The program is known as the ‘Visa Lottery’ or ‘Green Card’, with which it seeks to benefit 55,000 people from countries with low levels of migration to the United States.
Among the benefits that can be obtained are permanent residence and the possibility of obtaining US citizenship. Within the requirements, secondary education and work experience are requested.
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It should be noted that the registrations for this visa lottery were made from October 5, 2022 and ended on November 8 of the same year.
Therefore, the Department of State of the United States called on foreigners to avoid falling into scams from people who promise to enroll in this program, since it is not enabled.
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When are the results of the 2024 visa lottery known?
If you applied for this benefit, the results will be available as of May 6 through the dvprogram.state.gov website, there you will have to enter with the information that you were given at the time of registration.
After knowing if you were chosen, you will have to keep the number that was given to you, since it can be requested until September 30, 2024.
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How is the visa exemption for Colombians going?
One of the objectives of Luis Gilberto Murillo, Colombian ambassador to the United States, is to advance the proposal to eliminate the Visa for Colombian citizens. EL TIEMPO spoke with Murillo and found out who would be the first excepted from the document.
The first would be for Colombians who constantly make trips to the North American country, Well, there are people “who have been coming to the US for years, who have never had a problem, have not stayed and do not want to. That group of people should already have an exemption because it has been shown that they do not have any additional intentions to come to this country and carry out their tourism and business activities,” Murillo pointed out.
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The second option would have to do with a pre-entry from Colombia, although this proposal has not been discussed with the North American country, Murillo explains that people could carry out “their immigration process of reviewing documents, which is called pre-entry, in once in Colombia. That already happens with countries like Canada.”
Regarding the elimination of the visa for the United States, the ambassador mentioned that the request is being worked on jointly with the Department of Homeland Security and that this process “takes years, I insist, but it cannot be set aside.”
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