DV 2022 All Selectees (Consular Processing - CP)

[Britsimon]

Yes and I applied for that PCC.
But, in the most accurate version, I must list here as my present address because at the moment I am here. the problem is, they may change my interview embassy here in Sri Lanka where I am not sure whether or not I can have a resident visa next year. another problem is, it may look more complicated (52-time changes in address between 2 countries) and I prefer to avoid my case go with AP because my case is As11000.
and finally, I heard @Britsimon says more or less he was in the same situation and did not mention his business trips and it was fine. I am not sure whether or not he was also abroad more than half a year on average or not although.
maybe both versions are just fine.

You have taken several things I said what I said out of context, mixed them around and come up with a new idea of what I have said.

1. I have said that short business trips do not count as residing in a country.
2. I have also explained that I spent about 5 years "commuting" to America about two work weeks out of each 4 weeks. I don't think I ever mentioned that in connection with police certs, but if I had I would have said I would NOT have provided police certs, but for the simple reason that police certs are not required for the USA.


I have also spent extensive periods commuting to other countries, but those were Monday to Thursday type trips, for extended periods of time and I only ever stayed at hotels etc. That is what I mean in point 1 above, and no I would not have got a police cert for that.

If those trips had became weeks and months long, and then I took an apartment or something like that, common sense would say that I had basically moved to that country, and was visiting my home country every few months. In that case I would of course have got a police cert.

Finally - if in doubt, get a police cert.

 

[Britsimon]

Again, you need to list that address! You’ve been spending 5 to 6 months in another country since 2014 to date, roughly 7 years, this is not the same as basically “going on a business trip”. Your home address in Sri Lanka (since you spend the remaining half of each year, more or less) is your primary place of residence and should be listed as current address regardless of where you are at the moment, that enables you to be scheduled for your interview in Sri Lanka. You don’t necessarily have to list address changes 52 times on the DS260 form, figure out how to list both one time each as your residency in both countries is ongoing. I don’t know about Simon listing or not listing business trips, but I’m willing to bet his business trips were not back and forth between two countries where he was spending roughly six months a year in each country for several years back to back.

You would win that bet.

 

[orpheus1]

Hello,i am dv2022, i have a question please, i have sent an email for unlock of the ds260 on 10th may and i didnt get any response, should i email them again or wait more ? if yes how more you think i should wait wait ?

 

[MarleneUSA]

Hello mom and everyone else thank you very much for the this forum it really helps out I personally have been reading this for the past 3 years. Thank you very much again for all the info which has always been useful for all of us. Please we have a question my cousin was selected for the DV 2022 but we are trying to know if the following number AF000008XX is too high what are the probability of being called for interview please we know that the filling begins October 2021 When we looked at the Visa bulletin of past year till date we can not see this kind of numbers only see AF 34,000 changeability and above. Please we are just curious about this number since we don't know how to read it due to having so many zeros before it and staring with number 8. He lives in Africa specifically Angola he will go for the consular processing.
Thank you very much for the help we truly appreciate it.

8 is super low! They start at 1.

 

[MarleneUSA]

I've been getting that for the last 2 hours. I even thought it was my sh**ty African servers

Just keep on trying- its the network

Hi everyone,
My father is selected for DV2022 from Asia and his case number is so low and there are less than 150 people in front of him.
When should submit his ds260?
what are the steps?

I completed my DS-260 straight after I saw I was selected?

 

[JanetP]

Hi all , I have a question regarding the DV lottery 2022. I applied for the viza last October but unfortunately i didnt see on time the new rule for the documents - to be used a valid , not expired international passport. In other hand i wouldnt be able to issue a new passport right then because my family ( me including) were sick with Covid 19 almost a whole month. So i filled in the form with the information of my ID card . Now the situation is that im one of the selected for the green card but as per the DV 2022 intrusctions such people with wrong documents are discqualified....Are there any exceptions for the last years relating the new rule? Plese advise what will be the best way to proceed further? Thank you in advance for the answer!
Janet

 

[Shabnamiii]

@Britsimon @Sm1smom

Hello again,

I have a question regarding job experience:
I’m a freelance translator and work contract with a publishing house to translate books. My education is also related to my job (Translation studies- B.A.)

