DV-2010 Entrants Comment on Online Status Check
DV-2010 green card lottery applicants have begun checking the status of their entries through the E-DV website. There may have been a server overload this morning, judging by the comments, but everything seems to be back up and running. Traffic will be high over the next couple of days, so don't worry if you receive a server error or cannot check your status. Leave it for an hour or two then try again.
Although the site is up and running, there has been some confusion about the results. Following is some information to help you understand the results from the online status check.
There are three things you must provide to check your status online:
- Entrant's confirmation code: This is available from the confirmation page that you received when you entered the lottery during the October 2, 2008 to December 1, 2008 entry period.
- Last name/Family name: Some people have mistaken this as first name/last name. Only your last name is required. Some people refer to this as their "family name." Your last name/family name should be entered exactly as you provided in your application.
- Year of birth
The system will check the database and return one of two messages, indicating that you either have or have not been selected as a lottery winner for DV-2010.
If you are NOT a winner, you will receive the following message:
Based on the information provided, the Entry HAS NOT BEEN SELECTED for further processing for the 2010 Electronic Diversity Visa program.
Please verify that you have entered all information correctly. You may re-check the Entry status by clicking on the Return to Entrant Status Check Main Page link below.
If this is the message you receive, it means that your entry has not been selected and you are not a DV-2010 green card lottery winner. You can try again in the DV-2011 lottery, which will open in the fall.
If you ARE a winner, you will receive the following message:
Based on the information and confirmation number provided, you should have received a letter by mail from the United States Department of State’s Kentucky Consular Center (KCC) notifying you that your Diversity Visa entry was selected in the DV-2010 lottery.
If you have not received a letter instructing you how to proceed by August 1, 2009, please contact KCC by email at kccdv@state.gov.
Please remember that you do not have to pay until you apply for a visa at a U.S. consulate or embassy. The U.S. government will not ask you to send money by mail or by courier service.
Important: Be sure to enter your information (confirmation number, name and year of birth) correctly. The system cannot verify if you have provided the correct information, it can only give you a result based on the information you enter.
A couple of people are concerned because they have already received their notification letter in the mail, but received the "you have not been selected" message when they checked their status online. There are two possible reasons for this:
- The information entered for the online status check was not correct. Always check carefully to ensure that the information provided for the online check is entered exactly the same as provided on the original entry.
- It is possible (but highly unlikely) that the letter was a fake, sent by some unscrupulous business for fraudulent purposes.
In this situation, if you are certain that the information you provided for the online status check is correct, contact the Kentucky Consular Center to verify your status.
Good luck, everyone! If you did not win this year, you'll have another opportunity to enter in the fall.
Comments
Hi! I have tried to check the results several times but I couldn’t succeed! I put the entrant’s name, family name and date of birth correctly, but it keeps returning back to the main page that asks for the information again! It does not go to this page that tells that whether or the entry has been selected or not! Could you please explain the process more? I mean after I gave the needed information, what the next page supposed to be? some times it also goes to this page that continuously asks for “an input code” and after I write the code that I am seeing on the screen, it remains again on that page and it just changes the code again!
HI! Just to let you know, Fire Fox worked for me!
hey there,
same problem here! I enter everything correctly, but the page doesn’t change anything, it selects my confirmation number, but nothing further. everything is entered just fine… why is it not going further?
Hi,
You were right! Fire Fox is the solution. Safari doesn’t like the dv lottery…
Thank You Jenny! Very Helpful Information!
Hi there,
And I have lost my entrant’s name
Do we have some way to rebuilt it?
Hi there,
I don’t have any Entrant’s Confirmation Number because my application was sent through USAFIS…
A wonderful configuration. This one is simple and very much ok.Thanks. But how can one get this? Is there a peak period? Are some days not situable or are there non accepting days that one apply and it will not be forwarded?
Hi Nazanin: Jennifer and I wrote very similar commentaries on this. Please visit http://www.examiner.com/x-7053-Albuquerque-Immigration-Examiner~y2009m7d2-Online-status-checking-is-now-available-for-DV2010-entrants
This page has additional information on the CAPCHA and other issues you may be experiencing.
SORRY,MY ENTRY HAS NOT BEEN SELECTED.I’LL TRY AGAIN.
I have been trying this lottery since its inception but has never won. why? I have just gone through the checking online but no good respond. “I was not selected”
All these are wrong myth nothing is true just make full.we are 15 couples here no one got succeed, Same massage is for all Based on the information provided, the Entry HAS NOT BEEN SELECTED for further processing.there is no luck there is something else which they look for.
No babol, those pple dont look for something else. I can assure u it is just luck. dont give up my dear continue to play and u may be lucky next year. I am saying this cos i have been playing for 6 years now and i made it this year so i believe u can also makle it. But u need to pray cos remember with God all is possible,
Please help me… im Timo from Indonesia,how I could know/saw results of green card lottery 2010?? Beforehand I had received the email but was already i delate. help me pls.GOD BLESS YOU all
just let me know at : timoanz@yahoo.com
Please can you help me with these ..my check always say HAS NOT BEEN SELECTED..i want to knoe if i have filled the information on the result check page correctly
confirmation…2010xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
last/family name…(DO THEY MEAN MY SURNAME OR MY LAST NAME?)..this is my worry
year of birth..Am okay
And please presently i have not been notified of anything does it mean i have not won or is there any tendency that i may have won and the courier is delaying my parcel please help me out thanks and hope to hear from you
im lost my confirmation no how can i get?plz replyme
i have lost my confirmation no how can i get?Please reply me.
pls some one should text how to check result to me to my mail
Hey, I don’t have any confirmation number, I don’t know whether I have done a wrong entry or how. How I can confirm that I have done a correct entry..Help please at my “shponkai@yahoo.com”
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