DV 2012 USA visa lottery applicants can check their status online in the official web site in the given period.

DV 2010 is the first diversity visa lottery that did allowed all the applicants to check their status online. Up to DV 2009 only people who got the winning notification had chance to attend the interview. Others who missed it even don't know whether they were selected for the program or not. Change of addresses, error in the addresses of the selected people made them unfortunate to miss the American visa lottery winning notification. Also some bad some agents, post offices and postal officers intercepted the winner’s notifications and asked for money to hand over it to the winners. Some time it would be a fake message or true message but they wanted the money. Some time the mail interceptors forced them to do illegal activities such as fake marriages in return to hand over the packages. If anyone is demanding money or some thing to return your winning notification don’t hesitate to contact the local police and your local U.S Embassy.

But from the year 2010 the entire USA visa lottery applicants who did applied for the diversity visa lottery 2010 can check their status online to make sure whether they are selected for the program to further process or not. This facility is now available in the American Government's official DV lottery web site.

According to available instruction those who want to check their status online must have their confirmation number which they got after applying online last year. This confirmation number along with personal details will give you the selection detail in the web site for this Green card lottery.

Source: DV Lottery results.