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Long time no see... CONGRATS to the new DV2020 winners!!! Quick question: when trying to access DS260 form, anyone knows what the new "Electronic Diversity Visa Confirmation Number" is and where to find it? I don't recall to have seen this box in the previous DV...

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I guess I got carried away with the rigged-proccess-Trump-style :D jk Totally understand your point and agree, even though larger pool DV countries tend to give more acurate sampling and patterns

How about simple reasons as: -not able to find a US sponsor for the AoS -not sufficiently able to self-fund in order to prove not to be a future public charge in US -not having the minimum education req's (vocational schools which don't qualify etc) -non procces savvy, hence technical/doc's...

Agree on the fact that not all of them might be true but still we are talking about only a tiny fraction of Albanian selectees i.e. 0.1 - 0.17 % which is not mathematically impossible. Anyway I started the topic just out of curiosity, to understand whether the same thing was happening in other...

Haha of course, I'm not 14 and I'm well educated but that was not my point... anyway I'll dig deeper on that and get back to you ;)

Sorry about that :D and thank you Susie!

Oh, I didn't mean all of them are winners, even though Albania has regularly been amongst 3 top DV beneficiaries in EU area

There you go @saabe the conspiracy is growing :D

We're talking about 8-12 cases over the last 3 DV years. DV2015-DV2017 in Albania and/or Albanians having other residency but beneficiaries cuz of country of chargeability rule. The cases are reliable, based on FB group of 40k members and on private discussions.

Yes, Canada also requires smth similar when entering by air. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/visit/visas-all.asp They are using the immigration visas to enter US but through Canada. Is it ok to enter a POE in US for the first time, not from the country of origin? - that's their comcern.

DV2017 winner - travel itinerary plausible? I have relatives, DV2017 winners who jost got the visas, planning to enter US for the first time through Canada (after visiting family). Is the following travel itinerary plausible? They have double nationality (EU and non-EU / IV stamped on non-EU...

They really are. In most of the cases spouses and in one case parent and child, both winners of the same DV year. In almost all cases they decided to proceed CP with one CN only, of course the one having more chances for approval due to education / other background history.

Congrats! That's not such a high number considering I've seen a lot of CN 38-39k of 2018EU in Albania recently... Still everyone is safe under 40k if we look at the recent DV years stats

@SusieQQQ @Sm1smom @Britsimon have you noticed in the past few years that an increased number of people from the same family are being selected as winners - each one with different CN ? I may have encountered about a dozen of these cases and wondering whether something's going on with the...

Btw, US Embassy in Tirana (Albania) holds the record by asking to submit documents at least 2 weeks prior to the interview! Even though, they will still accept if you bring over a couple of documents on the interview day.

Thank you @SusieQQQ - great to see you again and helpful as always :)

Hi Roger! I was wondering, is DV1 for main applicant, DV2 = 2nd derivative, DV3 = 3rd derivative ? If yes, what about the data for bigger families (with more derivatives) ?

Hi Brit! Shoudn't the title in your forum be changed to i-864 insted of i-184? Never heard of the latter and also the topic is about i-864... Thank you for explaining the difference though :)

Did the same with the secured credit card and it worked fine. After a few months of paying the balance on time, several banks will send you credit card offers mailed home so you can build up credit faster. Watch out for the number of hard inquiries you make though as they affect the total score...