DV 2011 - Selected Entrants

The Kentucky Consular Center (KCC) in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2011 diversity program. The diversity program 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 100,600 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-2011 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2011 (October 1, 2010, until September 30, 2011).

Applicants registered for the DV-2011 program were selected at random from over 12.1 million qualified entries (16.5 million with derivatives) received during the 60-day application period that ran from noon on October 2, 2009, until noon, November 30, 2009. 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 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 2011 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2011, will derive no further benefit from their DV-2011 registration. Spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2011 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2011.

Only participants in the DV-2011 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-2012 lottery if they wish. The dates for the registration period for the DV-2012 lottery program will be publicized during August 2010.

* 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 country of chargeability of those selected for the DV-2011 program:

AFRICA

ALGERIA

1,753

ETHIOPIA

5,200

NIGER

89

ANGOLA

55

GABON

41

NIGERIA

6,000

BENIN

508

GAMBIA, THE

72

RWANDA

204

BOTSWANA

13

GHANA

6,002

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

0

BURKINA FASO

183

GUINEA

701

SENEGAL

427

BURUNDI

72

GUINEA-BISSAU

5

SEYCHELLES

4

CAMEROON

3,674

KENYA

4,689

SIERRA LEONE

3,911

CAPE VERDE

26

LESOTHO

11

SOMALIA

201

CENTRAL AFRICAN REP.

18

LIBERIA

1,826

SOUTH AFRICA

963

CHAD

59

LIBYA

114

SUDAN

1,156

COMOROS

7

MADAGASCAR

55

SWAZILAND

4

CONGO

144

MALAWI

33

TANZANIA

174

CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE

2,575

MALI

88

TOGO

1,011

COTE D’IVOIRE

759

MAURITANIA

25

TUNISIA

132

DJIBOUTI

45

MAURITIUS

61

UGANDA

490

EGYPT

4,251

MOROCCO

2,003

WESTERN SAHARA

0

EQUATORIAL GUINEA

13

MOZAMBIQUE

2

ZAMBIA

128

ERITREA

851

NAMIBIA

13

ZIMBABWE

163

ASIA

AFGHANISTAN

97

ISRAEL

129

OMAN

3

BAHRAIN

15

JAPAN

298

QATAR

9

BANGLADESH

5,999

JORDAN

136

SAUDI ARABIA

91

BHUTAN

5

NORTH KOREA

2

SINGAPORE

35

BRUNEI

5

KUWAIT

88

SRI LANKA

515

BURMA

367

LAOS

3

SYRIA

132

CAMBODIA

434

LEBANON

214

TAIWAN

365

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION

43

MALAYSIA

133

THAILAND

77

INDONESIA

205

MALDIVES

4

TIMOR-LESTE

0

IRAN

2,819

MONGOLIA

279

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

66

IRAQ

147

NEPAL

2,189

YEMEN

95

EUROPE

ALBANIA

1,469

 - New Caledonia

9

NETHERLANDS

139

ANDORRA

0

 - Reunion

0

 - Aruba

6

ARMENIA

1,268

 - St. Pierre & Miquelon

0

 - Netherlands Antilles

16

AUSTRIA

147

GEORGIA

699

NORTHERN IRELAND

38

AZERBAIJAN

355

GERMANY

1,895

NORWAY

66

BELARUS

1,104

GREECE

62

PORTUGAL

61

BELGIUM

94

HUNGARY

272

 - Macau Special Admin. Region

5

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA

67

ICELAND

48

ROMANIA

821

BULGARIA

950

IRELAND

201

RUSSIA

2,464

CROATIA

97

ITALY

450

SAN MARINO

0

CYPRUS

11

KAZAKHSTAN

370

SERBIA

327

CZECH REPUBLIC

111

KOSOVO

134

SLOVAKIA

125

DENMARK

66

KYRGYZSTAN

196

SLOVENIA

14

 - Greenland

1

LATVIA

122

SPAIN

219

ESTONIA

72

LIECHTENSTEIN

1

SWEDEN

187

FINLAND

87

LITHUANIA

262

SWITZERLAND

195

FRANCE

767

LUXEMBOURG

3

TAJIKISTAN

257

 - French Guiana

0

MACEDONIA

263

TURKEY

2,266

 - French Polynesia

13

MALTA

1

TURKMENISTAN

135

 - French Southern & Antarctic Lands

1

MOLDOVA

894

UKRAINE

6,000

 - Guadeloupe

0

MONACO

0

UZBEKISTAN

5,091

 - Martinique

0

MONTENEGRO

5

VATICAN CITY

0

NORTH AMERICA

BAHAMAS, THE

18

OCEANIA

AUSTRALIA 683 NAURU 7 SOLOMON ISLANDS 3

 - Christmas Island

0

NEW ZEALAND

333

TONGA    

51

 - Cocos Islands

0

 - Cook Islands

0

TUVALU

4

FIJI

476

 - Niue

8

VANUATU

1

KIRIBATI

9

PALAU

2

WESTERN SAMOA

13

MARSHALL ISLANDS 

6

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

4

 

 

MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF 

0

SAMOA

0

 

 

SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA

1

DOMINICA

29

SAINT LUCIA

27

ARGENTINA

134

GRENADA

5

SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES

21

BARBADOS

12

GUYANA

36

SURINAME

9

BELIZE

12

HONDURAS

61

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

145

BOLIVIA

90

NICARAGUA

74

URUGUAY

23

CHILE

63

PANAMA

31

VENEZUELA

752

COSTA RICA

50

PARAGUAY

14

 

 

CUBA

406

SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS

6

 

 

Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2011:  Brazil, Canada, China (mainland-born, excluding Hong Kong S.A.R. and Taiwan), Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.