--- title: U.S. DV visa for lottery winners in Kosovo url: https://theacompany.ai/visa/usa/dv/selected/kosovo language: en visa: U.S. visa for lottery winners (DV) destination: United States applying_from: Kosovo embassy: U.S. Embassy Pristina last_checked: 2026-10-11 provider: The A Company (private company, not a government service) government_fee_usd: 330 service_fee_eur: 400 total_eur: 695 apply_url: https://theacompany.ai/?ask=I%20live%20in%20Kosovo.%20I%20have%20a%20passport%20from%20Kosovo%20and%20no%20other.%20I%20am%20not%20a%20permanent%20resident%20of%20another%20country.%20I%20want%20to%20go%20to%20the%20United%20States.%20Type%20of%20visa%3A%20Diversity%20Immigrant%20Visa%20(DV).%20Diversity%20Visa%20stage%3A%20Selected.%20I%20want%20to%20prepare%20my%20application. contact_url: https://wa.me/38348101040 --- # Apply for a U.S. visa for lottery winners (DV) in Kosovo Check your result, if you are selected: apply for the visa, fill in the DS-260 application, the Kentucky Consular Center schedules your interview, book the visa appointment, register online, prepare the documents, send the documents the week before the interview, pay the U.S. visa fee, have the medical exam, attend the interview, the consular officer decides on your visa, get your passport, pay the USCIS Immigrant Fee, travel before the visa expires. 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Thanks Nderim! > > Albana Muliqi, 2026-07-27 > Perfect > > Sadat Krasniqi, 2026-06-26 > BIG shoutout to Nderim for all the help with my visa application. I had a ton of questions and he was always super open and ready to help out with whatever I needed. He really made the whole process feel easy. > > Gramos Berisha, 2026-04-10 > A-COMPANY YOU"RE THE BEST 👌 > > Alberina Murati, 2026-02-26 > Everything was handled professionally and correctly! > > For Fun, 2026-02-12 ## What it costs | Item | Amount | Paid to | Note | |---|---|---|---| | Fee for the U.S. visa for lottery winners (DV) | $330 | U.S. Department of State | Paid to the U.S. Department of State, in person at the U.S. Embassy in Pristina, to the consular cashier, at the interview. Not refunded. [2][3] | | The A Company's service | €400 | The A Company | The A Company checks your result (Entrant Status Check), applies for the visa if you are selected, fills in the DS-260 application, books the visa appointment, registers you online for the return of your passport, prepares the documents for the interview, sends the documents to the U.S. Embassy the week before the interview, pays the U.S. visa fee, books the medical exam, and pays the USCIS Immigrant Fee. Paid to The A Company, half at the start, half before the interview. [22] | | **Total per applicant** | **€695** | | | €1 = $1.1195 (2026-10-14): https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/euro_reference_exchange_rates/html/index.en.html ## How to apply 1. **Check your result (Entrant Status Check)**. With the unique confirmation number you saved from your online entry. It is the only way you are told that you were selected. If you were, a confirmation page gives further instructions, including the fees. [4] 2. **If you are selected: apply for the visa**. Complete the online DS-260 application. Right away, so that an interview can be scheduled at the U.S. Embassy or Consulate. [5] 3. **Fill in the DS-260 application**. If you are selected, you and each family member immigrating with you fill in the DS-260 online. Print its confirmation page and bring it to the interview. [6] 4. **The Kentucky Consular Center schedules your interview**. You may get an email telling you that an interview has been scheduled at the Embassy or Consulate you chose on your DS-260. After it has reviewed your completed DS-260. You are scheduled only when and if a visa number is available for you. [7] 5. **Book the visa appointment**. The appointment for your visa interview. At the U.S. Embassy or Consulate in your home country. You book it online, where you also select your visa type, add dependents and confirm the visa payment. Keep the appointment letter that confirms your booking, because you present it at the interview. [8] 6. **Register online for the return of your passport**. Your registration gives the Embassy the correct information to return your passport and documents after the interview. Before your visa interview appointment. [9] 7. **Prepare the documents for the interview**. The originals, issued by the official authority. Documents not in English, or in the official language of the country you apply from, need certified translations. [10][11] 8. **Send the documents to the U.S. Embassy the week before the interview**. All the required original