Diversity Visa Lottery 2011 (DV-2011) Results

1) Ghana:6002

2) Nigeria: 6000

3) Ethiopia:5200

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: 

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

ASIA
AFGHANISTAN	97	ISRAEL	129	OMAN	3
BAHRAIN	15	JAPAN	298	QATAR	9
BANGLADESH	5,999	JORDAN	136	SAUDI ARABIA	91
BHUTAN	5	NORTH KOREA	2	SINGAPORE	35
BRUNEI	5	KUWAIT	88	SRI LANKA	515
BURMA	367	LAOS	3	SYRIA	132
CAMBODIA	434	LEBANON	214	TAIWAN	365
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION	43	MALAYSIA	133	THAILAND	77
INDONESIA	205	MALDIVES	4	TIMOR-LESTE	0
IRAN	2,819	MONGOLIA	279	UNITED ARAB EMIRATES	66
IRAQ	147	NEPAL	2,189	YEMEN	95

EUROPE
ALBANIA	1,469	- New Caledonia	9	NETHERLANDS	139
ANDORRA	0	- Reunion	0	- Aruba	6
ARMENIA	1,268	- St. Pierre & Miquelon	0	- Netherlands Antilles	16
AUSTRIA	147	GEORGIA	699	NORTHERN IRELAND	38
AZERBAIJAN	355	GERMANY	1,895	NORWAY	66
BELARUS	1,104	GREECE	62	PORTUGAL	61
BELGIUM	94	HUNGARY	272	- Macau Special Admin. Region	5
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA	67	ICELAND	48	ROMANIA	821
BULGARIA	950	IRELAND	201	RUSSIA	2,464
CROATIA	97	ITALY	450	SAN MARINO	0
CYPRUS	11	KAZAKHSTAN	370	SERBIA	327
CZECH REPUBLIC	111	KOSOVO	134	SLOVAKIA	125
DENMARK	66	KYRGYZSTAN	196	SLOVENIA	14
- Greenland	1	LATVIA	122	SPAIN	219
ESTONIA	72	LIECHTENSTEIN	1	SWEDEN	187
FINLAND	87	LITHUANIA	262	SWITZERLAND	195
FRANCE	767	LUXEMBOURG	3	TAJIKISTAN	257
- French Guiana	0	MACEDONIA	263	TURKEY	2,266
- French Polynesia	13	MALTA	1	TURKMENISTAN	135
- French Southern & Antarctic Lands	1	MOLDOVA	894	UKRAINE	6,000
- Guadeloupe	0	MONACO	0	UZBEKISTAN	5,091
- Martinique	0	MONTENEGRO	5	VATICAN CITY	0

NORTH AMERICA
BAHAMAS, THE	18

OCEANIA
AUSTRALIA	683	NAURU	7	SOLOMON ISLANDS	3
- Christmas Island	0	NEW ZEALAND	333	TONGA	51
- Cocos Islands	0	- Cook Islands	0	TUVALU	4
FIJI	476	- Niue	8	VANUATU	1
KIRIBATI	9	PALAU	2	WESTERN SAMOA	13
MARSHALL ISLANDS	6	PAPUA NEW GUINEA	4
MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF	0	SAMOA	0

SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA	1	DOMINICA	29	SAINT LUCIA	27
ARGENTINA	134	GRENADA	5	SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES	21
BARBADOS	12	GUYANA	36	SURINAME	9
BELIZE	12	HONDURAS	61	TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO	145
BOLIVIA	90	NICARAGUA	74	URUGUAY	23
CHILE	63	PANAMA	31	VENEZUELA	752
COSTA RICA	50	PARAGUAY	14
CUBA	406	SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS	6

Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2011:  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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