United States | Update for Diversity Visa entrants from Great Britain and dependent areas

The U.S. Department of State (DOS) urges 2025 Diversity Visa Program (DV-2025) entrants from Great Britain and its dependent areas to visit the Entrant Status Check and confirm whether their entry has been selected in the DV program.

Key Points:

• The DOS found that the DV-2025 selection status results may have been incorrectly reported for a small number of entrants from Great Britain and its dependent areas.
• The potentially impacted individuals are asked to go to the Entrant Status Check and use the unique confirmation number saved from their DV-2025 online entry registration to confirm whether their entry has been selected in the DV program.

Additional Information: Great Britain’s dependent areas include: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, St. Helena and Turks and Caicos Islands.

This alert has been provided by the BAL U.S. Practice Group.

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