The official name of the green card lottery program is the Diversity Visa Program (DV). The U.S. State Department provides over two hundred different types of visas for people to work and live in America legally. However, the DV program is the most unique one out there. Many of the visas the U.S Department issues contain strict set of qualifications. With the DV program, all that is needed is some basic education requirements and a bit of good luck. Millions of people apply each year, but only 50,000 received a Green Card through the DV program.

The intention of the program is to make America more diversified, which means a balance of different ethnicities joining into the melting pot of America. Before 1965, many of the U.S. immigration laws favored a Northern European immigration wave. However, The United States Congress decided to give this opportunity to relatives of American citizens or permanent residents, regardless of origin, and Asians, Africans, and Latin Americans began arriving in record numbers. In 1995, Congress decided the lottery should cover the whole world-except those countries thought to be overrepresented in the immigrant pool. Winners of the green card lottery also qualify for citizenship.

The DV lottery program is headquartered in Williamsburg, Kentucky. The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg registers and notifies the winners of the diversity lottery. The actual submission date for the Green Card Lottery usually takes place between October-December. Those applicants who correctly filled out the application are assigned a computerized generated number. Once the deadline for submission of applications has passed, the computer then randomly picks over 100,000 applications for further consideration in the D.V program. Through the months of March-August of the following year, people who won are sent their winner documents by regular mail.

Selection in the Green Card Lottery program does not automatically translate into a Green Card. After an applicant has been chosen for further consideration, he or she will go through a series of steps with U.S. officials such as a security background check, a personal interview with a U.S. Consul and many forms to fill out before she or she is grantedgranted a Green Card. Only after all checks out a person may be granted a Green Card.

	GreenCard2007 Organization Website		US State Department Website	Feature Offered
				Same chance to all participants to win
				Comprehensive instructions in multiple languages
				Free airline ticket to winners to come to the USA
				Open 365 days a year
				Allow uploading photos
				Photo update available anytime
				Notify winners by regular mail
				Notify winners by phone, email and fax
				Contact details update at anytime
				Multiple years submission
				Online support to questions by experts

American green card lottery program benefits
	50,000 people and their families will live and work in the USA
	Official US Government program, Congress approved.
	Your Chance to Live and Work in the USA.
	Easy Online Registration and Assistance in every step.
	Double Chances for Married People to win the Green Card.