Diversity Immigrant Visa
E333101
The Diversity Immigrant Visa is a U.S. immigration program that allocates a limited number of permanent resident visas each year to individuals from countries with historically low rates of immigration to the United States, selected by lottery.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Diversity Immigrant Visa program | 2 |
| DV Lottery | 1 |
| Diversity Immigrant (DV) visas | 1 |
| Diversity Immigrant Visa canonical | 1 |
| Diversity Visa | 1 |
| Diversity Visa Lottery | 1 |
| Diversity Visa program | 1 |
| Green Card Lottery | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3173832 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Diversity Immigrant Visa Context triple: [Immigration Act of 1990, createdVisaCategory, Diversity Immigrant Visa]
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A.
U visa
The U visa is a U.S. nonimmigrant visa that provides temporary legal status and work authorization to certain noncitizen victims of serious crimes who assist law enforcement in investigating or prosecuting those crimes.
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B.
T visa
The T visa is a U.S. nonimmigrant visa that allows certain victims of severe human trafficking to remain in the United States and access protection and services while assisting law enforcement.
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C.
I-140
I-140 is a designation used for auxiliary Interstate Highways in the United States, typically serving as bypasses or connectors around urban areas.
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D.
Ley de Migración
La Ley de Migración es la normativa mexicana que regula la entrada, estancia, derechos y obligaciones de las personas extranjeras en el territorio nacional, así como las facultades de las autoridades migratorias.
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E.
I-485
I-485 is the beltway interstate highway that loops around the city of Charlotte, North Carolina.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Diversity Immigrant Visa Target entity description: The Diversity Immigrant Visa is a U.S. immigration program that allocates a limited number of permanent resident visas each year to individuals from countries with historically low rates of immigration to the United States, selected by lottery.
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A.
U visa
The U visa is a U.S. nonimmigrant visa that provides temporary legal status and work authorization to certain noncitizen victims of serious crimes who assist law enforcement in investigating or prosecuting those crimes.
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B.
T visa
The T visa is a U.S. nonimmigrant visa that allows certain victims of severe human trafficking to remain in the United States and access protection and services while assisting law enforcement.
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C.
I-140
I-140 is a designation used for auxiliary Interstate Highways in the United States, typically serving as bypasses or connectors around urban areas.
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D.
Ley de Migración
La Ley de Migración es la normativa mexicana que regula la entrada, estancia, derechos y obligaciones de las personas extranjeras en el territorio nacional, así como las facultades de las autoridades migratorias.
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E.
I-485
I-485 is the beltway interstate highway that loops around the city of Charlotte, North Carolina.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States immigration program
ⓘ
immigrant visa ⓘ visa category ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
United States Department of State
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Department of State
|
| allows |
derivative visas for spouse of principal applicant
ⓘ
derivative visas for unmarried children under 21 of principal applicant ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
DV
ⓘ
Diversity Immigrant Visa ⓘ
surface form:
DV Lottery
Diversity Immigrant Visa ⓘ
surface form:
Diversity Visa
Diversity Immigrant Visa ⓘ
surface form:
Green Card Lottery
|
| annualQuota | up to 55,000 immigrant visas per fiscal year ⓘ |
| applicationMethod | online electronic entry form ⓘ |
| appliesTo | individuals from countries with historically low rates of immigration to the United States ⓘ |
| benefit |
U.S. lawful permanent residence
ⓘ
eligibility to receive a U.S. Green Card ⓘ |
| categoryCode |
DV-1 for principal applicant
ⓘ
DV-2 for spouse ⓘ DV-3 for children ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| distinctFrom |
employment-based immigrant visas
ⓘ
family-sponsored immigrant visas ⓘ |
| eligibilityCriterion |
admissibility under U.S. immigration law
ⓘ
birth in an eligible country ⓘ high school education or equivalent ⓘ submission of an electronic entry during the registration period ⓘ two years of qualifying work experience in certain cases ⓘ |
| excludes | nationals of countries that have sent more than a statutory threshold of immigrants to the United States in the previous five years ⓘ |
| exclusionCriterion | countries with high levels of recent immigration to the United States are ineligible ⓘ |
| feeForEntry | no government fee to submit the initial lottery entry ⓘ |
| fiscalYearLabel | each program is labeled by the U.S. fiscal year for which visas are available ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Immigration and Nationality Act
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act
|
| legalBasis | Immigration Act of 1990 ⓘ |
| lotteryCycle | applications typically submitted about two years before the fiscal year of visa issuance ⓘ |
| oversight | Bureau of Consular Affairs ⓘ |
| purpose |
to diversify the immigrant population in the United States
ⓘ
to provide permanent resident visas to nationals of countries with low rates of immigration to the United States ⓘ |
| regionAllocation | visas distributed among six geographic regions ⓘ |
| requires |
in-person consular interview for most applicants
ⓘ
medical examination by authorized physician ⓘ security and background checks ⓘ valid passport information at time of entry under many recent program rules ⓘ |
| resultsIn |
immigrant visa for entry to the United States
ⓘ
lawful permanent resident status upon admission to the United States ⓘ |
| risk | high demand and low probability of selection for many regions ⓘ |
| selectionMethod | random lottery ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
annual numerical limits set by U.S. law
ⓘ
disqualification for fraudulent information ⓘ disqualification for multiple entries in the same year ⓘ per-country limits ⓘ |
| subsequentFees | visa application and processing fees for selected applicants ⓘ |
| timeOfYear | registration period typically held once per year ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Diversity Immigrant Visa Description of subject: The Diversity Immigrant Visa is a U.S. immigration program that allocates a limited number of permanent resident visas each year to individuals from countries with historically low rates of immigration to the United States, selected by lottery.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Diversity Visa Lottery
this entity surface form:
Diversity Visa
this entity surface form:
Green Card Lottery
this entity surface form:
DV Lottery
this entity surface form:
Diversity Immigrant Visa program
this entity surface form:
Diversity Immigrant Visa program
this entity surface form:
Diversity Visa program
this entity surface form:
Diversity Immigrant (DV) visas