{"id":14580,"date":"2020-02-12T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floridaandbeyond.com\/special-dv-lottery-interview-with-severine-los-angeles-california-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T17:16:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:16:29","slug":"special-dv-lottery-interview-with-severine-los-angeles-california-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floridaandbeyond.com\/en\/special-dv-lottery-interview-with-severine-los-angeles-california-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Special DV Lottery: Interview with S\u00e9verine \u2013 Los Angeles, California"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winning the DV Lottery is possible? Yes, with my family we are proof of that, but we are not the only ones! Every year, millions of people try their luck in the DV Lottery and 50,000 of them will obtain the Green Card. S\u00e9verine and her husband were selected and then obtained their green cards. They are now settled in Los Angeles, California, with their children. S\u00e9verine kindly agreed to answer a few questions, and here are her answers.<\/strong>1 \u2013 Hello, could you briefly introduce yourself?<\/strong>
\nHello! My name is S\u00e9verine and I am 35 years old. I come from Paris, where I lived and worked for thirteen years for a magazine. I am married, I have two children aged 6 and 4, and I now live in Los Angeles. I now work there as a journalist and writer.<\/p>\n

2 \u2013 How long had you been playing the DV Lottery before being selected? What motivated you to enter?<\/strong>
\nWith my husband, we took a first trip to the United States in 2009: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, then New York. And Los Angeles again in 2010. We really loved the USA and that is how we discovered the Green Card lottery<\/strong>. At the beginning, it was more like a game for us. We were building our life and careers at the time, and it was more a pleasure to imagine ourselves in a possible American life. We renewed our application every year after that. Actually, it was mostly my husband, because on my side I missed some years! It was in the summer of 2015 that my husband discovered he had been selected. He truly had the dream of settling in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

3 \u2013 What was your reaction when you found out you had been selected?<\/strong>
\nI was skeptical about the outcome of the selection. You have to understand that it is a very long process and nothing is really won until you have the visa from the embassy. So there was no huge excitement. More a mix of caution and apprehension.<\/p>\n

4 \u2013 For you, what was the most difficult step in the DV Lottery process?<\/strong>
\nIt was the moment when we got the date of our embassy interview. Things suddenly became much more concrete and we had to project ourselves into the next stage of the adventure. How would we handle jobs, the children, housing, and everything else? We had to gather all the required documents and schedule the medical appointments. All of that while continuing everyday life, meaning work and the children. That was when the stress really rose.<\/p>\n