No other country in the world gives the chance to enter its border through a lottery system. It does not matter from what economic status a person is from. As long as the person comes from an eligible country with a high school diploma equivalent, he or she can have the opportunity to enter the Green Card Lottery program.

To enter the program one needs to fill out an electronic application form with digital photos. However, the U.S. State Department requires that the application is filled out correctly and the photos have to meet certain regulations. Anything missing is an automatic disqualification.

One may enter the Green Card Lottery program through the U.S. Department of State's website for free. However, if the individual is missing anything from the application or the photos do not meet the regulations, an automatic disqualification occurs. In 2004, many of the 2 million people that were disqualified were due to reasons stated above.

The first step in participating in the Green Card Lottery program is to check if the country you were born from is qualified for the program.

Every year the US State Department issues a list of countries which are non eligible for the program. Non eligible countries are defined as those from which the United States has received more than 50,000 immigrants during the last five years. Every year the lists changes!

Below, you will find a list of non eligible countries:

* Canada
* China (except Hong Kong S.A.R.)
* Colombia
* Dominican Republic
* El Salvador
* Haiti
* India
* Jamaica
* Mexico
* Pakistan
* Philippines
* South Korea
* United Kingdom
* Vietnam
* Russia (added to the DV-2005 list)
* Poland (added to the DV-2007 list)
* Brazil (added to the DV-2008 list)
* Peru (added to the DV-2008 list)

Even if your native country is non eligible, you shouldn't be frustrated. You still may have a chance.

You can "pull" nativity from someone else. There are two ways to do this:

1. The first way is to pull nativity from your spouse if he/ she was born in an eligible country.
2. The second way is to pull nativity from your parents only in a case where both of them were born in an eligible country and stayed in the non eligible country for a limited time (for example - worked there for limited time).

The USAFIS organization has made the process extremely simple to go through with its on-line website. With a multi-lingual 24 - hour customer service, any issue can be readily solved in preparing the application for the Green Card Lottery program. Let USAFIS handle the ins and outs of your Green Card Lottery application.See if your country is eligible by clicking here.