BOHUŽEL, AŽ ZASE PŘÍŠTÍ ROK

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.

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.

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: