Green Card Lottery Application????

[floridadreamvilla.co.uk]

We have applied for this years lottery and next years too. We completed the online form and paid by visa. We also had to mail a form with our photos on.

Before applying we went onto the sites own "verifer" which advised that we were eligible to apply.

However revisiting the USAIS.org site again tonight it states that residents from Great Britain excluding N.Ireland are ineligible.

Our form has been processed. Are we in or out? If out will we be able to get our money back?

Any ideas?

Sarah

[blott]

Out as far as I know Sarah! UK citizens have been ineligible for the green card lottery for some time now (but Irish are not, including those from Northern Ireland) as there are more than the 50,000 set limit for immigrants in the last five years. If you had been eligible, your application should have been received in Kentucky USA by noon on 06 November 2002.

Don't know about getting your money back (you can ask as you are ineligible and they shouldn't have advised you that you were eligible) but the fact that you paid with your credit card might help your cause as you can presumably get a refund from the credit card company.

I've just found these websites:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/lottery.htm
http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/howdoi/divlott.htm
http://travel.state.gov/DV2004.html
which might help.

[florida4sun]

You would not be elegible if you are born in the Uk.There is talk of the 2005 lottery being available to the UK but I doubt it very much.
If you have a parent who was born in an accepted country then you can claim nativity for the country. There are no refunds once you have applied.....Sorry

quote:Originally posted by floridadreamvilla.co.uk

We have applied for this years lottery and next years too. We completed the online form and paid by visa. We also had to mail a form with our photos on.

Before applying we went onto the sites own "verifer" which advised that we were eligible to apply.

However revisiting the USAIS.org site again tonight it states that residents from Great Britain excluding N.Ireland are ineligible.

Our form has been processed. Are we in or out? If out will we be able to get our money back?

Any ideas?

Sarah

[florida4sun]

Just a thought. Hoiw did you manage to apply online? If you go through the INS site it will not let you if you state an eligible country. Did you apply direct or through an agency - these can appear to be official.

quote:Originally posted by floridadreamvilla.co.uk

We have applied for this years lottery and next years too. We completed the online form and paid by visa. We also had to mail a form with our photos on.

Before applying we went onto the sites own "verifer" which advised that we were eligible to apply.

However revisiting the USAIS.org site again tonight it states that residents from Great Britain excluding N.Ireland are ineligible.

Our form has been processed. Are we in or out? If out will we be able to get our money back?

Any ideas?

Sarah

[Ken and Julia]

I wonder if the channel Islands would be treated as the UK, as we have our own government our own money etc, does anyone know of anyone that might know the answer to that

[florida4sun]

It goes by what nationality you were when born. What nationality passport would you have been issued with on that day.

quote:Originally posted by Ken and Julia

I wonder if the channel Islands would be treated as the UK, as we have our own government our own money etc, does anyone know of anyone that might know the answer to that

[floridadreamvilla.co.uk]

We applied through www.usaus.org which did not list the Uk on it's list of banned countries (but now does ).

[blott]

Did you read the first link I gave you - this has info about agencies which charge you for making what is a FREE application.

I think your best way of attempting to get your money back via your credit card. If you tell them that the site has misleading information and should have told you that you were ineligible, it's worth a try!

Ken - presumably if you have a UK passport then Guernsey is part of the UK? Isle of Man is in a similar situation with its own government, etc and so, too, is Scotland presumably.

[esprit]

Definitely out. Unless your or Sarahs parents was born in Ireland including Northern Ireland. Does not apply to grandparents ( we checked on that as Terry's grandad was from Eire). How did you pay???

[fiona]

Gosh, Chris was born in Cyprus does this count? Got Brit passport, and always have as his parents just happened to be posted there. Now if I had been the one born in Germany, not my brother, we might be onto a winner!!