Registration for the green card lottery program for the fiscal year 2024 (DV-2024) began on Wednesday, October 5, 2022, and will run until Tuesday, November 8, 2022.
The green card lottery program, officially known as the Diversity Visa program, is run by the US State Department and makes on a lottery basis up to 55,000 green cards available to nationalities of countries with historically low rates of immigration to the United States.
A total of 442,966 Kenyans applied for a US green card in the Fiscal Year 2018. This was a 23 percent rise compared to 2017 when 360,023 Kenyans entered the lottery.
In 2019, 1, 800 Kenyans won Green Cards while in 2021 a record number of 2777 won the DV-2021 Green Card Lottery.
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