Re:Moving to USA (NYC) – Need Advice
by northwest on Sunday August 18, 2013 @04:12AM
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Expect around a 1% chance of winning.
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I won the DV2013 lottery (I have about 3 months left to relocate to the US) and I remember the chances being as high as 4% in some places.
Or you just book a round trip with a few hours inside the US and you're good to go for the next 12 months in your home country.
This way you can opt for the wait-and-see approach regarding the evolution of the surveillance state trend and its ramifications.
It depends on where you are from.
Re:Moving to USA (NYC) – Need Advice
by CuriousJack on Monday August 19, 2013 @03:57AM
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So which countries are more preferable?
And from where do you have this information?
Re:Moving to USA (NYC) – Need Advice
by winter_blue on Monday August 19, 2013 @05:27AM
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People from Europe & Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, etc.) get 80% of the DV. If you're fromm elsewhere you have around a 1% or less chance of winning. (For Oceanians it's about 5%.)
Source: Wikipedia article on it.
Re:Moving to USA (NYC) – Need Advice
by adamnemecek on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @03:03AM
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That's not right. The chances of winning are, with the exception of Oceania, less than 2%. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_Immigrant_Visa#Winnin... (Oceania is 5.28%). I'm not sure where you got the 80% from.