Hi everyone!
Apparently, there's no entry form for the Green Card lottery, you just write
down the specifics as stated below on a sheet of paper.

By the way, Saturday September 30th was Dumo Sarho's 45th birthday, and also
the 99th day since his abduction. Annika Renberg was invited to "Sunday News
Hour" at Radio One FM to talk about the situation. Still no news though.
Would Ebrima Ceesay's sources know anything about how and where Dumo spent
his birthday?

Best wishes,
Jenny

Below from http://travel.state.gov/dv2002vb.htm

United States Department of State
Bureau of Consular Affairs

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE
2002 DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAM (DV-2002)
Each year, the U.S. Diversity Visa program makes available permanent
residence visas to persons meeting the eligibility requirements. Applicants
for Diversity Visas are initially chosen through a random computer-generated
lottery drawing. Visas are distributed among six geographic regions with a
greater number of visas going to regions with lower rates of immigration,
and no visas going to countries sending more than 50,000 immigrants to the
U.S. in the past five years. No one country can receive more than seven
percent of the available Diversity Visas in any one year.

For DV-2002, natives of the following countries are not eligible to apply,
as they sent a total of more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. in the
previous five years:

CANADA, CHINA (mainland-born and Macau), COLOMBIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, EL
SALVADOR, HAITI, INDIA, JAMAICA, MEXICO, PAKISTAN, PHILIPPINES, SOUTH KOREA,
UNITED KINGDOM (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and
VIETNAM. Persons born in Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan are eligible.

ENTRIES FOR THE DV-2002 DIVERSITY VISA LOTTERY MUST BE RECEIVED AT THE
KENTUCKY CONSULAR CENTER MAILING ADDRESS LISTED ON PAGE 3 BETWEEN NOON ON
MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2000 AND NOON ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2000. Entries
received before or after these dates will be disqualified regardless of when
they are postmarked. Also, entries mailed to any address other than the
Kentucky Consular Center address will be disqualified.

REQUIREMENTS
Applicant must be a native of a qualifying country.
Applicant must meet either the education or training requirement of the DV
program.
Native of a qualifying country: In most cases this means the country in
which the applicant was born. However, if a person was born in an ineligible
country but his/her spouse was born in an eligible country, such person can
claim the spouse’s country of birth providing both the applicant and spouse
are issued visas and enter the U.S. simultaneously. Also, if a person was
born in an ineligible country, but neither of his/her parents was born there
or resided there at the time of the birth, such person may be able to claim
nativity in one of the parents’ country of birth.

Education or Training: An applicant must have EITHER a high school education
or its equivalent, defined in the U.S. as successful completion of a 12-year
course of elementary and secondary education; OR two years of work
experience within the past five years in an occupation requiring at least
two years of training or experience to perform. U.S. Department of Labor
definitions will apply.

If the applicant does not meet these requirements, he or she should NOT
submit an entry to the DV program.

PROCEDURES FOR SUBMITTING AN ENTRY FORM
Only ONE entry form may be submitted by or for each applicant. The applicant
must personally sign the entry with his/her usual and customary signature,
preferably in his/her native alphabet. The entry will be disqualified if the
applicant:

Submits more than one entry;
Does not personally sign the entry with his or her usual and customary
signature;
Does not attach a recent photograph with his or her name printed on the
back.
There is no specific format for the entry. Simply use a plain sheet of paper
and type or clearly print in the English alphabet the following information.
Failure to provide all of this information will disqualify the applicant.

1. FULL NAME, with the last (surname/family) name underlined

EXAMPLES: Public, Sara Jane (or) Lopez, Juan Antonio

2. DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH

Date: Day, Month, Year
EXAMPLE: 15 November 1961
Place: City/Town, District/County/Province, Country
EXAMPLE: Munich, Bavaria, Germany


The name of the country should be that which is currently in use for the
place where the applicant was born (Slovenia, rather than Yugoslavia;
Kazakhstan rather than Soviet Union, for example).

3. THE APPLICANT’S NATIVE COUNTRY IF DIFFERENT FROM COUNTRY OF BIRTH

If the applicant is claiming nativity in a country other than his/her place
of birth, this must be clearly indicated on the entry. This information must
match with what is put on the upper left corner of the entry envelope. (See
"MAILING THE ENTRY" below.) If an applicant is claiming nativity through
spouse or parent, please indicate this on the entry. (See "REQUIREMENTS"
section for more information on this item.)

