Foreign Country Chargeability

[dejaavu 0]

Hi All,

I have a question. I have two citizenships and I won the dv lottery for 2015 based on my citizenship of Kazakhstan, my country of birth is Kazakhstan and my current passport is Canadian. Can I apply with my Canadian passport but providing Kazakh birth certificate? Canadian citizens are not eligible for the DV but Kazakh citizens are. Or I should apply as a Kazakh citizen?

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

Hi All,

I have a question. I have two citizenships and I won the dv lottery for 2015 based on my citizenship of Kazakhstan, my country of birth is Kazakhstan and my current passport is Canadian. Can I apply with my Canadian passport but providing Kazakh birth certificate? Canadian citizens are not eligible for the DV but Kazakh citizens are. Or I should apply as a Kazakh citizen?

They don't care about your citizenship (whether single, dual, current or past)- they care about your country of birth. Lucky for you it seems you put the correct country for chargeability despite obviously not reading the instructions properly..... And it doesn't matter if your passport is from somewhere else as long as it is valid - there are people who have never had passports from their birth countries.

[dejaavu 0]

Canadians are not eligible for apply for DV lottery, Kazakhs are. I have both passports but my Kazakh passport will expire and I do not want to bother renewing Kazakhstan passport as it takes a long time to get it renewed from Canada.

Good to know! Thank you SusieQQQ!

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

Canadians are not eligible for apply for DV lottery, Kazakhs are. I have both passports but my Kazakh passport will expire and I do not want to bother renewing Kazakhstan passport as it takes a long time to get it renewed from Canada.

Good to know! Thank you SusieQQQ!

Let me repeat, because your first sentence above shows you did not understand : IT DOES NOT MATTER what your citizenship is. IT DOES NOT MATTER what your passport is. What matters is WHERE YOU WERE BORN. luckily for you you put the right country down, despite not seeming to actually realise what they were looking for. Other people who also did not read the instructions and who thought they could choose from two eligible citizenships have found themselves disqualified because they did not list their country of birth as country of chargeability.

[dejaavu 0]

I read the instructions and I understood them. I put my country of birth where I was born which is foreign chargeability. Canadian citizens (born in Canada) are not eligible for DV that was my point.

Thank you. It is good to know that I can use my Canadian passport to get us immigrant visa.

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

Then I don't understand why you keep on going on about Canadian citizens not being eligible for the diversity visa... Because firstly eligibility is determined by birth not citizenship so they will in fact be eligible IF they were born in an eligible country outside Canada, even if they no longer have citizenship of that country, and secondly it has nothing to do with your case. All you are doing is confusing the issue by repeatedly mentioning something irrelevant.

[dejaavu 0]

This is a forum and that is why I am asking to be sure.

[Ontarkie 14,225]

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