Eligibility for Green Card Lottery program: Are you eligible?
Citizens from many countries are eligible to participate in Green Card Lottery (Diversity Visa) program. However, following countries are not included in the list: Brazil, Canada, China (mainland), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, The Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Korea, United Kingdom (excluding Northern Island), and Vietnam. So, you are not eligible if you are a citizen of one of these countries. You need to check the listing of these countries in each year’s Diversity Visa program (stated as DV-2009 or DV-2010, etc.)
What happens if your native country’s name is on the list?
Well. That’s not the end of the world! You have all other options to get your Green Card.
Other options to get your Green Card
Green Card lottery program is not the only option that you have to get a Green Card. Your other options are: marrying American citizen (after getting fiancé visa), investing in the United States, getting a job offer from a U.S. employer, asking your American relative to apply for you, applying as a special immigrant, and requesting humanitarian protection (asylum and refugee status) if you meet the conditions of being one.
Please remember that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS, formerly Immigration and Naturalization Service – INS) certification requirements of your documents for all Green Card applications.
Getting Your Green Card
You may apply for Green Card under the following categories: (a) marrying an American citizen; (b) engaging to marry your U.S. citizen fiancé; (c) asking your family relatives (your father, mother, husband, wife, brother, sister, children over 21) who are “citizens” of United States; (d) asking your close family members (your father, mother, husband, wife) of Albanian origin, who have Green Card; (e) receiving employment offer from an American employer; (f) winning Diversity Visa Lottery in your native country; (g) investing your money in United States; (h) qualifying as special immigrant (recognized religious workers, foreign medical graduates, etc.); (i) requesting humanitarian protection (asylum, refugee) from persecution or fearing based on your race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group in your native country.
ACR Language Translation Services, subsidiary of ACR Systems Inc., founded in 1982, provides certified translation for Green Card when you apply to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS, formerly Immigration and Naturalization Service – INS) for its clients applying for Green Card (permanent resident visa) and U.S. citizenship.
