The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2006 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 90,000 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-2006 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2006 (October 1, 2005 until September 30, 2006).

Applicants registered for the DV-2005 program were selected at random from over 6.3 million qualified entries received during the 60-day application period that ran from 12:00 AM on November 5, 2004, until midnight, January 7, 2005. 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 2006 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2006 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2006 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2006 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2006.

Only participants in the DV-2006 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-2007 lottery if they wish. The dates for the registration period for the DV-2007 lottery program will be widely publicized during August 2005.

* 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-2006 program:

AFRICA

ALGERIA	1,377	ERITREA	672
ANGOLA	21	ETHIOPIA	6,995
BENIN	328	GABON	26
BOTSWANA	11	GAMBIA, THE	127
BURKINA FASO	164	GHANA	3,880
BURUNDI	60	GUINEA	249
CAMEROON	1,639	GUINEA-BISSAU	3
CAPE VERDE	2	KENYA	2,827
CENTRAL AFRICAN REP.	10	LESOTHO	0
CHAD	30	LIBERIA	695
COMOROS	3	LIBYA	51
CONGO	149	MADAGASCAR	22
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC	665	MALAWI	27
COTE D'IVOIRE	374	MALI	99
DJIBOUTI	12	MAURITANIA	31
EGYPT	6,439	MAURITIUS	8
EQUATORIAL GUINEA	5	MOROCCO	5,980
NAMIBIA	5	MOZAMBIQUE	6
NIGER	62	SOUTH AFRICA	311
NIGERIA	6,191	SUDAN	805
RWANDA	26	SWAZILAND	9
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE	2	TANZANIA	251
SENEGAL	280	TOGO	2,138
SEYCHELLES	4	TUNISIA	122
SIERRA LEONE	555	UGANDA	190
SOMALIA	221	ZAMBIA	99
		ZIMBABWE	157

ASIA

AFGHANISTAN	52	IRAQ	84
BAHRAIN	0	ISRAEL	116
BANGLADESH	5,456	JAPAN	336
BHUTAN	3	JORDAN	81
BRUNEI	1	NORTH KOREA	0
BURMA	659	KUWAIT	15
CAMBODIA	107	LAOS	0
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION	83	LEBANON	108
INDONESIA	263	MALAYSIA	55
IRAN	934	MALDIVES	0
MONGOLIA	141	SRI LANKA	387
NEPAL	1,934	SYRIA	47
OMAN	3	THAILAND	76
QATAR	7	TAIWAN	353
SAUDI ARABIA	55	UNITED ARAB EMIRATES	30
SINGAPORE	40	YEMEN	47

EUROPE

ALBANIA	2,504	GEORGIA	331
ANDORRA	0	GERMANY	998
ARMENIA	757	GREECE	68
AUSTRIA	62	HUNGARY	152
AZERBAIJAN	196	ICELAND	13
BELARUS	698	IRELAND	145
BELGIUM	28	ITALY	210
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA	70	KAZAKHSTAN	244
BULGARIA	2,131	KYRGYZSTAN	132
CROATIA	42	LATVIA	97
CYPRUS	18	LIECHTENSTEIN	0
CZECH REPUBLIC	104	LITHUANIA	488
DENMARK	43	LUXEMBOURG	0
ESTONIA	44	MACEDONIA, FORMER YUGOSLAV REP.	202
FINLAND	61	MALTA	7
FRANCE	340	MOLDOVA	285
FRENCH POLYNESIA	1	MONACO	1
MARTINIQUE	1	NETHERLANDS	105
REUNION	1	SLOVENIA	5
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES	8	SPAIN	61
NORTHERN IRELAND	63	SWEDEN	110
NORWAY	30	SWITZERLAND	139
POLAND	3,416	TAJIKISTAN	42
PORTUGAL	28	TURKEY	1,357
Macau	5	TURKMENISTAN	76
ROMANIA	1,716	UKRAINE	5,269
SAN MARINO	0	UZBEKISTAN	1,346
SERBIA & MONTENEGRO	507	VATICAN CITY	0
SLOVAKIA	223

NORTH AMERICA

BAHAMAS, THE	12

OCEANIA

AUSTRALIA	837	NAURU	7
CHRISTMAS ISLANDS	4	NEW ZEALAND	292
FIJI	757	COOK ISLANDS	0
KIRIBATI	5	NIUE	5
MARSHALL ISLAND	0	PALAU	1
MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF	7	PAPUA NEW GUINEA	10
SAMOA	11	SOLOMON ISLAND	0
TUVALU	8	TONGA	171
VANUATU	0

SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA	1	DOMINICA	3
ARGENTINA	134	ECUADOR	285
BARBADOS	5	GRENADA	2
BELIZE	8	GUATEMALA	28
BOLIVIA	205	GUYANA	36
BRAZIL	377	HONDURAS	29
CHILE	35	NICARAGUA	32
COSTA RICA	34	PANAMA	24
CUBA	584	PARAGUAY	6
PERU	2,197	SURINAME	4
SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS	3	TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO	120
SAINT LUCIA	2	URUGUAY	15
SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES	3	VENEZUELA	266

 

Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2006: Canada, China (mainland-born, excluding Hong Kong S.A.R., and Taiwan), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russia, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.

 

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