2021 visa lottery: these are the most common mistakes (and some frauds) when it comes to participating

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(CNN in Spanish) - This October 2 you can enter the dvlottery.state.gov site between noon Eastern time and noon Eastern time on Tuesday, November 5, 2019 to participate in the 2021 visa lottery. Here you can See the requirements you must meet to participate, the countries that can participate and those that cannot, and the odds of winning in the visa lottery according to your country of origin.

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But before you start filling out your application, we recommend that you read these tips so as not to make the most common mistakes when participating in the 2021 visa lottery:

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- Do not apply if you do not have the minimum educational level to do so: you must have completed at least "secondary education or its equivalent, defined as the successful completion of 12 years", or have two years of "work experience in the last five years in an occupation that requires at least two years of training or experience. ” Check here the main requirements.

- Do not do the process more than once, the system is very sophisticated and will disqualify you if it detects that you made more than one request.

- Check again and again that you wrote your names, surnames and personal data.

- Do not pay anyone who promises you miraculous results in the lottery. You do not need anyone to participate in the process, the result is completely random.

- When you enter to fill out the form, do it immediately, you are not allowed to save the information to follow later. You have only 60 minutes to fill out the information.

- Enroll all your immediate family, spouse and children under 21 years of age, even if they do not live with you or do not plan to travel with you to the United States.

- If you are single and go to the interview stage, you do not convince anyone to marry you to give you the visa. The two can be banned for life to enter the United States.

- Do not send photos more than six months old.

Keep in mind what it means to be a native of a place: it is the place where you were born, and not necessarily where you live today. It can also be the country where your wife was born or any of the countries where your parents were born, so you were not born in those countries and they have been residents of those countries. Example: Pedro (fictional character) was born in Colombia, but his parents were born in Argentina and did not reside legally in Colombia. Thus, Pedro could participate on behalf of the Argentine nationality of his parents.

If after completing everything and pressing the submit button, the system did not give you a request number, the system did not save your request and you must do it again.

Here you can review the most frequent questions that people who participate in the visa lottery have.

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