DV Lottery 2020 website down

Electronic DV Lottery 2020 Website Down!

Updated on May 07 2019

Website is down for Maintenance or due to high number of requests in the website.  7 May 2019 is the date when everyone tries to check the results if they have had luck or not.

May 07 2019 – Website is down in some countries.

October 17 2017 – Website is up.

October 11 2017 – Website is down.

May 07 2019- Website is down in some countries. It may be down in all countries.

On May 7 and 8, 2019, the website is down. The 7 May is the date when everyone tries to check the results if they have had luck or not.

The reason why the website is down may be the high number of requests in the website.

Certainly the number of requests will decrease in the coming days and this website will be up again and will work normally.

Read also “How to check DV Lottery result?

Updated 17 October 2017: Now, website is up and will resume accepting applications from November 18 2017 to November 22 2017.

Now, website is up and will resume accepting applications from November 18 2017 to November 22 2017.

So, the service was down due to technical problems, now that problem not exists.

All all entries submited from Oct 3 to Oct 10 2017, have to start the new application procedure from the begining. Throw away previous previous confirmation number because it is not valid and you do not need it anymore.

Message explanation displayed in official website:

Due to a technical issue, the DV-2019 entry period that began on October 3 has been closed. Entries submitted during October 3-10 are not valid and have been excluded from the system; they will not count as a duplicate entry. The technical issue has been resolved and a new full entry period will begin at noon, U.S. Eastern Daylight Time on Wednesday October 18, 2017 and will run until noon Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday November 22, 2017. Only entries submitted during this period will be accepted and considered for selection in the lottery. Please throw away any confirmation number or other documentation that you have if you submitted an entry during Oct. 3-10.”

October 11 2017- Website is down.

“Down for Maintenance” is the message that appears if we try to apply for Electronic Diversity Visa Lottery.

Electronic Diversity Visa Lottery program is offered online by Us Government through the official  website: https://www.dvlottery.state.gov/ .

In addition to the “Down for Maintenance” message, there is no other clearer explanation.

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During the years that this service is online, never happens that the service falls, at least not for a long time. Informations  from some sites are simply “speculations”. Because when we see a message like this “Down for Maintenance” then logically we can say that, this is a technical or overload problem.

If we use the logic of similar cases, then we do not have to believe in speculations, or some conspiracy theories.

The information that this has made Trump or Congress does not think we should believe it.

We believe this message will not appear for a long time, and we must have patience.
The most important thing is that we do not seek solutions from other unofficial sources. There are no other sites that offer this service, we should be careful with the swindlers. Even when we receive any phone calls from someone who offers on behalf of the Electronic Diversity Visa Lottery program we should ignore them because they are fake agents.

All websites representing the US government end up with .gov , not .com.

Logically, in this case the word “maintenace” is the cause, while “down” is the consequence. The consequence does not seem to be something that is irreversible, while this cause is something that ends quickly.

Usually these problems are easily solvable, in this case within a few hours. However this is just a lottery, but for many people it is very important to win.

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