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DV 2021 ALL SELECTEES

emmmy said:
Hi everyone ! My visa has been issued and I am all cleared to travel to the US. However, I come from a Schengen Area country. Could you let me know if dv visas holders can travel to the US despite the Schengen Ban ? Or do they have to quarantine in another country/ ask for a NIE ? Thank you so much for your answers !
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Immigrant visa holders are excepted from the ban.
 
Syd2022 said:
Hi Everyone, I remember seeing a link to a page a few weeks back that showed you where KCC was up to in terms of opening emails and processing messages. Does anyone have the link and would they be willing to share it again please? I would like to see where KCC is up to in opening emails as last time I looked (prior to losing the link in my history) it was taking KCC a week to read through 2 days of emails. Thank you in advance.
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If you are talking about the declaration of Morgan D Miles, the director of KCC:

2021 0708 116 Rosales Pl Reply to Motion for Class Certification.pdf

drive.google.com drive.google.com

Exhibit D
 
CN2021AS55XX status Update.

Oct 20, 2019 Submitted lottery entry
Jun 06, 2020 Received selection notification letter (1NL)
Sep 03, 2020 Submitted DS260
Sep 08, 2020 Received document request email
Apr 23, 2021 Sent documents to KCC and received auto reply
May 19, 2021 Received ready for scheduling email from KCC
Jul 01, 2021 Received interview notification letter (2NL)
Jul 22, 2021 Attended medical exam
Aug 04, 2021 Attended interview at US consulate HNK
Aug 05, 2021 CEAC status changed to "Administrative Processing"
Aug 06, 2021 CEAC status changed to "Issued"
Aug 10, 2021 Received returned passports with visas via courier

Just want to say thank you to all the mods and fellow forum posters for your comments / advises. And a great big shout out to @gracygracy for her HK specific guidance and @Xarthisius for his data processing works.

I'll be happy to share my DV experience that are specific to Hong Kong (as I strongly believe each case in each country is different to others) if you PM me.
 
Uncle33 said:
CN2021AS55XX status Update.

Oct 20, 2019 Submitted lottery entry
Jun 06, 2020 Received selection notification letter (1NL)
Sep 03, 2020 Submitted DS260
Sep 08, 2020 Received document request email
Apr 23, 2021 Sent documents to KCC and received auto reply
May 19, 2021 Received ready for scheduling email from KCC
Jul 01, 2021 Received interview notification letter (2NL)
Jul 22, 2021 Attended medical exam
Aug 04, 2021 Attended interview at US consulate HNK
Aug 05, 2021 CEAC status changed to "Administrative Processing"
Aug 06, 2021 CEAC status changed to "Issued"
Aug 10, 2021 Received returned passports with visas via courier

Just want to say thank you to all the mods and fellow forum posters for your comments / advises. And a great big shout out to @gracygracy for her HK specific guidance and @Xarthisius for his data processing works.

I'll be happy to share my DV experience that are specific to Hong Kong (as I strongly believe each case in each country is different to others) if you PM me.
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Congratulations!!!!
 
Hi Everyone, I would like to seek for advice on whether to apply the police certificate for my son. He will become 16 years old in this month (Aug 2021). As I received the document request email last year, I have submitted all the required documents except the police certificate for my son since he was under 16 years old. Up to this moment, I have still not received the DQ and 2NL email. So should I take him to apply the police certificate? As we are in Hong Kong, the police certificate is directly posted to the consulate and requires near 1 month time. Any advice would be appreciated!
 
L_T said:
Hi Everyone, I would like to seek for advice on whether to apply the police certificate for my son. He will become 16 years old in this month (Aug 2021). As I received the document request email last year, I have submitted all the required documents except the police certificate for my son since he was under 16 years old. Up to this moment, I have still not received the DQ and 2NL email. So should I take him to apply the police certificate? As we are in Hong Kong, the police certificate is directly posted to the consulate and requires near 1 month time. Any advice would be appreciated!
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If he is 16 or older as of the date of interview he will need a police certificate.
 
