The US Diversity Visa Lottery, commonly known as the Green Card Lottery
for the USA, was introduced for the purpose of adding Diversity to the
United States of America. The benefits of the Diversity Visa Lottery,
or Green Card Lottery, is that it will allow those who qualify the
opportunity to apply for lawful permanent residency in the USA. Lawful
permanent residency means the individual ( and any immediate family
members ) will be able to live and work in the United States of America
without any further immigration restrictions.

You can apply for the Green Card Lottery one time every year, but only 50,000 successful applicants are selected every year.

How does the US Green Card Lottery work?

The Department of
State receives Green Card Lottery applications during the month of
October. These application are sorted by geographical regions. All
applications are closely scrutinized for the qualifying criteria. All
those not meeting the qualifying criteria are rejected.

• Must
  be a native of a qualifying country.

• The applicant must also possess either a U.S. High School diploma or a have the equivalent of U.S. high school diploma or;

• If
  you are unable to satisfy the educational criteria you must possess at
  least 2 years of work experience in the last five years. Please note
  that this must be an occupation that requires at least two years of
  training or experience.