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The U.S. Department of State has announced that applications for the 2011 Diversity Visa (DV-2011) Lottery will be accepted between Noon EST, October 2, 2009 and Noon EST, November 30, 2009. The Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery is administered on an annual basis by the Department of State and provides up to 55,000 Diversity Visas each fiscal year to be made available to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. Persons seeking to apply must register electronically during the registration period. The 2011 Diversity Visa Lottery marks the seventh year that electronic registration is required. Paper entries and mail-in requests for Diversity Visa Lottery registration are not accepted.

The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has announced the opening of the registration period for the DV-2011 Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery Program. The DV Lottery Program enables foreign nationals to apply for permanent residence in the United States without employment or family sponsorship. The DV Lottery Program selects 50,000 people annually who can then pursue an immigrant visa at a U.S. embassy or consulate in their home country or adjust their status in the U.S. through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (if a foreign national is residing legally in a nonimmigrant status in the U.S. at the time of the application).

The Department of State has announced the rules and process to register for this year's "Diversity Visa" program, which is literally a lottery for 50,000 green cards.

The IRS has announced that the 2011 inflation adjusted amounts for Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) will remain unchanged from the 2010 amounts because after the application of the cost-of-living adjustment rules, the changes in the Consumer Price Index for the relevant period do not result in changes to the amounts for 2011.

On December 22, 2009, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that as of December 21, 2009, it has received enough H-1B petitions to meet the H-1B cap for Fiscal Year 2010 (beginning on October 1, 2009). In addition, USCIS has approved all 20,000 visa petitions needed to meet the U.S. master’s degree cap. USCIS will conduct a random lottery for all cap-subject petitions received on December 21, 2009, and will reject all cap-subject petitions not randomly selected or received after December 21, 2009.

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