Embassy of the United States Nairobi, Kenya

Diversity Visa (DV) 2013 Entrant Status Check

At this time, the DV-2013 Entrant Status Check website has been shut down due to higher than expected traffic.  Please note that our technical specialists are working to fix this problem as soon as possible.  Please continue to monitor the Entry Status Check website in the coming days.  We will continue to provide updates if this outage continues. 

Important Notice Regarding the 2012 Diversity Visa Program

The results of the selection process for the 2012 Diversity Visa (DV-2012) program have been voided. Results previously available via the Entry Status Check (ESC) function on the Department of State website, dvlottery.state.gov, were posted in error and are now invalid. The results were not valid because they did not represent a fair, random selection of entrants, as required by U.S. law.

This means that we have rescinded all notices informing entrants that they had been selected for further processing in DV-2012; if you received such a notice via ESC on dvlottery.state.gov, it is no longer valid.

A new random selection process will be conducted based on the original entries for the DV-2012 program. If you submitted a qualified entry from October 5, 2010, to November 3, 2010, you do not need to reapply. Your entry will be included in the new random selection. Your confirmation number, which is required to determine the status of your entry, remains the same. We are not accepting new entries for the DV-2012 program.

We expect the results of the new random selection process to be available by July 15, 2011, via the ESC function on dvlottery.state.gov.

We regret any inconvenience this might have caused.

For further information and future updates on the 2012 DV program, please see:

• DV Lottery 
• Diversity Visa Program 
• 2011 Diversity Visa Lottery Program Registration - Press Release (PDF 41 KB)
  
• 2011 Diversity Visa Lottery Program - Instructions
• 2011 Diversity Visa Lottery Scam

The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program makes available 50,000 permanent resident visas annually, drawn from a random selection of entries from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. Diversity immigrant visas lead to U.S. permanent residency.

For DV-2011, natives of the following countries are not eligible to apply because the countries sent a total of more than 50,000 immigrants to the United States in the previous five years:

• Brazin
• Canada
• China (mainland-born)
• Columbia
• Domincan Republic
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Haiti
• India
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Pakistan
• Peru
• Philippines
• Poland
• South Korea
• United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories
• Vietnam
• Persons born in Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR, and Taiwan are eligible.

No countries have been added or removed from the list of eligible countries. The list of eligible countries remains the same as for DV-2010.

Diveristy Visa Registration

Entries for the DV-2011 Diversity Visa lottery must be submitted electronically. The online entry registration period for the DV-2011 Diversity Visa lottery is between noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), Friday, October 2, 2009, and noon, Eastern Standard Time (EST) (GMT-5), Monday, November 30, 2009. Entrants apply on Form DS-5501, Electronic  Diversity Visa Entry Form available only during the DV open registration period. Review the DV-2011 Instructions below for more information.

Important Notice

Beware of unscrupulous individuals who approach “Single” Diversity Lottery Visa winners to have arranged marriages for the purpose of immigration.  This would result to failure in obtaining your visa or arrest. 

In the event that you lose or misplace the visa application forms that were sent to you from Kentucky Consular Center, please come to the Embassy Consular Section any Monday through Thursday at 8.00am to pick another set of the application forms.

Kindly DO NOT make any travel arrangement until you have your visas ready with you.

Beware there have been instances of fraudulent websites posing as official U.S. Government sites. Some companies posing as the U.S. Government have sought money in order to "complete" lottery entry forms. There is no fee for downloading and completing the real Electronic Diversity Visa Entry Form. The Department of State notifies successful Diversity Visa applicants by letter, NOT by email.