Dv lottery

[MSGJ 0]

Hello to everyone,I am very happy to be part of this forum.i have been worring about my brother dv problem.can someone please help me answer my brother question? My brother was a little boy, when the war came to our country and he was used as child solider and after the war, he was disarmy by the United nations peace keeping force .Today he has become a grew man with wife and children, he and his family was selected for 2017 dv. He decided to submit his ds 260, but there is question in the ds 260 that asked about child solider. Should he say yes or no to the question?if yes, what will be the why forward for there immigrants program. Because the dv program has lot of expensive,so he will like to know, due to his past army record, will he still has the opportunity to travel to the United States with his family or He will never be issue the US visa in his life time.

Thanks you all

[kris&me 572]

He has to answer all questions truthfully

Lying will show up and get denial

[aaron2020 11,651]

The question asks if he ever recruited or used of child soldiers. If he engaged in either activities, then he marks yes.

[Boiler 45,549]

Tells the truth, keep it simple.

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

He needs to tell the truth.

No one here can tell you what the effect will be, but serving /or probably as in his case being forced to serve, in an army is not automatic disqualification. He can explain what his situation was in the interview. There are many former child soldiers from Liberia now living in the US, according to some articles found using a Google search.

Edit: make sure he knows what the question is, re Aaron's post above that the question is recruiting or using a child soldier - rather than just being one - of course we don't know exactly what he did. But the bottom line is to answer truthfully.

Edited July 16, 2016 by SusieQQQ

[aminah 6]

He has to say the truth.