Talk:Diversity Immigrant Visa

Important missing part
Why has no one written about https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/computer-error-halts-immigration-lottery/2011/05/13/AFD1Hu2G_blog.html and https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13673574 in this article?

It's such an important and major piece of news about this! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.71.16.173 (talk) 18:09, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the links. This event used to be mentioned in the article but over time it got erased. I added a paragraph about it again. Heitordp (talk) 10:24, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Important missing part
Please mention edv website address: https://dvprogram.state.gov/
 * Updated in the section of external links. Heitordp (talk) 08:54, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Add a section to outline the timeline of the DV process end-to-end?
I'm in the middle of a DV selection (DV-2022) and despite reading the entire US immigration website, it's not easy to get a quick understanding on how the process works, especially expected durations for each step. It might be valuable to add a high level summary here to help people understand the expected wait times between each step of the process? I'll add what I've learned from my experience:

Hopefully this will clear up some of the vagueness for everyone else. 101.164.192.230 (talk) 00:39, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

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Why such an emphasis on scams, especially in the lead?
Information on deceptive agencies and practices now takes up a third of the lead—why? And why such a large section on "Deceptive agencies"—which reads like a public service message, not an encyclopedia?

The sole sources cited for all the information are government documents, with not a single other quality secondary or tertiary sources. If it's such an important facet of the program, it should be easy to find scholarship, news articles, etc. on the subject.

The topic of scams may be worth mentioning in the article, but it shouldn't be a third of the lead, since it doesn't make up a third of the article—nor should it, as it's not the basis of anywhere near a third of the relevant encyclopedic information about the subject.

I propose deleting the mention of deceptive agencies from the lead of the article and either finding better sources or drastically trimming the "Deceptive agencies" section. Thoughts appreciated! ElleTheBelle 20:28, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Statistics update
I have a two questions regarding the tables in the Statistics section:

- Table 1 ("Applicants (including dependents)"): The total number of applicants used to be published in the Visa Bulletin (whereas the regional number had to be taken from the DV Statistics page). Is the total number no longer published in the Visa Bulletin?

- Table 4 ("Diversity visas issued and adjustments of status"): I think new numbers for FY 2023 have been published. Could somebody update this?

Thank you very much for the effort! Jexplorer8421 (talk) 18:24, 11 July 2024 (UTC)


 * The visa bulletins containing the results of DV-2023 and DV-2024 show the number of entries, but not the number of applicants including dependents as the previous bulletins used to show. I hope that this number is eventually published in the DV statistics page so we can complete the tables here.
 * I added the number of visas issued in 2023. Heitordp (talk) 05:03, 12 July 2024 (UTC)