The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2010 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 102,800 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-2010 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2010 (October 1, 2009 until September 30, 2010).
Applicants registered for the DV-2010 program were selected at random from over 13.6 million qualified entries received during the 60 day application period that ran from noon on October 2, 2008, until noon, December 1, 2008. 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 2010 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2010 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2010 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2010 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2010.
Only participants in the DV-2010 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-2011 lottery if they wish. The dates for the registration period for the DV-2011 lottery program will be widely publicized during August 2009.
* 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-2010 program:
| AFRICA | ||
|---|---|---|
| ALGERIA 1,957 | ETHIOPIA 5,200 | NIGER 56 |
| ANGOLA 46 | GABON 19 | NIGERIA 6,006 |
| BENIN 369 | GAMBIA, THE 108 | RWANDA 178 |
| BOTSWANA 23 | GHANA 8,752 | SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 0 |
| BURKINA FASO 184 | GUINEA 737 | SENEGAL 520 |
| BURUNDI 83 | GUINEA-BISSAU 8 | SEYCHELLES 4 |
| CAMEROON 3,719 | KENYA 4,619 | SIERRA LEONE 3,898 |
| CAPE VERDE 6 | LESOTHO 2 | SOMALIA 229 |
| CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. 20 | LIBERIA 2,172 | SOUTH AFRICA 863 |
| CHAD 27 | LIBYA 152 | SUDAN 1,084 |
| COMOROS 9 | MADAGASCAR 31 | SWAZILAND 11 |
| CONGO 92 | MALAWI 50 | TANZANIA 221 |
| CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE 1,817 | MALI 129 | TOGO 827 |
| COTE D'IVOIRE 658 | MAURITANIA 20 | TUNISIA 164 |
| DJIBOUTI 33 | MAURITIUS 78 | UGANDA 396 |
| EGYPT 4,201 | MOROCCO 3,124 | WESTERN SAHARA 0 |
| EQUATORIAL GUINEA 15 | MOZAMBIQUE 8 | ZAMBIA 93 |
| ERITREA 799 | NAMIBIA 16 | ZIMBABWE 170 |
| ASIA | ||
|---|---|---|
| AFGHANISTAN 345 | ISRAEL 99 | OMAN 2 |
| BAHRAIN 15 | JAPAN 302 | QATAR 13 |
| BANGLADESH 6,001 | JORDAN 143 | SAUDI ARABIA 104 |
| BHUTAN 2 | NORTH KOREA 3 | SINGAPORE 37 |
| BRUNEI 0 | KUWAIT 70 | SRI LANKA 650 |
| BURMA 473 | LAOS 3 | SYRIA 98 |
| CAMBODIA 359 | LEBANON 181 | TAIWAN 368 |
| HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION 49 | MALAYSIA 60 | THAILAND 54 |
| INDONESIA 277 | MALDIVES 0 | TIMOR-LESTE 0 |
| IRAN 2,773 | MONGOLIA 144 | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 30 |
| IRAQ 142 | NEPAL 2,132 | YEMEN 72 |
| EUROPE | ||
|---|---|---|
| ALBANIA 2,311 | GREECE 48 | NORWAY 60 |
| ANDORRA 6 | HUNGARY 192 | PORTUGAL 51 Macau Special Admin Region 17 |
| ARMENIA 1,332 | ICELAND 36 | ROMANIA 674 |
| AUSTRIA 181 | IRELAND 167 | RUSSIA 1,912 |
| AZERBAIJAN 324 | ITALY 470 | SAN MARINO 0 |
| BELARUS 1,178 | KAZAKHSTAN 343 | SERBIA 367 |
| BELGIUM 117 | KYRGYZSTAN 205 | SLOVAKIA 108 |
| BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 72 | LATVIA 90 | SLOVENIA 19 |
| BULGARIA 842 | LIECHTENSTEIN 0 | SPAIN 169 |
| CROATIA 74 | LITHUANIA 195 | SWEDEN 163 |
| CYPRUS 23 | LUXEMBOURG 2 | SWITZERLAND 185 |
| CZECH REPUBLIC 116 | MACEDONIA, FORMER YUGOSLAV REP. OF 272 | TAJIKISTAN 178 |
| DENMARK 75 Greenland 2 | MALTA 7 | TURKEY 2,826 |
| ESTONIA 66 | MOLDOVA 724 | TURKMENISTAN 108 |
| FINLAND 83 | MONACO 0 | UKRAINE 5,499 |
| FRANCE 703 French Guiana 4 French Polynesia 8 | MONTENEGRO 13 | UZBEKISTAN 4,059 |
| GEORGIA 648 | NETHERLANDS 200 Aruba 16 Netherlands Antilles 22 | VATICAN CITY 0 |
| GERMANY 2,188 | NORTHERN IRELAND 31 | |
| NORTH AMERICA | |
|---|---|
| BAHAMAS, THE 18 | |
| OCEANIA | ||
|---|---|---|
| AUSTRALIA 705 Christmas Islands 2 Coco Island 0 | NAURU 3 | SOLOMON ISLANDS 3 |
| FIJI 674 | NEW ZEALAND 258 Cook Islands 0 Niue 16 | TONGA 80 |
| KIRIBATI 1 | PALAU 12 | TUVALU 1 |
| MARSHALL ISLANDS 0 | PAPUA NEW GUINEA 15 | VANUATU 7 |
| MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF 0 | SAMOA 0 | WESTERN SAMOA 26 |
| SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN | ||
| ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 9 | DOMINICA 18 | SAINT LUCIA 19 |
| ARGENTINA 188 | GRENADA 9 | SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES 9 |
| BARBADOS 29 | GUYANA 41 | SURINAME 10 |
| BELIZE 10 | HONDURAS 82 | TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 226 |
| BOLIVIA 142 | NICARAGUA 50 | URUGUAY 17 |
| CHILE 53 | PANAMA 39 | VENEZUELA 624 |
| COSTA RICA 74 | PARAGUAY 29 | |
| CUBA 298 | SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 6 | |
Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2010: 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.
DV-2010 Entrant Status Check Instructions
Please be sure to have the Entrant's Confirmation Number, Last Name/Family Name, and Year of Birth in order to check the entrant status online.
Note: Confirmation Number is 16 characters long (alphanumeric), starting with numeric digits 2010 (two zero one zero).Example: 20101O0DZWY3DOV9
| 0 = Number Zero | (Number Zero in bold: | 20101O0DZWY3DOV9) | |
| O = Letter "O" | (Letter "O" in bold: | 20101O0DZWY3DOV9) | |
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