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Diversity Immigrant Visa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Diversity Visa Program
It's, as the name suggests, a permanent visa lottery organized every year by the US immigration. Applicants are preselected by country, education etc (criteria may change yearly) and then drawn randomly.
It's probably one of the easiest, fastest and cheapest way to get a immigration visa to the US. Otherwise you need a company to sponsor you, an arbitrary amount of savings or revenue, to work for several years before you can apply (or to marry an American!) ; and switching from a non-immigrant visa (tourist, intern, student...) to a permanent visa is really hard.