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    • Update on DV 2012: Recovering Confirmation code and refund issues

    By on Sunday, May 22, 2011 @ 2:32 am

    As reported earlier, the United States State Department announced on May 13 that ‘the results of the 2012 Diversity Lottery that were previously posted on its website have been voided’ due to a computer glitch.

    The State Department had also explained that ‘the results were not valid because they did not represent a fair, random selection of entrants, as required by U.S. law’, according to David T. Donahue, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Visa Services.

    According to Mr. Donahue, a computer programming error caused more than 90% of the selectees to come from the first two days of the registration period.(See: DV 2012:Cancelled and Postponed)

    This week, however, State Department has been sending emails that provide a few more info for applicants. The e-mails are apparently sent to the e-mail address applicants registered when they applied for the DV program.

    Started processing? The announcement made on May 13 didn’t provide instructions for the more than 20,000 applicants who had been informed that they are ‘selected’ when they visited the website between May 2 and May 13/2012. Of which, some started the next step in the process.

    It appears the following two notes included in the e-mails are intended to address such cases.

    Q: I thought I was selected, and I sent application forms to the Kentucky Consular Center. What should I do now?

    Those forms will not be processed by the Kentucky Consular Center, because they were submitted in connection with the lottery result that was voided. We cannot reimburse you for any costs, such as postage, that you may have paid to send these forms to the Kentucky Consular Center. You should check the Entrant Status Check website on or about July 15 to see if you are selected in the repeated lottery selection process. If you are selected again, we ask that you simply follow the instructions given in the notification letter, including the step of mailing your completed application forms to the Kentucky Consular Center, once again.

    Q: I thought I was selected. I am in the United State and contacted US Citizenship and Immigration Services about adjustment of status. What should I do now?

    USCIS will not process any adjustment of status cases based on the voided DV selection process. If you already paid the $440 DV fee to the USBank lockbox based on your belief that you had been selected, you may request a refund from KCC through the following mailing address:  Kentucky Consular Center, 3505 Highway 25-W North, Williamsburg, Kentucky 40769.

    Lost Confirmation code? Moreover, the e-mails from State Department provides applicants a chance recover their confirmation number in case they lost it or it is destroyed.

    The applicants could get their confirmation code by clicking on the unique link that State Department sent them through e-mail.

    Exceptional mail: The State Department notes that this is an exceptional e-mail, thus applicants should not expect to be notified of the results by e-mail.

    Q: You said the Department of State would not contact DV entrants by e-mail. Why are you sending this one now?

    Because of the computer error, we decided it was important to notify every person who might have seen incorrect information on the website. An e-mail was the fastest way to reach DV entrants.
    Winners in the new selection process will not be notified by e-mail. The results of the new selection process will only be available on the Entrant Status Check website (http://www.dvlottery.state.gov) on or about July 15, 2011.

    My advise to some 580,000 Ethiopians who applied for the 2012 Diversity Lottery. Though this e-mail from State Department helps thousands who lost their confirmation code, it will open door for a variety of fraudulent e-mails including to e-mails distributing virus. Thus, I suggest:

    • Make sure the e-mail is sent from [email protected].
    • You are not supposed to reply to it.
    • Do not click any link on such e-mails unless it is from [email protected].
    • The only link you will get on that e-mail is this (http://www.dvlottery.state.gov/) and another link that leads you to your confirmation number.
    • If you couldn’t access the e-mail address you registered on your application, there is nothing to worry – unless  you lost or forgot your confirmation number. Because, the original confirmation number is not changed. (This is based on the seven e-mails I checked for friends so far.).
    • The e-mail you received/will receive contains only the info provided in this post and in the previous post (link) plus a link to recover your confirmation code – Nothing else.
    • Do not pay a dime to any website or company under any circumstances.

    Daniel Berhane

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    6. I have been trying to enter my confirmation number but it is not going the issue is that have got jst 15 nums n it keep telling me it shld be 16,av tried clicking on forgot confirmation number and filling my data but ot kip on telling me wrong data but am so sure of the data am filling so is dere anyway i can retrieve ma data and if no what do i do,i played d lottery on october 22,2012,or is it not out yet.thanks

    8. Is it possible to check your entrance status on weekends because i checked mine on Monday, won and sent the documents to Kentucky and was scheduled an embassy visa appointment for next monday. Today is sunday and i am trying to check my entrance status since i want to print the winning notification form but unfortunately the website keep saying ”

      An unexpected error has occurred. Unable to load DLL ‘OraOps10.dll’: The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)”

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    10. Is it possible to check your entrance status on weekends because i checked mine on Monday, won and sent the documents to Kentucky and was scheduled an embassy visa appointment for next monday. Today is sunday and i am trying to check my entrance status since i want to print the winning notification form but unfortunately the website keep saying ”

      An unexpected error has occurred. Unable to load DLL ‘OraOps10.dll’: The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)”

      What does this means?

