Shall try ombudsman right now). May be more letters they will recieve about same issue, more efforts they will do. I also heard, that our A number on the NOA means our GC number, don't know, if it is right, and that means our visa is reserved already. But, that said the lawer, and as we know, they are not very expirienced in DV cases. Anyway, shall try to wright some letters and make other infopass next week. Wish you also get IL soon.
no responses yet...just the green (certified mail receipt) cards...
I did get an email from ombudsman saying that they are reviewing my app and either they or USCIS would let me know the status and whether they can help me or not.
About the 50,000 limit...you know that the criteria for approving the GC, is for them to check the VB (visa Bulletin), we also already got the advanced notification for September that shows all current (with minor exceptions). I think that only key info is to see VB for September that would be published around August 8th...If, as expected it would still show the info as it was showing a month ago on the advanced table, then there would be no problem. I think DOS has made some regions current in August and all of them in September because they think that they would not be able to issue 50,000 visa and have "ample" supply.
But, I might be dead wrong here....