Will an early submission not cause such inconvenience for you, apart from the possibility of errors in your form? Don’t you have some ‘project’ ongoing that you would need to complete before emigrating? You may well want to ‘delay’ your interview to take such projects to completion before ‘activating’ your application process.Īlso consider your case number – especially if it is high – and see whether an early submission of your DS-260 which would prompt the sending in of your required documents will not cause your police certificate to expire and result in you having to acquire a new one before your interview, for example? There are other issues to take into consideration before running off to fill out your DS-260.Īsk yourself whether you’re ‘set’ to depart your current location without causing embarrassment to your plans. So I expect much proximity between the ones to be published in FY 2021 and those published in FY 2020.Ĭonsult the summary, and observe the Visa Bulletin for FY 2020, and see the month during which case numbers in the vicinity of yours became current yours will most likely be scheduled around the same time in the upcoming fiscal year. Example of this are the VBs from Fiscal Year 20. I’ve observed that VB trends usually run for at least two consecutive years before they are readjusted. I personally expect the high case numbers trend experienced this year to continue in the upcoming fiscal year.
Note: See the summary of the most recent Visa Bulletins from all regions in this article of ours for relevant indications. Your case number will normally be interviewed around the time when case numbers in the vicinity of yours were interviewed in recent years – could be a month earlier or later – unless there is a major change in the process which could result in the expansion or contraction of the monthly cut-off numbers. That will give you an idea of when your visa interview is going be. If you aren’t familiar with what low and high case numbers are in your region, then try to get acquainted with the Diversity Visa section of the Visa Bulletin (VB). Remember “Selection does not guarantee that you will receive a visa. And case numbers which are very high in their region may never be scheduled for interview because the 55,000 Diversity visas available for the 2021 Program may get exhausted before such cases are served. fiscal year and interviews for the Program will come to an end around the end of that same fiscal year (in September 2021). IMPORTANT: The earliest interviews (of those with the lowest case numbers in their region) for the DV-2021 Program will start in October 2020, at the beginning of the 2021 U. And the higher your case number in your region, the later your interview will be. The lower your case number in your region, the sooner your interview will be in the upcoming fiscal year. That is the ultimate determining factor of when your visa interview will actually be. To have a clear understanding of what the rest of the process entails, you must consider your case number which is mentioned in your selection notification letter (NL1). Then you can proceed with your application after that. So, my advice to selectees would be to first seek to understand the rest of the process to avoid future headaches. I’ve observed sadly that many don’t understand what the process is like even after being selected. Unless you know the DV process inside out, the proper thing to do right after being selected is to fully understand the rest of the process. After all, most interviews are still months and months away. But that isn’t necessarily the case.Īlthough nothing prohibits selectees from submitting their DS-260 right after being selected, it is advisable to ‘slow down’ and consider a number of issues before submitting. the DS-260) since they’ve been told that that is in fact the next step in the process and believing – perhaps – that the sooner they do, the quicker their visa interviews will be. What to do now?Īs has been observed over the past days, most selectees have been in a haste to submit their official Immigrant visa application (i.e. It is therefore time for selectees to put your house in order, to ensure that they eventually receive one of the DVs available for the upcoming fiscal year. As the selection notification letter (NL1) indicates, “Selection does not guarantee that you will receive a (Diversity) visa”. Many DV 2021 entrants now know their fate the rest of the DV process awaits those who were selected. With a week gone since the DV 2021 Lottery results were published, the ‘dust’ from the release of the results seems to have settled.