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Here is the CURRENT visa bulletin for DV 2008 winners
C. ADVANCE NOTIFICATION OF THE DIVERSITY (DV) IMMIGRANT CATEGORY RANK CUT-OFFS WHICH WILL APPLY IN OCTOBER
For October, immigrant numbers in the DV category are available to qualified DV-2008 applicants chargeable to all regions/eligible countries as follows. When an allocation cut-off number is shown, visas are available only for applicants with DV regional lottery rank numbers BELOW the specified allocation cut-off number:
Region All DV Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed Separately
AFRICA 6,700 Except:
Egypt:
3,400
Ethiopia:
2,900
Nigeria:
4,700
ASIA 2,100
EUROPE 5,800
NORTH AMERICA (BAHAMAS) 2
OCEANIA 300
SOUTH AMERICA, and the CARIBBEAN 400
D. EMPLOYMENT PREFERENCE VISA AVAILABILITY FOR SEPTEMBER
Due to the return of unused July numbers by consular posts abroad, and the limited amount of pending demand eligible for final processing at consular posts, it has been possible to reestablish cut-off dates in many of the Employment preference categories.
E. MEXICO FAMILY FOURTH PREFERENCE RETROGRESSION:
There has been a significant increase in number use in the Mexico Family Fourth preference category. As a result, it has been necessary to retrogress this cut-off date for September in an effort to hold number use within the annual numerical limit.
F. DETERMINATION OF THE NUMERICAL LIMITS ON IMMIGRANTS REQUIRED UNDER THE TERMS OF THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT (INA)
The State Department is required to make a determination of the worldwide numerical limitations, as outlined in Section 201(c) and (d) of the INA, on an annual basis. These calculations are based in part on data provided by Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) regarding the number of immediate relative adjustments in the preceding year and the number of aliens paroled into the United States under Section 212(d)(5) in the second preceding year. Without this information, it is impossible to make an official determination of the annual limits. To avoid delays in processing while waiting for the CIS data, the Visa Office (VO) bases allocations on the minimum annual limits outlined in Section 201 of the INA. On July 29th, CIS provided the required data to VO.
The Department of State has determined the family and employment preference numerical limits for FY-2007 in accordance with the terms of Section 201 of the INA. These numerical limitations for FY-2007 are as follows:
Worldwide Family-Sponsored preference limit: 226,000
Worldwide Employment-Based preference limit: 147,148
Under INA Section 202(a), the per-country limit is fixed at 7% of the family and employment annual limits. For FY-2007 the per-country limit is 26,120. The dependent area annual limit is 2%, or 7,463.
G. DIVERSITY VISA LOTTERY 2007 (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 ETHIOPIA 5,241 NIGER 165
ANGOLA 27 GABON 37 NIGERIA 8,773
BENIN 438 GAMBIA, THE 57 RWANDA 138
BOTSWANA 22 GHANA 5,914 SENEGAL 917
BURKINA FASO 186 GUINEA 463 SIERRA LEONE 1,137
BURUNDI 39 GUINEA-BISSAU 4 SOMALIA 214
CAMEROON 3,152 KENYA 4,547 SOUTH AFRICA 713
CAPE VERDE 13 LESOTHO 4 SUDAN 1,147
CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. 8 LIBERIA 2,148 SWAZILAND 4
CHAD 47 LIBYA 88 TANZANIA 218
COMOROS 5 MADAGASCAR 43 TOGO 1,509
CONGO 1,206 MALAWI 53 TUNISIA 150
