DV 2012 - Selected Entrants

The Kentucky Consular Center (KCC) 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 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. 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 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.