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DV winners

19 July 2004, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By Quazi Raquibul Islam, Advocate, Supreme Court
19 July 2004, 18:00 PM
Among the people, who applied for DV-2005 last year through Internet, the winners are receiving their letters in Bangladesh. After getting the first letter, the DV winners have to face some problems. DV winners did not pay attention to the spelling of their names when they filled up the forms. Many of them made a lot of mistakes in their names on certificates. That is why, DV winners have problem facing the US Embassy officials. So at the time of filling the DV form, all applicants should be aware about matching their names in the form with the names on the certificates. The first DV form is a technical form, in which, DV winners have to fill up their own names as well as have to submit all the information regarding their family members.

All the information is recorded in computer of the National Visa Center through data entry . So every column of this form has a significant value. Every form should be filled up by a lawyer. From my experience, I found that DV winners' names are written differently in many certificates, such as Mohammad is written as MD. in SSC, Mohammad in HSC, Mohammad in BA and so on. Again, his name may be correct but his father's name is written inaccurately . That is why the DV winners make correction of all these things from the education board; but it seems that the visa officer of embassy did not consider all these matters.

There is another important thing: The DV winners, who did not have 12 years of educational background, have to show an occupation in the form. But they decided on such an occupation guided by other DV winners in the past, but this is not right.

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DV winners require training after getting the DV, sometimes, they do not give importance to training. But training related to your occupation is very essential. So it is very important to select the correct occupation and also take proper training. The occupation, which you have chosen, must mention the name of the training center and also the duration of the training period. The DV winners must be alert about another thing: Do not laminate any education certificates. For DV 2005, the forms have been filled up through Internet, so there was no need for signature.