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE 111 MALI 171 UGANDA 370
COTE D’IVOIRE 614 MAURITANIA 27 WESTERN SAHARA 1
DJIBOUTI 20 MAURITIUS 62 ZAMBIA 214
EGYPT 4,392 MOROCCO 5,017 ZIMBABWE 167
EQUATORIAL GUINEA 7 MOZAMBIQUE 8
ERITREA 878 NAMIBIA 12
ASIA
AFGHANISTAN 57 ISRAEL 150 QATAR 6
BAHRAIN 11 JAPAN 382 SAUDI ARABIA 61
BANGLADESH 5,983 JORDAN 56 SINGAPORE 70
BHUTAN 10 NORTH KOREA 4 SRI LANKA 675
BRUNEI 2 KUWAIT 46 SYRIA 94
BURMA 653 LAOS 7 THAILAND 108
CAMBODIA 187 LEBANON 190 TAIWAN 446
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION 69 MALAYSIA 87 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 27
INDONESIA 266 MONGOLIA 259 YEMEN 70
IRAN 1,435 NEPAL 2,562
IRAQ 164 OMAN 5
EUROPE
ALBANIA 2,862 GERMANY 1,469 NORTHERN IRELAND 34
ANDORRA 1 GREECE 77 NORWAY 43
ARMENIA 1,130 HUNGARY 182 PORTUGAL 48
Macau 19
AUSTRIA 70 ICELAND 13 ROMANIA 1,526
AZERBAIJAN 271 IRELAND 162 SERBIA 557
BELARUS 1,072 ITALY 363 SLOVAKIA 157
BELGIUM 89 KAZAKHSTAN 304 SLOVENIA 12
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 73 KYRGYZSTAN 180 SPAIN 135
BULGARIA 1,567 LATVIA 75 SWEDEN 118
CROATIA 41 LITHUANIA 334 SWITZERLAND 132
CYPRUS 16
LUXEMBOURG 12
TAJIKISTAN 126
CZECH REPUBLIC 158 MACEDONIA 343 TURKEY 2,188
DENMARK 58 MALTA 5 TURKMENISTAN 124
ESTONIA 37 MOLDOVA 474
UKRAINE 5,018
FINLAND 59 MONACO 4 UZBEKISTAN 3,101
FRANCE 603 French Guiana 6 French Polynesia 6 Guadeloupe 4 Martinique 4
MONTENEGRO 22
GEORGIA 516 NETHERLANDS 123
Aruba 8
Netherlands Antilles 18
NORTH AMERICA
BAHAMAS, THE 17
OCEANIA
AUSTRALIA 649 NEW ZEALAND 260
Niue 5 SAMOA 27
FIJI 630 PALAU 7
SOLOMON ISLANDS 2
KIRIBATI 9 PAPUA NEW GUINEA 4 TONGA 120
SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 1 DOMINICA 9 PARAGUAY 26
ARGENTINA 106 ECUADOR 217 SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 1
BARBADOS 17 GRENADA 1 SAINT LUCIA 5
BELIZE 14 GUATEMALA 74 SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES 1
BOLIVIA 148 GUYANA 24 SURINAME 3
CHILE 26 HONDURAS 42 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 82
COSTA RICA 22 NICARAGUA 39 URUGUAY 23
CUBA 691 PANAMA 17 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.
H. OBTAINING THE MONTHLY VISA BULLETIN
The Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs offers the monthly "Visa Bulletin" on the INTERNET'S WORLDWIDE WEB. The INTERNET Web address to access the Bulletin is:
http://travel.state.gov
From the home page, select the VISA section which contains the Visa Bulletin.
To be placed on the Department of State’s E-mail subscription list for the “Visa Bulletin”, please send an E-mail to the following E-mail address:
listserv@calist.state.gov
and in the message body type:
Subscribe Visa-Bulletin First name/Last name
(example: Subscribe Visa-Bulletin Sally Doe)
To be removed from the Department of State’s E-mail subscription list for the “Visa Bulletin”, send an e-mail message to the following E-mail address:
listserv@calist.state.gov
and in the message body type: Signoff Visa-Bulletin
The Department of State also has available a recorded message with visa cut-off dates which can be heard at: (area code 202) 663-1541. The recording is normally updated by the middle of each month with information on cut-off dates for the following month.
Readers may submit questions regarding Visa Bulletin related items by E-mail at the following address:
VISABULLETIN@STATE.GOV
(This address cannot be used to subscribe to the Visa Bulletin.)
