The Green Card Lottery is here again and opens up for entries to a majority of countries in the world next month. (some countries are excluded from entry as the US determines the Immigration intake from those nations to be already high and generally includes places like China, India, UK and Mexico).

Anticipated by so many people around the world as perhaps their only chance to establish permanent residency in the United States to live and work freely and bring their families.

The Green Card Lottery or it's official title Diversity Visa Lottery is completely FREE to enter!

So do not think that you have pay as their are many sites out there that charge a fee saying they will enter you multiple times over many years, ensure your application is correct and enhance your chances of winning as well as pay for your ticket over here partially or in full if you win.

Official instructions and eligible countries are yet to be announced for this year but if you read our Diversity Visa Lottery Instructions you will get a pretty good year about a lot of this as it doesn't change that much. More official information can be found at the official Green Card Lottery Information area of the US State Department.

The DV-2010 Lottery was the first year results were able to checked online and also that non winners were able to verify that also online where in previous years they were told nothing.

This year the lottery will run from October 2, 2009 through November 30, 2009 and if successful you will be notified via a formal letter between around May to July in 2010. Following an interview at the US Consulate you will then be able to enter the US in the 2011 Immigration year in their calendar which begins on October 1, 2010.