{"id":2638,"date":"2026-03-30T13:18:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:17:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:17:02","slug":"new-requirements-for-the-diversity-visa-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2026\/03\/30\/new-requirements-for-the-diversity-visa-program\/","title":{"rendered":"New Requirements for the Diversity Visa Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Visa-Resized-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1957\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Visa-Resized-01.png 800w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Visa-Resized-01-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Visa-Resized-01-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The State Department has published a final rule to amend the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (\u201cDV Program\u201d) effective April 10, 2026.\u00a0Applicants for the DV-2027 lottery will be required to submit a scan of the biographic and signature page of a valid passport when completing the electronic entry.\u00a0Additionally, all entrants must pay a $1 registration fee at the time of submitting their entry online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Fragomen:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fragomen.com\/insights\/united-states-state-department-publishes-final-rule-to-add-passport-requirement-to-the-diversity-visa-program.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">United States: State Department Publishes Final Rule to Add Passport Requirement to the Diversity Visa Program<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department has published a final rule to amend the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (\u201cDV Program\u201d) effective April 10, 2026.\u00a0Applicants for the DV-2027 lottery will be required to submit a scan of the biographic and signature page of a valid passport when completing the electronic entry.\u00a0Additionally, all entrants must pay a $1 registration fee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003,"featured_media":1957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[380,379,381,383,178,382],"class_list":["post-2638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","tag-diversity-visa","tag-diversity-visa-program","tag-dv-2027","tag-green-card","tag-immigration","tag-lottery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2639,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions\/2639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}