Green card lottery - what does it mean? [closed]

I see some advertisement about something like Green card regularly. What does it mean? Is it a real lottery with prizes or just another spam in the web?
How can it be that a country just gives a chance to somebody to live there according to some lottery?

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Is the Green Card Lottery open?

Applicants who submitted an entry under the Diversity Visa 2023 green card lottery (DV-2023) can check the status of their application online starting on Saturday, May 7, 2022, at noon (EDT). The DV-2023 entry period opened on October 6, 2021, and closed on November 9, 2021.

Is DV Lottery 2022 closed?

The deadline for the 2022 Green Card Lottery is November 10, 2020. There are only 2 weeks left to apply for the 2022 Green Card lottery. Online registration for the U.S. 2022 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program lottery (DV2022) opened Wednesday, October 7, 2020.

What is the closing date for DV Lottery?

DV-2023 Entrants may enter their confirmation information through the link below starting at noon (EDT) on May 7, 2022. The DV-2023 registration period opens on October 6, 2021, and closes on November 9, 2021.

Is the DV Lottery 2021 Cancelled?

Out of 55,000 FY-2021 Diversity Visas (DV) allotted by Congress, so far the State Department has issued less than 14,000. In the absence of an intervention by the court or Congress, the remaining visas will expire at the end of September 2021 and the immigration path for tens of thousands of DV-2021 winners will end.

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