We work with symmetric extensions based on Lévy collapse and extend a few results of Apter, Cody, and Koepke. We prove a conjecture of Dimitriou from her Ph.D. thesis. We also observe that if V is a model of $$\textsf {ZFC}$$
ZFC
, then $$\textsf {DC}_{<\kappa }$$
DC
<
κ
can be preserved in the symmetric extension of V in terms of symmetric system $$\langle {\mathbb {P}},{\mathcal {G}},{\mathcal {F}}\rangle $$
⟨
P
,
G
,
F
⟩
, if $${\mathbb {P}}$$
P
is $$\kappa $$
κ
-distributive and $${\mathcal {F}}$$
F
is $$\kappa $$
κ
-complete. Further we observe that if $$\delta <\kappa $$
δ
<
κ
and V is a model of $$\textsf {ZF}+\textsf {DC}_{\delta }$$
ZF
+
DC
δ
, then $$\textsf {DC}_{\delta }$$
DC
δ
can be preserved in the symmetric extension of V in terms of symmetric system $$\langle {\mathbb {P}},{\mathcal {G}},{\mathcal {F}}\rangle $$
⟨
P
,
G
,
F
⟩
, if $${\mathbb {P}}$$
P
is ($$\delta +1$$
δ
+
1
)-strategically closed and $${\mathcal {F}}$$
F
is $$\kappa $$
κ
-complete.