I read this from a site with information on the lottery:
"Each of one these six regions are divided into high and low admission quotas. A greater portion of the visas go to the low admission regions as opposed to high admission regions which will be entirely excluded from the lottery. (see list of countries which are not eligible). No single country may receive more than 7% of all allotted visas."
What are exactly the quotas for each country? I want to know what my actual odds are. Isn't there a list of all countries with their specific admission quotas anywhere?
Thank you so much in advance,
I look forward to reading your answers.
2006-09-24 07:00:42 · 3 answers · asked by kj 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
I got a great answer here, and I hope I am not stretching it, but are there any stats available on the NUMBER OF APPLICANTS from each country? It would really help to put the quotas into perspective if I knew how many people actually apply (so I can flip out the calculator, divide one number by the other, and get my actual odds :) heheh)
Thank you so much!
2006-09-24 07:45:44 · update #1
Each year, only 50,000 visas are awarded in the lottery, thus, no more than 3,500 are awarded to each country. I have not come across any numbers, but if you download the Table 3 at http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/shared/statistics/yearbook/LPR05.htm and look at the stats from last year, you'll have a better idea. Looks like immigrants from Africa and Oceana have the best chances. But you should look by country. The lower the number, the greater the allotment.
But you should just apply. It's free and you can do it online, which means no postage necessary.
http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/types/types_1318.html
DV Lottery Instructions
The congressionally mandated Diversity Immigrant Visa Program is administered on an annual basis by the Department of State and conducted under the terms of Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Section 131 of the Immigration Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-649) amended INA 203 to provide for a new class of immigrants known as "diversity immigrants" (DV immigrants). The Act makes available 50,000 permanent resident visas annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.
The annual DV program makes permanent residence visas available to persons meeting the simple, but strict, eligibility requirements. Applicants for Diversity Visas are chosen by a computer-generated random lottery drawing. The visas, however, are distributed among six geographic regions with a greater number of visas going to regions with lower rates of immigration, and with no visas going to citizens of countries sending more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. in the past five years. Within each region, no one country may receive more than seven percent of the available Diversity Visas in any one year.
For DV-2008, natives of the following countries 1 are not eligible to apply because they sent a total of more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. over the period of the previous five years:
BRAZIL, CANADA, CHINA (mainland-born), COLOMBIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, EL SALVADOR, HAITI, INDIA, JAMAICA, MEXICO, PAKISTAN, PHILIPPINES, PERU, POLAND, RUSSIA, SOUTH KOREA, UNITED KINGDOM (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and VIETNAM. Persons born in Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taiwan are eligible.
2006-09-24 19:42:59 · answer #1 · answered by yearning_nomadic_spirit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/types/types_1317.html
AFRICA
ALGERIA
912
ERITREA
582
ANGOLA
13
ETHIOPIA
6,871
BENIN
218
GABON
42
BOTSWANA
1
GAMBIA, THE
50
BURKINA FASO
95
GHANA
3088
BURUNDI
16
GUINEA
146
CAMEROON
1461
GUINEA-BISSAU
5
CAPE VERDE
3
KENYA
2,337
CENTRAL AFRICAN REP.
13
LESOTHO
0
CHAD
28
LIBERIA
734
COMOROS
7
LIBYA
37
CONGO
687
MADAGASCAR
21
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE
42
MALAWI
18
COTE D’IVOIRE
308
MALI
76
DJIBOUTI
11
MAURITANIA
17
EGYPT
7,229
MAURITIUS
8
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
1
MOROCCO
4,922
NAMIBIA
8
MOZAMBIQUE
4
NIGER
62
SOUTH AFRICA
287
NIGERIA
9,849
SUDAN
569
RWANDA
41
SWAZILAND
5
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
2
TANZANIA
148
SENEGAL
228
TOGO
1,592
SEYCHELLES
4
TUNISIA
124
SIERRA LEONE
540
UGANDA
213
SOMALIA
160
ZAMBIA
92
ZIMBABWE
73
ASIA
AFGHANISTAN
80
LEBANON
86
BAHRAIN
1
MALAYSIA
76
BANGLADESH
5,901
MALDIVES
0
BHUTAN
2
MONGOLIA
113
BRUNEI
0
NEPAL
1,529
BURMA
651
NORTH KOREA
0
CAMBODIA
177
OMAN
1
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION
81
QATAR
1
INDONESIA
245
SAUDI ARABIA
27
IRAN
1361
SINGAPORE
46
IRAQ
80
SRI LANKA
383
ISRAEL
126
SYRIA
40
JAPAN
333
TAIWAN
398
JORDAN
63
THAILAND
81
KUWAIT
42
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
19
LAOS
9
YEMEN
43
EUROPE
ALBANIA
1,988
GEORGIA
323
ANDORRA
0
GERMANY
1047
ARMENIA
691
GREECE
41
AUSTRIA
74
GUADELOUPE
3
AZERBAIJAN
125
HUNGARY
138
BELARUS
705
ICELAND
13
BELGIUM
57
IRELAND
160
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
90
ITALY
214
BULGARIA
1,674
KAZAKHSTAN
177
CROATIA
40
KYRGYZSTAN
123
CYPRUS
7
LATVIA
75
CZECH REPUBLIC
85
LIECHTENSTEIN
0
DENMARK
50
LITHUANIA
298
ESTONIA
40
LUXEMBOURG
6
FINLAND
33
MACEDONIA, FORMER YUGOSLAV REP. OF
213
FRANCE
380
MALTA
4
FRENCH POLYNESIA
10
MOLDOVA
273
FRENCH SOUTHERN AND ANTARCTIC LANDS
1
MONACO
1
MACAU
8
NETHERLANDS
88
MARTINIQUE
2
SLOVENIA
7
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES
8
SPAIN
97
NEW CALEDONIA
3
SWEDEN
121
NORTHERN IRELAND
42
SWITZERLAND
104
NORWAY
21
TAJIKISTAN
84
PORTUGAL
29
TURKEY
1,418
REUNION
8
TURKMENISTAN
59
ROMANIA
1,255
UKRAINE
7,205
SAN MARINO
0
UZBEKISTAN
1,536
SERBIA & MONTENEGRO
505
VATICAN CITY
0
SLOVAKIA
171
WESTERN SAHARA
1
NORTH AMERICA
BAHAMAS, THE
12
OCEANIA
AUSTRALIA
532
COOK ISLANDS
3
CHRISTMAS ISLANDS
0
NAURU
1
FIJI
514
NEW ZEALAND
205
KIRIBATI
0
NIUE
0
MARSHALL ISLANDS
1
PALAU
3
MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF
4
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
6
SAMOA
10
TUVALU
7
SOLOMON ISLAND
0
VANUATU
0
TONGA
171
SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
2
DOMINICA
12
ARGENTINA
86
ECUADOR
170
BARBADOS
9
GRENADA
6
BELIZE
5
GUATEMALA
43
BOLIVIA
88
GUYANA
17
BRAZIL
488
HONDURAS
28
CHILE
42
NICARAGUA
19
COSTA RICA
18
PANAMA
14
CUBA
427
PARAGUAY
20
PERU
1,274
SURINAME
3
SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS
4
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
85
SAINT LUCIA
4
URUGUAY
4
SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
3
VENEZUELA
226
Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2007: Canada, China (mainland-born, excluding Hong Kong S.A.R., and Taiwan), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.
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2006-09-24 07:12:17 · answer #2 · answered by crazydeb16 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you will *purely* receive any notification of the DV Lottery via your common mail. you will *no longer* get e-mails asserting you have win, and the only you won is fraudulent.
2016-10-01 07:50:35 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