Thursday, June 21, 2007

Diversity Visa Lottery 2007 (DV-2007) Results

The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2007 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 82,000 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-2007 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2007.

Applicants registered for the DV-2007 program were selected at random from over 5.5 million qualified entries received during the 60-day application period that ran from 12:00 AM on October 5, 2005, until midnight, December 4, 2005. 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 2007 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2007 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2007 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2007 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2007.

Only participants in the DV-2007 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-2008 lottery if they wish. The dates for the registration period for the DV-2008 lottery program will be widely publicized during August 2006.

* 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.

AFRICA

ALGERIA

912

ERITREA

582

ANGOLA

13

ETHIOPIA

6,871

BENIN

218

GABON

42

BOTSWANA

1

GAMBIA, THE

50

BURKINA FASO

95

GHANA

3088

BURUNDI

16

GUINEA

146

CAMEROON

1461

GUINEA-BISSAU

5

CAPE VERDE

3

KENYA

2,337

CENTRAL AFRICAN REP.

13

LESOTHO

0

CHAD

28

LIBERIA

734

COMOROS

7

LIBYA

37

CONGO

687

MADAGASCAR

21

CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE

42

MALAWI

18

COTE D’IVOIRE

308

MALI

76

DJIBOUTI

11

MAURITANIA

17

EGYPT

7,229

MAURITIUS

8

EQUATORIAL GUINEA

1

MOROCCO

4,922

NAMIBIA

8

MOZAMBIQUE

4

NIGER

62

SOUTH AFRICA

287

NIGERIA

9,849

SUDAN

569

RWANDA

41

SWAZILAND

5

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

2

TANZANIA

148

SENEGAL

228

TOGO

1,592

SEYCHELLES

4

TUNISIA

124

SIERRA LEONE

540

UGANDA

213

SOMALIA

160

ZAMBIA

92

ZIMBABWE

73

ASIA

AFGHANISTAN

80

LEBANON

86

BAHRAIN

1

MALAYSIA

76

BANGLADESH

5,901

MALDIVES

0

BHUTAN

2

MONGOLIA

113

BRUNEI

0

NEPAL

1,529

BURMA

651

NORTH KOREA

0

CAMBODIA

177

OMAN

1

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION

81

QATAR

1

INDONESIA

245

SAUDI ARABIA

27

IRAN

1361

SINGAPORE

46

IRAQ

80

SRI LANKA

383

ISRAEL

126

SYRIA

40

JAPAN

333

TAIWAN

398

JORDAN

63

THAILAND

81

KUWAIT

42

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

19

LAOS

9

YEMEN

43

EUROPE

ALBANIA

1,988

GEORGIA

323

ANDORRA

0

GERMANY

1047

ARMENIA

691

GREECE

41

AUSTRIA

74

GUADELOUPE

3

AZERBAIJAN

125

HUNGARY

138

BELARUS

705

ICELAND

13

BELGIUM

57

IRELAND

160

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA

90

ITALY

214

BULGARIA

1,674

KAZAKHSTAN

177

CROATIA

40

KYRGYZSTAN

123

CYPRUS

7

LATVIA

75

CZECH REPUBLIC

85

LIECHTENSTEIN

0

DENMARK

50

LITHUANIA

298

ESTONIA

40

LUXEMBOURG

6

FINLAND

33

MACEDONIA, FORMER YUGOSLAV REP. OF

213

FRANCE

380

MALTA

4

FRENCH POLYNESIA

10

MOLDOVA

273

FRENCH SOUTHERN AND ANTARCTIC LANDS

1

MONACO

1

MACAU

8

NETHERLANDS

88

MARTINIQUE

2

SLOVENIA

7

NETHERLANDS ANTILLES

8

SPAIN

97

NEW CALEDONIA

3

SWEDEN

121

NORTHERN IRELAND

42

SWITZERLAND

104

NORWAY

21

TAJIKISTAN

84

PORTUGAL

29

TURKEY

1,418

REUNION

8

TURKMENISTAN

59

ROMANIA

1,255

UKRAINE

7,205

SAN MARINO

0

UZBEKISTAN

1,536

SERBIA & MONTENEGRO

505

VATICAN CITY

0

SLOVAKIA

171

WESTERN SAHARA

1

NORTH AMERICA

BAHAMAS, THE

12

OCEANIA

AUSTRALIA

532

COOK ISLANDS

3

CHRISTMAS ISLANDS

0

NAURU

1

FIJI

514

NEW ZEALAND

205

KIRIBATI

0

NIUE

0

MARSHALL ISLANDS

1

PALAU

3

MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF

4

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

6

SAMOA

10

TUVALU

7

SOLOMON ISLAND

0

VANUATU

0

TONGA

171

SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA

2

DOMINICA

12

ARGENTINA

86

ECUADOR

170

BARBADOS

9

GRENADA

6

BELIZE

5

GUATEMALA

43

BOLIVIA

88

GUYANA

17

BRAZIL

488

HONDURAS

28

CHILE

42

NICARAGUA

19

COSTA RICA

18

PANAMA

14

CUBA

427

PARAGUAY

20

PERU

1,274

SURINAME

3

SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS

4

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

85

SAINT LUCIA

4

URUGUAY

4

SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES

3

VENEZUELA

226

Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2007: Canada, China (mainland-born, excluding Hong Kong S.A.R., and Taiwan), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.

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