DV-2018 Diversity Visa Program And ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES

ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES

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In order to apply for DV Entry Form (E-DV) one of the requirement is to be born in the country eligible for this lottery. The list below shows the countries whose natives are eligible for DV-2018, grouped by geographic region. Dependent areas overseas are included within the region of the governing country. The countries whose natives are not eligible for the DV program were identified by natives are not eligible for the DV program which were identified by USCIS, according to the formula in Section 203(c) of the INA. The countries whose natives are not eligible for the DV program (because they are the principal source countries of Family-Sponsored and Employment- -countries) are noted after the respective regional lists. USA DV Lottery Complete Details (A-Z) What do the terms “native” mean? Native ordinarily means someone born in a particular country, regardless of the individual’s current country of residence or nationality. Native can also mean someone who is entitled to be charged to a country other than the one in which he/she was born under the provisions of Section 202(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Why do natives of certain countries not qualify for the DV Program? DVs are intended to provide an immigration opportunity for persons who are not from “high admission” countries. The law defines “high admission countries” as those from which a total of 50,000 persons in the Family-Sponsored and Employment-Based visa categories immigrated to the United States during the previous five years. Each year, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) tallies the family and employment immigrant admission and adjustment of status figures for the previous five years to identify the countries that are considered “high admission” and whose natives will therefore be ineligible for the annual diversity visa program. Since this calculation is made annually, the list of countries whose natives are eligible or not eligible may change from one year to the next. Soon we will publish list of the countries eligible in year 2016. List of countries / areas by region whose natives were eligible in year 2015. AFRICA  Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo Congo, Democratic Republic of the Cote D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Djibouti Egypt* Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia, The Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe *Persons born in the areas administered prior to June 1967 by Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt are chargeable, respectively, to Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt. Persons born in the Gaza Strip are chargeable to Egypt; persons born in the West Bank are chargeable to Jordan; persons born in the Golan Heights are chargeable to Syria. USA DV Lottery Complete Details (A-Z)In Africa, natives of Nigeria are not eligible for this year’s Diversity Visa program. ASIA Afghanistan Bahrain Bhutan Brunei Burma Cambodia Hong Kong Special Administrative Region** Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel* Japan Jordan* Kuwait Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Nepal North Korea Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria* Taiwan** Thailand Timor - Leste United Arab Emirates Yemen *Persons born in the areas administered prior to June 1967 by Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt are chargeable, respectively, to Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt. Persons born in the Gaza Strip are chargeable to Egypt; persons born in the West Bank are chargeable to Jordan; persons born in the Golan Heights are chargeable to Syria. USA DV Lottery Complete Details (A-Z)**Natives of the following Asia Region countries are no eligible for this year’s Diversity Visa program: Bangladesh, China (mainland - born), India, Pakistan, South Korea, Philippines, and Vietnam. Hong Kong S.A.R. (Asia region), Macau S.A.R. (Europe region), and Taiwan (Asia region) do qualify and are listed here.  EUROPE   Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark (including components and dependent areas overseas) Estonia Finland France (including components and dependent areas overseas) Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Kosovo Kyrgyzstan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Special Administrative Region** Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands (including components and dependent areas overseas) Northern Ireland** Norway Poland Portugal (including components and dependent areas overseas) Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Tajikistan Turkey Turkmenistan Ukraine Uzbekistan Vatican City **Natives of the following European countries are not eligible for this year’s DV program: Great Britain (United  Kingdom). Great Britain (United Kingdom) includes the following dependent areas: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn, St. Helena, and Turks and Caicos Islands.  