Should I tick the question related to training YES or NO? since my job is in zone 4 and SVP 7.

I appreciate your response.

 

[SusieQQQ]

Hi all , I have a question regarding the DV lottery 2022. I applied for the viza last October but unfortunately i didnt see on time the new rule for the documents - to be used a valid , not expired international passport. In other hand i wouldnt be able to issue a new passport right then because my family ( me including) were sick with Covid 19 almost a whole month. So i filled in the form with the information of my ID card . Now the situation is that im one of the selected for the green card but as per the DV 2022 intrusctions such people with wrong documents are discqualified....Are there any exceptions for the last years relating the new rule? Plese advise what will be the best way to proceed further? Thank you in advance for the answer!
Janet

No exceptions unfortunately

 

[JanetP]

No exceptions unfortunately

Thank you for the honest reply... i realize it's unreal but i still believe in miracles because i have already got a US viza years ago with almost no chance to get it i was wondering if there is any sense to fill in the DS 260....

 

[SusieQQQ]

Thank you for the honest reply... i realize it's unreal but i still believe in miracles because i have already got a US viza years ago with almost no chance to get it i was wondering if there is any sense to fill in the DS 260....

I don’t know what you mean by ”almost no chance” years ago but in the present but you have explicitly contravened a rule that they spend about a page discussing in the instructions for entrants as well as the instructions for selectees.

Its up to you whether you still want to believe in miracles but bear in mind you will probably be $800 or so (depending on panel medical cost in your country) out of pocket (per person if you have derivatives) by the time you get an offical refusal.

 

[JanetP]

I don’t know what you mean by ”almost no chance” years ago but in the present but you have explicitly contravened a rule that they spend about a page discussing in the instructions for entrants as well as the instructions for selectees.

Its up to you whether you still want to believe in miracles but bear in mind you will probably be $800 or so (depending on panel medical cost in your country) out of pocket (per person if you have derivatives) by the time you get an offical refusal.

Yes , you are right , if there was not so big amount of non-refundable money i would try but the chances are really low...i just thought that the situation with the Covid is something really different in the whole history and maybe this could be a chance to be an exception for such cases....but thank you , I really appriciate your help!

 

[DV2022!!!!!]

Hello everyone,

I have a question.
I chose my home country of Japan as the interview location for the DS-260, but my current address is in the United States. Will my interview location be selected in Japan as per my request, regardless of my current address?

Thank you for your help.

 

[Sm1smom]

@Britsimon @Sm1smom

Hello again,

I have a question regarding job experience:
I’m a freelance translator and work contract with a publishing house to translate books. My education is also related to my job (Translation studies- B.A.)

Should I tick the question related to training YES or NO? since my job is in zone 4 and SVP 7.

I appreciate your response.

Whatever option you select is irrelevant if you meet the educational requirements.

 

[Britsimon]

Yes , you are right , if there was not so big amount of non-refundable money i would try but the chances are really low...i just thought that the situation with the Covid is something really different in the whole history and maybe this could be a chance to be an exception for such cases....but thank you , I really appriciate your help!

I agree with Susie, the rules are clear, and I have seen the change in the CO guidelines that explain how to refuse cases where the passport exception was used without legitimate justification.

However, the one thing I would say is that because the rule is relatively new and so few interviews have happened in DV2021 we have not yet seen people going through interviews with the same problem. So - we have not yet seen them either refusing cases OR applying some level of CO discretion. Until we see that, I am a little wary to predict all cases will be refused, or not. Sometimes the government "says" they will do something then behave a different way. For example, when they implemented the reused photo rule a few years ago (2017/2018 I think) it sounded 100% firm that you WILL be refused if you reused a photo from a previous lottery entry. The instructions say "Submitting the same photograph that was submitted with a prior year’s entry will make you ineligible for a DV." I added the bold for clarity. Pretty firm, easy rule to apply, simple disqualification. However, I know of MANY cases that were not disqualified for that reason, and have yet to see even ONE case disqualified for that rule.

