The Kentucky Consular Center (KCC) 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 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 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: 

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

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.