{"id":128995,"date":"2022-10-05T15:12:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T22:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=128995"},"modified":"2022-10-05T15:12:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T22:12:45","slug":"us-green-card-lottery-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/10\/05\/us-green-card-lottery-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"US Green Card lottery opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The US Embassy in Colombo announced that the 2024 Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery Program, popularly known as the &#8216;Green Card Lottery&#8217;, will be accepting online applications starting tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the US Embassy in Colombo, the DV2024 Diversity Visa Program (http:\/\/dvprogram.state.gov) is the only way to enter, and all processing is done electronically, with no paper entries permitted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lottery application period will be open from October 5 (9:30 am) to November 8 (10:30 pm) &#8211; both local time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-mumbai-1.oraclecloud.com\/cdn.dailymirror.lk\/assets\/uploads\/image_9e6430ea09.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror The US Embassy in Colombo announced that the 2024 Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery Program, popularly known as the &#8216;Green Card Lottery&#8217;, will be accepting online applications starting tonight. According to the US Embassy in Colombo, the DV2024 Diversity Visa Program (http:\/\/dvprogram.state.gov) is the only way to enter, and all processing is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}