Department of State Publication 9514
CA/VO:August 13, 2007
C. ADVANCE NOTIFICATION OF THE DIVERSITY (DV) IMMIGRANT CATEGORY RANK CUT-OFFS WHICH WILL APPLY IN OCTOBER
For October, immigrant numbers in the DV category are available to qualified DV-2008 applicants chargeable to all regions/eligible countries as follows. When an allocation cut-off number is shown, visas are available only for applicants with DV regional lottery rank numbers BELOW the specified allocation cut-off number:
Region All DV Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed Separately
AFRICA 6,700 Except:
Egypt:
3,400
Ethiopia:
2,900
Nigeria:
4,700
ASIA 2,100
EUROPE 5,800
NORTH AMERICA (BAHAMAS) 2
OCEANIA 300
SOUTH AMERICA, and the CARIBBEAN 400
D. EMPLOYMENT PREFERENCE VISA AVAILABILITY FOR SEPTEMBER
Due to the return of unused July numbers by consular posts abroad, and the limited amount of pending demand eligible for final processing at consular posts, it has been possible to reestablish cut-off dates in many of the Employment preference categories.
E. MEXICO FAMILY FOURTH PREFERENCE RETROGRESSION:
There has been a significant increase in number use in the Mexico Family Fourth preference category. As a result, it has been necessary to retrogress this cut-off date for September in an effort to hold number use within the annual numerical limit.
F. DETERMINATION OF THE NUMERICAL LIMITS ON IMMIGRANTS REQUIRED UNDER THE TERMS OF THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT (INA)
The State Department is required to make a determination of the worldwide numerical limitations, as outlined in Section 201(c) and (d) of the INA, on an annual basis. These calculations are based in part on data provided by Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) regarding the number of immediate relative adjustments in the preceding year and the number of aliens paroled into the United States under Section 212(d)(5) in the second preceding year. Without this information, it is impossible to make an official determination of the annual limits. To avoid delays in processing while waiting for the CIS data, the Visa Office (VO) bases allocations on the minimum annual limits outlined in Section 201 of the INA. On July 29th, CIS provided the required data to VO.
The Department of State has determined the family and employment preference numerical limits for FY-2007 in accordance with the terms of Section 201 of the INA. These numerical limitations for FY-2007 are as follows:
Worldwide Family-Sponsored preference limit: 226,000
Worldwide Employment-Based preference limit: 147,148
Under INA Section 202(a), the per-country limit is fixed at 7% of the family and employment annual limits. For FY-2007 the per-country limit is 26,120. The dependent area annual limit is 2%, or 7,463.
G. DIVERSITY VISA LOTTERY 2007 (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 ETHIOPIA 5,241 NIGER 165
ANGOLA 27 GABON 37 NIGERIA 8,773
BENIN 438 GAMBIA, THE 57 RWANDA 138
BOTSWANA 22 GHANA 5,914 SENEGAL 917
BURKINA FASO 186 GUINEA 463 SIERRA LEONE 1,137
BURUNDI 39 GUINEA-BISSAU 4 SOMALIA 214
CAMEROON 3,152 KENYA 4,547 SOUTH AFRICA 713
CAPE VERDE 13 LESOTHO 4 SUDAN 1,147
CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. 8 LIBERIA 2,148 SWAZILAND 4
CHAD 47 LIBYA 88 TANZANIA 218
COMOROS 5 MADAGASCAR 43 TOGO 1,509
CONGO 1,206 MALAWI 53 TUNISIA 150
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE 111 MALI 171 UGANDA 370
