U.S. Department of State: Consular Affairs
May 5 at 4:00pm · Edited ·
**Update: Thank you for your patience, everyone. We want to clarify the situation with Entrant Status Check. The system has randomly selected entrants for further processing. In the past 24+ hours, more than two million entrants have checked their status and more than 12,000 individuals have confirmed their selection for DV-2016 on the ESC site.
We understand some individuals are reporting error messages and are having trouble checking their status. Our technical team has confirmed that, at present, our systems are operating as normal, but they are investigating reported error messages. If you are having trouble accessing ESC, we recommend the following:
-- Continue to check back, perhaps in the evening when there is less internet traffic in your country.
-- Clear the cache in your internet browser.
-- Check your status by typing dvlottery.state.gov/ESC directly into your browser. Do not copy and paste the address.
-- Once you begin a session in Entrant Status Check, do not hit the “back” button.
We post statistics about how many people have been selected from each country, and will do so again this year. We will provide this information as soon as we are able. You can visit our website for prior year statistics:
http://travel.state.gov/…/diversity-v...tatistics…