The lottery that opens Oct. 5 is the DV-2024. That is, people sign up to participate in 2022, but the visa will be awarded to winners who meet the requirements in 2024.

This is the third year that Indre Anskaityte will apply for the Diversity Visa Lottery, a program that helps foreign nationals receive U.S. residency. With immigration here being a challenging ...

The Diversity Green Card Lottery program deserves better management. Cancelling immigrant interview appointments in the last leg of a long qualifying process is unfair.

Because previous DV lottery winners sponsor their relatives year after year, chain migration means that the program actually accounts for as many as 165,000 new immigrants annually.

Today, lottery results were posted online , so would-be immigrants can see whether they qualified to receive one of the 50,000 Diversity Visas available each year.

The change would require applicants to the Diversity Visa lottery to provide passport information when applying.

Lottery selections will be made in the spring of 2018. Trump has accused the program of contributing to "chain migration" and called for it to be dismantled and replaced with a merit-based system.