What Next After Winning DV Lottery? This guide will educate you on what next after you realized you’ve won the DV2026. After checking your DV-2026 lottery, which will be available online starting May 3, 2025, at 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) and you realize that you’ve won, what will be the next steps?
What Next After Winning DV Lottery?
After Winning DV Lottery the next step will be to fill the DS260 form. DS260 form is the form that will carry all the information of yourself together with those of your derivatives. When you start filling the DS260, feel it in stages, don’t rush to fill it within a single day. You can feel it bit by bit, fill one bit that you have the documents and everything, save it, go and get the other documents, and then continue to fill, while you save it.
For example, you might be having all the details that you have for yourself, the passports and everything, but you might not be having for your derivatives, your dependents. So, fill in your part, then save, go and apply the passport for your derivatives, your dependents, get the passports, get everything they need, then come back again, open the form, fill those details and then save. After that, proceed to the next step.
There’s a part where they need host details, where your documents will be sent to, i.e the address of the of your host. You will need to find your host, look for a host, request for their details, their address and everything that they need in that DS260 form. Then come back, reopen the form, fill it correctly and then save it.
Go on to fill in every document bit by bit, it may take days, it may take a month, but make sure you fill bit by bit and in a relaxed state that you may feel correctly. Then after you’ve filled everything and you’ve confirmed again and again, then that’s the time when you comfortably submit and wait for the 2NL letter (Second Notification Letter).
The form DS260 filling process should not be done in a single day, for you to be accurate, and fill it bit by bit, slowly by slowly, until it is complete, and then when you are sure that the details are correct, you can then submit it, and wait for the next step.
I hope this guide is so informative. If you have questions, please use the comment box below and I’ll try to answer as correctly as possible. Thanks for reading. Next post is on 2NL(Second Notification Letter).