Gambling self-exclusion in Virginia

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.