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DV-2011 Winners Report Here!

ntwili said:
I see so many people being so negative. I have gone through a number of signatures that were notified late. I dont know why were they notified late. I still think KCC does a great job having to contact more than 100000 people. Anyway, if you go thru the forums you will find people notified in August (with relatively lower CNs).
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This was cause they use to sent out big packages with all the documents and it took KCC a long time to get all the envelopes out. This year things has changed and KCC only send out a congrats letter, which they did in the first few weeks and was done with it...

Hey, October is around the corner ;)
 
Yayy I got good news!!!
I JUST spoke to KCC and they told me that they are still sending out NL. He said they will be sending them out through 1st of July! My exact question was: "Is it true that if we did not receive a NL by now it means that we did not win". And he said: "no, we are still sending them out through the 1st of July! :)

I also asked him if the numbers that are out (stating how many people won from each country) are true, and he said that the numbers have not been out yet. Well I guess either somebody got those numbers somehow and they are correct, or somebody made them up...
Well just wanted to share with you guys, hope this helps :)
 
Hey! It's great that you called KCC....but somehow it does not make sense..The official Visa Bulletin for July came out and it clearly shows the statistic for all the countries for DV-2011. I am not sure though, if they are still sending out NLs until the end of the month…Well, July 1st we’ll all know! Good luck to everyone!

Unfortunately, I cannot post the link for the visa bulletin for July 2010. You can google it and scroll down to the bottom to see the statistic.
 
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aquablue said:
Yayy I got good news!!!
I JUST spoke to KCC and they told me that they are still sending out NL. He said they will be sending them out through 1st of July! My exact question was: "Is it true that if we did not receive a NL by now it means that we did not win". And he said: "no, we are still sending them out through the 1st of July! :)

I also asked him if the numbers that are out (stating how many people won from each country) are true, and he said that the numbers have not been out yet. Well I guess either somebody got those numbers somehow and they are correct, or somebody made them up...
Well just wanted to share with you guys, hope this helps :)
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I don't know who you talked to, but the results by region are on the website now.check the july2010 bulletin.
 
I know, that one confused me too but that's what he said. Unless he thought I meant that people's names were out. I told him the list with the amount of winners from each country...but maybe he thought I meant the list of every single winner one by one.
Either way if you guys want you can call them at 606 526 7500
It took like 3 min waiting before somebody picked up my call. Ask the same questions and lets compare the answers.
 
Does anybody know where I can find info on how many people from each country applied for dv 2011? Or even from previous years is fine also... just would like to have an idea.
Thank!!!
 
aquablue said:
Does anybody know where I can find info on how many people from each country applied for dv 2011? Or even from previous years is fine also... just would like to have an idea.
Thank!!!
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I was looking for the same,but there is nooone who can give such an information it is supposed to be confidential or something
 
My Boyfriend is Kenyan won with the CN-2011AF00040XXX. Is it too high? When can the interview be scheduled if we send the forms in the middle of July??
 
Kseniasat said:
My Boyfriend is Kenyan won with the CN-2011AF00040XXX. Is it too high? When can the interview be scheduled if we send the forms in the middle of July??
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For Kenyan the CN is great, he may be current by April/May 2011. However i will advise him to be checking Visa bulleting every month from September this year.

Goodluck
 
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.
 
Hi Again,
All I was trying to say is that as all of you may have noticed people receiving the NL has diminished for quite some time now thus my reasoning is that KCC is done with sening the NLs and the results are already out..
I was not trying to point someone specificly to make a contravarsy but please bear in mind that this is a forum and there might be different opinions and every opinion is open to debate so you may not think as I do but this does not mean that I am not eligible to write my own thoughts. You may very well disagree with me and respond accordingly.
By saying creme the la creme I meant that they would be the lucky of the luckiest, I did not mean that they were not sent any NL. Most probably the guys that would be learning that they won through the webiste will be the ones that their letters would have somehow got lost in the mail. Therefore while they were thinking that they did not win as they had not receied aletter it would be a great suprise for them to see that they one on July 1st thus making them the creme dela creme.
Yes, in previous years Nls were received all thru out the summer and I even remember that they also sent some out during the winter months too but as years have past the time range is getting shorter and now that they just sent congrats letters this year it must have taken them even shorter to send all the NLs.
All Im trying to do is share my experince for any rookies around in this DV Lottery endeavour which has become an obsession for me. Im not trying to create any needless tension
 
I went through many threads, but did not find the answer for this. If someone can give a logical answer, i appreciate.

If winners are selected (region wise) randomly, how come each country get almost similar no. of winners each year?
 
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Pls somebody answer my question,the visa bulettin for Nigeria in june is 17,200 dose that mean if your case number is below the cut off number your interview will come up in june?

Yes. But it also depend on when you sent your forms back to KCC. If you sent them early enough, then your interview will be in June. If not, then your interview will be in the following months.

IS this true, can some one confirm it please.
 
Shihabmh said:
Sorry Davidjp for everyone overlooking your question. Once interviewed and accepted, you have six months from the date your visas are issued to enter the united states. If you stay more than six months before your first entry then your visa expires by which time your chances of getting a green card are DEAD!
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I guess we'll have to move early on 2011, as our CN seems to be quite low.

Thank you very much Shihabmh for your answer.
 
random from over 12.1 million qualified entries (16.5 million with derivatives) received
what is the meaning of (16.5 million with derivatives) ?
Thanx
 
Thanx for answering my question but I think if derivatives mean that the no. should be much more than that (multiplied by 2 at least)......I am not sure..maybe u r right???
for example for my family we r 4 people; man, wife 2 kids.
 
Hi everyone. Am new to this forum and i find it very useful..
am a dv2011 winner c/n AF00022XXX first NL received 9th.May and dated 15th.APR
i sent my forms back and delivered to KCC on 15th.Jun.. waiting for confirmation ..
My question is .. how do they confirm reception of my forms ,, via Email or
regular mail ?? Thank you and good luck for everyone :)
 
missam said:
Hi everyone. Am new to this forum and i find it very useful..
am a dv2011 winner c/n AF00022XXX first NL received 9th.May and dated 15th.APR
i sent my forms back and delivered to KCC on 15th.Jun.. waiting for confirmation ..
My question is .. how do they confirm reception of my forms ,, via Email or
regular mail ?? Thank you and good luck for everyone :)[/QUOT

You have to e_mail or call KCC if you want to know they have received your forms. State your case number, full name and date of birth before they can confirm the receipt of the forms. Hope you already have their e_mail address and phone number. Ciao
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