Diversity Visa Lottery 2011 (DV-2011) Results

http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/types/types_5073.html US Dept. of State July 24, 2010 The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2011 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 100,600 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-2011 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2011 (October 1, 2010 until September 30, 2011). Applicants registered for the DV-2011 program were selected at random from over 12.1 million qualified entries (16.5 million with derivatives) received during the 60-day application period that ran from noon on October 2, 2009, until noon, November 30, 2009. 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 U.S. 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 2011 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2011 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2011 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2011 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2011. Only participants in the DV-2011 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-2012 lottery if they wish. The dates for the registration period for the DV-2012 lottery program will be widely publicized during August 2010. * 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-2011 program: (Note: Only the Africa list is shown here. See the link to the original for the complete list) AFRICA ALGERIA 1,753 ETHIOPIA 5,200 NIGER 89 ANGOLA 55 GABON 41 NIGERIA 6,000 BENIN 508 GAMBIA, THE 72 RWANDA 204 BOTSWANA 13 GHANA 6,002 SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 0 BURKINA FASO 183 GUINEA 701 SENEGAL 427 BURUNDI 72 GUINEA-BISSAU 5 SEYCHELLES 4 CAMEROON 3,674 KENYA 4,689 SIERRA LEONE 3,911 CAPE VERDE 26 LESOTHO 11 SOMALIA 201 CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. 18 LIBERIA 1,826 SOUTH AFRICA 963 CHAD 59 LIBYA 114 SUDAN 1,156 COMOROS 7 MADAGASCAR 55 SWAZILAND 4 CONGO 144 MALAWI 33 TANZANIA 174 CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE 2,575 MALI 88 TOGO 1,011 COTE D’IVOIRE 759 MAURITANIA 25 TUNISIA 132 DJIBOUTI 45 MAURITIUS 61 UGANDA 490 EGYPT 4,251 MOROCCO 2,003 WESTERN SAHARA 0 EQUATORIAL GUINEA 13 MOZAMBIQUE 2 ZAMBIA 128 ERITREA 851 NAMIBIA 13 ZIMBABWE 163

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