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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman

For Immediate Release
June 23, 2000

STATEMENT BY PHILIP T. REEKER, DEPUTY SPOKESMAN

RESULTS OF THE DIVERSITY
IMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAM (DV-2001)

The National Visa Center at Portsmouth, New Hampshire has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2001 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 90,000 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-2001 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2001 (October 1, 2000 until September 30, 2001).

Applicants registered for the DV-2001 program were selected at random from the approximately 11 million qualified entries received during the one-month application period that ran from noon on October 4, 1999 through noon on November 3, 1999. An additional 2 million applications received inside and outside of the mail-in period were disqualified for failing to properly follow directions.

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 Immigration and Naturalization Service for information on the requirements and procedures. Once the total *50,000 visa numbers have been used, the program for fiscal year 2001 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2001 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2001 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2001 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2001.

Only participants in the DV-2001 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-2002 lottery if they wish. The dates for the mail-in period for the DV-2002 lottery are scheduled from October 2, 2000 until November 1, 2000. Instructions on entering the DV-2002 program will be widely publicized beginning on July 31, 2000 and will include the mailing address for the new Kentucky Consular Center where entries for DV-2002 should be sent.

*The Nicaraguan and Central American Relief Act (NCARA) 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 NCARA 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-2001 program:

AFRICA

ALGERIA  949                   ERITREA  245           NAMIBIA  5

ANGOLA  9                      ETHIOPIA  5,007        NIGER  18

BENIN  62                      GABON  11              NIGERIA  6,017

BOTSWANA  21                   GAMBIA, THE  72        RWANDA  56

BURKINA FASO  18               GHANA  6,000           SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE  0

BURUNDI  11                    GUINEA  283            SENEGAL  316

CAMEROON  653                  GUINEA-BISSAU  2       SEYCHELLES  2

CAPE VERDE  11                 KENYA  1,606           SIERRA LEONE  2,240

CENTRAL AFRICAN REP.  5        LESOTHO  0             SOMALIA  2,364

CHAD  23                       LIBERIA  1,193         SOUTH AFRICA  357

COMOROS  0                     LIBYA  34              SUDAN  1,661

CONGO  45                      MADAGASCAR  29         SWAZILAND  0

CONGO, DEMOCRATIC              MALAWI  25             TANZANIA  231

  REPUBLIC OF THE    596       MALI  59               TOGO  699

COTE D'IVOIRE   199            MAURITANIA  23         TUNISIA  83

DJIBOUTI  25                  MAURITIUS  23          UGANDA  154

EGYPT  2,383                   MOROCCO  5,000         ZAMBIA  101

EQUATORIAL GUINEA  3           MOZAMBIQUE  8          ZIMBABWE  91

ASIA

AFGHANISTAN  309               IRAQ  99               NEPAL  376

BAHRAIN  4                     ISRAEL  115            OMAN  3

BANGLADESH  5,003              JAPAN  408             PAKISTAN  4,721

BHUTAN  1                      JORDAN  80             QATAR  7

BRUNEI  0                      NORTH KOREA  2         SAUDI ARABIA  88

BURMA  734                     KUWAIT  47             SINGAPORE  41

CAMBODIA  152                  LAOS  8                SRI LANKA  410

HONG KONG SPECIAL              LEBANON  78            SYRIA  85

  ADMIN. REGION  126           MALAYSIA  70           THAILAND  163

INDONESIA  369                MALDIVES  269          UNITED ARAB EMIRATES  40

IRAN  740                      MONGOLIA  24           YEMEN  201

EUROPE

ALBANIA  4,255                 GERMANY  1,902         NORTHERN IRELAND  42

ANDORRA  0                     GREECE  63             NORWAY  14

ARMENIA  989                   HUNGARY  120           PORTUGAL  31

AUSTRIA  90                    ICELAND  9             ROMANIA  2,370

AZERBAIJAN  300                IRELAND  221           RUSSIA  3,579

BELARUS  861                   ITALY  141             SAN MARINO  0

BELGIUM  39                    KAZAKHSTAN  876        SERBIA-MONTENEGRO  401

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA 59          KYRGYZSTAN  184        SLOVAKIA  331

BULGARIA  2,893                LATVIA  175            SLOVENIA  10

CROATIA  62                    LIECHTENSTEIN  0       SPAIN  37

CYPRUS  12                     LITHUANIA  1,200       SWEDEN  87

CZECH REPUBLIC  137            LUXEMBOURG  2          SWITZERLAND  167

DENMARK  45                    MACEDONIA, FORMER      TAJIKISTAN  46

ESTONIA  47                    YUGOSLAV REP. OF 190   TURKEY  1,011

FINLAND  27                    MALTA  4               TURKMENISTAN  48

FRANCE  260                    MOLDOVA  269           UKRAINE  5,029

   Reunion 1                   MONACO  0              UZBEKISTAN 1,026

GEORGIA  287                   NETHERLANDS  53

				Aruba 1

NORTH AMERICA                         BAHAMAS, THE 19

OCEANIA

AUSTRALIA  333                 NAURU  0               SOLOMON ISLANDS  0

FIJI  676                      NEW ZEALAND  224       TONGA  55

KIRIBATI  0                    PALAU  0               TUVALU  0

MARSHALL ISLANDS  0            PAPUA NEW GUINEA  3    VANUATU  1

MICRONESIA, FEDERATED          SAMOA  8

 STATES OF  0

SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA  1         DOMINICA  18           PERU  872

ARGENTINA  117                 ECUADOR  1,167         SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS  1

BARBADOS  4                    GRENADA  3             SAINT LUCIA  6

BELIZE  4                      GUATEMALA  27          SAINT VINCENT AND

BOLIVIA  17                    GUYANA  47             THE GRENADINES  6

BRAZIL  397                    HONDURAS  47           SURINAME  0

CHILE  9                       NICARAGUA  21          TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO  102

COSTA RICA  24                 PANAMA  30             URUGUAY  12

CUBA  743                      PARAGUAY  8            VENEZUELA  130

Natives of the following were not eligible were not eligible to participate in DV-2001: Canada, China (except Hong Kong S.A.R.), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, South Korea, Taiwan, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.