Eligible native country (spouse)

[Lisbeth 3]

Hello!

Sorry to be a pain, but since I got the diversity visa all my relatives and friends ask me every year to help them out with the DV applications.

My cousin is married to a colombian native which is not eligible country, but she is from Venezuela.

According to the instructions: If you were not born in an eligible country, there are two other ways you might be able to qualify.  Was your spouse born in a country whose natives are eligible? If yes, you can claim your spouse’s country of birth—provided that both you and your spouse are named on the selected entry, are found eligible and issued diversity visas, and enter the United States simultaneously.

 

With this in mind, is he able to participate on the draw himself stating Venezuela as a origin country as she is married to a Venezuela woman? O he needs to state that he is colombian and of course he is including her as derivative?

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

Regards, 

LM

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

1 hour ago, Lisbeth said:

Hello!

Sorry to be a pain, but since I got the diversity visa all my relatives and friends ask me every year to help them out with the DV applications.

My cousin is married to a colombian native which is not eligible country, but she is from Venezuela.

According to the instructions: If you were not born in an eligible country, there are two other ways you might be able to qualify.  Was your spouse born in a country whose natives are eligible? If yes, you can claim your spouse’s country of birth—provided that both you and your spouse are named on the selected entry, are found eligible and issued diversity visas, and enter the United States simultaneously.

 

With this in mind, is he able to participate on the draw himself stating Venezuela as a origin country as she is married to a Venezuela woman? O he needs to state that he is colombian and of course he is including her as derivative?

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

Regards, 

LM

He needs to read the instructions carefully when filling in. Where it asks where he is born, he puts Colombia. There is a question that asks if he is choosing his country of eligibility as a different one to the one he was born in - to this he answers yes (or maybe it asks if you are using the same one to which he answers no... I can't remember how it's phrased but it will be obvious & he answers appropriately). There is a follow up that asks for an explanation if this is the case, to which he will explain he is using the country of his spouse.

 

Note that in order to do this, the spouse needs to be able to meet the education or work experience criteria as well and as you have above, they have to enter the US together if they win.

Edited October 4, 2017 by SusieQQQ

[Lisbeth 3]

Thank you so much SusieQQQ!