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I would say that but if i get through I'm moving from Sydney to Chicago and it would be a little bit of a lie.

Yours aren't bad reasons at all. Mine were really pretty embarrassing!

Well, I just deleted six long paragraphs giving my reasons. They're embarrassing first world problems and nobody needs to waste time wading through them. But I'm likely not representative of people from those countries: you're going to find as many reasons as there are prospective immigrants...

My only theory is that KCC was swamped with DS260s last year, many of which had no chance at all of getting an interview. Processing those forms was, in the end, pointless work and a waste of time. And since the rate of people following through on their opportunity was so high they may have...

Good question. Before predicting things like that, I'd suggest waiting until the numbers are released and the quota estimates are calculated. (Though it's been suggested that the quotas will be similar to DV2015.)

Good point.

I think the answer to the second question is 'no'. The answer to the first question needs smarter heads than mine. I've always imagined a Kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmare, complete with steam-belching machines that do nothing and dead-eyed clerks putting papers on each other's desks to be...

So, just to clarify, KCC thinks that there is a much higher response rate and that's skewed the department of state's decision? Because if that no-show thing is accurate, then 84,000 is far, far too low a number.

Hm. There must be some higher case numbers around then. The response rate hasn't risen that much. Be good if the DoS gave you that API so we could see...

If DV4ROGER is still floating around here, I'd be interested to hear his estimates for visa quotas for 2016. Or even better, to know what method he used to crunch the numbers myself for the benefit if the reading public :)

Right, this makes sense. They're seeing far greater uptake in 2015 than before, so they figure they can draw 84000 people and get the same outcome as a draw of 100000+ in previous years. I'll be very interested to see the max CN vs. number of selectees for each region. Especially this one!

Not a trivial question -- this process is rife with jargon. It's all civil-service-speak and we've picked it up. 'Current' means two things. First, when we say a 'case number is current', it means that number is ready to be called up for interview by a consulate. In essence, they've got up to...

Hm. I'd love to see what all the numbers are, like we can currently with the 2015 CEAC data. Something's definitely up!

Best of luck! London is awesome and Scotland in particular is beautiful. Just don't call the English 'European' in front of them...

I'm leaning more towards this one at present: I like my cities gloomy and my architecture grand. To think I was hell bent on NY for so many years. Must be gettin old. Edit: and just to get the thread back on track: if you're a newbie just arriving, @Britsimon 's website and the links in...

A little higher than mine (1450, no movement from August), but sounds about right.

Confidence. I like!

DV2007 had 82K. Scroll down and you'll see the numbers. Crazy to note that there were fewer than half the Aussies selected that year than in 2015. Edit: fewer than a third!

I'd contact KCC about this one.

The only non-current years I've managed to find for OC are 2000 and 2014. (2015 will join them soon.) Did you find others?