di dv applicants have to pay for visa before filling ds 260 form

From what you wrote above and from the trend of the previous years I can derive that I should expect my interview scheduled not earlier than the summer of 2015, if I am lucky and the cut-offs will ever become greater than 44000. For 2014 JULY the cut-offs reached 36300 with an expected for August of 40150. For the fiscal year 2013 the maximum number was 33000 in July and then became 'CURRENT' starting from August. I looked at the previous years' bulletins. How is my number greater than 40000 then?Ģ. When I checked the statistical breakdown by foreign-state chargeability of those registered for the DV-2015 program, for EUROPE, all the numbers for european countries when added sum up to exactly 40000. Thanks a lot! Now the bulletin starts to make some sense for me. You will start looking from the bulletin published in August this year (which will be called the September bulletin), which will have advance DV notification for October, the first month of DV2015. When the numbers for Europe are higher than your XXXXX number then you are current. In the bulletin, scroll down to diversity visa. It will be in the form of 2015EU0.0XXXXX. The letter informing you you had been selected has a case number, that is the important one (but keep your confirmation number as you will need to log into the website again to get your interview letter eventually). Actually both of them are more of a combination of number and letters.

there are 2 numbers: my case number which I use to sign it to the website and the confirmation number. Can anyone please help me understand which number to look up in the visa bulletin in order to understand if my number is current? And what exactly is 'my number'? I have submitted DS-260 form and got the confirmation page.

Di dv applicants have to pay for visa before filling ds 260 form