DIVERSITY VISA LOTTERY 2010 (DV-2010) RESULTS
The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2010 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 102,800 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-2010 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2010 (October 1, 2009 until September 30, 2010).
Applicants registered for the DV-2010 program were selected at random from over 13.6 million qualified entries received during the 60 day application period that ran from noon on October 2, 2008, until noon, December 1, 2008. 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 2010 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2010 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2010 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2010 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2010.
Only participants in the DV-2010 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-2011 lottery if they wish. The dates for the registration period for the DV-2011 lottery program will be widely publicized during August 2009.
* 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-2010 program:
AFRICA
ALGERIA 1,957 ETHIOPIA 5,200 NIGER 56
ANGOLA 46 GABON 19 NIGERIA 6,006
BENIN 369 GAMBIA, THE 108 RWANDA 178
BOTSWANA 23 GHANA 8,752 SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 0
BURKINA FASO 184 GUINEA 737 SENEGAL 520
BURUNDI 83 GUINEA-BISSAU 8 SEYCHELLES 4
CAMEROON 3,719 KENYA 4,619 SIERRA LEONE 3,898
CAPE VERDE 6 LESOTHO 2 SOMALIA 229
CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. 20 LIBERIA 2,172 SOUTH AFRICA 863
CHAD 27 LIBYA 152 SUDAN 1,084
COMOROS 9 MADAGASCAR 31 SWAZILAND 11
CONGO 92 MALAWI 50 TANZANIA 221
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE 1,817 MALI 129 TOGO 827
COTE D'IVOIRE 658 MAURITANIA 20 TUNISIA 164
DJIBOUTI 33 MAURITIUS 78 UGANDA 396
EGYPT 4,201 MOROCCO 3,124 WESTERN SAHARA 0
EQUATORIAL GUINEA 15 MOZAMBIQUE 8 ZAMBIA 93
ERITREA 799 NAMIBIA 16 ZIMBABWE 170
ASIA
AFGHANISTAN 345 ISRAEL 99 OMAN 2
BAHRAIN 15 JAPAN 302 QATAR 13
BANGLADESH 6,001 JORDAN 143 SAUDI ARABIA 104
BHUTAN 2 NORTH KOREA 3 SINGAPORE 37
BRUNEI 0 KUWAIT 70 SRI LANKA 650
BURMA 473 LAOS 3 SYRIA 98
CAMBODIA 359 LEBANON 181 TAIWAN 368
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION 49 MALAYSIA 60 THAILAND 54
INDONESIA 277 MALDIVES 0 TIMOR-LESTE 0
IRAN 2,773 MONGOLIA 144 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 30
IRAQ 142 NEPAL 2,132 YEMEN 72
EUROPE
ALBANIA 2,311 GREECE 48 NORWAY 60
ANDORRA 6 HUNGARY 192 PORTUGAL 51
Macau Special Admin Region 17
ARMENIA 1,332 ICELAND 36 ROMANIA 674
AUSTRIA 181 IRELAND 167 RUSSIA 1,912
AZERBAIJAN 324 ITALY 470 SAN MARINO 0
BELARUS 1,178 KAZAKHSTAN 343 SERBIA 367
BELGIUM 117 KYRGYZSTAN 205 SLOVAKIA 108
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 72 LATVIA 90 SLOVENIA 19
BULGARIA 842 LIECHTENSTEIN 0 SPAIN 169
CROATIA 74 LITHUANIA 195 SWEDEN 163
CYPRUS 23 LUXEMBOURG 2 SWITZERLAND 185
CZECH REPUBLIC 116 MACEDONIA, FORMER YUGOSLAV REP. OF 272 TAJIKISTAN 178
DENMARK 75
Greenland 2 MALTA 7 TURKEY 2,826
ESTONIA 66 MOLDOVA 724 TURKMENISTAN 108
FINLAND 83 MONACO 0 UKRAINE 5,499
FRANCE 703 French Guiana 4 French Polynesia 8
French Southern & Antarctic Lands 0 Guadeloupe 13
Martinique 4
New Caledonia 0
Reunion 5
St. Pierre & Miquelon 0 MONTENEGRO 13 UZBEKISTAN 4,059
GEORGIA 648 NETHERLANDS 200
Aruba 16
Netherlands Antilles 22 VATICAN CITY 0
GERMANY 2,188 NORTHERN IRELAND 31
NORTH AMERICA
BAHAMAS, THE 18
OCEANIA
AUSTRALIA 705
Christmas Islands 2
Coco Island 0 NAURU 3 SOLOMON ISLANDS 3
FIJI 674 NEW ZEALAND 258
Cook Islands 0
Niue 16 TONGA 80
KIRIBATI 1 PALAU 12 TUVALU 1
MARSHALL ISLANDS 0 PAPUA NEW GUINEA 15 VANUATU 7
MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF 0 SAMOA 0 WESTERN SAMOA 26
SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 9 DOMINICA 18 SAINT LUCIA 19
ARGENTINA 188 GRENADA 9 SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES 9
BARBADOS 29 GUYANA 41 SURINAME 10
BELIZE 10 HONDURAS 82 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 226
BOLIVIA 142 NICARAGUA 50 URUGUAY 17
CHILE 53 PANAMA 39 VENEZUELA 624
COSTA RICA 74 PARAGUAY 29
CUBA 298 SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 6
Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2010: 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, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.