MAILING THE ENTRY

For DV-2003, the world is divided into six regions, and each region has a separate address. The DV entry should be mailed to the address listed below for the applicant’s region of nativity:

Submit the entry by regular or airmail to the address matching the region of the applicant’s country of nativity. Entries sent by express or priority mail, second day airmail, fax, hand, messenger, or any means requiring special handling will not be processed.

The envelope must be between 6 and 10 inches (15 to 25 cm) long and 3 1/2 and 4 1/2 inches (9 to 11 cm) wide. Postcards or envelopes inside express or oversized mail packets are NOT acceptable. In the upper left-hand corner of the envelope the applicant must write his/her country of nativity (see instruction 3 above), followed by the applicant’s name and full return address.The applicant must provide both the country of nativity and the country of the address, even if both are the same. Failure to provide this information will disqualify the entry.

The regions are divided as follows:

• Africa includes all countries on the African continent and adjacent islands;
• Asia extends from Israel to the northern Pacific islands, and includes Indonesia;
• Europe extends from Greenland to Russia, and includes all countries of the former USSR;
• North America includes the Bahamas;
• Oceania includes Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and all countries and islands of the South Pacific; South America/Central America/Caribbean extends from Central America (Guatemala) and the Caribbean nations to Chile.

EXAMPLE: An applicant who was born in Australia and now lives in France may submit one entry to the appropriate address for Oceania; the envelope should look like this: