I learnt from an "unreliable source" that US gov is not really keen on continuing the DV exercise and she is not financing the programme like before,part of what led to the increase in the fees of Visa fees at the embassy by 100%(though visa fees were increased generally but by 15-20% but DV-100%).
Most of us that are still dreaming of going to God's own conutry shud keep praying oooooooooo.
I think there may be some merit in charging people a fee to initially play the lottery. This would rule out many of the millions of people that play it for fun. They may not want to play if they have to pay! They could then use this money to finance the scheme. Even if they charged $10 for entry and 6 million people entered they would have raised 60 million. That money divided out amongst the 50,000 visas would be about $1200 per case. That would help to fund it into the future? I mean $10 is not much money …. Just a though