  | DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT VISA DV-2000 RESULTS
The following are the results of the FY-2000 Diversity Immigrant Visa (DV-2000) Lottery. The National Visa Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire has registered the winners of the DV-2000 diversity lottery. The Diversity Lottery makes available 55,000 permanent resident visas annually to people from countries with low rates of immigration to the US. (5,000 of DV visas are used for the NACARA Program leaving 50,000 visas for use by the DV lottery.)
Approximately 110,000 applicants have been registered and notified. It is likely that some of the first 50,000 persons registered will not pursue their cases to completion. Applicants registered for the DV-2000 program were selected at random from approximately 8 million qualified entries received during the one month application period from October 1, 1998 to October 30, 1998. Over 2 million additional applications received were disqualified for failing to follow requirements.
The selections were from six geographic regions with a maximum of 3,500 visas (7% of the 50,000 total) available to people born in any one country. The principal applicant must show proof of a high school education or its equivalent or show 2 years of work experience in an occupation that requires at least 2 years of training or experience within the past 5 years.
Those selected will need to act on their immigrant visa applications quickly. Applicants should follow the instructions of their notification letter and must fully complete the information requested. Registrants who are living in the US who wish to apply for adjustment of status can contact the Immigration and Naturalization Service or obtain the assistance of an attorney.
Once the 50,000 visa numbers have been used, the program for fiscal year 2000 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2000 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2000 registration. Applicants who have not received a notification letter were not selected. The application dates for the DV-2001 lottery were October 4, 1999 to November 3, 1999.
Here are the totals by foreign state area of those registered for the DV-2000 program:
AFRICA :
ALGERIA (1499), ANGOLA (12), BENIN (89), BOTSWANA (8), BURKINA FASO (31), BURUNDI (13), CAMEROON (860), CAPE VERDE (3), CENTRAL AF. REP. (18), CHAD (29), COMOROS (2), CONGO (51), Dem Rep of The CONGO (386), COTE D'IVOIRE (333), DJIBOUTI (12), EGYPT (3,301), EQUATORIAL GUINEA (5), ERITREA (220), ETHIOPIA (2,284), GABON (24), GAMBIA, THE (122), GHANA (8,662), GUINEA (332), GUINEA-BISSAU (1), KENYA (1,514), LESOTHO (3), LIBERIA (1,762), LIBYA (79), MADAGASCAR (20), MALAWI (47), MALI (86), MAURITANIA (47), MAURITIUS (28), MOROCCO (3,007), MOZAMBIQUE (7), NAMIBIA (10), NIGER (22), NIGERIA (8,550), RWANDA (35), SAO TOME & PRINCIPE (0), SENEGAL (207), SEYCHELLES (3), SIERRA LEONE (2,617), SOMALIA (1,678), SOUTH AFRICA (663), SUDAN (2,294), SWAZILAND (2), TANZANIA (267), TOGO (664), TUNISIA (175), UGANDA (169), ZAMBIA (72), ZIMBABWE (97)
ASIA :
AFGHANISTAN (59), BAHRAIN (7), BANGLADESH (9,175), BHUTAN (0), BRUNEI (0), BURMA (553), CAMBODIA (103), HONG KONG Spec. Admin. Regn (136), INDONESIA (758), IRAN (489), IRAQ (49), ISRAEL (67), JAPAN (367), JORDAN (86), NORTH KOREA (3), KUWAIT (29), LAOS (7), LEBANON (47), MALAYSIA (102), MALDIVES (0), MONGOLIA (4), NEPAL (128), OMAN (4), PAKISTAN (3,187), QATAR (6), SAUDI ARABIA (83), SINGAPORE (33), SRI LANKA (220), SYRIA (66), THAILAND (117), UNITED ARAB EM. (42), YEMEN (63)
Asia countries that did not qualify for DV-2000 were : CHINA - Mainland born and Taiwan born, INDIA, PHILIPPINES, SOUTH KOREA, and VIETNAM.
EUROPE:
ALBANIA (6,401), ANDORRA (0), ARMENIA (1,214), AUSTRIA (170), AZERBAIJAN (423), BELARUS (896), BELGIUM (83), BOSNIA & HERZ. (83), BULGARIA (4,381), CROATIA (123), CYPRUS (37), CZECH REPUBLIC (215), DENMARK (88), ESTONIA (152), FINLAND (72), FRANCE (602), Martinique (3), GEORGIA (423), GERMANY (3,417), GREECE (107), HUNGARY (219), ICELAND (35), ITALY (294), KAZAKHSTAN (689), KYRGYZSTAN (181), LATVIA (288), LIECHTENSTEIN (1), LITHUANIA (1,316), LUXEMBOURG (4), MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC (397), MALTA (27), MOLDOVA (418), MONACO (1), NETHERLANDS (112), Aruba (2), Netherlands Antilles (7), NORTHERN IRELAND (73), NORWAY (39), PORTUGAL (67), Macau (16), ROMANIA (3,494), RUSSIA (6,481), SAN MARINO (0), SERBIA-MONTENEGRO (597), SLOVAKIA (375), SLOVENIA (26), SPAIN (123), SWEDEN (272), SWITZERLAND (420), TAJIKISTAN (190), TURKEY (1,368), TURKMENISTAN (66), UKRAINE (8,035), UZBEKISTAN (964), VATICAN CITY (0)
The UK (Great Britain) and Poland did not qualify for the DV-2000 program; Northern Ireland did qualify and is listed.
NORTH AMERICA
BAHAMAS (36)
The Bahamas is the only country in North America that qualified for the DV-2000 program, CANADA did not qualify.
OCEANIA:
AUSTRALIA (656), FIJI (1,069), KIRIBATI (0), MARSHALL ISLANDS (7), MICRONESIA, FED. STATES OF (0), NAURU (0), NEW ZEALAND (357), PALAU (2), PAPAU NEW GUINEA (9), SAMOA (24), SOLOMON ISLANDS (0), TONGA (178), TUVALU (0), VANUATU (0)
SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN:
ANTIGUA & BARBUDA (11), ARGENTINA (404), BARBADOS (23), BELIZE (18), BOLIVA (78), BRAZIL (940), CHILE (75), COSTA RICA (150), CUBA (1,286), DOMINICA (58), ECUADOR (496), GRENADA (36), GUATEMALA (302), GUYANA (166), HONDURAS (143), NICARAGUA (38), PANAMA (100), PARAGUAY (7), PERU (1.040), ST. KITTS & NEVIS (7), SAINT LUCIA (22), ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES (26), SURINAME (23), TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO (607), URUGUAY (39), VENEZUELA (526)
Countries in the region that did not qualify for the DV-2000 program are: COLOMBIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, EL SALVADOR, HAITI, JAMAICA, and MEXICO.
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