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FY-1997 Diversity Immigrant Visa (DV-97) Lottery Results
Applicants registered for the DV-97 program were selected at random from the approximately 6.5 million qualified entries received during the one- month application period which ran from February 12, 1996 through March 12, 1996. An additional 1.1 million applications received (inside and outside the mail-in period) were disqualified for failing to follow directions properly.
The visas have been apportioned among six geographic regions with a maximum of 3,850 visas (7% of the 55,000 total) 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 of their notification latter and must fully complete the information requested. Registrants living in the United States who wish to apply for adjustment of their status must contact the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Once the 55,000 visa numbers have been used, the program for fiscal year 1997 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30,1 997 will derive no further benefit from their DV-97 registration.
Applicants who have not received a notification letter were not selected and may wish to check the National Visa Center at (603) 334-0700, the Consular Affairs homepage on the Internet at http://travel.state.gov, or the automated fax service at 202/647-3000 code 1103 for updates on next year’s lottery, the dates of which have not yet been scheduled.
The following is the statistical breakdown by foreign state chargeability of those registered for the DV-97 program:
I. AFRICA - (20,623 visas are available in fiscal year 1997):
ALGERIA (548) ANGOLA (16) BENIN (66) BOTSWANA (6) BURKINA FASO (16) BURUDI (20) CAMEROON (1,115) CAPE VERDE ((113) CENTRAL AF. REP. (8) CHAD (22) COMORO (O) CONGO (8) COTE D’IVOIRE (356) DJIBOUTI (13) EGYPT (3,903) EQUATORIAL GUINEA (5) ERITREA (951) ETHIOPIA (3,210) GABON (10) GAMBIA, THE (230) GHANA (7,119) GUINEA (337) GUINEA-BISSAU (1) KENYA (927) LESOTHO (5) LIBERIA (1,500) LIBYA (28) MADAGASCAR (50) MALAWI (64) MALI (151) MAURITANIA (17) MAURITIUS (31) MOROCCO (2,016) MOZAMBIQUE (7) NAMIBIA (1) NIGER (8) NIGERIA (7,080) RWANDA (72) SAO TOME & PRINCIPE (4) SENEGAL (1,137) SEYCHELLES (0) SIERRA LEONE (2,440) SOMALIA (862) SOUTH AFRICA (544) SUDAN (1,371) SWAZILAND (1) TANZANIA (267) TOGO (281) TUNISIA (106) UGANDA (308) ZAIRE (303) ZAMBIA (160) ZIMBABWE (104)
II. ASIA - (7,187 visas are available for fiscal year 1997):
AFGHANISTAN (198) BAHRAIN (4) BANGLADESH (6,784) BHUTAN (1) BRUNEI (1) BURMA (231) CAMBODIA (28) HONG KONG (503) INDONESIA (176) IRAN (523) IRAQ (113) ISRAEL (52) JAPAN (428) JORDAN (65) NORTH KOREA (10) KUWAIT (32) LAOS (4) LEBANON (80) MALAYSIA (73) MALDIVES (0) MONGOLIA (0) NEPA (160) OMAN (1) PAKISTAN (3,063) QATAR (1) SAUDI ARABIA (11) SINGAPORE (18) SRI LANKA (378) SYRIA (57) THAILAND (52) UNITED ARAB EM. (0) YEMEN (52)
(Asia countries that did not qualify for the DV-97 are: CHINA - mainland born and Taiwan born, INDIA, SOUTH KOREA, PHILIPPINES, and VIETNAM.)
III. EUROPE (23,910 visas for fiscal year 1997):
ALBANIA (6,764) ANDORRA (0) ARMENIA (1,970) AUSTRIA (213) AZERBAIJAN (326) BELARUS (450) BELGIUM (138) BOSNIA & HERZ. (163) BULGARIA (3,144) CROATIA (180) CYPRUS(43) CZECH REPUBLIC (221) DENMARK (79) ESTONIA (108) FINLAND (171) FRANCE (513) French Guiana (1) Guadeloupe (2) Martinique (2) GEORGIA (224) GERMANY (2,330) GREECE (164) HUNGARY (275) ICELAND (47) IRELAND (990) ITALY (515) KAZAKSTAN (247) KYRGYZSTAN (46) LATVIA (183) LIECHTENSTEIN (2) LITHUANIA (712) LUXEMBOURG (4) MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF (369) MALTA (4) MOLDOVA (216) MONACO (0) NETHERLANDS (237) Aruba (2) Netherlands Antilles (7) N. IRELAND (128) NORWAY (42) POLAND (5,003) PORTUGAL (249) Macau (249) ROMANIA (3,769) RUSSIA (3,255) SAN MARINO (0) SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO (671) SLOVAKIA (763) SLOVENIA (18) SPAIN (179) SWEDEN (294) SWITZERLAND (772) TAJIKISTAN (74) TURKEY (2,885) TURKMENISTAN (24) URRAINE (3,154) UZBEKISTAN (297) VATICAN CITY (0)
(The UNITED KINGDOM (Great Britain) did not qualify for the DV-97 program; Northern Ireland did qualify, however, and is noted in the listings.)
IV. NORTH AMERICA (8 visas for fiscal year 1997):
BAHAMAS, THE (17)
(The Bahamas is the only country that qualified in the region for the DV-97 program, CANADA did not qualify.)
V. OCEANIA (817 visas for fiscal year 1997):
AUSTRALIA (260) FIJI (915) KIRIBATI (0) MARSHALL ISLANDS (0) MICRONESIA, FED. STATE OF (0) NAURU (0) NEW ZEALAND (175) PALAU (0) PAPUA NEW GUINEA (2) SOLOMON ISLANDS (0) TONGA (125) TUVALU (0) VANUATU (0) WESTERN SAMOA (13)
VI. SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN (2,455 visas for fiscal year 1997):
ANTIGUA & BARBUDA (2) ARGENTINA (150) BARADOS (25) BELIZE (15) BOLIVA (81) BRAZIL (274) CHILE (51) COSTA RICA (43) CUBA (1,475) DOMINICA (17) ECUADOR (547) GRENADA (17) GUATEMALA (280) GUYANA (121) HAITI (112) HONDURAS (101) NICARAGUA (383) PANAMA (21) PARAGUAY (12) PERU (430) ST. KITTS & NEVIS (3) SAINT LUCIA (12) ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES (7) SURINAME (14) TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO (177) URUGUAY (28) VENEZUELA (227)
Countries in the region that did not qualify for the DV-97 program are: COLOMBIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, EL SALVADOR, JAMAICA, and MEXICO.)
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