4. NAME, DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH OF THE APPLICANT’S SPOUSE AND CHILDREN

(IF ANY) Failure to provide all of this information will disqualify the
applicant. (See question 10 on the list of Frequently Asked Questions.)

5. FULL MAILING ADDRESS

This must be clear and complete, as any communications will be sent there. A
telephone number is optional, but useful.

6. PHOTOGRAPH. Attach a recent, preferably less than 6 months old,
photograph of the applicant, 1.5 inches (37 mm) square in size, with the
applicant’s name printed on the back. The photograph (not a photocopy)
should be attached to the entry with clear tape--do NOT use staples or
paperclips, which can jam the mail processing equipment.

7. SIGNATURE. The applicant must personally sign the entry, using his/her
usual and customary signature. Failure to personally sign the entry will
disqualify the application.

MAILING THE ENTRY
The mailing address for all entries is the same, except for the ZIP (POSTAL)
CODE. The address is:

DV-2002 Program
Kentucky Consular Center
Lexington, KY ZIP CODE (see below)
U.S.A.

Submit the entry by regular or airmail to the address matching the region of
the applicant’s country of nativity. Entries sent by express or priority
mail, fax, hand, messenger, or any means requiring special handling will not
be processed.

The envelope must be between 6 and 10 inches (15 to 25 cm) long and 3 1/2
and 4 1/2 inches (9 to 11 cm) wide. Postcards or envelopes inside express or
oversized mail packets are NOT acceptable. In the upper left-hand corner of
the envelope the applicant must write his/her country of nativity (see
instruction 3 above), followed by the applicant’s name and full return
address. The applicant must provide both the country of nativity and the
country of the address, even if both are the same. Failure to provide this
information will disqualify the entry.

Use the correct ZIP (POSTAL) CODE for the applicant’s region of nativity.
The regions are divided as follows:

Africa includes all countries on the African continent and adjacent islands;

Asia extends from Israel to the northern Pacific islands, and includes
Indonesia;

Europe extends from Greenland to Russia, and includes all countries of the
former USSR;

North America includes the Bahamas;

Oceania includes Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and all countries
and islands of the South Pacific;

South America/Central America/Caribbean extends from Central America
(Guatemala) and the Caribbean nations to Chile.

The ZIP (POSTAL) CODES at the Kentucky Consular Center are:


AFRICA
41901

ASIA
41902

EUROPE
41903

SOUTH AMERICA/CENTRAL AMERICA/CARIBBEAN
41904

OCEANIA
41905

NORTH AMERICA
41906



EXAMPLE: An applicant who was born in Australia and now lives in France may
submit one entry to the appropriate Zip (postal) code for Oceania; the
envelope should look like this:

RETURN ADDRESS:

Australia
Applicant’s Full Name
Street Address
City, Province, Postal Code
France 3 1/2" - 4 1/2"

MAIL TO:

DV-2002 Program
Kentucky Consular Center
Lexington, KY (see above for appropriate zip)
U.S.A.

(If, for instance, the applicant’s country is Australia (in Oceania), the
zip (postal) code for Australia would be used, that is, 41905.)

SELECTION OF APPLICANTS

Applicants will be selected at random by computer from among all qualified
entries. Those selected will be notified by mail between May through July
2001 and will be provided further instructions, including information on
fees connected with immigration to the U.S. Persons not selected will NOT be
notified. U.S. embassies and consulates will not be able to provide a list
of successful applicants. Spouses and unmarried children of successful
applicants under age 21 may also apply for visas to accompany or follow to
join the principal applicant. DV-2002 visas will be issued between October
1, 2001 and September 30, 2002.

Applicants must meet ALL eligibility requirements under U.S. law in order to
be issued visas.

Processing of entries and issuance of diversity visas to successful
applicants and their eligible family members MUST occur by September 30,
2002. Under no circumstances can diversity visas be issued or adjustments
approved after this date, nor can family members obtain diversity visas to
follow to join the applicant in the U.S. after this date.

Important Notice: There is NO initial fee, other than postage, required to
enter the DV-2002 program. The use of an outside intermediary or assistance
to prepare a DV-2002 entry is entirely at the applicant's discretion.
Qualified entries received directly from applicants or through
intermediaries have equal chances of being selected by computer. There is no
advantage to mailing early, or mailing from any particular place. Every
entry received during the mail-in period will have an equal random chance of
being selected within its region. However, more than one entry per person
will disqualify the person from registration.


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