USA DV Lottery Complete Details (A-Z) Note that for purposes of the diversity program only, Northern Ireland is treated separately; Northern Ireland does qualify and is listed among the qualifying areas. Macau S.A.R.does qualify and is listed above. NORTHAMERICA  The Bahamas In North America, natives of Canada and Mexico are not OCEANIA   Australia (including components and dependent areas overseas) Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia, Federated States of Nauru New Zealand (including components and dependent areas overseas) Palau Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Samoa SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN  Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Barbados Belize Bolivia Chile Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Grenada Guatemala Guyana Honduras Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Venezuela Countries in this region whose natives are not eligible for this year’s DV program: Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, and Peru. More Immigration Easy Way and News For DV-2017, natives of the following countries are not eligible to apply, because more than 50,000 natives of these countries immigrated to the United States in the previous five years: Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, and Peru. Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China (mainland - born), Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories,and Vietnam. Persons born in Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR,and Taiwan are eligible. Note:  But if your parents or husband/wife was born in the eligible country you may qualify.  Below you can see a list of countries which entered for the DV lottery in previous year 2014 and number of winning entries (visas).  USA DV Lottery Official Facebook Page Year 2014:   DV-2016 Winnings as of:  May 10th, 2015 AFRICA ALGERIA  1,952 ETHIOPIA  4,000 NIGER  102 ANGOLA  108 GABON  32 RWANDA  412 BENIN  914 GAMBIA, THE  67 SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE  2 BOTSWANA  4 GHANA  3,179 SENEGAL  427 BURKINA FASO  199 GUINEA  1,818 SEYCHELLES  0 BURUNDI  208 GUINEA-BISSAU  4 SIERRA LEONE  2,141 CABO VERDE  6 KENYA  2,729 SOMALIA  272 CAMEROON  3,047 LESOTHO  5 SOUTH AFRICA  535 CENTRAL AFRICAN REP.  23 LIBERIA  4,430 SOUTH SUDAN  17 CHAD  40 LIBYA  240 SUDAN  3,216 COMOROS  3 MADAGASCAR  75 SWAZILAND  7 CONGO  124 MALAWI  17 TANZANIA  93 CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE  4,475 MALI  114 TOGO  1,241 COTE D’IVOIRE  1,129 MAURITANIA  15 TUNISIA  227 DJIBOUTI  92 MAURITIUS  41 UGANDA  453 EGYPT  4,024 MOROCCO  1,993 ZAMBIA  57 EQUATORIAL GUINEA  0 MOZAMBIQUE  11 ZIMBABWE  152 ERITREA  544 NAMIBIA  18 ASIA AFGHANISTAN  406 JAPAN  302 QATAR  42 BAHRAIN  13 JORDAN  349 SAUDI ARABIA  267 BHUTAN  22 NORTH KOREA  0 SINGAPORE  39 BRUNEI  1 KUWAIT  143 SRI LANKA  704 BURMA  236 LAOS  1 SYRIA  460 CAMBODIA  1,229 LEBANON  225 TAIWAN  297 HONG KONG SPECIALADMIN. REGION  151 MALAYSIA  95 THAILAND  73 INDONESIA  126 MALDIVES  3 TIMOR-LESTE  0 IRAN  4,501 MONGOLIA  185 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES  103 IRAQ  330 NEPAL  3,801 YEMEN  724 ISRAEL  162 OMAN  12 EUROPE ALBANIA  1,931 GREECE  93 NORWAY  35 ANDORRA  0 HUNGARY  186 POLAND  629 ARMENIA  1,277 ICELAND  3 PORTUGAL  58 AUSTRIA  50 IRELAND  89   MACAU  23 AZERBAIJAN  380 ITALY  410 ROMANIA  626 BELARUS  811 KAZAKHSTAN  376 RUSSIA  2,200 BELGIUM  47 KOSOVO  244 SAN MARINO  0 BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA  92 KYRGYZSTAN  209 SERBIA  283 BULGARIA  865 LATVIA  73 SLOVAKIA  70 CROATIA  67 LIECHTENSTEIN  0 SLOVENIA  33 CYPRUS  28 LITHUANIA  153 SPAIN  193 CZECH REPUBLIC  74 LUXEMBOURG  0 SWEDEN  108 DENMARK  35 MACEDONIA  258 SWITZERLAND  122 ESTONIA  40 MALTA  0 TAJIKISTAN  337 FINLAND  57 MOLDOVA  1,854 TURKEY  1,795 FRANCE  510 MONACO  0 TURKMENISTAN  124   French Polynesia  1 MONTENEGRO  8 UKRAINE  4,507   Saint Martin  1 NETHERLANDS  81 UZBEKISTAN  4,300   Wallis and Futuna  1   Aruba  4 VATICAN CITY  0 GEORGIA  571   CURACAO  2 GERMANY  678 NORTHERN IRELAND  9 NORTH AMERICA BAHAMAS, THE  16 OCEANIA AUSTRALIA  832 NAURU  12 SAMOA  5   Cocos Islands  1 NEW ZEALAND  208 SOLOMON ISLANDS  0 FIJI  393   COOK ISLANDS  4 TONGA  26 KIRIBATI  4 PALAU  4 TUVALU  0 MARSHALL ISLANDS  0 PAPUA NEW GUINEA  3 VANUATU  5 MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF  3 SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA  0 DOMINICA  6 SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS  2 ARGENTINA  68 GRENADA  7 SAINT LUCIA  5 BARBADOS  0 GUATEMALA  31 SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES  7 BELIZE  0 GUYANA  14 SURINAME  3 BOLIVIA  49 HONDURAS  73 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO  51 CHILE  17 NICARAGUA  58 URUGUAY  21 COSTA RICA  50 PANAMA  5 VENEZUELA  1,038 CUBA  1,488 PARAGUAY  7