    23. TO ALL:
      There is no way to recover your confirmation code, unless the State Department decides to give you.

      The DV 2013 instruction says:

      IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you have lost your confirmation information, you will not be able to check your DV entry status. We will not be able to resend the confirmation page information to you.
      http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/types/types_1322.html#status

      SO, I THINK IT IS HOPELESS.

      Sorry, I couldn’t provide any more help on this matter.

      Good Luck.

    37. Dear Sir,

      Good Afternoon,

      Could you please inform me regarding the mail bellow which i received.I am in confusion whether the mail is genuine or fake.How can i be sure about the bellow mail.

      Please let me know the details inquiry address.Thanks tyour kind assistance..

      Md.Eunus Al-Mamun
      Reference Number: DV488470-601-547811611
      Acceptance Date: Tuesday 20th of March 2012 06:56:42 PM
      Winner: mamun a
      Country: Bangladesh
      Phone Number: 8801830540823
      Mobile Numbe

    42. I lost my confirmation number written in my old diary. i m excited to hear that there is now a way to recover one’s confirm number in the system is it true? because it said knowing that im one of the people who lost the confirmation number…. please help with updates, info or way forward. Thanks

      Sheryl

    50. hi

      I have sent my documents to KCC
      KCC has accepted and confirmed the Receipt o the Documents and told that the document are acceptable and under process
      As well KCC said: that you can check your visa availability in visa bulletin, but I don’t know how to check and what to do next.
      Note: could you please let me know how much time will take from receiving the appointment letter to interview date?
      Sorry for taking your time and waiting to hear from you,

    55. hi i am rakib uddin ahmed.i was applying dv lottery 2011 in 2010 and registered properly.but i lost my confermation letter with confermation code.i am unsure that am i the winner or not.please inform me about my confermation code as soon as possible.it will be such a good pleasur for me to get the message from you.and by the way i get letter from united satets of depertment of dv lottery as a winner letter via in my email.i dont understand that thing correctly.do u please help me to understand the letter?my reference number is DV940785-623-975099704 and the regsitretion ip address is 151.24.23.104

    60. Goodbye seems to be the answer.

      After being here for 28 years, being a tax payer, educated here, fluent in languages, have my business etc…. Seems so futile. Everybody seems to want to come here,m and I know many have left the US too…. it is too exhausting with regards to human kind, being stuck in the political game. Life is too short…. So one more try or goodbye! I have to see the rest of the world after gibing my life and sacrifice to this country but no one seems to care. I inquired to the state dept last week to recover my confirmation #. Guess what they told me:

      If you have lost your confirmation information, you will not be able to check your DV entry status. KCC does not have the ability to retrieve the confirmation page. We will not resend the confirmation page to you. Please check the website at http://www.dvlottery.state.gov after August 2011 for the upcoming DV 2013 lottery.

    71. Come on man, how long does this had to linger?

      if you have the contact with state department or whoever is responsible for the lottery program, ex: in Kentucky, etc.. then please you should make it heard and vital that this is not right to be reliant on confirmation number all of a sudden, when in fact, all of a sudden, the INS started to make itself tech savvy when they are not… I am tech myself, and so many problems wrong with limiting to just a confirmation number? Why so anal about it ? Why didn’t they enact that previous years? why others have to have more options than us in 2011? THERE HAS TO BE A SOLUTION, because this one is not working. I have been here for 28 years and am tired of this crap. I am well educated, speak flawless english, have many friends and contacts and my own business and so on, yet, no one offers concrete solution to a problem, instead of just teasing the public about it.. THAT IS PLAIN WRONG!
      PLEASE contact the proper channel if you know – and let them know that mails have to be sent out just like previous years, because strictly finding the results by confirmation number is not a good idea. This is a country of options. And we don’t have options yet in this matter. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT IT RIGHT AWAY.

      Thanks for your time.

