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Seems most of us that got stung with DV2014 keep lucking out unfortunately!

Case number that never became current.

Just got in and checked, not selected. Onto year 16 trying for DV2019! Best of luck to everybody!

Haha thanks. I was lucky enough to be selected in the disaster that was DV2014 but with an OC280x case number which was never going to happen. Very thankful I have access to the E3 so have been living in the US for some years now anyway, but would be nice to make it permanent!

Time for the annual check in, best of luck everybody. 15th year applying, crossing my fingers its my lucky time!

Don't ever feel guilty about it! We all enter understanding it's a lottery. For those that are lucky enough to be selected we are genuinely excited and happy for you! Embrace the opportunity that's now in front of you and enjoy the ride :)

I hope it is real, but the font and "feel" doesn't appear to match the webpages I managed to access at midday on the dot. The page for entering your data looked completely reworked and different to previous years. Guess we shall find out as more people find out they're winners :) edit: appears...

The error messages are the connection being reset, traffic to the site has tripped multiple providers Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection platforms. So not only is the website under significant load, there's also providers that were (and possibly still are) deliberately killing...

Logged in at 12:00pm on the second and the website was responsive... Looks quite pretty on an iPhone now too! But not selected :( come on DV2018, will be my 15th year entering!

14th year applying, maybe my numbers will come up this year. Although I did "win" in the disaster that was DV2014 but with a case number over 2800. Living in NY now on E3 visa so at least I won't be waking up at stupid o'clock in the morning to check... Good luck everyone!

Personal income tax is 8% above the OECD average, and 17% above the global average. Australia's top personal income tax rate is 49% and is effective at $180,000. Americas top personal income tax rate is 39.6% and doesn't kick in until $600,000. Australian taxes are some of the highest in the...

They wouldn't be manually creating letters for everyone and uploading, the whole thing would be database driven with an application stack dynamically generating the documents for viewing with your unique details based on the credentials supplied when "logging in". I dare say there's probably...

Not selected either, another year down.

Another DV2014 victim here, case number of 280x which obviously got nowhere close to becoming current. Not selected last year, see what fortunes this year brings. 14th year applying now I think (or 13th, lost count).

Commiserations to my fellow selectees that have fallen above the cut off number. While I think a lot of us knew since some months ago there was little to no hope for the excessively high CN's (e.g. 2000+), I'm genuinely stunned that there was no movement at all this month. For those who have a...

My apologies britsimon, I had not realised you had applied for an E3 visa while you also had an outstanding DS-260 petition as the result of being a DV selectee. In the few instances this question has been asked it was not clear that you and the others replying had real world experience with...

Sydney.

Just on this subject as I have seen it come up a few times in this forum with speculative answers only, I had my E3 visa interview on Monday, was successful and received my passport back today. I did state on the DS-160 form (non-immigrant visa) that I had submitted an immigration petition...

I'm well aware of the fact that it's good in comparison to other countries, and you're not coming across as pitiful. Every country has it's problems... Just appears that Australia is painted as some sort of Utopia on these forums, which (at times) couldn't be further from the truth. With regards...

Well I'm glad as a country we are tricking the world, and people can't see that we're actually circling the drain. It does irritate me seeing comments like this about Australia. While it's a fantastic country and will always "be home", there are job losses occurring everywhere, major...