look for better lives in these 1st world countries unsuccessfully.So DV opportunities are God sent to us hence the quota for Africas should never be ‘donated’ to anyone ((sic), there are many selectees that anxiously wait and hope to get the chances especially if the embassies behave. So that ‘donation’ word is ever very annoying ..
Regions should be restricted to their quotas annually. Nkt!!!
May 6, 2025 at 05:20
The grass is always greener on the other side…
May 14, 2025 at 12:21
@ Anne did Nairobi behave?
May 5, 2025 at 15:32
Thank you so much for taking up this issue, I really appreciate your commitment to fairness.
I was born in GB and applied under that eligibility, and was not selected.
While I believe going to another country is a privilege and not a right, if the law permits it, us Brits deserve a fair chance like everyone else.
Your support means a lot, especially as many of us, it appears, feel overlooked and it is disheartening and isolating.
As you rightly said, if selectees do exist, that’s great, but if our suspicions are correct, it takes someone like you to push for the fairness we need.
Thank you
May 5, 2025 at 15:34
Apologies, I have no idea why my reply is spaced out in such a format.
May 5, 2025 at 15:50
It will be tough to push this along though – so I really hope there are GB selectees. The problem is that it will take some time of lawsuit. Those are expensive to mount, so would need to be group funded – but each person would still only have a 100-1 shot of selection. The lawsuit outcome cannot guarantee better treatment than “the same as everyone else”. So – how much will someone be prepared to spend on a 100-1 shot…
May 12, 2025 at 06:54
Sure it’s worth a point of principle argument if nothing else?!
I for one would be prepared to group fund an argument even if it means I have no direct benefit and so that others are not treated unfairly in any region like we did in the UK.
But it’s also a tricky one.
I’m prepared to argue a point of principle simply because it’s the right thing to do and part of US law. However I also appreciate that that it’s up to the US people to determine if they feel this part of the law is in need of fair play or to be scrapped all together.
From my POV. Yes I believe I should get a fair chance, but it’s also a privilege and not an automatic right.
May 12, 2025 at 12:23
I agree.
May 13, 2025 at 21:13
I don’t think this should/would affect any existing winners, since the problem is small and could be isolated. But yes, I agree – I would like to find out what happened for the principle at the very least.