I heard that the US goverment are gathering together today to decide if they are going to shut down DV Lottery program or not.
Is this true? Any information?
You mean all the branches of US government? Probably not.
It's the immigration bill, and it has a long way to go. Nothing will happen to DV2014. If they can't get it done by the end of the year, I'd say DV2015 is safe too.
This is the draft bill
http://www.schumer.senate.gov/forms/immigration.pdf
Check p274 for DV related.
If enacted it will be effective only from 10.1.2014
My understanding is that that no visa can be issued for selectees in a fiscal year after 2015. That means DV2015 folks can be selected but won't get visa. Therefore I think DV2014 (fiscal year 2014) is the last year as there is no point of selecting folks if they can't be issued with the visa.
However, folks this is not the first bill to kill DV and our republican friends who as we know don't like DV will this time work for us and try to dismiss the whole bill because of other more controversial bits in it (e.g. path to citizenship for illegals as it's currently drafted etc.).
right now almost everyone in US wan't to have a new immigration law so the chances for proceeding dv2015 winners are really slim...lottery fans need a miracle...
It means that we could have dv2015 application process and maybe announcement of results in May 2014 but nobody will be proceeded from dv2015 winners in 2015 fiscal year(from 1 Oct 2014). So the DV2014 was the last edition of lottery.
.........An alien who receives a notification from the Secretary that the alien was selected to receive a diversity immigrant visa under section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1153(c)) for fiscal year 2013 or fiscal year 2014 shall remain eligible to receive such visa under the rules of such section, as in effect on September 30, 2014. No alien may be allocated such a diversity immigrant visa for a fiscal year after fiscal year 2015.
.....They could simply say there won't be a DV2015 but that would be easy