If you
AND your parents were born in one of those countries,
you are not eligible to participate in this year`s Lottery.
REMEMBER: When applying based on your parents native country,
you have to make sure you fill in the "Native Country"
field on the registration form.
Africa
All countries are qualified.
Asia
CHINA, INDIA, PAKISTAN, PHILIPPINES, RUSSIA, SOUTH KOREA,
VIETNAM.
Persons born in Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taiwan are eligible.
Europe
POLAND, UNITED KINGDOM and its dependent territories.
Persons born in NORTHERN IRELAND ARE eligible.
North America
CANADA, MEXICO
Oceania
All countries are qualified.
South
America, Central America and the Caribbean
BRAZIL, PERU, COLOMBIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, EL SALVADOR, HAITI,
JAMAICA.
Nativity
requirements:
The annual DV
program makes permanent residence visas available to persons
meeting the simple, but strict, eligibility requirements.
Applicants for Diversity Visas are chosen by a computer-generated
random lottery drawing. The visas, however, are distributed
among six geographic regions with a greater number of visas
going to regions with lower rates of immigration, and with
no visas going to citizens of countries sending more than
50,000 immigrants to the U.S. in the past five years. Within
each region, no one country may receive more than seven
percent of the available Diversity Visas in any one year.
Native
of a country whose natives qualify:
In most cases
this means the country in which the applicant was born.
However, if a person was born in a country whose natives
are ineligible but his/her spouse was born in a country
whose natives are eligible, such person can claim the spouse`s
country of birth providing both the applicant and spouse
are issued visas and enter the U.S. simultaneously. If a
person was born in a country whose natives are ineligible,
but neither of his/her parents was born there or resided
there at the time of the birth, such person may be able
to claim nativity in one of the parent`s country of birth.
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