So, if I were in your position, I would delay submission of the DS260 and wait a few months to see if we learn anything about how certain the refusal will be. Check back here later, and then as Susie says above you can decide whether or not to risk the expenses, time and mental health.

 

[Sm1smom]

Hello everyone,

I have a question.
I chose my home country of Japan as the interview location for the DS-260, but my current address is in the United States. Will my interview location be selected in Japan as per my request, regardless of my current address?

Thank you for your help.

Yes.

 

[DV2022!!!!!]

Yes.

Thank you so much!

 

[SusieQQQ]

I agree with Susie, the rules are clear, and I have seen the change in the CO guidelines that explain how to refuse cases where the passport exception was used without legitimate justification.

However, the one thing I would say is that because the rule is relatively new and so few interviews have happened in DV2021 we have not yet seen people going through interviews with the same problem. So - we have not yet seen them either refusing cases OR applying some level of CO discretion. Until we see that, I am a little wary to predict all cases will be refused, or not. Sometimes the government "says" they will do something then behave a different way. For example, when they implemented the reused photo rule a few years ago (2017/2018 I think) it sounded 100% firm that you WILL be refused if you reused a photo from a previous lottery entry. The instructions say "Submitting the same photograph that was submitted with a prior year’s entry will make you ineligible for a DV." I added the bold for clarity. Pretty firm, easy rule to apply, simple disqualification. However, I know of MANY cases that were not disqualified for that reason, and have yet to see even ONE case disqualified for that rule.

So, if I were in your position, I would delay submission of the DS260 and wait a few months to see if we learn anything about how certain the refusal will be. Check back here later, and then as Susie says above you can decide whether or not to risk the expenses, time and mental health.

I would agree it’s worth it to wait and see because it’s a new rule, but I think the passport details are different simply because it will be immediately obvious that what was entered on the form does not match what is presented. It is not immediately obvious whether or not an old photo is used. For this poster in particular it is not clear if they claimed exemption or simply entered invalid information - they said they used the information on their ID card.

PS there were reports that Bogota and one other consulate, i forget which now, did deny for old photos, but it was not widespread.

 

[Britsimon]

I would agree it’s worth it to wait and see because it’s a new rule, but I think the passport details are different simply because it will be immediately obvious that what was entered on the form does not match what is presented. It is not immediately obvious whether or not an old photo is used. For this poster in particular it is not clear if they claimed exemption or simply entered invalid information - they said they used the information on their ID card.

PS there were reports that Bogota and one other consulate, i forget which now, did deny for old photos, but it was not widespread.

Well the photos is an even easier denial - and yeah - immediately obvious and certain. There is literally no excuse that can be used (unlike passports) and since photos can be compared programmatically it would be really easy to have found violations of that rule.

Interesting about the other consulate, I had not heard that. I discounted the Bogata denial reports because it was clear they were just looking for reasons to deny cases - so they might have been for "old photos" (which has caused a few denials) or reused from a previous entry, which was the new rule.

 

[Britsimon]

Well the photos is an even easier denial - and yeah - immediately obvious and certain. There is literally no excuse that can be used (unlike passports) and since photos can be compared programmatically it would be really easy to have found violations of that rule.

Interesting about the other consulate, I had not heard that. I discounted the Bogata denial reports because it was clear they were just looking for reasons to deny cases - so they might have been for "old photos" (which has caused a few denials) or reused from a previous entry, which was the new rule.

Having said that - with the FAM being updated with the denial process and reason - INA 204(a)(1)(I)(iii) it does look like they are going to take passports seriously from the outset.

 

[dv2022!!!]

Hi there,
I have an another question. I am currently in the US, my "most recent visit" began in March of 2019. I cannot set my "length of stay" to "present". should I enter how long it's been since my last entry to the country (~2 years) or the remaining length of my visa (~3 years)?

Thank you for your help.