Entrants in the Diversity Visa 2019 (Green Card Lottery) program have until Monday, September 30th to check the status of their entries on the US State Department’s Electronic Diversity Visa Lottery website. DV-2019 is for those who submitted their entries during the October 18, 2017 to November…

Police in Nairobi are holding a man believed to be the mastermind of fake work permits pending arraignment in court on Monday. The suspect, who authorities did not name, is accused of infiltrating the Immigration Department and issuing forged work licenses to different companies and individuals.…

An estimated 14 million people from around the world participate in the Diversity Visa Program (Green Card Lottery). The Diversity Visa Program provides 55,000 visas annually to nationals of countries with low immigration rates to the United States each year. Earlier this week, the US State…

Those who want to participate in the upcoming green card lottery will now need a valid, unexpired passport. Instructions for DV-2021 have a passport number, country of issuance, and expiration date of the passport as some of the information that will be needed to enter the lottery. The passport…

The US State Department earlier this week announced that the registration period for the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (popularly known as the green card lottery) for the Fiscal Year 2021 will run from October 2nd, 2019 to November 5th, 2019. For Fiscal Year 2021, 55,000 Diversity Visas will be…

The US State Department has announced that the registration period for the 2021 Diversity Visa Program (DV-2021), popularly known as the Green Card Lottery, will begin on Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019 at 12pm EDT and end on Tuesday, November 5th, 2019 at 12pm EST. A total of 55,000 permanent…

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced it will welcome mother than 34,000 new citizens in celebrations across the country marking Constitution Day and Citizenship Day. The US celebrates Constitution Day and Citizenship Day on September 17th, as part of Constitution…

At least 600 Nigerian nationals are this week set to be repatriated from South Africa following the break out of a new wave of xenophobic attacks. Nigerian Consul General in Johannesburg Godwin Adamu said about 600 citizens living in SA will be flown back to the West Africa nation using two flights…

In a move being criticized by human rights and refugee advocates, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Friday announced that it is eliminating the requirement that USCIS adjudicate work permits for asylum applicants within 30 days. The current rule, enacted more than 20 years ago,…

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it will be conducting a system maintenance beginning on Friday, September 6th at 11:59pm (ET) and ending on Saturday, September 7th at 3am (ET). During the maintenance period, some of the immigration online tools may…