The U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery, commonly known as the green card lottery, for fiscal year 2027 (DV 2027) is supposed to have wrapped up around this time if it had started in its traditional start of early October.
However, last week on Nov. 5, when it would have been wrapping up the entry period, aka registration, the State Department instead issued a statement that the process was delayed and that it was implementing changes to the entry process.
“The Department is implementing certain changes to the Diversity Visa (DV) entry process. We will announce the start date for the DV-2027 registration period as soon as practicable, as well as the date that DV-2027 selection results may become available through the Entry Status Check (ESC). These changes will not affect the visa application period for individuals selected for DV-2027, which will remain October 1, 2026, to September 30, 2027,” the statement said on its website.
The State Department had announced in September that entering the lottery will no longer be free, and that there will be a $1 fee. Immigration experts have been quoted elsewhere speculating that the process to implement the collection of the $1 fee might be causing delays.
Also worth noting is that the federal government was already shutdown when the green card lottery was supposed to have commenced in early October, the longest shut down in history. As of the time of this writing (Nov. 11), it was still shutdown, making this the 41st day.
The last time there was a delay in the diversity visa lottery registration was in 2017 for DV-2019, when a postponement happened due to “technical reasons.” Entries that had been submitted in the first week of registration were lost, and a new registration period started on October 18 to November 22 of that year.
For DV 2027, the state department is urging the public to only trust its official website for information when registration will start.
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