DIVERSITY VISA LOTTERY 2012 (DV-2012) RESULTS BY COUNTRY.
The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2012 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 100,021 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-2012 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2012 (October 1, 2011 until September 30, 2012).
The Department of State implemented the electronic registration system beginning with DV-2005 in order to make the DV process more efficient and secure. The Department utilizes special technology and other means to identify those who commit fraud for the purposes of illegal immigration or those who submit multiple entries.
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Applicants registered for the DV-2012 program were selected at random from 14,768,658 qualified entries (19,672,268 with derivatives) received during the 30-day application period that ran from noon on October 5, 2010, until noon, November 3, 2010. 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 2012 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2012 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2012 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2012 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2012.
Only participants in the DV-2012 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-2013 lottery if they wish. The dates for the registration period for the DV-2013 lottery program are expected to be widely publicized at some point during the coming months.
* 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.
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The following is the statistical breakdown by foreign-state chargeability of those registered for the DV-2012 program:
AFRICA
ALGERIA 1,799
ETHIOPIA 4,902
NIGERIA 6,024
ANGOLA 42
GABON 48
RWANDA 333
BENIN 511
GAMBIA, THE 113
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 0
BOTSWANA 7
GHANA 5,832
SENEGAL 270
BURKINA FASO 226
GUINEA 899
SEYCHELLES 6
BURUNDI 56
GUINEA-BISSAU 3
SIERRA LEONE 3,397
CAMEROON 3,374
KENYA 4,720
SOMALIA 175
CAPE VERDE 9
LESOTHO 8
SOUTH AFRICA 833
CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. 3
LIBERIA 2,101
SUDAN 757
CHAD 33
LIBYA 136
SWAZILAND 0
COMOROS 9
MADAGASCAR 17
TANZANIA 175
CONGO 105
MALAWI 16
TOGO 845
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC MALI 76
TUNISIA 113
MAURITANIA 29
UGANDA 418
COTE D’IVOIRE 553
MAURITIUS 59
ZAMBIA 79
DJIBOUTI 38
MOROCCO 1,890
ZIMBABWE 123
EGYPT 4,664
MOZAMBIQUE 13
EQUATORIAL GUINEA 4
NAMIBIA 10
ERITREA 670 NIGER 32
ASIA
AFGHANISTAN 109
IRAQ 153
NEPAL 3,258
BAHRAIN 29
ISRAEL 175
OMAN 11
BANGLADESH 2,373
JAPAN 435
QATAR 19
BHUTAN 5
JORDAN 152
SAUDI ARABIA 217
BRUNEI 0
NORTH KOREA 0
SINGAPORE 45
BURMA 370
KUWAIT 108
SRI LANKA 708
CAMBODIA 596
LAOS 1
SYRIA 160
HONG KONG SPECIAL
LEBANON 274
TAIWAN 391
ADMIN. REGION 54
MALAYSIA 118
THAILAND 73
INDONESIA 256
MALDIVES 0
TIMOR-LESTE 9
IRAN 4,453
MONGOLIA 209
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 92
YEMEN 149
EUROPE
ALBANIA 1,508
HUNGARY 325
NORWAY 84
ANDORRA 1
ICELAND 56
PORTUGAL 66
ARMENIA 998
IRELAND 213
Macau 19
AUSTRIA 130
ITALY 529
ROMANIA 1,327
AZERBAIJAN 304
KAZAKHSTAN 434
RUSSIA 2,353
BELARUS 493
KOSOVO 137
SAN MARINO 1
BELGIUM 105
KYRGYZSTAN
321 SERBIA 298
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 83
LATVIA 83
SLOVAKIA 80
BULGARIA 883
LIECHTENSTEIN 0
SLOVENIA 16
CROATIA 107
LITHUANIA 258
SPAIN 232
CYPRUS 26
LUXEMBOURG 8
SWEDEN 200
CZECH REPUBLIC 104
MACEDONIA 160
SWITZERLAND 229
DENMARK 73
MALTA 20
TAJIKISTAN 270
ESTONIA 49
MOLDOVA 1,238
TURKEY 3,077
FINLAND 91
MONACO 3
TURKMENISTAN 143
FRANCE 574
MONTENEGRO 18
UKRAINE 5,799
French Polynesia 7
NETHERLANDS 149
UZBEKISTAN 4,800
New Caledonia 1
Aruba 4
VATICAN CITY 0
GEORGIA 620
Curacao 19
GERMANY 1,709
St. Maarten 2
GREECE 105
NORTHERN IRELAND 59
NORTH AMERICA
BAHAMAS, THE 15
OCEANIA
AUSTRALIA 900
NAURU 5
TONGA 93
Christmas Islands 3
NEW ZEALAND 309
TUVALU 0
Cocos Island 1
Cook Islands 6
VANUATU 8
FIJI 628
Niue 14
WESTERN SAMOA 9
KIRIBATI 14
PALAU 5
MARSHALL ISLANDS 4
PAPUA NEW GUINEA 0
MICRONESIA, FEDERATED SAMOA 0
STATES OF 2 SOLOMON ISLANDS 0
SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 9
DOMINICA 18
SAINT LUCIA 4
ARGENTINA 101
GRENADA 24
SAINT VINCENT AND BARBADOS 25
GUYANA 26
THE GRENADINES 16
BELIZE 9
HONDURAS 80
SURINAME 15
BOLIVIA 84
NICARAGUA 49
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 175
CHILE 43
PANAMA 21
URUGUAY 19
COSTA RICA 43
PARAGUAY 17
VENEZUELA 925
CUBA 292
SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 7
Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2012:
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.
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