DV Lottery 2016 Case Numbers Query

[mene2014 0]

Hi all, just have a burning question - hope anyone can help

I'd applied for the DV 2016 Lottery, I fall under the Ocenia category (NZer living in Australia), I've been looking at a few posts regarding confirmation nuimbers & noticed that others have the country reference letters in the confirmation numbers e.g. 2004OC000123xxx.

My question is - are these the same for this year's applications for 2016 entrants? As my confirmation number doesn't not have 'OC' in it at all, just a series of numbers & letters. Has anyone else noticed this?

Thank you in advance

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

Hi all, just have a burning question - hope anyone can help

I'd applied for the DV 2016 Lottery, I fall under the Ocenia category (NZer living in Australia), I've been looking at a few posts regarding confirmation nuimbers & noticed that others have the country reference letters in the confirmation numbers e.g. 2004OC000123xxx.

My question is - are these the same for this year's applications for 2016 entrants? As my confirmation number doesn't not have 'OC' in it at all, just a series of numbers & letters. Has anyone else noticed this?

Thank you in advance

You're confusing confirmation numbers and case numbers. A confirmation number is what you have ie what confirms your entry and to check if you have been selected, come May. Everyone who has entered has one. If you get *selected*, you will be assigned a case number, which will show both year of lottery and region of the winner eg in the format 2016OCxxxx. Edited November 11, 2014 by SusieQQQ

[mene2014 0]

Thank you SusieQQQ, I was worried I may have put the wrong info in the EDV entry form. Cool, fingers and toes crossed till May 2015