Diversity Visa Lottery 2008 (DV-2008) Results


The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2008 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 96,000 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-2008 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2008 (October 1, 2007 until September 30, 2008).

Applicants registered for the DV-2008 program were selected at random from over 6.4 million qualified entries received during the 60-day application period that ran from 12:00 AM on October 4, 2006, until midnight, December 3, 2006. 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 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 2008 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2008 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2008 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2008 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2008.

Only participants in the DV-2008 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-2009 lottery if they wish. The dates for the registration period for the DV-2009 lottery program will be widely publicized during August 2007.

* 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-2008 program:

 

AFRICA

ALGERIA

1,926

ERITREA

878

ANGOLA

27

ETHIOPIA

5,241

BENIN

438

GABON

37

BOTSWANA

22

GAMBIA, THE

57

BURKINA FASO

186

GHANA

5,914

BURUNDI

39

GUINEA

463

CAMEROON

3,152

GUINEA-BISSAU

4

CAPE VERDE

13

KENYA

4,547

CENTRAL AFRICAN REP.

8

LESOTHO

4

CHAD

47

LIBERIA

2,148

COMOROS

5

LIBYA

88

CONGO

1,206

MADAGASCAR

43

CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE

111

MALAWI

53

COTE D’IVOIRE

614

MALI

171

DJIBOUTI

20

MAURITANIA

27

EGYPT

4,392

MAURITIUS

62

EQUATORIAL GUINEA

7

MOROCCO

5,017

NAMIBIA

12

MOZAMBIQUE

8

NIGER

165

SOUTH AFRICA

713

NIGERIA

8,773

SUDAN

1,147

RWANDA

138

SWAZILAND

4

SENEGAL

917

TANZANIA

218

SIERRA LEONE

1,137

TOGO

1,509

SOMALIA

214

TUNISIA

150

UGANDA

370

WESTERN SAHARA

1

ZAMBIA

214

ZIMBABWE

167

 

 

 

 
ASIA

AFGHANISTAN

57

LEBANON

190

BAHRAIN

11

MALAYSIA

87

BANGLADESH

5,983

MALDIVES

0

BHUTAN

10

MONGOLIA

259

BRUNEI

2

NEPAL 

2,562

BURMA

653

NORTH KOREA

4

CAMBODIA

187

OMAN 

5

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION

69

QATAR

6

INDONESIA

266

SAUDI ARABIA

61

IRAN

1,435

SINGAPORE

70

IRAQ

164

SRI LANKA

675

ISRAEL

150

SYRIA

94

JAPAN

382

TAIWAN

446

JORDAN

56

THAILAND

108

KUWAIT

46

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

27

LAOS

7

YEMEN

70

 

 

 

 
EUROPE

ALBANIA

2,862

GEORGIA

516

ANDORRA 

1

GERMANY

1,469

ARMENIA

1,130

GREECE

77

AUSTRIA

70

GUADELOUPE

4

AZERBAIJAN

271

HUNGARY

182

BELARUS

1,072

ICELAND

13

BELGIUM

89

IRELAND

162

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA

73

ITALY

363

BULGARIA

1,567

KAZAKHSTAN 

304

CROATIA

41

KYRGYZSTAN 

180

CYPRUS

16

LATVIA

75

CZECH REPUBLIC

158

LIECHTENSTEIN

0

DENMARK 

58

LITHUANIA

334

ESTONIA

37

LUXEMBOURG

12

FINLAND

59

MACEDONIA, FORMER YUGOSLAV REP. OF

343

FRANCE

603

MALTA

5

FRENCH GUIANA 

6

MOLDOVA

474

FRENCH POLYNESIA 

6

MONACO

4

FRENCH SOUTHERN AND ANTARCTIC LANDS

0

MONTENEGRO

22

MACAU

19

NETHERLANDS

123

MARTINIQUE

4

SERBIA

557

NETHERLANDS ANTILLES

18

SLOVENIA

12

NETHERLANDS ARUBA

8

SPAIN

135

NEW CALEDONIA

0

SWEDEN

118

NORTHERN IRELAND

34

SWITZERLAND

132

NORWAY

43

TAJIKISTAN

126

PORTUGAL

48

TURKEY

2,188

REUNION

0

TURKMENISTAN

124

ROMANIA

1,526

UKRAINE

5,018

SAN MARINO

0

UZBEKISTAN

3,101

SLOVAKIA

157

WESTERN SAHARA

0

 

 

 

 
NORTH AMERICA

BAHAMAS, THE

17

 

 

 

 

 

 
OCEANIA

AUSTRALIA

649

COOK ISLANDS

0

CHRISTMAS ISLANDS

0

NAURU

1

FIJI

630

NEW ZEALAND

260

KIRIBATI

9

NIUE

5

MARSHALL ISLANDS

0

PALAU

7

MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF

0

PAPUA NEW GUINEA 

4

SAMOA

27

TUVALU

0

SOLOMON ISLAND

2

VANUATU

0

TONGA

120

 

 

 

 

 

 
SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA

1

DOMINICA

9

ARGENTINA

106

ECUADOR

217

BARBADOS

17

GRENADA

1

BELIZE

14

GUATEMALA

74

BOLIVIA

148

GUYANA

24

BRAZIL

0

HONDURAS

42

CHILE

26

NICARAGUA

39

COSTA RICA

22

PANAMA 

17

CUBA

691

PARAGUAY

26

PERU

0

SURINAME

3

SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS

1

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

82

SAINT LUCIA 

5

URUGUAY

23

SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES

1

VENEZUELA

256

 

Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2008: Brazil, Canada, China (mainland-born, excluding Hong Kong S.A.R. and Taiwan), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Korea, the United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.