What if I win?
Firstly, you will be incredibly lucky (the statistics are a little lower), and secondly, everything is just beginning for you.
After that, How will your number be among the winning ones?, you have to:
- This time fill out a very detailed questionnaire about yourself and your family in English, of course.
- Collect, translate and certify the required package of documents.
- Wait for an invitation to an interview at the embassy and successfully complete it.
- Get all the missing vaccinations and undergo a full medical examination.
Main difficulties:
- Interviews for green card winners 2023 are appointed with 1 October 2024 by 30 September 2025 of the year, that is, it is quite possible that you will have to wait quite a while.
- Even if you win it’s not a fact, that you will be invited for an interview, because there are always more winners, than visas issued. The latter are usually 55 000, winners are sometimes almost 3 times more. Many, Certainly, refuse during the paperwork process or even immediately after winning, but there may still not be enough places for an interview.
- Not all cities allow you to undergo a medical examination, which the embassy requires. Most likely you will have to go to the capitals.
- Citizens of Russia and Belarus undergo interviews at the US Embassy in Warsaw. Poland, as is known, Currently they do not issue tour visas to Russians. With an open Schengen you will also have to take a detour, since you can’t go directly to Poland. Not even speaking about, that in general you will have to fly to Europe with transfers in Turkey, Serbia, etc.. Can, Certainly, try to reschedule the interview at another embassy, but usually this is problematic, long and hopeless.
- Financial issue. Although participation in the green card lottery is free, but the registration and the move itself will definitely cost a lot of money.
We count:
- a trip to an interview in Warsaw will already cost a tidy sum;
- a medical examination in Moscow costs an average adult 22 000 p, per child- 18 000 p;
- Consular fee before the interview (non-refundable) — 330 dollars;
- You will have to pay more for the green card itself 220 dollars;
- Add to this the cost of translating an impressive package of documents;
- Well, Certainly, the move itself: airplane tickets, housing rental, etc.. No one will pay you for this, all for your money.
We multiply all these amounts by the number of family members (when, if they are) and get the minimum cost of a good new car. Something like this.
We are writing all this for this, so that before, how to fill out the form, everyone had a clear idea of, what awaits them. This will allow you to evaluate your capabilities, including financial, and make an informed decision about participation (or non-participation) in the lottery.
