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DV 2021 ALL SELECTEES

anthonyaziz said:
What about for short-term travel < 90 days, could I have problems with future visa-waiver applications also?
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If you apply for and are denied a US visa (of any type), you will need to update your ESTA. The likely consequence of reporting a denied immigrant visa is that you will be deemed ineligible to use the VWP, and will have to apply for a B visa for visit purposes. You would have to convince the CO interviewing you for a B visa that you no longer have immigrant intent in order to be issued a B.
 
SusieQQQ said:
If you apply for and are denied a US visa (of any type), you will need to update your ESTA. The likely consequence of reporting a denied immigrant visa is that you will be deemed ineligible to use the VWP, and will have to apply for a B visa for visit purposes. You would have to convince the CO interviewing you for a B visa that you no longer have immigrant intent in order to be issued a B.
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How likely? Because if I understand correctly, interview rejection for the DV could potentially make future travel for vacation purposes unnecessarily difficult (unless a B visa is straightforward? - haven't looked into it) without a VWP like ESTA.
 
anthonyaziz said:
How likely? Because if I understand correctly, interview rejection for the DV could potentially make future travel for vacation purposes unnecessarily difficult (unless a B visa is straightforward? - haven't looked into it) without a VWP like ESTA.
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Highly likely. Assume it is much more likely to get your VWP privileges withdrawn than not. (Others will tell you it’s a certainty.)
 
SusieQQQ said:
Highly likely. Assume it is much more likely to get your VWP privileges withdrawn than not. (Others will tell you it’s a certainty.)
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So is it safe to say that this happens to several selectees every year from places with eligible for VWP, like EU or OC, purely on the basis of a failed DV interview? I'd love to hear the experiences of any such people trying to enter the U.S. at a later date. Not sure if you have come across someone in this situation here on the forums (am fairly new here)?
 
Considering the worst situation where Trump may extend the EO until the end of year, I have a question regarding to issuing green cards for dv2021 selectees:

Is there such possiblity/case that consulates start making interviews as intended, starting from first month of FY2021 but issuing winners' visas after ban lifts (2021 jan possibly) ?
 
gmeteor said:
Considering the worst situation where Trump may extend the EO until the end of year, I have a question regarding to issuing green cards for dv2021 selectees:

Is there such possiblity/case that consulates start making interviews as intended, starting from first month of FY2021 but issuing winners' visas after ban lifts (2021 jan possibly) ?
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Let’s not litter this thread with scenarios of what may or may not happen. You can start a new thread for that discussion if you wish. This thread should be left clean for the purpose of answering process related questions and guiding selectees through the process. Let’s not litter it with speculations please.
 
anthonyaziz said:
So is it safe to say that this happens to several selectees every year from places with eligible for VWP, like EU or OC, purely on the basis of a failed DV interview? I'd love to hear the experiences of any such people trying to enter the U.S. at a later date. Not sure if you have come across someone in this situation here on the forums (am fairly new here)?
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It happens to many people from VWP-eligible countries every year who have had a US visa application denied. It’s not particularly relevant whether it’s DV or another type, other than DV is one of the ones that you have expressly shown immigrant intent for. This matters because Section 214b of the INA presumes immigrant intent on the part of every applicant for a non-immigrant visa and the onus is on the applicant to overcome that. That is what you will face at a B visa interview, well before you “try enter the US later”. I am not sure from your response that you actually understand your existing ESTA is no longer valid once you have been refused a visa.

i don’t know how many different other ways to tell you the same thing, that britsimon has warned you about too.
 
Hello! I have a question regarding DS-260 form. My maiden name includes the letter '' ë ''. Unfortunately the DS-260 page doesn't accept that as a character. Is it okay if I substitute it with normal '' e '' ? Thank you !
 
enteladv2021 said:
Hello! I have a question regarding DS-260 form. My maiden name includes the letter '' ë ''. Unfortunately the DS-260 page doesn't accept that as a character. Is it okay if I substitute it with normal '' e '' ? Thank you !
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Yes. I am pretty sure it notes somewhere in the instructions that no accent characters are used in the form.
 
budayg said:
You can use accent character under the “Name in native alphabet” field, no?
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to state the obvious, that is specifically for NATIVE alphabet. They need to be able to compare it to your passport. You don’t keep your native alphabet for your new American name.
 
SusieQQQ said:
to state the obvious, that is specifically for NATIVE alphabet. They need to be able to compare it to your passport. You don’t keep your native alphabet for your new American name.
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Thank you for your reply. I have CN EU40*** and the chosen embassy is in Frankfurt. Does anyone have info about the interview process there? Wish you all the best of luck!!!
 
@anthonyaziz even if the CO can see your entry, and you some how can prove that it was not your fault, they probably can't approve you even if they wanted to. Even if they were sympathetic.

If it was somehow overlooked in the interview, and you got your green card, the green card would probably be invalid. This could then give you when bigger problems after settling in the US.

Unless you can find concrete, official evidence that you have any chance of being approved, then it's much better to not declare immigrant intent at all and to try again next year.
 
I have one more question regarding DS 260:

Do you want the Social Security Administration to issue a Social Security number and a card?

I answered YES. This is what I'm supposed to answer right?
 
DV2020EU44 said:
I have one more question regarding DS 260:

Do you want the Social Security Administration to issue a Social Security number and a card?

I answered YES. This is what I's supposed to answer right?
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Yes. This is what (should) get you one automatically issued after you land. Otherwise you will need to go into a SSA office after you arrive and apply for one.
 
anthonyaziz said:
I understand the difference in probability between regions having looked a prior data when I applied for DV-2019 and would never intentionally choose the wrong region to increase my chances, that would just be silly on my part. This isn't a simple span of the mouse wheel (the two countries and cities sit pretty distant alphabetically); plus I check such information carefully and slowly before submitting (every time) so genuinely don't believe a mistake was made. This is the entire basis of my question - I expected an AS case number (if selected) because I've always entered the same details every year I've applied for DV. The only difference in [additional] information entered this year being the OC passport for DV-2021.



The alternative is to let the selection letter / potential opportunity go to waste? What should I do? The only person who will have, and can verify, my eDV submission information will be the CO (KCC does not release application information to anyone including applicants). I understand the consequences here but surely this can be explained in future, if it gets to that? But just to be clear, you're referring to my ability to apply for/obtain a visa to the U.S. in future? What about for short-term travel < 90 days, could I have problems with future visa-waiver applications also?

Nevertheless, I will definitely keep more detailed records of any future applications should processing of this one go south.
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So with a random mistake being unlikely, and the only remaining clue is that your country of residence is what is chosen as chargeability, then it is clear that you made a mistake. The country wasn't just picked randomly from 200 countries and it just happens to be the country you live in. If the system was broken (plugging in residence country into chargeability), everyone who listed similar differences would be noticing errors, and it would be widespread. This simply isn't the case.

But I just want to be really clear. REGARDLESS of "how" it happened, there is no possible way for them to ignore the reality. They have ZERO discretion on this type of mistake (except where the two countries are within the same region - and even then that is not a slam dunk). The law does not allow any other outcome.

So - yes - "let the opportunity go to waste", because there is NO opportunity. If you are determined to be told that by a CO you are welcome to do that, but there is no changing the outcome - and in any case, if you can't accept you made a mistake, then you still won't believe what the CO says either - because they cannot show you the form itself, just the relevant chargeability data entered in the form which is exactly what you already have.
 
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