documents. To the Consular Section of the U.S. Embassy in Pristina. On the Tuesday of that week, at 16:00. [9] 9. **Pay the U.S. visa fee**. The visa application fee. Keep the receipt or its reference number safe. [4] 10. **Have the medical exam**. You and each family member applying with you see an embassy-approved doctor, the panel physician, in the country of the interview. Exams by other doctors are not accepted. [15] 11. **Attend the interview at the U.S. Embassy in Pristina**. A consular officer decides whether you qualify. Bring the printed DS-260 confirmation page. You pay the visa fee $330 per person there, to the consular cashier, and it is not refunded. The visa must be issued by the end of the fiscal year. [12][3][2] 12. **The consular officer decides on your visa**. If the visa is approved, you may pay a visa issuance fee, if one applies to your nationality. You are told how your passport with the visa will be returned to you. [17] 13. **Get your passport with the U.S. visa**. If your visa is approved, the passport comes back through the courier service. You get an email or a text message once the passport is ready. [9] 14. **Pay the USCIS Immigrant Fee**. After you get the immigrant visa and before you travel, pay the USCIS Immigrant Fee. https://www.uscis.gov/forms/filing-fees/uscis-immigrant-fee [18] 15. **Travel before the visa expires**. Enter the United States before the expiration date printed on the visa. [18] ## Ask us to prepare your visa application - Prepare my application: https://theacompany.ai/?ask=I%20live%20in%20Kosovo.%20I%20have%20a%20passport%20from%20Kosovo%20and%20no%20other.%20I%20am%20not%20a%20permanent%20resident%20of%20another%20country.%20I%20want%20to%20go%20to%20the%20United%20States.%20Type%20of%20visa%3A%20Diversity%20Immigrant%20Visa%20(DV).%20Diversity%20Visa%20stage%3A%20Selected.%20I%20want%20to%20prepare%20my%20application. - WhatsApp: https://wa.me/38348101040 - Ask a question first: https://theacompany.ai/ ## Questions? Answers. ### How much is the U.S. green card lottery (DV) visa fee, and where do I pay it? $330 for each person who applies as a DV selectee. You pay it in person at the U.S. embassy or consulate, to the consular cashier, at the time of the interview, and get a receipt at once. Do not send DV fees to anyone by mail or Western Union. The fee is not refunded if you do not qualify. [2][3] ### Which civil documents do I need for a U.S. immigrant visa? A birth certificate, marriage and divorce certificates, and police certificates if you are 16 or older. They must be issued by the official authority in your country. Documents not in English, or in the official language of the country where you apply, need a certified translation. [10][11] ### How much does the U.S. Diversity Visa (DV) cost once selected, in Kosovo? $330 per person, paid at the U.S. Embassy in Pristina at the interview, and not refunded. [2][3] ### Who must attend the U.S. immigrant visa interview? You, the principal applicant, at any age, and each family member immigrating with you who is at least 14 on the day of the interview. A family member with their own case number attends at any age. Your petitioner does not need to attend. [12] ### How do I check the status of my U.S. visa application? On the State Department’s Visa Status Check, at ceac.state.gov. Choose your visa type, then enter your passport number and the first five letters of your surname. [19] ### Can anyone guarantee a U.S. visa? No. Any claim that someone can guarantee a visa is fraudulent. A consular officer decides at the interview whether you qualify. [20] ## Still have a question? Ask a question first: https://theacompany.ai/ ## Official sources Every sourced sentence is checked against its page daily; all were last checked by 2026-10-11. The linked page is the authority. 1. The A Company on Google (google.com): https://www.google.com/maps?cid=17562670016065419524 2. Fees for Visa Services (travel.state.gov): https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/fees/fees-visa-services.html 3. Instructions for the 2026 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV-2026) (travel.state.gov): https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Diversity-Visa/DV-Instructions-Translations/DV-2026-Instructions-Translations/DV%202026%20Plain%20Language%20Instructions%20and%20FAQs.pdf 4. DV 2026 Plain Language Instructions and FAQs.pdf (travel.state.gov): https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Diversity-Visa/DV-Instructions-Translations/DV-2026-Instructions-Translations/DV%202026%20Plain%20Language%20Instructions%20and%20FAQs.pdf 5. 