Diversity Visa Program (DV-2014) - Selected Entrants The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2014 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 140,660 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-2014 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2014 (October 1, 2013 until September 30, 2014). Applicants registered for the DV-2014 program were selected at random from 9,374,191 qualified entries (14,633,767 with derivatives) received during the 30-day application period that ran from noon, Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, October 2, 2012, until noon, Eastern Daylight Time on Saturday, November 3, 2012. 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 2014 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2014 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2014 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2014 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2014. Dates for the DV-2015 program registration period will be widely publicized in the coming months. Those interested in entering the DV-2015 program should check the Department of State’s Visa web page for more details in September. * 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-2014 program: IRAN 6,027 Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2014: Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China (mainland-born, excluding Hong Kong S.A.R., Macau S.A.R., and Taiwan), Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam. AFRICA ALGERIA 2,583 ETHIOPIA 5,718 NIGER 137 ANGOLA 84 GABON 72 NIGERIA 6,043 BENIN 639 GAMBIA, THE 67 RWANDA 477 BOTSWANA 19 GHANA 3,945 SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 0 BURKINA FASO 267 GUINEA 1,759 SENEGAL 824 BURUNDI 138 GUINEA-BISSAU 14 SEYCHELLES 5 CAMEROON 4,268 KENYA 4,245 SIERRA LEONE 2,977 CAPE VERDE 33 LESOTHO 6 SOMALIA 273 CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. 45 LIBERIA 3,809 SOUTH AFRICA 1,038 CHAD 49 LIBYA 156 SOUTH SUDAN 18 COMOROS 5 MADAGASCAR 50 SUDAN 2,281 CONGO 236 MALAWI 52 SWAZILAND 5 CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE 6,025 MALI 176 TANZANIA 209 COTE D’IVOIRE 1,399 MAURITANIA 21 TOGO 1,481 DJIBOUTI 75 MAURITIUS 68 TUNISIA 159 EGYPT 5,757 MOROCCO 2,428 UGANDA 620 EQUATORIAL GUINEA 4 MOZAMBIQUE 21 ZAMBIA 117 ERITREA 837 NAMIBIA 12 ZIMBABWE 196 ASIA AFGHANISTAN 447 JAPAN 861 QATAR 43 BAHRAIN 27 JORDAN 581 SAUDI ARABIA 467 BHUTAN 21 NORTH KOREA 3 SINGAPORE 119 BRUNEI 3 KUWAIT 275 SRI LANKA 1,616 BURMA 696 LAOS 9 SYRIA 493 CAMBODIA 1,892 LEBANON 396 TAIWAN 723 HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION 159 MALAYSIA 167 THAILAND 131 INDONESIA 379 MALDIVES 4 TIMOR-LESTE 0 IRAN 6,027 MONGOLIA 224 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 167 IRAQ 384 NEPAL 6,082 YEMEN 532 ISRAEL 330 OMAN 12 EUROPE ALBANIA 3,289 GERMANY 1,696 NORTHERN IRELAND 37 ANDORRA 2 GREECE 230 NORWAY 63 ARMENIA 2,221 HUNGARY 363 POLAND 1,552 AUSTRIA 150 ICELAND 49 PORTUGAL 124 AZERBAIJAN 494 IRELAND 175 - Macau 12 BELARUS 1,873 ITALY 787 ROMANIA 1,245 BELGIUM 120 KAZAKHSTAN 784 RUSSIA 4,544 BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 153 KOSOVO 257 SAN MARINO 1 BULGARIA 1,957 KYRGYZSTAN 537 SERBIA 582 CROATIA 125 LATVIA 147 SLOVAKIA 115 CYPRUS 24 LIECHTENSTEIN 1 SLOVENIA 14 CZECH REPUBLIC 133 LITHUANIA 385 SPAIN 485 DENMARK 103 LUXEMBOURG 13 - Western Sahara 1 - Greenland 1 MACEDONIA 421 SWEDEN 225 ESTONIA 75 MALTA 6 SWITZERLAND 224 FINLAND 111 MOLDOVA 2,903 TAJIKISTAN 531 FRANCE 958 MONACO 2 TURKEY 3,972 - French Polynesia 8 MONTENEGRO 20 TURKMENISTAN 216 - French Southern and Antarctic Territories 4 NETHERLANDS 225 UKRAINE 6,009 - New Caledonia 1 - Aruba 6 UZBEKISTAN 5,014 - Saint Martin 2 - Curacao 4 VATICAN CITY 0 GEORGIA 806 - Sint Maarten 2 NORTH AMERICA BAHAMAS, THE 23 OCEANIA AUSTRALIA 2,104 NAURU 12 SAMOA 43 - Cocos Islands 1 NEW ZEALAND 674 SOLOMON ISLANDS 3 - Norfolk Island 2 - Cook Islands 4 TONGA 105 FIJI 1,174 - Niue 25 TUVALU 1 KIRIBATI 6 - Tokelau 3 VANUATU 17 MARSHALL ISLANDS 2 PALAU 0 MICRONESIA, FEDERATES STATES OF 5 PAPUA NEW GUINEA 34 SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 11 DOMINICA 22 SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 15 ARGENTINA 218 GRENADA 31 SAINT LUCIA 42 BARBADOS 34 GUATEMALA 225 SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES 13 BELIZE 18 GUYANA 50 SURINAME 27 BOLIVIA 145 HONDURAS 121 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 246 CHILE 50 NICARAGUA 78 URUGUAY 41 COSTA RICA 101 PANAMA 22 VENEZUELA 1,905 CUBA 1,178 PARAGUAY 27
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