DV 2022 - Selected Entrants

The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2021 diversity lottery.  The diversity lottery was conducted under the terms of section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act and makes available *55,000 permanent resident visas annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.  Approximately 119,021 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 *55,000 persons registered will not pursue their cases to visa issuance, this larger figure should ensure that all DV-2022 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2022 (October 1, 2021, until September 30, 2022).

Applicants registered for the DV-2022 program were selected at random from 7,336,302 qualified entries (13,191,296 with derivatives) received during the 35-day application period that ran from noon, Eastern Daylight Time on Wednesday, October 7, 2020, until noon, Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, November 10, 2020.  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 *55,000 visa numbers have been used, the program for fiscal year 2022 will end.  Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2022, will derive no further benefit from their DV-2022 registration.  Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2022 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2022.

Dates for the DV-2023 program registration period will be widely publicized in the coming months.  Those interested in entering the DV-2023 program should check the Department of State’s Visa web page in 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.  This will result in reduction of the DV-2022 annual limit to approximately 54,850.

The following is the statistical breakdown by foreign state of chargeability of those registered for the DV-2022 program:

AFRICA

ALGERIA 6,001

ESWATINI  1

MOZAMBIQUE  2

ANGOLA  855

ETHIOPIA  2,988

NAMIBIA  9

BENIN  735

GABON  66

NIGER  49

BOTSWANA  4

GAMBIA, THE  77

RWANDA  983

BURKINA FASO  72

GHANA  3,145

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE  4

BURUNDI  390

GUINEA  672

SENEGAL  277

CABO VERDE  12

GUINEA-BISSAU  15

SEYCHELLES  7

CAMEROON 2,656

KENYA  2,882

SIERRA LEONE  271

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC  21

LESOTHO  8

SOMALIA  435

CHAD  231

LIBERIA  1,417

SOUTH AFRICA  497

COMOROS  10

LIBYA  311

SOUTH SUDAN  75

CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE  3,347

MADAGASCAR  19

SUDAN  6,001

CONGO, REPUBLIC OF THE  574

MALAWI  22

TANZANIA  103

COTE D’IVOIRE  597

MALI  74

TOGO  1,119

DJIBOUTI  187

MAURITANIA  158

TUNISIA  203

EGYPT  6,005

MAURITIUS  12

UGANDA  722

EQUATORIAL GUINEA  3

MOROCCO  4,138

ZAMBIA  56

ERITREA  261

Western Sahara  2

ZIMBABWE  222

 

 

 

ASIA

 

 

AFGHANISTAN  3,410

JORDAN  917

SAUDI ARABIA  944

BAHRAIN  15

KOREA, NORTH  0

SINGAPORE  19

BHUTAN  114

KUWAIT  222

SRI LANKA  838

BRUNEI  2

LAOS  22

SYRIA  483

BURMA  561

LEBANON  320

TAIWAN  574

CAMBODIA  1,094

MALAYSIA  44

THAILAND  186

INDONESIA  218

MALDIVES  2

TIMOR-LESTE  0

IRAN  5,739

MONGOLIA  293

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES  275

IRAQ  1,512

NEPAL  3,802

YEMEN  1,561

ISRAEL  207

OMAN  27

 

JAPAN  510

QATAR  90

 

 

 

 

EUROPE

 

 

ALBANIA  2,756

GREECE  42

NORTHERN IRELAND  3

ANDORRA  0

HUNGARY  100

NORWAY  10

ARMENIA  2,066

ICELAND  8

POLAND  355

AUSTRIA  36

IRELAND  24

PORTUGAL  20

AZERBAIJAN  919

ITALY  324

Macau  2

BELARUS  1,808

KAZAKHSTAN  1,978

ROMANIA  264

BELGIUM  35

KOSOVO  334

RUSSIA  6,001

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA  67

KYRGYZSTAN  1,993

SERBIA  214

BULGARIA  220

LATVIA  43

SLOVAKIA  24

CROATIA  21

LIECHTENSTEIN  0

SLOVENIA  10

CYPRUS  10

LITHUANIA  110

SPAIN  184

CZECH REPUBLIC  27

LUXEMBOURG  3

SWEDEN  32

DENMARK  15

MALTA  0

SWITZERLAND  31

ESTONIA  24

MOLDOOVA  798

TAJIKISTAN  2,122

FINLAND  28

MONACO  0

TURKEY  2,526

FRANCE  205

MONTENEGRO  48

TURKMENISTAN  745

Saint Martin  5

NETHERLANDS  34

UKRAINE  4,949

GEORGIA  1,604

Sint Maarten  2

UZBEKISTAN  6,001

GERMANY  526

NORTH MACEDONIA  293

VATICAN CITY  0

 

 

 

NORTH AMERICA

 

 

BAHAMAS, THE  16

 

 

 

 

 

OCEANIA

 

 

AUSTRALIA 1,031

MARSHALL ISLANDS  2

PALAU  30

Christmas Island  6

MICRONESIA, FEDERATED
STATES OF  4

SAMOA  5

Cocos Keeling Islands 2

NAURU  9

SOLOMON ISLANDS  11

Norfolk Island 6

NEW ZEALAND  248

TONGA  133

FIJI  950

 Cook Islands 19

TUVALU  4

KIRIBATI  11

PAPUA NEW GUINEA  26

VANUATU  4

 

 

 

SOUTH AMERICA

 

 

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA  0

DOMINICA  3

SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS  0

ARGENTINA  146

ECUADOR  249

SAINT LUCIA  3

BARBADOS  0

GRENADA  0

SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES  0

BELIZE  0

GUYANA  5

SURINAME  4

BOLIVIA  38

NICARAGUA  18

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO  26

CHILE  24

PANAMA  4

URUGUAY  0

COSTA RICA  8

PARAGUAY  0

VENEZUELA 1,800

CUBA  975

PERU  198

 

       

 

Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2022: Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China (including Hong Kong SAR), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.