9 FAM 504.4 (U) PRE-APPOINTMENT PROCESSING (fam.state.gov): https://fam.state.gov/fam/09FAM/09FAM050404.html 6. Step 6: Complete Online Visa Application (DS-260) (travel.state.gov): https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-5-collect-financial-evidence-and-other-supporting-documents/step-6-complete-online-visa-application.html 7. Diversity Visa Program - Interview (travel.state.gov): https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/diversity-visa-program-entry/diversity-visa-interview.html 8. Important Visa Information - U.S. Embassy in Kosovo (xk.usembassy.gov): https://xk.usembassy.gov/visas/important-visa-information 9. U.S. Embassy Pristina, Kosovo - PRI (travel.state.gov): https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Supplements/Supplements_by_Post/PRI-Pristina.html 10. Civil Documents FAQs (travel.state.gov): https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/civil-documents-faq.html 11. Step 7: Collect Civil Documents (travel.state.gov): https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-5-collect-financial-evidence-and-other-supporting-documents/step-7-collect-civil-documents.html 12. Step 11: Applicant Interview (travel.state.gov): https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-10-prepare-for-the-interview/step-11-applicant-interview.html 13. Prepare Supporting Documents (travel.state.gov): https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/diversity-visa-program-entry/diversity-visa-if-you-are-selected/diversity-visa-prepare-supporting-documents.html 14. Update on Diversity Visa (DV) Program 2026 (travel.state.gov): https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/update-on-dv-program-2026.html 15. Step 10: Prepare for the Interview (travel.state.gov): https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-10-prepare-for-the-interview.html 16. U.S. Embassy in Kosovo: Visas (xk.usembassy.gov): https://xk.usembassy.gov/visas/ 17. Diversity Visa Program - After the Interview (travel.state.gov): https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/diversity-visa-program-entry/diversity-visa-interview/diversity-visa-after-the-interview.html 18. Step 12: After the Interview (travel.state.gov): https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-10-prepare-for-the-interview/step-12-after-the-interview.html 19. Visa Status Check (ceac.state.gov): https://ceac.state.gov/CEACStatTracker/Status.aspx 20. U.S. Embassy in Kosovo: Nonimmigrant Visa FAQ (xk.usembassy.gov): https://xk.usembassy.gov/frequently-asked-questions-nonimmigrant-visa/ 21. The A Company: our numbers (theacompany.ai): https://theacompany.ai/ 22. The A Company: the dv-selected service (theacompany.ai): https://theacompany.ai/ The A Company is a private company, not a government institution. It does not represent any government, yet. ## More questions, answered in the chat ### I have dual citizenship. Which passport do I use to travel to the United States? If one of them is a U.S. passport, that one. Every U.S. citizen, dual citizens too, must enter and leave the United States on a U.S. passport. A U.S. citizen is not eligible for a visa. (About Visas - The Basics: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/frequently-asked-questions/about-basics.html, 2026-10-11) ### Who fills in the DS-260, and when? You and each family member immigrating with you, each their own. It opens after the fees are paid and CEAC shows ‘PAID’. Print the confirmation page and bring it to the interview. (Step 6: Complete Online Visa Application (DS-260): https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-5-collect-financial-evidence-and-other-supporting-documents/step-6-complete-online-visa-application.html, 2026-10-11) ### Can I fill in the DS-260 in my own language? No. All answers must be in English, using English characters only. An application in another language may be rejected, and you will have to log back in to CEAC and answer in English. (DS-260 Immigrant Visa Electronic Application - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/forms/online-immigrant-visa-forms/ds-260-faqs.html, 2026-10-11) ### Do I bring the original documents to the interview? Yes. Even though you uploaded copies, bring the original paper versions. Without them the consular officer cannot complete your interview or issue a visa. The originals are returned to you after the interview. (Civil Documents FAQs: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/civil-documents-faq.html, 2026-10-14; Step 11: Applicant Interview: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-10-prepare-for-the-interview/step-11-applicant-interview.html, 2026-10-11) ### Do I need a medical examination for a U.S. immigrant visa? Yes, you and each family member applying with