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. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. 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