Official August VB is published online - last month of DV2014
- Thread starter Britsimon
- Start date
Britsimon
Super Moderator
Counties don't have quotas, but they can hit a 7% cap per country. Iran hit it last year and might do again this year - but not by many selectees if at all.
We don't know the quota for Asia - but KCC do - and by limiting the CN progression in the recent VB they effectively avoided a scenario where a quota limit is hit for Asia. In other words - they have enforced the quota already through CNs. That was bad news for those over the published CN number, but good news for those current and waiting for interviews.
We don't know the quota for Asia - but KCC do - and by limiting the CN progression in the recent VB they effectively avoided a scenario where a quota limit is hit for Asia. In other words - they have enforced the quota already through CNs. That was bad news for those over the published CN number, but good news for those current and waiting for interviews.
Dear Simon, Thanks for replay. 1st is it good news for Iranian selectees which waiting for completion of A.P ? secondly do you guess finally they will issue around 3500 visa for all Iranian selectees ( more or less )?
Dear Simon, Thanks for replay. 1st is it good news for Iranian selectees which waiting for completion of A.P ? secondly do you guess finally they will issue around 3500 visa for all Iranian selectees ( more or less )?
Britsimon
Super Moderator
Kayend
Active Member
I don't think any country will get more than 3.5k this year because it is not current in Sept. If they do it, it is against the law. In DV13, it is ok because everyone got their interviews but not this year. If they really stop the CN and yet issue to any country more than 3.5k, they are opening up for lawsuit.
Britsimon
Super Moderator
Don't follow your logic at all. Who said they have to go current in order to issue 7% to one coubtry. Oh and by the way, Iran achieved that last year even though only 51k visas were given.
Kayend
Active Member
Law said only 7% limit of 50k per country max. If you issues more and no one sacrifices because of that it is ok, just like in DV13 but in DV14 they are taking aways visa slots those in the queue. So it is a potential lawsuit if they really do it.
SusieQQQ
Well-Known Member
Law is 7% of "available visas". The technical limit of available visas is 55k, not 50k. It is just that "up to 5k" have been set aside for Nacara since 1999. But as Nacara has not taken anywhere near 5k for the past number of years, it seems some of these have been reallocated to other regions. This is why you have seen more than 50k visas in some years, and more than 3500 to some countries in some years, but never more than 55k total and never more than 3750 to any individual country. So no, there is no potential lawsuit anywhere.
Kayend
Active Member
Based on Sloner video it clearly stated that each country can only get 3500 visas. Anyway, it is not important right now.
SusieQQQ
Well-Known Member
Well, the data history clearly shows countries can get more than 3500 visas.
And yes it's not important because every step of the process, from the entry instructions to the selection letter,tells you selection is not a guarantee of a visa. So there are no grounds for lawsuits.
Britsimon
Super Moderator
No, the law is not concerned whether someone sacrifices or not. And lawsuits against the government on this stuff don't wirk. See 2012.
biratnagar
Registered Users (C)
Kayend
Active Member
3500 and above when they have no one else waiting in queue but this year we have at least 5k+ selectees waiting and mostly likely will be disappointed.
SusieQQQ
Well-Known Member
This is your conjecture. There were more years and more countries where excess of 3500 visas were issued, and some of those years did have cutoffs at fiscal year end.
Here is 2003 for example.... http://travel.state.gov/content/vis...in/2003/visa-bulletin-for-september-2003.html
SusieQQQ
Well-Known Member
Also note this doc, page 2, specifically talks about the regional quota in terms of 55k visas even though the previous page notes the set aside for nacara.
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/87838.pdf
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/87838.pdf
biratnagar
Registered Users (C)
Yes , agree about that............thanks SusieQQQ..................
9 FAM 42.33 N3 DIVERSITY COUNTRIES
9 FAM 42.33 N3.1 Formula
b.
Using available estimates, the Attorney General must then determine the
population of each of the six regions (excluding the population of any high
admission foreign state) and use those totals to determine the apportionment
of the 55,000 worldwide DV limitations.Quotas for the six regions will be
established. Natives of these regions compete for that portion of the total
established for that region. Any unused portion of a regional quota is
distributed proportionally among the other regions. High admission states are
excluded entirely from the apportionment. No one country’s nationals may
receive more than 7% of the available visas in any one year.
Update date :
(CT:VISA-2127; 06-18-2014)
(Office of Origin: CA/VO/L/R)
The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2014 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 140,660 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-2014 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2014 (October 1, 2013 until September 30, 2014
THEY SAID all DV-2014 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2014 NOT SOME
ORIGINE
http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/immigrate/diversity-visa/dv2014-selected-entrants.html
THEY SAID all DV-2014 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2014 NOT SOME
ORIGINE
http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/immigrate/diversity-visa/dv2014-selected-entrants.html
SusieQQQ
Well-Known Member
They mean all the visa numbers, not all the entrants. If you continue reading down after the bit you extracted, it says this clearly:
"Once the total *50,000 visa numbers have been used, the program for fiscal year 2014 will end."
For as much as I want to believe as well that every selectee will receive a visa, if you read carefully they say "this larger figure (meaning the 140K) should insure that all the numbers (50K) will be used...." so in other words they are hopeful that having selected so many this year they will be able to give out all the visas they have available, but in reality none knows.
In addition, if you read further in the link they say "Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2014 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2014 registration", meaning there is a chance that some of the selectees will never receive a visa. But we all already knew that since the beginning.