Replace on Diversity Visa (DV) Program 2026

2026 Diversity Visa (DV) program Entrant Status Check outcomes for sure entrants from Cuba and for Great Britain (United Kingdom) and its dependent areas. 

In reviewing the entry choice system for the DV – 2026 Program, The U.S. Department of State decided that for a small variety of entrants from Cuba, the choice standing outcomes could have incorrectly proven they had been chosen.  Under U.S. legislation, and as revealed within the DV 2026 directions, Cuban natives usually are not eligible to take part within the 2026 program yr, as a result of greater than 50,000 Cuban natives immigrated to the United States within the earlier five-year interval.  Accordingly, the Department has notified people who chosen Cuba as their overseas state of chargeability that they are going to be ineligible for the 2026 program yr.  

Further, the U.S. Department of State decided that for a small variety of entrants from Great Britain (United Kingdom) and its dependent areas*, the choice standing outcomes could have been beforehand incorrectly reported.  The Department of State asks that DV-2026 entrants from Great Britain (United Kingdom) and its dependent areas go to the Entrant Status Check and use the distinctive affirmation quantity saved from their DV-2026 on-line entry registration to verify whether or not their entry has been chosen within the DV program. 

Selectees are reminded that, below U.S. legislation, eligibility to use for a Diversity Immigrant Visa extends by means of the top of the fiscal yr (September 30), and that visas could grow to be unavailable earlier than that date if the Department points all visa numbers approved by Congress for that fiscal yr.  In order to be scheduled for an interview, selectees who want to immigrate should first submit an entire DS-260 utility. If scheduled, selectees ought to be ready to offer all required documentation on the time of interview, together with a medical examination.

* Great Britain (United Kingdom) contains the next dependent areas:  Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, St. Helena, and Turks and Caicos Islands. Please observe Northern Ireland is handled as a separate overseas state of chargeability for DV functions, and that natives of Northern Ireland usually are not affected by this discover.