DIVERSITY VISA LOTTERY 2005 (DV-2005) RESULTS
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Author: ba U.S. Department of State
Office of the Spokesman
July 21, 2004
Media Note
DIVERSITY VISA LOTTERY 2005 (DV-2005) RESULTS
The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky, has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2005 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 100,000 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-2005 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2005 (October 1, 2004 until September 30, 2005).
Applicants registered for the DV-2005 program were selected at random from more than 9.5 million qualified entries received during the 60-day application period that ran from 12:00 AM on November 1, 2003, until midnight, December 30, 2003. 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 2005 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2005 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2005 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2005 principal applicants are entitled to derivative diversity visa status only until September 30, 2005.
Only participants in the DV-2005 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-2006 lottery if they wish. The dates for the registration period for the DV-2006 lottery program will be widely publicized during August 2004.
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* 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-2005 program:
AFRICA
ALGERIA 1,489
ANGOLA 14
BENIN 233
BOTSWANA 7
BURKINA FASO 76
BURUNDI 34
CAMEROON 1,540
CAPE VERDE 6
CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. 4
CHAD 22
COMOROS 3
CONGO 47
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF 844
COTE D'IVOIRE 321
DJIBOUTI 12
EGYPT 6,070
EQUATORIAL GUINEA 2
ERITREA 556
ETHIOPIA 6,060
GABON 29
THE GAMBIA 136
GHANA 3,974
GUINEA 268
GUINEA-BISSAU 3
KENYA 3,618
LESOTHO 0
LIBERIA 714
LIBYA 35
MADAGASCAR 28
MALAWI 44
MALI 124
MAURITANIA 25
MAURITIUS 23
MOROCCO 5,298
MOZAMBIQUE 12
NAMIBIA 11
NIGER 53
NIGERIA 6,725
RWANDA 51
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 0
SENEGAL 409
SEYCHELLES 4
SIERRA LEONE 594
SOMALIA 364
SOUTH AFRICA 390
SUDAN 1,015
SWAZILAND 6
TANZANIA 356
TOGO 2,857
TUNISIA 134
UGANDA 244
ZAMBIA 118
ZIMBABWE 141
ASIA
AFGHANISTAN 22
BAHRAIN 1
BANGLADESH 7,404
BHUTAN 1
BRUNEI 1
BURMA 531
CAMBODIA 164
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION 77
INDONESIA 258
IRAN 820
IRAQ 48
ISRAEL 116
JAPAN 373
JORDAN 44
KUWAIT 16
LAOS 4
LEBANON 83
MALAYSIA 87
MALDIVES 0
MONGOLIA 55
NEPAL 2,698
NORTH KOREA 1
OMAN 0
QATAR 1
SAUDI ARABIA 30
SINGAPORE 35
SRI LANKA 386
SYRIA 26
TAIWAN 367
THAILAND 102
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 13
YEMEN 40
EUROPE
ALBANIA 3,380
ANDORRA 1
ARMENIA 1,004
AUSTRIA 91
AZERBAIJAN 235
BELARUS 925
BELGIUM 81
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 103
BULGARIA 4,068
CROATIA 69
CYPRUS 14
CZECH REPUBLIC 169
DENMARK 42
ESTONIA 64
FINLAND 59
FRANCE 384
GEORGIA 375
GERMANY 1,275
GREECE 78
HUNGARY 181
ICELAND 5
IRELAND 205
ITALY 202
KAZAKHSTAN 296
KYRGYZSTAN 206
LATVIA 158
LIECHTENSTEIN 1
LITHUANIA 1,114
LUXEMBOURG 2
MACEDONIA, FORMER YUGOSLAV REP. OF 306
MALTA 0
MOLDOVA 383
MONACO 0
NETHERLANDS 130
Netherlands Antilles 10
Aruba 2
NORTHERN IRELAND 75
NORWAY 25
POLAND 6,211
PORTUGAL 51
Macau 12
ROMANIA 2,521
SAN MARINO 0
SERBIA & MONTENEGRO 425
SLOVAKIA 398
SLOVENIA 6
SPAIN 134
SWEDEN 115
SWITZERLAND 136
TAJIKISTAN 83
TURKEY 1,803
TURKMENISTAN 78
UKRAINE 5,361
UZBEKISTAN 1,551
VATICAN CITY 0
NORTH AMERICA
THE BAHAMAS 14
OCEANIA
AUSTRALIA 787
Cocos Islands 2
FIJI 530
KIRIBATI 0
MARSHALL ISLANDS 0
MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF 0
NAURU 0
NEW ZEALAND 290
PALAU 2
PAPUA NEW GUINEA 5
SAMOA 6
SOLOMON ISLANDS 1
Cook Islands 0
Niue 1
TONGA 96
TUVALU 0
VANUATU 0
SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 4
ARGENTINA 221
BARBADOS 12
BELIZE 3
BOLIVIA 108
BRAZIL 592
CHILE 43
COSTA RICA 24
CUBA 674
DOMINICA 8
ECUADOR 308
GRENADA 7
GUATEMALA 25
GUYANA 27
HONDURAS 35
NICARAGUA 14
PANAMA 17
PARAGUAY 14
PERU 2,514
SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 3
SAINT LUCIA 4
SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES 14
SURINAME 3
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 96
URUGUAY 18
VENEZUELA 299
Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2005: Canada, China (mainland-born, excluding Hong Kong S.A.R., and Taiwan), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russia, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.
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