Visa Bulletin from the U.S State Department used to carry the advanced notice for the case numbers and cut out numbers for the winners of the Green card lottery winners each month. Visa Bulletin is provided as a monthly guide for those who had applied for the American visa. In this visa bulletin there is a part for the Green card lottery winners who are selected to apply for the U.S Immigration visas. In this Visa bulletin Case numbers which are going to be current in the coming months will be published along with the cut out numbers. By this those Green card lottery winners can determine when their case numbers are ready for the interviews and ready for to apply to change their current U.S status to the LPR status.

In this Visa Bulletin section some of the African countries used to have special notifications for their countries Green card lottery winners while others will have the case numbers in the region wise.

So if you are a Green Card lottery winner, you must check the Visa bulletin from the months of September till you get your case number in the current position or "CURRENT". If your case number is not announced and your region comes to CURRENT, it means that the available visas are exhausted and you have to try your luck again in the coming Green card lottery program.