you, before the interview. It must be done by the embassy-approved panel physician in the country where you will be interviewed; exams by other doctors are not accepted. If the doctor gives you a sealed envelope, do not open it: bring it to the interview. (Step 10: Prepare for the Interview: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-10-prepare-for-the-interview.html, 2026-10-11) ### What are the photo requirements for a U.S. visa? 2 x 2 inches (51 x 51 mm), in color, in front of a plain white or off-white background, taken within the last 6 months, showing how you look now, and without eyeglasses. Glasses are allowed only in rare medical cases, with a statement signed by a medical professional. (Photo Requirements: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/photos.html, 2026-10-11; Photo Frequently Asked Questions: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/photos/frequently-asked-questions.html, 2026-10-11) ### By when must I get my U.S. green card lottery (DV) visa? By the end of your program’s fiscal year: for DV-2027 the visa period is October 1, 2026 to September 30, 2027. Your visa, and your spouse’s and children’s, must be issued by then, without exception; nothing carries over to the next year. The visas can also run out earlier, so act promptly. (Instructions for the 2026 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV-2026): https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Diversity-Visa/DV-Instructions-Translations/DV-2026-Instructions-Translations/DV%202026%20Plain%20Language%20Instructions%20and%20FAQs.pdf, 2026-10-23; Changes to Entry Period for 2027 Diversity Visa (DV) Program: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/changes-to-2027-dv-program-entry-period.html, 2026-10-28) ### What happens at the U.S. immigrant visa interview? You go to the embassy or consulate with the DS-260 confirmation page. A consular officer interviews you and the family members immigrating with you and decides whether you are eligible for an immigrant visa. Digital fingerprints are taken, without ink. (Step 11: Applicant Interview: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-10-prepare-for-the-interview/step-11-applicant-interview.html, 2026-10-11) ### My visa was refused under 221(g). What does it mean? That the officer did not yet have everything needed to decide. You are told which documents are missing and how to send them; send them within 1 year of the refusal, or you must apply again and pay the fee again. Sometimes it means administrative processing instead, and the embassy contacts you when it is done. (Visa Denials: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/visa-denials.html, 2026-10-11) ### How do I get my passport back in Kosovo, and what does it cost? By DHL, to your address, for €10. If your visa is approved, the passport is mailed to your local address. After the interview you go to the DHL office near the Embassy, give your contact details and pay €10 there, in cash or by card. (Passport/Visa collection locations and timings, Kosovo: https://www.ustraveldocs.com/xk/en/collection-locations, 2026-10-12) ### How long after the immigrant visa is issued can I travel? Until the expiration date printed on the visa. An immigrant visa is usually valid for up to 6 months from issuance, less if your medical examination expires sooner. The principal applicant enters before or together with the family. (Step 12: After the Interview: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-10-prepare-for-the-interview/step-12-after-the-interview.html, 2026-10-11) ### What must I pay before I travel on a U.S. immigrant visa? The USCIS Immigrant Fee, paid to USCIS after you receive the visa and before you travel. USCIS will not issue your Green Card until it is paid. Returning residents (SB-1) and K visa holders do not pay it. (Step 12: After the Interview: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-10-prepare-for-the-interview/step-12-after-the-interview.html, 2026-10-11) ### Does a U.S. visa guarantee entry into the United States? No. A visa lets you travel to a U.S. port of entry and ask to be admitted. A CBP officer there decides whether you enter. (About Visas - The Basics: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/frequently-asked-questions/about-basics.html, 2026-10-11; What the Visa Expiration Date Means: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/visa-expiration-date.html, 2026-10-11) ### Can The A Company guarantee my visa? No. Nobody can: a consular officer interviews you and decides whether you qualify. (U.S. Embassy in Kosovo: Nonimmigrant Visa FAQ: https://xk.usembassy.gov/frequently-asked-questions-nonimmigrant-visa/, 2026-10-11)