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are there any tips for winning?

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NigeriaorBust Grand Master

NigeriaorBust   4,087

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Your name is entered into a database and they select about 100k names to fill 50k visa , weighted slightly by region. They select more than the actual available amount because so many people apply that don't meet the requirements as far as education / talent. If you are married and your spouse also could qualify on her own you both can apply. There are very few people that will get a visa through the lottery. Your chances are one in millions. Good luck anyway. DO make sure that you apply directly to the official site and not through someone that claims to be able to help you ( many of those people never really submit anything so I guess NOT using them improves your chances ) The 2012 version should be open from Oct to December.

This will not be over quickly. You will not enjoy this.

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sachinky Mentor

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Do you have any tips to winning the lottery?

A lottery, by all definitions, is random, so no, there are no tricks per se.

You apply. And you hope.

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There used to be a way to increase your chances and many people send in hundreds of applications every year. Now that's a thing of the past, and the one time I won the lottery it was with only 1 application.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

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Ted46 Rookie

Ted46   2

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The only tip I got is this: You gotta play to win.

As you can only enter once per eligible family member, there is no way to improve the odds. Having said that, some years back when you still entered on paper I read that approx. 50% of all entries get disqualified due to not following the rules. Obviously with the current online entry system that should be somewhat mitigated, but it clearly helps to send an entry that doesn't get disqualified on formal grounds.

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Ayodeb Rookie

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Following instructions is what is needed to be randomly chosen. It is very important that the names submitted must match exactly with your credentials. If you are married, make sure you include all family members otherwise you will be disqualified during interview.

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