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AFRICA 64,300

Except:
Egypt: 26,000
Ethiopia: 25,625
Nigeria: 22,000
ASIA 28,700
EUROPE CURRENT
NORTH AMERICA (BAHAMAS) 5
OCEANIA CURRENT
SOUTH AMERICA, and the CARIBBEAN CURRENT
 
Full results out very early this year:


G. DIVERSITY VISA LOTTERY 2011 (DV-2011) RESULTS

The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2011 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 100,600 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-2011 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2011 (October 1, 2010 until September 30, 2011).

Applicants registered for the DV-2011 program were selected at random from over 12.1 million qualified entries (16.5 million with derivatives) received during the 60-day application period that ran from noon on October 2, 2009, until noon, November 30, 2009. 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 U.S. 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 2011 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2011 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2011 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2011 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2011.

Only participants in the DV-2011 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-2012 lottery if they wish. The dates for the registration period for the DV-2012 lottery program will be widely publicized during August 2010.

* 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-2011 program:
AFRICA
ALGERIA 1,753
ANGOLA 55
BENIN 508
BOTSWANA 13
BURKINA FASO 183
BURUNDI 72
CAMEROON 3,674
CAPE VERDE 26
CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. 18
CHAD 59
COMOROS 7
CONGO 144
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC OF THE 2,575
COTE D’IVOIRE 759
DJIBOUTI 45
EGYPT 4,251
EQUATORIAL GUINEA 13
ERITREA 851
ETHIOPIA 5,200
GABON 41
GAMBIA, THE 72
GHANA 6,002
GUINEA 701
GUINEA-BISSAU 5
KENYA 4,689
LESOTHO 11
LIBERIA 1,826
LIBYA 114
MADAGASCAR 55
MALAWI 33
MALI 88
MAURITANIA 25
MAURITIUS 61
MOROCCO 2,003
MOZAMBIQUE 2
NAMIBIA 13
NIGER 89


NIGERIA 6,000
RWANDA 204
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 0
SENEGAL 427
SEYCHELLES 4
SIERRA LEONE 3,911
SOMALIA 201
SOUTH AFRICA 963
SUDAN 1,156
SWAZILAND 4
TANZANIA 174
TOGO 1,011
TUNISIA 132
UGANDA 490
WESTERN SAHARA 0
ZAMBIA 128
ZIMBABWE 163

ASIA
AFGHANISTAN 97
BAHRAIN 15
BANGLADESH 5,999
BHUTAN 5
BRUNEI 5
BURMA 367
CAMBODIA 434
HONG KONG SPECIAL
ADMIN. REGION 43
INDONESIA 205
IRAN 2,819 IRAQ 147
ISRAEL 129
JAPAN 298
JORDAN 136
NORTH KOREA 2
KUWAIT 88
LAOS 3
LEBANON 214
MALAYSIA 133
MALDIVES 4
MONGOLIA 279
NEPAL 2,189
OMAN 3
QATAR 9
SAUDI ARABIA 91
SINGAPORE 35
SRI LANKA 515
SYRIA 132
TAIWAN 365
THAILAND 77
TIMOR-LESTE 0
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 66
YEMEN 95

