The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2012 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 100,021 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-2012 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2012 (October 1, 2011 until September 30, 2012).

Applicants registered for the DV-2012 program were selected at random from 14,768,658 qualified entries (19,672,268 with derivatives) received during the 30-day application period that ran from noon on October 5, 2010, until noon, November 3, 2010. 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 2012 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2012 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2012 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2012 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2012.

Only participants in the DV-2012 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-2013 lottery if they wish. The dates for the registration period for the DV-2013 lottery program are expected to be widely publicized at some point during 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 country of chargeability of those selected for the DV-2012 program:

AFRICA
ALGERIA	1,799	ETHIOPIA	4,902	NIGER	32
ANGOLA	42	GABON	48	NIGERIA	6,024
BENIN	511	GAMBIA, THE	113	RWANDA	333
BOTSWANA	7	GHANA	5,832	SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE	0
BURKINA FASO	226	GUINEA	899	SENEGAL	270
BURUNDI	56	GUINEA-BISSAU	3	SEYCHELLES	6
CAMEROON	3,374	KENYA	4,720	SIERRA LEONE	3,397
CAPE VERDE	9	LESOTHO	8	SOMALIA	175
CENTRAL AFRICAN REP.	3	LIBERIA	2,101	SOUTH AFRICA	833
CHAD	33	LIBYA	136	SUDAN	757
COMOROS	9	MADAGASCAR	17	SWAZILAND	0
CONGO	105	MALAWI	16	TANZANIA	175
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE	3,445	MALI	76	TOGO	845
COTE D’IVOIRE	553	MAURITANIA	29	TUNISIA	113
DJIBOUTI	38	MAURITIUS	59	UGANDA	418
EGYPT	4,664	MOROCCO	1,890	ZAMBIA	79
EQUATORIAL GUINEA	4	MOZAMBIQUE	13	ZIMBABWE	123
ERITREA	670	NAMIBIA	10

ASIA
AFGHANISTAN	109	ISRAEL	175	OMAN	11
BAHRAIN	29	JAPAN	435	QATAR	19
BANGLADESH	2,373	JORDAN	152	SAUDI ARABIA	217
BHUTAN	5	NORTH KOREA	0	SINGAPORE	45
BRUNEI	0	KUWAIT	108	SRI LANKA	708
BURMA	370	LAOS	1	SYRIA	160
CAMBODIA	596	LEBANON	274	TAIWAN	391
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION	54	MALAYSIA	118	THAILAND	73
INDONESIA	256	MALDIVES	0	TIMOR-LESTE	9
IRAN	4,453	MONGOLIA	209	UNITED ARAB EMIRATES	92
IRAQ	153	NEPAL	3,258	YEMEN	149

EUROPE
ALBANIA	1,508	GREECE	105	- St. Maarten	2
ANDORRA	1	HUNGARY	325	NORTHEN IRELAND	59
ARMENIA	998	ICELAND	56	NORWAY	84
AUSTRIA	130	IRELAND	213	PORTUGAL	66
AZERBAIJAN	304	ITALY	529	- Macau	19
BELARUS	493	KAZAKHSTAN	434	ROMANIA	1,327
BELGIUM	105	KOSOVO	137	RUSSIA	2,353
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA	83	KYRGYZSTAN	321	SAN MARINO	1
BULGARIA	883	LATVIA	83	SERBIA	298
CROATIA	107	LIECHTENSTEIN	0	SLOVAKIA	80
CYPRUS	26	LITHUANIA	258	SLOVENIA	16
CZECH REPUBLIC	104	LUXEMBOURG	8	SPAIN	232
DENMARK	73	MACEDONIA	160	SWEDEN	200
ESTONIA	49	MALTA	20	SWITZERLAND	229
FINLAND	91	MOLDOVA	1,238	TAJIKISTAN	270
FRANCE	574	MONACO	3	TURKEY	3,077
- French Polynesia	7	MONTENEGRO	18	TURKMENISTAN	143
- New Caledonia	1	NETHERLANDS	149	UKRAINE	5,799
GEORGIA	620	- Aruba	4	UZBEKISTAN	4,800
GERMANY	1,709	- Curacao	19	VATICAN CITY	0

NORTH AMERICA
BAHAMAS, THE	15

OCEANIA
AUSTRALIA	900	NAURU	5	SOLOMON ISLANDS	0
- Christmas Island	3	NEW ZEALAND	309	TONGA	93
- Cocos Islands	1	- Cook Islands	6	TUVALU	0
FIJI	628	- Niue	14	VANUATU	8
KIRIBATI	14	PALAU	5	WESTERN SAMOA	9
MARSHALL ISLANDS	4	PAPUA NEW GUINEA	0
MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF	2	SAMOA	0

SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA	9	DOMINICA	18	SAINT LUCIA	4
ARGENTINA	101	GRENADA	24	SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES	16
BARBADOS	25	GUYANA	26	SURINAME	15
BELIZE	9	HONDURAS	80	TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO	175
BOLIVIA	84	NICARAGUA	49	URUGUAY	19
CHILE	43	PANAMA	21	VENEZUELA	925
COSTA RICA	43	PARAGUAY	17
CUBA	292	SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS	7

Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2012: 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.