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    75. dear sir my problem is that i have won the dv lottery but the person who did for me is demanding 9000 dollors before he will give me my confirmation number.he did not use my email address so i have no assess to my confirmation letter directly.i was called to see the letter and it shows that i have won.he said trying to involve the police will cost me not seeing him again.please i can’t afford this amount as well as allowing this chance go off my hand, please i need your help for am the true winner. i have every documents to prove my identity

    79. With all the respect Danny, but next time you post something on your site , please do your homework and verify the information is correct first. You posted ..
      “Lost Confirmation code? Moreover, the e-mails from State Department provides applicants a chance recover their confirmation number in case they lost it or it is destroyed.”
      This is absolutely false information and has no bases. A lot of people get soo much hope when they read such a thing, just to find out later it was all a joke. So my advice to you is to remove this topic since you are not even able to response to the many questions by the readers of your post.
      Thanks

    83. I am among those who have lost their confirmation number. This is the what I found out from the official website ;

      IMPORTANT NOTICE: DV entrants will need to use the information from their DV-2012 confirmation pages saved at the time of entry to find out if their entry was or was not selected. If you have lost your confirmation information, you will not be able to check your DV entry status. We will not be able to resend the confirmation page information to you.

      So fellows try settling down where ever you are, at least for another year! I am mad as hell

    91. I am in exactly the same boat…. I cannot find my confirmation number and reading (finding about Daniels blog) now, I don’t even know what the KCC email address in order to send them an email recovering the confirmation code… As it is mandatory on their site and quoting Sam Amo “there is no help in recovering your lost number. That’s really SAD, UNFAIR AND UNJUST”. I have been waiting for years to get to this point and I COULD BE A SELECTEE but unable to log in to find out if I won because of a technicality??????? It is unfortunate after all my hard work and effort that no on could recover / mail notifications via postal like they did in previous years, as that would be a great advantage to me and others, just like those in the past… why do others have to be notified and not us in 2011? Does that really make sense – NO! And the system is not even compatible with all browsers either… now we really need them b/c we could be winners at this time. THEY should notify us by mail as well as emails, so we can get our hard efforts paid off. PLEASE HELP. THEY should make everything to be people friendly, not just one-sided.

      Thanks

    92. can anyone help please am dying in curiosity i might of won its there problem that they faced this computer error and not ours how do i recover my confirmation number for DV 2012 i need to check the status, its getting annoying now and unbearable…….WE ARE ALL CRYING OUT FOR HELP!!!

    96. Hi Daniel,
      So it seems there is no way to check wither you won or not without a conformation number. From the status site , the confirmation number is mandatory and there is no help in recovering your lost number. That’s really sad and unfair, I am and some other friend among the many people who didn’t win when we checked back in May so we discarded the numbers , now we really need them b/c we could be winners at this time.

    98. The people of God never brake their word, but Satanic power may let some good people misbehave, the result was voided because they know that 90% of selectee dont have any power to suit them, the person who has hope since long time to get an opportunity and got one by been one of the selectee he always thank God for this great chance, beside all people around the globe are believe that US Government always defend human right, but the void of DV Lottery 2012 results let everyone in this universe knows that there is not different between communist and democracy which US Government claiming of is defending of it.
      I am sure if those who were selected by dv lottery has power to sue US Govt for their cancellation or voided of that 2012 lottery result they wont do that.
      No democracy all goverments are the same.

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    104. If I understood you correctly,
      You won the DV 2012
      But you didn’t start processing, because just five days later the State Dept announced the results are cancelled.
      So, you want to know if you will be included in the new selection.

      If that is your question, the answer is yes.

      The State Department said: all who applied for DV 2012 will be included in the new selection.
      If you won/get selected in the new result that will be announced on July, then you will process your visa like anyone else.

      Whatever you did now(starting or not starting the processing) will not affect your future chance.

      I hope I answered you question.

    105. Hi Danny,

      As you posted about additional FAQ messages from Kentuky web site for those who had already started the second process(i .e. after aproveing their winning for DV 2012 and with in a week sending filled forms to Kentuky) , I have also recieved this message b’couse I am one of a person just like I mensioned above.

      however, My forms had arrived with in 5 days just befor Kentuky officals wesite anunced like “we are currently experiancing technical ….”, So my question is do they consider for those who have the same case to me( just becouse of immidiate response ) for next selectiong for DV 2012?

      Thank you

    106. Hi, Sam
      My assumption was that the e-mail is sent or to be sent for every applicant.

      But, on second thoughts, they may be sending the e-mail only to those who checked the website between May 2 and 13.

      Yet, I don’t think you should worry much.
      Because, since they set up a way to recover confirmation codes, it is very likely that they will provide that option on their website on July 15, 2011.

      I will try to update you on the matter.

      Keep in touch.

      [I apologize for not responding sooner – I had connection problems]

    107. Great article Daniel,
      I have a question though , I did register last year and lost the confirmation number. So I am kinda of lost not knowing how to check the status on July 15. You mentioned that , The “State Department provides applicants a chance recover their confirmation number in case they lost it or it is destroyed.” I didn’t receive such an email or link ,, Is this email being sent to everyone who applied or only selected people?

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