Diversity Visa Lottery 2009 (DV-2009) Results

Diversity Visa Lottery 2009 (DV-2009) Results


The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2009 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 99,600 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-2009 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2009 (October 1, 2008 until September 30, 2009).
Applicants registered for the DV-2009 program were selected at random from over 9.1 million qualified entries received during the 60-day application period that ran from noon on October 3, 2007, until noon, December 2, 2007. 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 2009 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2009 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2009 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2009 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2009.
Only participants in the DV-2009 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-2010 lottery if they wish. The dates for the registration period for the DV-2010 lottery program will be widely publicized during August 2009.
*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-2009 program:

AFRICA
ALGERIA 2,205 LIBYA 117
ANGOLA 38 MADAGASCAR 46
BENIN 390 MALAWI 29
BOTSWANA 22 MALI 124
BURKINA FASO 129 MAURITANIA 39
BURUNDI 86 MAURITIUS 62
CAMEROON 3,659 MOROCCO 3,280
CAPE VERDE 9 MOZAMBIQUE 22
CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. 21 NAMIBIA 20
CHAD 27 NIGER 64
COMOROS 6 NIGERIA 6,041
CONGO 1,582 RWANDA 111
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE 65 SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 1
COTE D’IVOIRE 642 SENEGAL 1,160
DJIBOUTI 26 SEYCHELLES 8
EGYPT 4,831 SIERRA LEONE 2,230
EQUATORIAL GUINEA 10 SOMALIA 256
ERITREA 829 SOUTH AFRICA 909
ETHIOPIA 5,200 SUDAN 1,143
GABON 35 SWAZILAND 6
GAMBIA, THE 168 TANZANIA 298
GHANA 7,322 TOGO 956
GUINEA 469 TUNISIA 155
GUINEA-BISSAU 9 UGANDA 433
KENYA 4,307 ZAMBIA 156
LESOTHO 4 ZIMBABWE 242
LIBERIA 3,440

ASIA
AFGHANISTAN 117 MALAYSIA 85
BAHRAIN 18 MALDIVES 4
BANGLADESH 6,023 MONGOLIA 191
BHUTAN 4 NEPAL 1,891
BRUNEI 0 NORTH KOREA 2
BURMA 556 OMAN 10
CAMBODIA 287 QATAR 10
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION 75 SAUDI ARABIA 128
INDONESIA 230 SINGAPORE 38
IRAN 1,689 SRI LANKA 792
IRAQ 154 SYRIA 108
ISRAEL 194 TAIWAN 431
JAPAN 320 THAILAND 110
JORDAN 161 TIMOR-LESTE 1
KUWAIT 43 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 33
LAOS 2 YEMEN 102
LEBANON 193

EUROPE
ALBANIA 2,894 LIECHTENSTEIN 1
ANDORRA 0 LITHUANIA 273
ARMENIA 1,285 LUXEMBOURG 1
AUSTRIA 145 MACAU 12
AZERBAIJAN 345 MACEDONIA, FORMER YUGOSLAV REP. OF 322
BELARUS 1,240 MALTA 9
BELGIUM 82 MARTINIQUE 4
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 158 MOLDOVA 542
BULGARIA 1,154 MONACO 0
CROATIA 75 MONTENEGRO 20
CYPRUS 42 NETHERLANDS 226
CZECH REPUBLIC 140 NETHERLANDS ARUBA 9
DENMARK 48 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES 34
ESTONIA 58 NORTHERN IRELAND 35
FINLAND 72 NORWAY 54
FRANCE 738 PORTUGAL 92
FRENCH GUIANA 11 REUNION 0
FRENCH POLYNESIA 2 ROMANIA 757
FRENCH SOUTHERN AND ANTARCTIC LANDS 1 SAN MARINO 0
GEORGIA 661 SERBIA 656
GERMANY 1,973 SLOVAKIA 169
GREECE 63 SLOVENIA 21
GREENLAND 1 SPAIN 172
GUADELOUPE 0 SWEDEN 226
HUNGARY 271 SWITZERLAND 230
ICELAND 25 TAJIKISTAN 168
IRELAND 132 TURKEY 2,331
ITALY 433 TURKMENISTAN 111
KAZAKHSTAN 336 UKRAINE 5,502
KYRGYZSTAN 169 UZBEKISTAN 3,284
LATVIA 100 VATICAN CITY 0

NORTH AMERICA
BAHAMAS, THE 12

OCEANIA
AUSTRALIA 590 NIUE 11
CHRISTMAS ISLANDS 0 PALAU 0
COOK ISLANDS 0 PAPUA NEW GUINEA 15
FIJI 760 SAMOA 20
KIRIBATI 2 SOLOMON ISLANDS 0
MARSHALL ISLANDS 0 TONGA 129
MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF 2 TUVALU 1
NAURU 1 VANUATU 1
NEW ZEALAND 269

SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 5 HONDURAS 77
ARGENTINA 174 NICARAGUA 58
BARBADOS 8 PANAMA 38
BELIZE 4 PARAGUAY 10
BOLIVIA 108 SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 1
CHILE 50 SAINT LUCIA 4
COSTA RICA 67 SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES 9
CUBA 555 SURINAME 5
DOMINICA 30 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 141
GRENADA 6 URUGUAY 26
GUATEMALA 6 VENEZUELA 470
GUYANA 41

Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2009: 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, Russia, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.