EUROPE
ALBANIA 1,469
ANDORRA 0
ARMENIA 1,268
AUSTRIA 147
AZERBAIJAN 355
BELARUS 1,104
BELGIUM 94
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 67
BULGARIA 950
CROATIA 97
CYPRUS 11
CZECH REPUBLIC 111
DENMARK 66
Greenland 1
ESTONIA 72
FINLAND 87
FRANCE 767
French Guiana 0
French Polynesia 13
French Southern &
Antarctic Lands 1
Guadeloupe 0
Martinique 0
New Caledonia 9
Reunion 0
St. Pierre & Miquelon 0
GEORGIA 699
GERMANY 1,895
GREECE 62
HUNGARY 272
ICELAND 48
IRELAND 201
ITALY 450
KAZAKHSTAN 370
KOSOVO 134
KYRGYZSTAN 196
LATVIA 122
LIECHTENSTEIN 1
LITHUANIA 262
LUXEMBOURG 3
MACEDONIA 263
MALTA 1
MOLDOVA 894
MONACO 0
MONTENEGRO 5
NETHERLANDS 139
Aruba 6
Netherlands
Antilles 16
NORTHERN IRELAND 38
NORWAY 66
PORTUGAL 61
Macau Special Admin.
Region 5
ROMANIA 821
RUSSIA 2,464
SAN MARINO 0
SERBIA 327
SLOVAKIA 125
SLOVENIA 14
SPAIN 219
SWEDEN 187
SWITZERLAND 195
TAJIKISTAN 257
TURKEY 2,266
TURKMENISTAN 135
UKRAINE 6,000
UZBEKISTAN 5,091
VATICAN CITY 0

NORTH AMERICA

BAHAMAS, THE 18


OCEANIA
AUSTRALIA 683
Christmas Island 0
Cocos Islands 0
FIJI 476
KIRIBATI 9
MARSHALL ISLANDS 6
MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF 0
NAURU 7
NEW ZEALAND 333
Cook Islands 0
Niue 8
PALAU 2
PAPUA NEW GUINEA 4

SAMOA 0
SOLOMON ISLANDS 3
TONGA 51
TUVALU 4
VANUATU 1
WESTERN SAMOA 13

SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 1
ARGENTINA 134
BARBADOS 12
BELIZE 12
BOLIVIA 90
CHILE 63
COSTA RICA 50
CUBA 406
DOMINICA 29
GRENADA 5
GUYANA 36
HONDURAS 61
NICARAGUA 74
PANAMA 31
PARAGUAY 14
SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 6 SAINT LUCIA 27
SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES 21
SURINAME 9
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 145
URUGUAY 23
VENEZUELA 752

Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2011: 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.
 
Confused....

Since I have a high number for 2011, about AS29xxx, I got into calculating the whole DV2011 winners.
Here they are :
AF = 51004
AS = 14999
EU = 30999
NA = 18
OC = 1600
SA = 1989.

TOTAL = 100609.

My question is since AS has only 14999 CN issued. How come my number is AS29xxx? Does that mean it includes family members of the people before me?
I have also heard of case numbers as high as AS45xxx. Are we ranked by case numbers? Meaning there will be somebody receiving CN100609?

Thanks in advance.
 
Since I have a high number for 2011, about AS29xxx, I got into calculating the whole DV2011 winners.
Here they are :
AF = 51004
AS = 14999
EU = 30999
NA = 18
OC = 1600
SA = 1989.

TOTAL = 100609.

My question is since AS has only 14999 CN issued. How come my number is AS29xxx? Does that mean it includes family members of the people before me?
I have also heard of case numbers as high as AS45xxx. Are we ranked by case numbers? Meaning there will be somebody receiving CN100609?

Thanks in advance.

hi there
i think your assumption is right,
if you visit section 14 of frequently asked question on state.gov page you will see how the selectes are numbered from each geographical region
but the maths is bigger than the total sum as you mentioned, the only way this can happen is it includes the derivatives of those winers into account
for example if you are AS00000001 and you have a wife and a kid in your application then the second selectee from the same region will have a case number of AS00000004
hope it sheds some light right
but please don't quote me as this is my assumption
 
Ginger I think this is true and that is why we see such large CNs in regions where there are a lot of winners. What I don't understand is how the total winners end up at a figure like 100,609. How random is that???
 
Can someone give the exact link with the results?Because it seems its a copy paste of something,can you give the official link?
 
Ginger I think this is true and that is why we see such large CNs in regions where there are a lot of winners. What I don't understand is how the total winners end up at a figure like 100,609. How random is that???

it is the sum of all winers from the six geographical region
their computer might have some algorithm to select from qualified applicants, so i think it is random enough
 
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