DV 2012 Application form for the US visa lottery program will be available only through the internet. The State Department will not accept paper entries from the applicants for the DV-2012 visa lottery program. The E-DV application form will be available for to download and submit back for a period of 60 days only during the green card application period. Any one with a PC which is connected to the internet can download this form and can fill all the required fields and should attach the applicants digital photo file and submit it within the given 60 minutes period. If any of the required field is not filled or if the digital photo file is larger than the permitted file size the entry will not be accepted and will be shown back to the applicant with the red colour indication of the error.

The form will be available only in the English language.
If the primary applicant is a single person then he will get only one page for him to fill and submit online.
If the primary applicant is a married person then the form will have another section for the dependant spouse addition to the primary applicant form.
If the primary applicant has spouse and eligible children then the form will have dependant spouse and forms for the children as per their number along with the primary applicant form.

The application form will be available in the widely announced application period only. Before that period or after that period the E-DV application form will not be available in the internet for the DV-2012.

Submit your application early during the submission period because during the closing date period the forms may not be available as lot of people may try to submit their entries. The servers can't withstand the large number of people's request and will show an Error message.
The diversity visa application form will work better with the Internet Explorer than the other browsers.
The US visa lottery form can't be saved and used later.