I just checked Savethediversity website - what I noticed is that there is a huge jump in the number of people Abu Dhabi processed from Asia region. Before it was 35, now it’s 79, current number 318000. However, for the last 4 month they didn’t process a single case from Europe - only 4 in total, and 4600 current number.
I am wondering how come they give 20 times more visas to Asia, in comparison to Europe. Should there be any balance ? I am 6*** EU, documents qualified since March. I am just at a loss
 
Erika_erika said:
Yes, Abu Dhabi
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Well.. considering Abu Dhabi (UAE) falls under Asia and that the vast majority of people that the local embassy will interview are local residents, it makes perfect sense that there are 20x or whatever AS selectees as EU people who happen to be residing there currently. I am not sure what you mean by "balance", but to me taking interviews in proportion to the resident population is both fair and obvious. What you seem to be asking, for them to go out of their way to find EU selectees to somehow "balance" the numbers would be showing preference rather than being fair.

You say they are processing some EU cases, so there is not a blanket ban on non-Emiratis? Have you had any contact with the embassy?
 
“Out of the total 9.2 million people who live in UAE, 7.8 million of them are immigrants(McPhillips 2017), that's almost 90% of the population”. It’s true though that there are a lot of people from the Philippines, India (but I guess they cannot participate), Nepal etc
To me it still seems weird why there is such a big discrepancy. I am wondering how they choose who and from which region to invite.. based only on the date they submitted their ds/documents ?
i wrote them.. but as usual, no reply
 
Erika_erika said:
“Out of the total 9.2 million people who live in UAE, 7.8 million of them are immigrants(McPhillips 2017), that's almost 90% of the population”. It’s true though that there are a lot of people from the Philippines, India (but I guess they cannot participate), Nepal etc
To me it still seems weird why there is such a big discrepancy. I am wondering how they choose who and from which region to invite.. based only on the date they submitted their ds/documents ?
i wrote them.. but as usual, no reply
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There are 282 selectees just from UAE itself and you said what they have processed 80 from all AS?

I think it is quite obvious how they “choose” to invite people. Numbers current, DQ, go ahead in order of the first then the second. You said you were DQ in March this year, so there are potentially 8 months’ worth of people DQ from as far back as June or July last year ahead of you in the queue.
 
Fwiw no European country is big enough to be noted separately here in breakdown of foreign population in uae but of those are, Iran, Egypt, Nepal and Sri Lanka - all DV eligible and falling under AS - are 15% of the population. I’m sure many smaller countries too. It’s just how the numbers are , no conspiracy against Europeans.

www.globalmediainsight.com

United Arab Emirates (UAE) Population Statistics 2024 | GMI

UAE Population 2024 Statistics with well designed infographics. Let's dive in to the UAE demographics, population by nationality etc.
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SusieQQQ said:
Fwiw no European country is big enough to be noted separately here in breakdown of foreign population in uae but of those are, Iran, Egypt, Nepal and Sri Lanka - all DV eligible and falling under AS - are 15% of the population. I’m sure many smaller countries too. It’s just how the numbers are , no conspiracy against Europeans.

www.globalmediainsight.com

United Arab Emirates (UAE) Population Statistics 2024 | GMI

UAE Population 2024 Statistics with well designed infographics. Let's dive in to the UAE demographics, population by nationality etc.
www.globalmediainsight.com www.globalmediainsight.com
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Sorry I realized an error here, Egypt falls under AF not AS!
 
Hello, I and my wife are 2021AS5XXX winners, we had an interview on 6th April 2021 in Singapore and after that, they put us on administrative processing since 8th June 2021 that lasts for more than 2 months already.

Please advise how can we push the embassy to process our case (finish the administrative processing and make a desicion) as we are worried about the coming deadline.
 

Msil​


I know one case, they had the interview in April and there visa was issued only these days.

It was not a real AP, they did not have to provide any additional documents, they had a successful interview but still took forever to get their stamped passports.
 
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