The US Department of State will no longer accept paper entries or mail-in requests for the green card lottery. GCLA at http://www.green-card-lottery.usa.org can help green card lottery applicants.
December 11, 2003 (Press Release) --
This year round, craving for American visa runs high even after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the fabled land of opportunities, but with a difference.
The wave of diversity visa (DV)-2005 green card lottery applications has started hitting the city. The only difference is that there will be no con men standing in front of Secretariatgt Building or New Market, hawking application forms and screaming "America, America".
Cyber cafés took over, envisaging an increase in their business after a long slump in it -- the reason being that the diversity visa programme registration turned electronic this year.
It is like a dream, especially for the people of developing countries, to leave home for good and become permanent residents of the US. To turn their dream into reality, the US offers the DV green card lottery programme every year that grants 50,000 immigration visas, popularly known as green cards to individuals from eligible countries. It makes them eligible to work and live in the US as part of the Diversity Visa Association.
Bangladeshis, especially the Dhakaites, respond enthusiastically whenever a diversity visa lottery is announced -- the trend that recalls Bangladeshi expatriates' flight to America through OP-1 lottery back in the late 1980s.
People crave for migrating to America just because they want a better living. "It is better to go abroad than living in Dhaka in the midst of choking pollution, traffic hazards and law and order downslide," said Hafizur Rahman, working for a private company.
The website http://www.green-card-lottery.usa.org says the Department of State announced a change in how applicants may apply to participate in the diversity visa lottery programme.
Starting this year, all registering for an opportunity to apply for a US immigrant visa under the diversity lottery will have to do so electronically. The department will no longer accept paper entries or mail-in requests for diversity visa registration.
Even the photograph should be scanned and added with the online application.
Since most people planning for applying for US visa do not posses a computer, the cyber cafés in the city are preparing to cash in on the stream of people seeking help to apply online.
The cyber café owners without scanners have started buying them. Moreover, some of them began to hire skilled people who can deal with online visa applications for clients.
However, the cyber cafés are not going to rip off people in the name of filling the online visa forms. The charge will not exceed Tk 50, an owner claimed.
"We will charge according to the time our client uses the Internet and there will be a small fee for scanning the photograph," said Mohammed Ali Chanchal, managing director of Saffron Computers at Mohammadpur.
The wave of diversity visa (DV)-2005 green card lottery applications has started hitting the city. The only difference is that there will be no con men standing in front of Secretariatgt Building or New Market, hawking application forms and screaming "America, America".
Cyber cafés took over, envisaging an increase in their business after a long slump in it -- the reason being that the diversity visa programme registration turned electronic this year.
It is like a dream, especially for the people of developing countries, to leave home for good and become permanent residents of the US. To turn their dream into reality, the US offers the DV green card lottery programme every year that grants 50,000 immigration visas, popularly known as green cards to individuals from eligible countries. It makes them eligible to work and live in the US as part of the Diversity Visa Association.
Bangladeshis, especially the Dhakaites, respond enthusiastically whenever a diversity visa lottery is announced -- the trend that recalls Bangladeshi expatriates' flight to America through OP-1 lottery back in the late 1980s.
People crave for migrating to America just because they want a better living. "It is better to go abroad than living in Dhaka in the midst of choking pollution, traffic hazards and law and order downslide," said Hafizur Rahman, working for a private company.
The website http://www.green-card-lottery.usa.org says the Department of State announced a change in how applicants may apply to participate in the diversity visa lottery programme.
Starting this year, all registering for an opportunity to apply for a US immigrant visa under the diversity lottery will have to do so electronically. The department will no longer accept paper entries or mail-in requests for diversity visa registration.
Even the photograph should be scanned and added with the online application.
Since most people planning for applying for US visa do not posses a computer, the cyber cafés in the city are preparing to cash in on the stream of people seeking help to apply online.
The cyber café owners without scanners have started buying them. Moreover, some of them began to hire skilled people who can deal with online visa applications for clients.
However, the cyber cafés are not going to rip off people in the name of filling the online visa forms. The charge will not exceed Tk 50, an owner claimed.
"We will charge according to the time our client uses the Internet and there will be a small fee for scanning the photograph," said Mohammed Ali Chanchal, managing director of Saffron Computers at Mohammadpur.
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