DOS

Diversity Visa lottery DV-2012 entrants can check the status of their DV-2012 Lottery entry starting on or about 7/15/11 at the DOS E-DV website.

Entrant Status Check.

Fact Sheet and QA

 Introduction

The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State announced on, July 13, 2011, that Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov signed a bilateral adoptions agreement that will strengthen procedural safeguards in adoptions between our countries.

Media Note

Washington, DC
July 8, 2011

Number 34
Volume IX
Washington, D.C.

Media Note

Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC
May 25, 2011  

Also available in Russian 

On June 1 the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) will launch a new J-1 Visa Exchange Visitor Program website.

Media Note Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC
May 20, 2011

[Also available in Persian]

As of May 20, 2011, qualified Iranian applicants for visas in the F, J, and M categories for non-sensitive, non-technical fields of study and research and their dependents will be eligible to receive two-year, multiple-entry visas. This is an increase in the current visa validity of three months, single entry.

DOS press release announcing that, due to a computer programming problem, the results of the 2012 Diversity Lottery that were previously posted on this website have been voided.  They were not valid and were posted in error.  The results were not valid because they did not represent a fair, random selection of entrants, as required by U.S. law. 

[Federal Register: April 26, 2011 (Volume 76, Number 80)]
[Rules and Regulations]              
[Page 23177-23185]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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