On Tuesday, the United States kicked off applications for the 2026 Diversity Visa (DV) Program, also known as the Green Card Lottery. In all, up to 55,000 foreign nationals have the chance to apply for permanent residency if they have a high school education or two years of work experience within the past five years in an occupation requiring a minimum of two years of experience or training.
However, the announcement has was one important caveat: it is designed to benefit individuals from countries with historically low immigration rates to the U.S. Specifically, countries which have had more than 50,000 immigrants move to the U.S. in the past five years are currently ineligible to take part in the process.
