Nigeria, 18 Others Not Eligible in the 2015 US DV lottery The United States Department of State announced that Nigerians and citizens of from few other countries are not eligible to participate in the DV-2015. The countries that are not eligible to participate are Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China (mainland-born), Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador and Haiti. Others are India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam The department said Nigeria was excluded since over 50,000 Nigerians had immigrated into the United States in the last five years. However, many African countries would continue to enjoy the programme. Some of them are Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia and Ghana. Others are Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles and Sierra Leone. Diversity visas are said to be distributed among six geographic regions, while no single country could receive more than seven per cent of the available space in any year. Applications for the 2015 US DV lottery is expected to take off from October 1, 2013. This post is to notify Nigerians to beware of scammers advertising 2015 US DV lottery.
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:41:36 +0000
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