DV 2025 – Selected Entrants

The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the selectees who are eligible to participate in the DV-2025 Diversity Visa (DV) program.  Random selection of DV participants was conducted under the terms of section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which makes up to *55,000 permanent resident visas available annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.  Approximately 131,060 prospective applicants (i.e., selectees and their spouses and children) have been registered, can confirm their selection, and may be eligible to make an application for an immigrant visa. Since selection is random and blind to the number of family members who might immigrate with the selectee, and it is likely that some of the selectees will not complete their cases or will be found ineligible for a visa, this larger figure should ensure that all DV-2025 numbers can be used during fiscal year 2025 (FY25: October 1, 2024, until September 30, 2025).

Entrants registered for the DV-2025 program were selected at random from 19,927,656 qualified entries received during the 35-day application period that ran from noon, Eastern Daylight Time on Wednesday, October 4, 2023, until noon, Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, November 7, 2023.  The visas will be apportioned among the six geographic regions to ensure a maximum of seven percent are issued to persons chargeable to any single country.  During the visa interview, principal applicants must provide proof of a high school education or its equivalent, or 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 all required steps.

Selectees who are physically present with legal status in the United States may apply to adjust their status by first contacting the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for information on the requirements and procedures.  Once the total *55,000 visa numbers have been used, the program for fiscal year 2025 will end.  Selectees who do not receive visas or status by September 30, 2025, will derive no further benefit from their DV-2025 registration.  Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2025 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative DV status until September 30, 2025.

Dates for the DV-2026 program registration period will be widely publicized in the coming months.  Those interested in entering the DV-2026 program should check the Department of State’s Diversity Visa web page in the coming months.

*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.  This will result in reduction of the DV-2025 annual limit to approximately 54,850.  Additionally, Section 5104 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2024 amended the NACARA’s provisions on the Diversity Visa program such that the number of visas made available under the NDAA will also be deducted from the 55,000 DVs annually allocated.  This will result in an additional reduction of the DV-2025 annual limit to approximately 51,350.

The following is the statistical breakdown by foreign state of chargeability of those registered for the DV-2025 program:

AFRICA
ALGERIA  5,526ESWATINI  6NAMIBIA 5
ANGOLA  738ETHIOPIA  3,674NIGER  70
BENIN  1,032GABON  81RWANDA  1,385
BOTSWANA  7GAMBIA, THE  159SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE  3
BURKINA FASO 262GHANA  2,686SENEGAL  656
BURUNDI  773GUINEA  1,291SIERRA LEONE  957
CABO VERDE  52GUINEA-BISSAU  12SOMALIA  966
CAMEROON  3,962KENYA  4,459SOUTH AFRICA  163
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC  29LESOTHO  10SOUTH SUDAN  32
CHAD  419LIBERIA  2,004SUDAN  5,505
COMOROS  4LIBYA  192TANZANIA  371
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE  2,729MADAGASCAR  35TOGO  2,287
CONGO, REPUBLIC OF THE  513MALAWI  61TUNISIA  96
COTE D’IVOIRE  883MALI  167UGANDA  1,061
DJIBOUTI  132MAURITANIA  228ZAMBIA  118
EGYPT  5,515MAURITIUS  2ZIMBABWE  210
EQUATORIAL GUINEA  24MOROCCO  4,237 
ERITREA  142MOZAMBIQUE  11 
   
ASIA  
AFGHANISTAN  4,009JORDAN  775SAUDI ARABIA  420
BAHRAIN  4KOREA, NORTH  1SINGAPORE  11
BHUTAN  269KUWAIT  105SRI LANKA 1,618
BURMA  1,723LAOS  63SYRIA  431
CAMBODIA  457LEBANON  115TAIWAN  227
INDONESIA  193MALAYSIA  34THAILAND  405
IRAN  5,267MONGOLIA  174UNITED ARAB EMIRATES  153
IRAQ  667NEPAL  3,861YEMEN  1,894
ISRAEL  104OMAN  13 
JAPAN  149QATAR  56 
   
EUROPE  
ALBANIA  1,598GEORGIA 1,342NORTH MACEDONIA  188
ANDORRA  3GERMANY 479NORTHERN IRELAND  6
ARMENIA  2,971GREECE  37NORWAY  7
AUSTRIA  51HUNGARY  97POLAND  309
AZERBAIJAN  1,730ICELAND  5PORTUGAL  38
BELARUS  1,577IRELAND  29  Macau  6
BELGIUM  49ITALY  263ROMANIA  199
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA  35KAZAKHSTAN  2,004RUSSIA  5,519
BULGARIA  107KOSOVO  260SERBIA  154
CROATIA  7KYRGYZSTAN  3,095SLOVAKIA 26
CYPRUS  14LATVIA  43SLOVENIA  3
CZECH REPUBLIC  28LIECHTENSTEIN  1SPAIN  142
DENMARK  28LITHUANIA  89SWEDEN  49
  Faroe Islands  1LUXEMBOURG  4SWITZERLAND  42
  Greenland  1MALTA  3TAJIKISTAN  2,982
ESTONIA  23MOLDOVA  1,413TURKEY  4,194
FINLAND  18MONTENEGRO  38TURKMENISTAN  2,010
FRANCE  275NETHERLANDS  34UKRAINE  4,002
  French Polynesia  2  Aruba  1UZBEKISTAN 5,564
  Saint Barthelemy  2  
   
NORTH AMERICA  
BAHAMAS, THE  19  
   
OCEANIA  
AUSTRALIA  894NAURU  17SAMOA  16
  Christmas Island  1NEW ZEALAND  302SOLOMON ISLANDS  15
  Cocos (Keeling) Islands  53  Tokelau  15TONGA  266
COOK ISLANDS 27NIUE  1TUVALU  4
FIJI  2,359PAPUA NEW GUINEA  22VANUATU  5
KIRIBATI  32REPUBLIC OF PALAU  24 
   
SOUTH AMERICA  
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA  5DOMINICA  4PARAGUAY  20
ARGENTINA  130ECUADOR  795PERU  657
BARBADOS  4GRENADA  1SAINT LUCIA  6
BELIZE  1GUATEMALA  230SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES  7
BOLIVIA  102GUYANA 18SURINAME  6
CHILE  61NICARAGUA  86TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO  40
COSTA RICA  72PANAMA  29URUGUAY  29
CUBA  2,348  
   

Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2025: Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China (including Hong Kong SAR), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Venezuela, and Vietnam.