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The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and
notified the winners of the DV-2008 diversity lottery. The diversity
lottery was conducted under the terms of section 203(c) of the Immigration
and Nationality Act and makes available *50,000 permanent resident visas
annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration
to the United States. Approximately 96,000 applicants have been
registered and notified and may now make an application for an immigrant
visa . Since it is likely that some of the first *50,000
persons registered will not pursue their cases to visa issuance, this
larger figure should insure that all DV-2008 numbers will be used
during fiscal year 2008 (October 1, 2007 until September 30, 2008).
Applicants registered for the DV-2008 program were selected at random from
over 6.4 million qualified entriesreceived during the 60-day
application period that ran from 12:00 AM on October 4, 2006, until midnight,
December 3, 2006.The visas have been apportioned among six geographic regions
with a maximum of seven percent available to persons born in any single country.
During the visa interview, principal applicants must provide proof of a high
school education or its equivalent, or show two years of work experience in
an occupation that requires at least two years of training or experience within
the past five years. Those selected will need to act on their immigrant visa
applications quickly. Applicants should follow the instructions
in their notification letter and must fully complete the information requested.
Registrants living legally in the United States who wish to apply for adjustment
of their status must contact the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services
for information on the requirements and procedures. Once the total *50,000 visa
numbers have been used, the program for fiscal year 2008 will end.
Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2008 will derive
no further benefit from their DV-2008 registration. Similarly, spouses and
children accompanying or following to join DV-2008 principal applicants
are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2008.
Only participants in the DV-2008 program who were selected for further
processing have been notified. Those who have not received notification
were not selected. They may try for the upcoming DV-2009 lottery if they wish.
The dates for the registration period for the DV-2009 lottery program will
be widely publicized during August 2007.
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* The Nicaraguan and Central American Relief Act (NACARA) passed by Congress in November
1997 stipulated that up to 5,000 of the 55,000 annually-allocated diversity visas be
made available for use under the NACARA program. The reduction of the limit of
available visas to 50,000 began with DV-2000
The following is the statistical breakdown by foreign-state chargeability
of those registered for the DV-2008 program:
AFRICA
ALGERIA - 1,916 ERITREA - 878 NAMIBIA - 12
ANGOLA - 27 ETHIOPIA - 5,241 NIGER - 165
BENIN - 438 GABON - 37 NIGERIA - 8,773
BOTSWANA - 22 GAMBIA ,THE - 57 RWANDA - 138
BURKINA FASO - 186 GHANA - 5,914 SENEGAL - 917
BURUNDI - 39 GUINEA - 463 SIERRA LEONE - 1,137
CAMEROON - 3,152 GUINEA-BISSAU - 4 SOMALIA - 214
CAPE VERDE - 13 KENYA - 4,547 SOUTH AFRICA - 713
CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. - 8 LESOTHO - 4 SUDAN - 1,147
CHAD - 47 LIBERIA - 2,148 SWAZILAND - 4
COMOROS - 5 LIBYA - 88 TANZANIA - 150
CONGO - 1,206 MADAGASCAR - 43 UGANDA - 370
CONGO ,DEMOCRATIC MALAWI - 53 WESTERN SAHARA - 1
REPUBLIC OF THE - 111 MALI - 171 TUNISIA - 124
COTE D'IVOIRE 614 MAURITANIA - 27 UGANDA - 213
DJIBOUTI - 22 MAURITIUS - 27 ZAMBIA - 214
EGYPT - 4,392 MOROCCO - 5,017 ZIMBABWE - 167
EQUATORIAL GUINEA - 7 MOZAMBIQUE - 8
ASIA
AFGHANISTAN 57 ISRAEL 150 QATAR 6
BAHRAIN 11 JAPAN 382 SAUDI ARABIA 61
BANGLADESH 5,983 JORDAN 56 SINGAPORE 70
BHUTAN 10 NORTH KOREA 4 SRI LANKA 675
BRUNEI 2 KUWAIT 46 SYRIA 94
BURMA 653 LAOS 7 THAILAND 108
CAMBODIA 187 LEBANON 190 TAIWAN 446
HONG KONG MALAYSIA 87 UNITED ARAB
SPECIAL EMIRATES 27
ADMIN. REGION 69
INDONESIA 266 MONGOLIA 259 YEMEN 70
IRAN 1,435 NEPAL 2,562
IRAQ 164 OMAN 5
EUROPE
ALBANIA 2,862 GERMANY 1,469 N.IRELAND 34
ANDORRA 1 GREECE 77 NORWAY 43
ARMENIA 1,130 HUNGARY 182 PORTUGAL 48
Macau 19
AUSTRIA 70 ICELAND 13 ROMANIA 1,526
AZERBAIJAN 271 IRELAND 162 SERBIA 557
BELARUS 1,072 ITALY 363 SLOVAKIA 157
BELGIUM 89 KAZAKHSTAN 304 SLOVENIA 12
BOSNIA & KYRGYZSTAN 180 SPAIN 135
HERZEGOVINA 73
BULGARIA 1,567 LATVIA 75 SWEDEN 118
CROATIA 41 LITHUANIA 334 SWITZERLAND 132
CYPRUS 16 LUXEMBOURG 12 TAJIKISTAN 126
CZECH REPUBLIC 158 MACEDONIA 343 TURKEY 2,188
DENMARK 58 MALTA 5 TURKMENISTAN 124
ESTONIA 37 MOLDOVA 474 UKRAINE 5,018
FINLAND 59 MONACO 4 UZBEKISTAN 3,101
FRANCE 603 MONTENEGRO 22
French Guiana 6 NETHERLANDS 123
French Polynesia 6 Aruba 8
Guadeloupe 4 Netherlands
Martinique 4 Antilles 18
NORTH AMERICA
THE BAHAMAS - 17
OCEANIA
AUSTRALIA 649 NEW ZEALAND 260 SAMOA 27
Niue 5 SOLOMON ISLANDS 2
FIJI 630 PALAU 7 TONGA 120
KIRIBATI 9 PAPUA NEW GUINEA 4
SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN
ANTIGUA AND DOMINICA 9 PARAGUAY 26
BARBUDA 1
ARGENTINA 106 ECUADOR 217 SAINT KITTS
AND NEVIS 1
BARBADOS 17 GRENADA 1 SAINT LUCIA 5
BELIZE 14 GUATEMALA 74 SAINT VINCENT AND
THE GRENADINES 1
BOLIVIA 148 GUYANA 24 SURINAME 3
CHILE 26 HONDURAS 42 TRINIDAD AND
TOBAGO 82
COSTA RICA 22 NICARAGUA 39 URUGUAY 23
CUBA 691 PANAMA 17 VENEZUELA 256
Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2008:
Brazil, Canada, China (mainland-born, excluding Hong Kong S.A.R. and Taiwan),
Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico,
Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Korea, the United Kingdom
(except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.
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