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DV 2015 Oceania winners

nzangeleyes said:
Hi all, thanks for your contributions to the forum, they have been very useful. Prior to finding this forum, I was completely mystified as to how the DV/interview process worked.

I'm lucky enough to have a low number OC2015....5xx and currently reside in Perth. In the DS-260 application form, there was the option to select Perth as the interview location. The Sydney consulate have stated on their website, and in an email to me that all visa interviews are conducted through Sydney. Can anyone shed more light on this?? It seems that either the form should not have listed Perth as an interview location, or Sydney are not aware that the Perth consulate will be doing interviews for 2015..

It would be awesome not having to travel to Sydney for the interview..

Thanks heaps = )

Email from US consulate in Sydney....
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Thank you for your email.


All immigrant visa interviews must be conducted in Sydney.


Thank you


U.S. Consulate General, Sydney

Immigrant Visa Unit (AT)

SydneyIV@state.gov
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They don't seem to have limited the DS options to the immigrant visa issuing units (similar case posted elsewhere for Canada recently), but that doesn't change the fact that you have to use them. I did the old paper forms, but I remember the instructions warning us that not all consulates do immigrant visas so to choose appropriately. Maybe you missed a similar instruction for the DS260. Never mind, ...All that will happen is that you will default to Sydney.
 
Thanks Emily, great to see who is around and where we all fit :) I love my lists too - I have many for the DV preparation!!
 
Glad to see another list maker Gemma!

I think it might be worth making a list of documents we need and, depending on our location (Oz, NZ, Fiji etc) where to get the documents from. I'll have a go at it this evening for Australia. As in a full list of how to get police certificates, education, birth certificates, marriage certificates etc.
 
 
 
We already ordered and received my husbands HSC and have just started on our vaccinations. Just waiting on our kids passports to arrive, I didn't realise they had expired - then we can submit the DS-260 forms. I spent hours going through the DV 2014 Australia thread and wrote down everything we need. There was some great info on the thread so I'll see if I can find the time to type it up. Just focussed on getting our forms submitted. Where are you from?
 
We're in Melbourne. We spent six weeks in the US last year and I have siblings living there, so we're keen to get over there and join the rest of the family.

I'm still finalising the DS260 and taking my time. The site has been great for providing logical advice on how to answer the questions. We're now at the point where we're checking what we've entered to make sure it's correct and matches our documents.
 
I'm in SE Melbourne. You should be over with your family in no time! I'm taking my time with the DS260 too as I want it to be 100% correct. Can't find my old passport so will need to ring US Embassy Canberra? for the dates of when I visited in the US in 1990.
 
Lol, I had the same issue around travel in 1991. My passport from that time is long gone so I called my parents who have kept their passports and they told me their visas in their passports were dated 18 June 1991, so I'm going with that.

Given there is no real urgency, I'm holding off until I'm 110% sure (Maury Povich Math) and/or sick of the form hovering over my head like the Sword of Damocles!

I'm in the Glen Iris / Camberwell area. Have lived here nearly all my life so it will be a wrench to leave all that is familiar. But, we need to be around family more so the US it is!
 
EmilyW said:
Lol, I had the same issue around travel in 1991. My passport from that time is long gone so I called my parents who have kept their passports and they told me their visas in their passports were dated 18 June 1991, so I'm going with that.

Given there is no real urgency, I'm holding off until I'm 110% sure (Maury Povich Math) and/or sick of the form hovering over my head like the Sword of Damocles!

I'm in the Glen Iris / Camberwell area. Have lived here nearly all my life so it will be a wrench to leave all that is familiar. But, we need to be around family more so the US it is!
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110%? If your case number doesn't go current then I'll eat the George Washington Bridge.

With your caution, I'd have twice the capital and half the grazes I have now :D
 
Hi! We are OC2015000004XX so we are guessing we will be a January interview? :) About to submit our DS260 as we had to wait for our wedding last month! Currently brainstorming to remember all our previous addresses and employment history o_O so many years/addresses to remember!
 
