Virginia: lottery accounts, casinos, sports betting, charitable gaming, fantasy contests and horse racing

Terms you can choose

Two years, five years, or lifetime. The Lottery's FAQ adds that nothing renews on its own: "Those individuals who want to extend their self-exclusion for another two or five years, should contact the Lottery prior to the end of their exclusion period."

Sign up for the longest exclusion time you can. Future you will thank you. Lifetime is only available in person, by appointment at Lottery headquarters in Richmond or an opened casino location. Call 804-692-7185 to book. The online form offers two or five years.

When it ends

A fixed term ends on its own at the end of the term; a lifetime term has no published way to lift it.

A fixed term. For a two-year or five-year term your name comes off the list on its own when the term ends, with nothing to file: 'the department shall remove the individual's name from the self-exclusion list and notify each sports betting permit holder, each casino gaming establishment, the Office of Charitable and Regulatory Programs, and the Virginia Racing Commission of the removal' (11VAC5-60-50.A). Those operators then have seven days to update their own copies. Nothing renews on its own: the Lottery's FAQ says anyone who wants to extend for another two or five years should contact it before their period ends. There is no early-removal path in any of Chapter 60's six sections; § 58.1-4103.B.3 contemplates a Board regulatory exception that would allow an early petition, and none was found in Chapter 60 or in the Lottery Board's other regulations as read on 2026-10-01.

A lifetime term. A lifetime term is one of the three offered alongside two and five years. Chapter 60's only removal rule operates at the end of a chosen term, so it does not reach a lifetime election, and no source read publishes any other way off the list — including the early petition § 58.1-4103.B.3 says the Board may allow by regulation, which does not appear in Chapter 60.

How to enroll

Complete Virginia's exclusion form online (two or five years).

The link opens the Lottery's DocuSign form, which the VEP page publishes for two-year and five-year exclusions. It is a hosted webform, so there is no PDF to download and we don't fill in or submit anything for you. Have your name and any aliases, date of birth, address, phone number and photo ID ready; your Social Security number is asked for but is voluntary under the federal Privacy Act. Submitting the form is not the moment you are covered — the Lottery distributes your information to casinos, sports betting permit holders, the Office of Charitable and Regulatory Programs and the Racing Commission within seven days of receiving your request, and no receipt or confirmation step is published, so call to check that your request arrived. A lifetime term cannot be done this way at all: call 804-692-7185 to set up an in-person appointment.

1. Pick your term first, because it decides your route: two years, five years, or lifetime. Two- and five-year requests go through the Lottery's online DocuSign form. A lifetime request has no form and has to be made in person.
2. For two or five years, open the DocuSign form linked from the Lottery's Voluntary Exclusion Program page and fill it in. We don't fill in or submit it for you.
3. For a lifetime term, call the VEP office at 804-692-7185 and set up an appointment at Lottery headquarters, 600 E Main Street, Richmond, VA 23219, or at one of the opened casino locations. Staff check that the signature on your request matches your identification credentials on site (11VAC5-60-20.F).
4. Either way, give your full legal name and any aliases, date of birth, the street and mailing address where you live now, and a telephone number, and present valid identification credentials carrying your signature and a photograph. Your Social Security number is requested and is voluntary under the federal Privacy Act. No notarization and no witness is required — Chapter 60 enumerates what a request must contain and asks for neither.
5. Within seven days of receiving your request, the Lottery distributes your information to all Virginia casino gaming establishments, licensed sports betting permit holders, the Office of Charitable and Regulatory Programs and the Virginia Racing Commission, and you are then barred from gambling with them and from account-based lottery games. Nothing published describes a receipt or emailed confirmation, so follow up with the Lottery if you need to know your request landed.
6. A two-year or five-year term comes off the list on its own at the end, and the Lottery notifies every operator, who then have seven days to update their own copies. Nothing renews on its own: if you want to stay excluded, the Lottery says to contact it before your period ends and ask to extend for another two or five years. A lifetime term has no published removal route. No early-removal path appears anywhere in Chapter 60.

Official form (BanMyself could not inspect the DocuSign PowerForm, so its revision date is unconfirmed; for a lifetime exclusion, no form exists at all, only an in-person appointment.) · Program page · 804-692-7185

Before you count on it. Filling in the DocuSign form does not by itself mean you are excluded. You are covered once the Lottery processes your request and distributes your information, which it does within seven days of receiving it, so there is a lag right after you sign. No source describes a receipt, email or any other confirmation, so call the Lottery if you need to know your request arrived. What this list does not reach: lottery tickets bought over a counter (the statute names only account-based lottery games), and skill games, which Virginia law treats as illegal gambling. Do not count on this list for them. There is no home-based online casino in Virginia for it to cover, because the statute confines even mobile casino play to patrons physically present inside a casino. Fantasy contests ARE covered by § 58.1-4103 through its cross-reference to § 58.1-4200, even though the Lottery's own plain-English page never mentions them. Terms are two years, five years, or lifetime. The two- and five-year terms come off automatically at the end, which means protection lapses unless you act: the Lottery says to contact it before your period ends if you want to extend for another two or five years. A lifetime term has no published removal route. The statute (§ 58.1-4103.B.3) says the Board may write a regulation allowing an earlier petition to come off the list, and no such regulation appears in Chapter 60's six sections or in the Lottery Board's other regulations read on 2026-10-01, so on what is published there is no early route off. Whether people who live outside Virginia may enroll is not addressed by the statute or the regulation. If you gamble while you are on the list, the casino or sportsbook holds any winnings and they can be forfeited to the state's Problem Gambling Treatment and Support Fund. You cannot recover losses. You have 15 days from the notice to ask for a hearing in writing. Casinos and sports betting operators must also set up procedures to stop targeted mailings, calls and player-club offers to you, as far as practicable. You may be refused entry to, or removed from, a wagering facility once you are on the list. Virginia's casino statute has no separate tribal carve-out. The Pamunkey Indian Tribe's Norfolk casino partnership with Boyd Gaming holds a Virginia Lottery Board casino license, and its temporary casino, The Interim Gaming Hall, is open, so it falls under the same Chapter 41 scheme and this same list. The regulation sends the list to each Virginia casino gaming establishment; no source shows what that casino has received. How identity is verified in the online DocuSign route specifically, as opposed to the in-person lifetime route the regulation describes, could not be read — we could not see the form's fields.