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U.S. Green Card Lottery Open for Poles again Posted by on Oct 4, 2011 in Culture, Current News, Regulations

As many of you know, the United States Government issues 50,000 permanent Green Cards every year through the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, the Green Card Lottery (Loteria zielonej karty).

Applicants are selected randomly by a computer generated drawing. Successful participants of the Diversity Visa Lottery enjoy all the advantages and benefits of a US permanent resident, including health and education benefits, and employment opportunities. Successful participants of the US Visa Lottery can also become US citizens if they so desire.

There are number of countries that are eligible to enter the lottery. After six years, Poles are again eligible to participate in the visa lottery again.

Out of 50,000 Green Cards issued to people from all over the world, 3,500 are allocated to Polish citizens. Green Card applications must be submitted online no later than November 5.

There are a lot websites that are fake and try to get money from you for “entering the lottery”. Do not trust any websites like that. The only site you can enter is http://www.usadiversitylottery.com/

Have any of you won this lottery in the past?

Do następnego razu… (Till next time…)

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About the Author: Kasia

My name is Kasia Scontsas. I grew near Lublin, Poland and moved to Warsaw to study International Business. I have passion for languages: any languages! Currently I live in New Hampshire. I enjoy skiing, kayaking, biking and paddle boarding. My husband speaks a little Polish, but our daughters are fluent in it! I wanted to make sure that they can communicate with their Polish relatives in our native language. Teaching them Polish since they were born was the best thing I could have given them! I have been writing about learning Polish language and culture for Transparent Language’s Polish Blog since 2010.

Comments:

  1. Bob @ HealthyMeansYou:

    One of my colleagues at work won the green card along with her husband.

    Few of my friends are going to be submitting applications.

    That’s great that you provided a valid link.
    Thank you

  2. joey:

    I am wondering if a green card for the US is as valuable as it was before?

  3. Thomas:

    Last time this lottery was offered – to my wife, I did not participate. I had heard so many stories about relatives of people here not being able to get in that I decided that she could get her green card through being married to me and applying for change of status. Which we did. I figured that would leave one more spot in the lottery open for another Pole. For the longest time it seemed that INS have a bias against eastern Europeans.