DV 2017 – Selected Entrants
The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2017 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 83,910 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-2017 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2017 (October 1, 2016 until September 30, 2017).
Applicants registered for the DV-2017 program were selected at random from 12,437,190 qualified entries (19,344,586 with derivatives) received during the application period that ran from noon, Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday, October 1, 2015, until noon, Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, November 3, 2015. 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 2017 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2017 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2017 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2017 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2017.
Dates for the DV-2018 program registration period will be widely publicized in the coming months. Those interested in entering the DV-2018 program should check the Department of State’s 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. 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-2017 program:
AFRICA | ||
ALGERIA 1,561 | ETHIOPIA 4,500 | NIGER 34 |
ANGOLA 80 | GABON 26 | RWANDA 277 |
BENIN 617 | GAMBIA, THE 46 | SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 0 |
BOTSWANA 15 | GHANA 3,170 | SENEGAL 357 |
BURKINA FASO 217 | GUINEA 1,233 | SEYCHELLES 1 |
BURUNDI 106 | GUINEA-BISSAU 3 | SIERRA LEONE 2,065 |
CABO VERDE 7 | KENYA 2,090 | SOMALIA 215 |
CAMEROON 2,096 | LESOTHO 1 | SOUTH AFRICA 427 |
CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. 9 | LIBERIA 3,105 | SOUTH SUDAN 17 |
CHAD 52 | LIBYA 274 | SUDAN 2,522 |
COMOROS 5 | MADAGASCAR 13 | SWAZILAND 4 |
CONGO 94 | MALAWI 17 | TANZANIA 89 |
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE 3,835 | MALI 82 | TOGO 963 |
COTE D’IVOIRE 891 | MAURITANIA 27 | TUNISIA 169 |
DJIBOUTI 53 | MAURITIUS 9 | UGANDA 240 |
EGYPT 4,501 | MOROCCO 1,905 | ZAMBIA 36 |
EQUATORIAL GUINEA 3 | MOZAMBIQUE 7 | ZIMBABWE 106 |
ERITREA 316 | NAMIBIA 12 | |
ASIA | ||
AFGHANISTAN 285 | JAPAN 204 | QATAR 33 |
BAHRAIN 12 | JORDAN 259 | SAUDI ARABIA 253 |
BHUTAN 16 | NORTH KOREA 0 | SINGAPORE 20 |
BRUNEI 0 | KUWAIT 101 | SRI LANKA 375 |
BURMA 213 | LAOS 0 | SYRIA 356 |
CAMBODIA 824 | LEBANON 183 | TAIWAN 260 |
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION 37 | MALAYSIA 39 | THAILAND 41 |
INDONESIA 115 | MALDIVES 0 | TIMOR-LESTE 0 |
IRAN 4,500 | MONGOLIA 144 | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 97 |
IRAQ 302 | NEPAL 4,000 | YEMEN 694 |
ISRAEL 127 | OMAN 9 | |
EUROPE | ||
ALBANIA 2,373 | HUNGARY 153 | NORWAY 24 |
ANDORRA 0 | ICELAND 13 | POLAND 517 |
ARMENIA 1,669 | IRELAND 63 | PORTUGAL 36 |
AUSTRIA 71 | ITALY 443 | ROMANIA 480 |
AZERBAIJAN 470 | KAZAKHSTAN 518 | RUSSIA 2,290 |
BELARUS 899 | KOSOVO 348 | SAN MARINO 0 |
BELGIUM 95 | KYRGYZSTAN 292 | SERBIA 376 |
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 119 | LATVIA 64 | SLOVAKIA 49 |
BULGARIA 666 | LIECHTENSTEIN 3 | SLOVENIA 16 |
CROATIA 36 | LITHUANIA 183 | SPAIN 204 |
CYPRUS 12 | LUXEMBOURG 5 | SWEDEN 94 |
CZECH REPUBLIC 53 | MACEDONIA 286 | SWITZERLAND 96 |
DENMARK 44 | MALTA 3 | TAJIKISTAN 414 |
ESTONIA 34 | MOLDOVA 1,762 | TURKEY 2,186 |
FINLAND 51 | MONACO 4 | TURKMENISTAN 91 |
FRANCE 467 | MONTENEGRO 25 | UKRAINE 4,500 |
French Polynesia 1 | NETHERLANDS 82 | UZBEKISTAN 4,501 |
New Calendonia 1 | Aruba 2 | VATICAN CITY 0 |
GEORGIA 680 | Curacao 1 | |
GERMANY 532 | Sint Maarten 4 | |
GREECE 86 | NORTHERN IRELAND 13 | |
NORTH AMERICA | ||
BAHAMAS, THE 10 | ||
OCEANIA | ||
AUSTRALIA 748 | NAURU 5 | SOLOMON ISLANDS 0 |
Cocos Islands 3 | NEW ZEALAND 213 | TONGA 42 |
FIJI 404 | Cook Islands 8 | TUVALU 1 |
KIRIBATI 3 | PALAU 0 | VANUATU 5 |
MARSHALL ISLANDS 0 | PAPUA NEW GUINEA 6 | |
MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF 2 | SAMOA 10 | |
SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN | ||
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 11 | DOMINICA 8 | SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 0 |
ARGENTINA 53 | GRENADA 7 | SAINT LUCIA 9 |
BARBADOS 1 | GUATEMALA 29 | SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES 4 |
BELIZE 3 | GUYANA 10 | SURINAME 0 |
BOLIVIA 30 | HONDURAS 44 | TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 34 |
CHILE 27 | NICARAGUA 9 | URUGUAY 12 |
COSTA RICA 18 | PANAMA 12 | VENEZUELA 1,134 |
CUBA 493 | PARAGUAY 3 |
Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2017: Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China (mainland-born, excluding Hong Kong S.A.R., Macau S.A.R., and Taiwan), Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.