Kaksi yötä taisi mennä melko vähillä unilla ja hirveä häslinki
täyttää vaadittavat paperit, etsiä tarvittavat tiedot ja lähettää ne
etukäteen. Prosessi ei ollut meille tuttu, joten ajattelimme, että
paperit on saatava lähtemään mahdollisimman pian, jotta saadaan ne
pikaisesti käsittelyyn. Nettisurffausten jälkeen tosin meille on käynyt
ilmi, että paperien perilletuloajalla ei ole asian kanssa merkitystä,
vaan ratkaisevampaa on tuo saatu arpanumero. Puolisolla se on Eurooppaan
tulleista numeroista nro 15***, joten ihan ensimmäisten joukossa emme
pääse prosessissa eteenpäin. Arpanumeron pitäisi olla kuitenkin sen
verran alhainen, että pääsemme prosessissa oikeasti eteenpäin, mutta
milloin, se on vielä avoinna. Myönnettäviä oleskelulupia on 50 000,
mutta arpajaisissa luvan prosessin aloittamiseen saa n. 100 000. Mikään
siis ei ole vielä varmaan mihinkään suuntaan.
Siksi asiassa on pidetty vielä matalaa profiilia ja vain kourallinen ystävistämme / sukulaisista tietää vielä tästä asiasta. Ja on kyllä hemmetin vaikea pitää tällaista salaisuutta.
It was on 15th of July and the Diversity Visa Lottery Results 2012 had been released to the DV-system. We, that is me and my husband, thought that let's check these now right away. This was not our first time that we had entered our submissions to the lottery (actually this was the 5th time), but this would be the last time. That is at least what we had agreed on. First we checked my submission status - not selected. Then we looked my husband's status and right away we both saw that the page looked totally different than mine. Confirmation number, instructions etc. I gasped, looked at my husband and we both said something that I cannot write here (a four-letter word, starts with H). My husband has previously worked as an expat in USA. He works in the IT industry, so he has been wanting to go back and start in a different type of a company. That is why we have entered our submissions to the lottery, but have not won. At least until this year we hadn't. And now he has the opportunity to start the Green Card process.
The next two nights I guess I slept appr. 2-3 hours / night. It was just so much to think about. And there were lots of paperwork and we wanted to hurry with those. We only found out later, that it's not the papers and when they receive them, but the lottery number that is going to guide our future. There are 50 000 lucky ones that will get the Green Card in the end, but appr. 100 000 has been selected in the lottery. Our number is 15 *** in Europe category, so we are not the first ones to proceed in this process. So, it is not sure how is this process going to end.
So that is why we have told only a few people about the win. And it is hard to keep this kind of a secret.
More about the lottery results in: DV 2012 lottery results
Siksi asiassa on pidetty vielä matalaa profiilia ja vain kourallinen ystävistämme / sukulaisista tietää vielä tästä asiasta. Ja on kyllä hemmetin vaikea pitää tällaista salaisuutta.
It was on 15th of July and the Diversity Visa Lottery Results 2012 had been released to the DV-system. We, that is me and my husband, thought that let's check these now right away. This was not our first time that we had entered our submissions to the lottery (actually this was the 5th time), but this would be the last time. That is at least what we had agreed on. First we checked my submission status - not selected. Then we looked my husband's status and right away we both saw that the page looked totally different than mine. Confirmation number, instructions etc. I gasped, looked at my husband and we both said something that I cannot write here (a four-letter word, starts with H). My husband has previously worked as an expat in USA. He works in the IT industry, so he has been wanting to go back and start in a different type of a company. That is why we have entered our submissions to the lottery, but have not won. At least until this year we hadn't. And now he has the opportunity to start the Green Card process.
The next two nights I guess I slept appr. 2-3 hours / night. It was just so much to think about. And there were lots of paperwork and we wanted to hurry with those. We only found out later, that it's not the papers and when they receive them, but the lottery number that is going to guide our future. There are 50 000 lucky ones that will get the Green Card in the end, but appr. 100 000 has been selected in the lottery. Our number is 15 *** in Europe category, so we are not the first ones to proceed in this process. So, it is not sure how is this process going to end.
So that is why we have told only a few people about the win. And it is hard to keep this kind of a secret.
More about the lottery results in: DV 2012 lottery results
