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Hello Bentlebee, pls my collification is National Vocational Traning Institude (N.V.T.I) and city & Guils certificate, after my junior high school i attend senior high & Technical school. so with this can i take part the lottery.
 
cruiserbox said:
Hello Bentlebee, pls my collification is National Vocational Traning Institude (N.V.T.I) and city & Guils certificate, after my junior high school i attend senior high & Technical school. so with this can i take part the lottery.
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I never heard of NVTI but if you have completed what you call junior high and senior high school and it is incl. at least 3 years of math and 3 years of english, etc...and you received a diploma, I think you should be eligible, but understand I'm neither a lawyer or a person working at USCIS....
What region are you located?
 
bentlebee said:
http://www.travel.state.gov/pdf/DV-2011instructions.pdf


Countries are similar to last year and so are most requirements.

Some people have asked about a minimum age but there isn't any...most people won't be eligible under the age of 18, since that is the average age of obtaining a HS diploma, if you obtain one earlier you will be eligible.

Good luck everybody!:)
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I got mine at the age of 17. Should have started applying then and maybe would have been in states by now :D
 
Mustafa_Baku said:
I got mine at the age of 17. Should have started applying then and maybe would have been in states by now :D
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Yes you should have...some people don't know they can enter on their own as well as long as they are eligible....if you submit and aren't eligible you can raise a red flag, just as entering more than once!
 
bentlebee said:
Yes you should have...some people don't know they can enter on their own as well as long as they are eligible....if you submit and aren't eligible you can raise a red flag, just as entering more than once!
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Good point. The thing is in your life you need to try many things so you can see what is good for you and what is not. As George Bernard Shaw said "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

Me and my friend started applying from last year and he said that he will be applying till he gets it, even by that time he will be 60 :)
 
Mustafa_Baku said:
Good point. The thing is in your life you need to try many things so you can see what is good for you and what is not. As George Bernard Shaw said "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

Me and my friend started applying from last year and he said that he will be applying till he gets it, even by that time he will be 60 :)
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Awwww, hopefully you and him will win before you reach that age:)
 
I searched Vocational schools and it means different kind of scholing in different countries...which might make it difficult to know exaclty how the USCIS will look at it....most likely it won't replace High School if it was similar to my vocational school. The one I attended, could only be applied for if you already had your HS diploma and IMO it isn't replacing a HS diploma...but I'm not an expert.
 
bentlebee said:
I never heard of NVTI but if you have completed what you call junior high and senior high school and it is incl. at least 3 years of math and 3 years of english, etc...and you received a diploma, I think you should be eligible, but understand I'm neither a lawyer or a person working at USCIS....
What region are you located?
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pls from Ghana. but on my cert i have no english n masth, but i have been in shool for 13 years is de same as senoir high.

mr. bentlebee add me so dat i can send u my cert uslottery_big@yahoo.com

thank you.
 
cruiserbox said:
pls from Ghana. but on my cert i have no english n masth, but i have been in shool for 13 years is de same as senoir high.

mr. bentlebee add me so dat i can send u my cert uslottery_big@yahoo.com

thank you.
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You can send me an email by clicking on my name and send a DM.

Unfortunately 13 years of school with no English and no math isn't counting similar as High School. You could go back to school, maybe even eveing school and get your diploma.

I don't want to burst your hopes and dreams, but there is reality and entering and winning and paying a lot of fees and than discovering you aren't eligible, like one poster stated on this forum a few weeks ago...is even worse. On top of that your name is in their system and could be a red flag, so enter when you are eligible is way better and maybe you can get your HS diploma in 2 years instead of 4.:)
 
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I have a question regarding the highest level of education you have achieved, as of today? I'm still studying in a university Which Option i should take Some University Courses??
 
rockstarw said:
I have a question regarding the highest level of education you have achieved, as of today? I'm still studying in a university Which Option i should take Some University Courses??
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I don't think so. If I am correct some university course is an Associate Degree. You probably should put High School.
 
Mustafa_Baku said:
I don't think so. If I am correct some university course is an Associate Degree. You probably should put High School.
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You are right but on the other hand you can't get into a College (at least in my home country and in the USA) without a HS diploma so they will know you have more than HS, due to that I would fill out some college, JMO.
 
Hey All,

I just have a quick question. My sister was born in Belgium but she is not a belgian citizen (in Belgium, citizenship it is not automatic like in the US), she is citizen from another country, so are our parents and myself. She has a birth certificate from our country stating that she was born in Belgium. Her birth certificate identifies her as being from our country, she has a passport from our country, and is in the US as a F-1 student with a visa as a citizen from our country. What should she put on her DV application as far as country of chargeability? I am quite confused with that. Belgium is eligible as is our country.
 
bentlebee said:
Unfortunately 13 years of school with no English and no math isn't counting similar as High School.
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There are countries where English is not a must at high school, so it is OK not to have it in your diploma. But math should probably be anywhere.
 
bentlebee said:
You are right but on the other hand you can't get into a College (at least in my home country and in the USA) without a HS diploma so they will know you have more than HS, due to that I would fill out some college, JMO.
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cruiserbox said:
pls from Ghana. but on my cert i have no english n masth, but i have been in shool for 13 years is de same as senoir high.

mr. bentlebee add me so dat i can send u my cert uslottery_big@yahoo.com

thank you.
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I know in Ghana there are technical schools which teaches English and Maths as subjects but these does not appear on the student's final qualifications. That is, the students are taugth English and Maths during their two or three years education, but in the final examination, the subjects offered does not include English and Maths.

This is the problem some of them are facing. I don't know if cruiserbox is one of them.
 
sarahdiop said:
Hey All,

I just have a quick question. My sister was born in Belgium but she is not a belgian citizen (in Belgium, citizenship it is not automatic like in the US), she is citizen from another country, so are our parents and myself. She has a birth certificate from our country stating that she was born in Belgium. Her birth certificate identifies her as being from our country, she has a passport from our country, and is in the US as a F-1 student with a visa as a citizen from our country. What should she put on her DV application as far as country of chargeability? I am quite confused with that. Belgium is eligible as is our country.
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Belgium, since the birth certificate says that she was born there.
 
bentlebee said:
You are right but on the other hand you can't get into a College (at least in my home country and in the USA) without a HS diploma so they will know you have more than HS, due to that I would fill out some college, JMO.
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I've been in my college for 2 year now,and i have HS already Isn't that supposed to be University courses since i attended college for 2 years
 
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