Well, this is interesting. We reached all of 1450 this year. Massively disappointing for many, and a big worry for the bottom half of Emily's list. I think we need to pull ourselves together and ask: why? Was it density of numbers? Lots of people taking up their opportunity? Consular inefficiency? I guess the CEAC data might hint at the first two - lots of 'ready' cases seem to be floating about. But I haven't had a chance to look.

In any case, this is a massive problem. I've been delaying starting a new venture and doubling down on paid employment to rake up as much capital as possible for next year. If I'm not getting a shot, I want to reverse that. I'm likely not alone. But how to guess at the future? Bloody dreadful business.
 
Alright, I've been looking at some numbers. I get the feeling this is closer to numerology than number crunching, but let's have a wander.

In DV 2015, OC has 3499 selectees, or roughly 2.79 percent of the total. Presuming proportional visa allocation to OC, that's 2.5 people per visa.

In DV 2014, OC has 4215 selectees, or roughly 3 percent of the total. 2.8 people per visa.

For the sake of context, let's contrast this with the 2013 figures.

In DV 2013: 2193 selectees, 2.1%, 2.1 people per visa.

The questions we need to ask are:

  1. Are visas allocated proportionally? If that's so, then in 2014 OC should have 1498 visas, or 48 more than the cutoff! I get the feeling they aren't. Does anyone have an exact figure?

  2. Has the density of selectees and dependents been skewed towards the low end in 2014, vs 2013? I'll try and sift the CEAC data to find out.

  3. Assuming the affirmative, will the density of selectees+dependents in 2015 resemble the distribution in 2014, or more the distribution in 2013? If its the latter, people with higher CNs (though not too high) can likely rest easy. If its the former, everyone above 1450 is stuffed, regardless of the better odds.
More work, more work.
 
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I'm worried how the DS-260 will affect the 2015 density. My number is <1450, just. A slight increase in density and it's goodbye Gulkan.

I'm hoping for an updated cutoff for OC so I can relax for the next year. As I said earlier, I just can't believe they won't have OC interviews in September.
 
Thanks for the link, the travel history only goes back 5 years. Will have to work out who to call to get the dates. Kids passports arrived today so I can get the DS-260 forms submitted. I am feeling really bad for the 2014 selectees that missed out, such a shame after waiting for so long and not getting through. I will be forever grateful to everyone for the 70+ pages of info on the process I have taken notes from. 2015 selectees I hope you don't have to go through the same thing as 2014.
 
AussieGemma said:
Thanks for the link, the travel history only goes back 5 years. Will have to work out who to call to get the dates. Kids passports arrived today so I can get the DS-260 forms submitted. I am feeling really bad for the 2014 selectees that missed out, such a shame after waiting for so long and not getting through. I will be forever grateful to everyone for the 70+ pages of info on the process I have taken notes from. 2015 selectees I hope you don't have to go through the same thing as 2014.
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I daresay we will, sadly. There's just too much opportunity at stake to play it down. I'm sitting in the mid 1500s. So for me, this VB is the 'will they won't they' moment. If the numbers are padded, as I hope they are, I'm good (as are many others, though the poor bastards in the 2000s won't make it). If not, sadness, anxiety and so forth. I'll be making a blood offering to Lady Fortune if things turn upwards.
 
Hi Guys,

Sorry to see that it only went to 1450 this year, hopefully this will change for 2015. One question, is the visa bulletin for October 2015 going to show shows it numbers this time next month? Being number 2015OCXXXXXXX6X Im starting to think I need to look at getting my police certificates etc.

Cheers
 
ozimattskey said:
Hi Guys,

Sorry to see that it only went to 1450 this year, hopefully this will change for 2015. One question, is the visa bulletin for October 2015 going to show shows it numbers this time next month? Being number 2015OCXXXXXXX6X Im starting to think I need to look at getting my police certificates etc.

Cheers
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Yep - next month, the September VB will open 2015!
 
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