COTE D’IVOIRE 614 MAURITANIA 27 WESTERN SAHARA 1
DJIBOUTI 20 MAURITIUS 62 ZAMBIA 214
EGYPT 4,392 MOROCCO 5,017 ZIMBABWE 167
EQUATORIAL GUINEA 7 MOZAMBIQUE 8
ERITREA 878 NAMIBIA 12
ASIA
AFGHANISTAN 57 ISRAEL 150 QATAR 6
BAHRAIN 11 JAPAN 382 SAUDI ARABIA 61
BANGLADESH 5,983 JORDAN 56 SINGAPORE 70
BHUTAN 10 NORTH KOREA 4 SRI LANKA 675
BRUNEI 2 KUWAIT 46 SYRIA 94
BURMA 653 LAOS 7 THAILAND 108
CAMBODIA 187 LEBANON 190 TAIWAN 446
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION 69 MALAYSIA 87 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 27
INDONESIA 266 MONGOLIA 259 YEMEN 70
IRAN 1,435 NEPAL 2,562
IRAQ 164 OMAN 5
EUROPE
ALBANIA 2,862 GERMANY 1,469 NORTHERN IRELAND 34
ANDORRA 1 GREECE 77 NORWAY 43
ARMENIA 1,130 HUNGARY 182 PORTUGAL 48
Macau 19
AUSTRIA 70 ICELAND 13 ROMANIA 1,526
AZERBAIJAN 271 IRELAND 162 SERBIA 557
BELARUS 1,072 ITALY 363 SLOVAKIA 157
BELGIUM 89 KAZAKHSTAN 304 SLOVENIA 12
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 73 KYRGYZSTAN 180 SPAIN 135
BULGARIA 1,567 LATVIA 75 SWEDEN 118
CROATIA 41 LITHUANIA 334 SWITZERLAND 132
CYPRUS 16
LUXEMBOURG 12
TAJIKISTAN 126
CZECH REPUBLIC 158 MACEDONIA 343 TURKEY 2,188
DENMARK 58 MALTA 5 TURKMENISTAN 124
ESTONIA 37 MOLDOVA 474
UKRAINE 5,018
FINLAND 59 MONACO 4 UZBEKISTAN 3,101
FRANCE 603 French Guiana 6 French Polynesia 6 Guadeloupe 4 Martinique 4
MONTENEGRO 22
GEORGIA 516 NETHERLANDS 123
Aruba 8
Netherlands Antilles 18
NORTH AMERICA
BAHAMAS, THE 17
OCEANIA
AUSTRALIA 649 NEW ZEALAND 260
Niue 5 SAMOA 27
FIJI 630 PALAU 7
SOLOMON ISLANDS 2
KIRIBATI 9 PAPUA NEW GUINEA 4 TONGA 120
SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 1 DOMINICA 9 PARAGUAY 26
ARGENTINA 106 ECUADOR 217 SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 1
BARBADOS 17 GRENADA 1 SAINT LUCIA 5
BELIZE 14 GUATEMALA 74 SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES 1
BOLIVIA 148 GUYANA 24 SURINAME 3
CHILE 26 HONDURAS 42 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 82
COSTA RICA 22 NICARAGUA 39 URUGUAY 23
CUBA 691 PANAMA 17 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.
H. OBTAINING THE MONTHLY VISA BULLETIN
The Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs offers the monthly "Visa Bulletin" on the INTERNET'S WORLDWIDE WEB. The INTERNET Web address to access the Bulletin is:
http://travel.state.gov
From the home page, select the VISA section which contains the Visa Bulletin.
To be placed on the Department of State’s E-mail subscription list for the “Visa Bulletin”, please send an E-mail to the following E-mail address:
listserv@calist.state.gov
and in the message body type:
Subscribe Visa-Bulletin First name/Last name
(example: Subscribe Visa-Bulletin Sally Doe)
To be removed from the Department of State’s E-mail subscription list for the “Visa Bulletin”, send an e-mail message to the following E-mail address:
listserv@calist.state.gov
and in the message body type: Signoff Visa-Bulletin
The Department of State also has available a recorded message with visa cut-off dates which can be heard at: (area code 202) 663-1541. The recording is normally updated by the middle of each month with information on cut-off dates for the following month.
Readers may submit questions regarding Visa Bulletin related items by E-mail at the following address:
VISABULLETIN@STATE.GOV
(This address cannot be used to subscribe to the Visa Bulletin.)
Department of State Publication 9514
CA/VO:August 13, 2007