HSC minimum educational qualification

US Diversified Visa
HSC minimum educational qualification
An applicant of US Diversified Visa (DV) must have a minimum education qualification of HSC or a two-year technical board certificate and work experience to qualify for the DV visa lottery.
“We strongly encourage prospective applicants to evaluate their educational and occupational qualifications before entering the lottery,” Sandra Ingram, chief of the consular section of the US Embassy, told a press briefing at Journalism Training and Research Initiative (JATRI) in the city yesterday.
The DV lottery entrance period began on October 2 and it will run till November 30.
The applicants must fill out the online entry form clearly and correctly and submit a recent photograph. Mistakes in the online entry may cause an applicant to be disqualified from DV.
Ingram said a new requirement this year is for each applicant to submit an email address. Entrants will be able to check the status of their entry online on the e-DV website from next July.
To avoid unscrupulous agents defrauding visa applicants, she recommended that entrants complete their own applications and double-check their entries before submitting them.
“We have seen many applicants disqualified for entries submitted by agents or cyber café operators not following the DV rules carefully,” Ingram said.
She said many of these applicants are victimised by agents who misuse the personal information of applicants and extort money from them.
Applicants are selected at random from the qualified entries received. More than 55,000 applicants are selected in the lottery to ensure that all the available visas are issued.
DV numbers are distributed among six geographic regions by the US Attorney General, with more visas going to regions that have had less immigration to the United States.
Each country may receive no more than seven percent of the total available visas.
After being selected in the lottery, DV entrants whose names are drawn must appear at the US Embassy for an interview to demonstrate that they are qualified for the visa.
However, Ingram said receiving a ‘winner’ letter does not in itself qualify an entrant for a visa. There are other requirements including medical test to get the visa.
In reply to a question, the consular chief said they had issued DV visa to 36,023 winning applicants in Bangladesh since 1995 to 2009.
She, however, could not say about the 2011 quota for Bangladesh.
The US Attorney General fixes the number for each country under the US law, she said.

Courtesy of Unb, Dhaka