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The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has
registered and notified the winners of the DV-2009 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 99,600 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-2009 numbers will be used during
fiscal year 2009 (October 1, 2008 until September 30, 2009).
Applicants registered for the DV-2009 program were selected at random from
over 9.1 million qualified entries received during the 60-day application
period that ran from noon on October 3, 2007, until noon, December 2, 2007.
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 2009 will end. Selected
applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2009 will derive no
further benefit from their DV-2009 registration. Similarly, spouses and
children accompanying or following to join DV-2009 principal applicants
are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2009.
Only participants in the DV-2009 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-2010 lottery if they wish.
The dates for the registration period for the DV-2010 lottery program will be
widely publicized during August 2009.
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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-2009 program:
AFRICA
ALGERIA - 2,205 EQUATORIAL GUINEA - 10 MOZAMBIQUE - 22
ERITREA - 829 NAMIBIA - 12
ANGOLA - 38 ETHIOPIA - 5,200 NIGER - 64
BENIN - 390 GABON - 35 NIGERIA - 6,041
BOTSWANA - 22 GAMBIA ,THE - 168 RWANDA - 111
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE - 1
BURKINA FASO - 129 GHANA - 7,322 SENEGAL - 1,160
SEYCHELLES - 8
BURUNDI - 86 GUINEA - 469 SIERRA LEONE - 2,230
CAMEROON - 3,659 GUINEA-BISSAU - 9 SOMALIA - 256
CAPE VERDE - 9 KENYA - 4,307 SOUTH AFRICA - 909
CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. - 21 LESOTHO - 4 SUDAN - 1,143
CHAD - 27 LIBERIA - 3,440 SWAZILAND - 6
COMOROS - 6 LIBYA - 117 TANZANIA - 298
CONGO - 1,582 MADAGASCAR - 46 UGANDA - 370
CONGO ,DEMOCRATIC MALAWI - 29 WESTERN SAHARA - 1
REPUBLIC OF THE - 65 MALI - 124 TUNISIA - 155
COTE D'IVOIRE - 642 MAURITANIA - 39 UGANDA - 433
DJIBOUTI - 26 MAURITIUS - 62 ZAMBIA - 156
EGYPT - 4,831 MOROCCO - 3,280 ZIMBABWE - 242
ASIA
AFGHANISTAN-117 ISRAEL-194 QATAR-10
BAHRAIN-18 JAPAN-320 SAUDI ARABIA-128
BANGLADESH-6,023 JORDAN-161 SINGAPORE-38
BHUTAN-4 SRI LANKA-792
KUWAIT-43 SYRIA-108
BURMA-556 LAOS-2 THAILAND-110
CAMBODIA-287 LEBANON-193 TAIWAN-431
HONG KONG MALAYSIA-85 UNITED-ARAB
SPECIAL MALDIVES-4 EMIRATES-33
ADMIN. REGION-75 YEMEN-102
INDONESIA-230 MONGOLIA-191
NORTH KOREA-2
IRAN-1,689 NEPAL-1,891
IRAQ-154 OMAN-10
EUROPE
ALBANIA-2,894 GERMANY-1,973 N.IRELAND-35
GEORGIA-661 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES-34
GREENLAND-1
GREECE-63 NORWAY-54
ARMENIA-1,285 HUNGARY-271 PORTUGAL-92
AUSTRIA-145 ICELAND-25 ROMANIA-757
AZERBAIJAN-345
ARUBA-8 IRELAND-132 SERBIA-656
BELARUS-1,240 ITALY-433 SLOVAKIA-169
BELGIUM-82 KAZAKHSTAN-336 SLOVENIA-21
BOSNIA & KYRGYZSTAN-169 SPAIN-172
HERZEGOVINA-158 LIECHTENSTEIN-1
BULGARIA-1,154 LATVIA-100 SWEDEN-226
CROATIA-75 LITHUANIA-273 SWITZERLAND-230
CYPRUS-42 LUXEMBOURG-1 TAJIKISTAN-168
MACAU-12
CZECH REPUBLIC-140 MACEDONIA-322 TURKEY-2,331
DENMARK-48 MALTA-9 TURKMENISTAN-111
ESTONIA-58 MOLDOVA-542 UKRAINE-5,502
FINLAND-72 UZBEKISTAN-3,284
FRANCE-738 MONTENEGRO-20
MARtTINIQUE-4
French Guiana-11 NETHERLANDS-226
French Polynesia-2 NETHERLANDS ARUBA-9
NORTH AMERICA
THE BAHAMAS - 12
OCEANIA
AUSTRALIA-590 NEW ZEALAND-269 SAMOA-20
NIUE-11 SOLOMON ISLANDS-2 MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF-2
NAURU-1
FIJI-760 PALAU-7 TONGA-129
KIRIBATI-2 PAPUA NEW GUINEA-15 TUVALU-1
VANUATU-1
SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN
ANTIGUA AND DOMINICA-30 PARAGUAY-10
ARGENTINA-174 ECUADOR-217 SAINT KITTS
BARBUDA-5 AND NEVIS-1
BARBADOS-8 GRENADA-6 SAINT LUCIA-5
BELIZE-4 GUATEMALA-6 SAINT VINCENT AND
THE GRENADINES-9
BOLIVIA-108 GUYANA-41 SURINAME-5
CHILE-50 HONDURAS-77 TRINIDAD AND
TOBAGO-141
COSTA RICA-22 NICARAGUA-58 URUGUAY-26
CUBA-555 PANAMA-38 VENEZUELA-470
Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2009: Brazil,
Canada, China (mainland-born, excluding Hong Kong S.A.R., and Taiwan), Colombia,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico,
Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Korea, United Kingdom
(except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam .
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