he Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2019 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 87,610 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-2019 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2019 (October 1, 2018 until September 30, 2019). Applicants registered for the DV-2019 program were selected at random from 14,352,013 qualified entries (22,425,053 with derivatives) received during the 35-day application period that ran from noon, Eastern Daylight Time on Wednesday, October 18, 2017, until noon, Eastern Daylight Time on Wednesday, November 22, 2017. 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 2019 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2019 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2019 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2019 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2019.
Dates for the DV-2020 program registration period will be widely publicized in the coming months. Those interested in entering the DV-2020 program should check the Department of State’s Visa web page in 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.
The following is the statistical breakdown by foreign state of chargeability of those registered for the DV-2019 program:
AFRICA ALGERIA 2,462 ESWATINI 1 NAMIBIA 7 ANGOLA 316 ETHIOPIA 3,856 NIGER 58 BENIN 751 GABON 41 RWANDA 510 BOTSWANA 3 GAMBIA, THE 41 SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 0 BURKINA FASO 174 GHANA 2,484 SENEGAL 260 BURUNDI 300 GUINEA 719 SEYCHELLES 1 CABO VERDE 11 GUINEA-BISSAU 6 SIERRA LEONE 1,207 CAMEROON 2,978 KENYA 2,107 SOMALIA 196 CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 11 LESOTHO 3 SOUTH AFRICA 454 CHAD 47 LIBERIA 2,484 SOUTH SUDAN 37 COMOROS 10 LIBYA 261 SUDAN 2,617 CONGO 248 MADAGASCAR 38 TANZANIA 106 CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE 4,186 MALAWI 22 TOGO 1,242 COTE D’IVOIRE 1,036 MALI 58 TUNISIA 115 DJIBOUTI 89 MAURITANIA 25 UGANDA 318 EGYPT 4,185 MAURITIUS 11 ZAMBIA 41 EQUATORIAL GUINEA 16 MOROCCO 1,717 ZIMBABWE 90 ERITREA 284 MOZAMBIQUE 7 ASIA AFGHANISTAN 543 JAPAN 376 QATAR 38 BAHRAIN 16 JORDAN 613 SAUDI ARABIA 630 BHUTAN 38 NORTH KOREA 1 SINGAPORE 27 BRUNEI 0 KUWAIT 158 SRI LANKA 784 BURMA 273 LAOS 11 SYRIA 420 CAMBODIA 237 LEBANON 268 TAIWAN 374 HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION 69 MALAYSIA 104 THAILAND 122 INDONESIA 179 MALDIVES 5 TIMOR-LESTE 0 IRAN 4,199 MONGOLIA 196 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 157 IRAQ 731 NEPAL 3,633 YEMEN 1,193 ISRAEL 214 OMAN 10
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