Results of the DV-2024 Diversity Visa, popularly known as the Green Card Lottery, will be available online starting on Saturday, May 6, 2023.
To check if they won, entrants will be required to have their confirmation number, last/family name, and year of birth.
The Diversity Visa program makes available up to 55,000 green cards available each year to nationals of countries with low immigration rates to the US.
Countries that have more than 50,000 of their citizens immigrate to the US over the previous five years are excluded from participating in the program. For DV-2024, that list includes Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China (including Hong Kong SAR), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, Venezuela, and Vietnam.
Kenyan citizens, including those currently living in the US on valid non-immigrant visas, were eligible to participate in DV-2024 lottery.
Close to 7 million people from across the world participated entered the DV-2024 lottery last year during the open registration period, according to the US State Department.
Results will be available at the following url: https://dvprogram.state.gov.
