Visa Bulletin is published every month by the U.S State Department with much useful information for the benefit of the USA visa applicants including the USA visa lottery winners.

There is a section available for the DV Lottery visa applicants in the visa bulletin each month. In this section cases numbers of the current DV Lottery are published with cut out numbers for the next coming two months. So the case numbers under the cut out numbers can expect that their case numbers will be current in those months and they can expect to receive the second letter for the interview in these months.

In the original visa bulletin section there will be current visa bulletin and the archives of many visa bulletins from the past years too. Normally the visa bulletins are published in the first week of every month in the American Government's official web site.

As the DV lottery interviews used to start in October and finish in the September you must check within these months in the current fiscal year visa bulletin.

Also in the visa bulletin some countries in the Africa region will have their own case numbers as cut out numbers.

After the month of July many regions sector will show as current. That means no new numbers will be called for the DV Lottery interview for that fiscal year as the allocated visas are exhausted. So you may try for the next visa lottery to get an American visa through the online visa lottery program.