DV Instruction and 2010 Results
Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery Instructions
The online entry registration period for the DV-2011 Diversity Visa lottery is between noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), Friday, October 2, 2009, and noon, Eastern Standard Time (EST) (GMT-5), Monday, November 30, 2009. Entrants apply on Form DS-5501, Electronic Diversity Visa Entry Form available only during the DV open registration period. Review the DV-2011 Instructions below for more information.
- The English version of the DV-2011 Lottery Instructions is available in PDF format for your convenience.
- Please review the Press Release for the DV-2011 Lottery Instructions.
Additional Languages (all translations are in .pdf format)
The English language version of the DV-2010 Lottery Instructions is the only official version. Some unofficial translations in additional languages will be published and will be added to this page as they become available. Check this webpage at a later time for additional available translations.
Note: If you do not see instructions in your native language, please see the U.S. Embassy website to find out whether your country may have additional Diversity Visa information.
Diversity Visa Program Information
See the Diversity Visa Program webpage for information about:
- Important fraud warning;
- DV qualifying occupations;
- DV 2010 Status Check – Entrants who previously completed online DV 2010 entry through the official website can check the status of their entry at http://www.dvlottery.state.gov
- Results for DV-2010 Lottery – DV-2010 lottery winners were already notified by mail and will provided further instructions. Those selected in the random drawing are NOT notified by email. Those individuals NOT selected will NOT receive any notification.
Diversity Visa Lottery 2010 (DV-2010) Results
The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2010 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 102,800 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-2010 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2010 (October 1, 2009 until September 30, 2010).
Applicants registered for the DV-2010 program were selected at random from over 13.6 million qualified entries received during the 60 day application period that ran from noon on October 2, 2008, until noon, December 1, 2008. 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 2010 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2010 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2010 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2010 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2010.
Only participants in the DV-2010 program who were selected for further processing have been notified. Those who have not received notification were not selected. They may try for the upcoming DV-2011 lottery if they wish. The dates for the registration period for the DV-2011 lottery program will be widely publicized during August 2009.
* 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-2010 program:
AFRICA |
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ALGERIA |
1,957 |
ETHIOPIA |
5,200 |
NIGER |
56 |
ANGOLA |
46 |
GABON |
19 |
NIGERIA |
6,006 |
BENIN |
369 |
GAMBIA, THE |
108 |
RWANDA |
178 |
BOTSWANA |
23 |
GHANA |
8,752 |
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE |
0 |
BURKINA FASO |
184 |
GUINEA |
737 |
SENEGAL |
520 |
BURUNDI |
83 |
GUINEA-BISSAU |
8 |
SEYCHELLES |
4 |
CAMEROON |
3,719 |
KENYA |
4,619 |
SIERRA LEONE |
3,898 |
CAPE VERDE |
6 |
LESOTHO |
2 |
SOMALIA |
229 |
CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. |
20 |
LIBERIA |
2,172 |
SOUTH AFRICA |
863 |
CHAD |
27 |
LIBYA |
152 |
SUDAN |
1,084 |
COMOROS |
9 |
MADAGASCAR |
31 |
SWAZILAND |
11 |
CONGO |
92 |
MALAWI |
50 |
TANZANIA |
221 |
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE |
1,817 |
MALI |
129 |
TOGO |
827 |
COTE D’IVOIRE |
658 |
MAURITANIA |
20 |
TUNISIA |
164 |
DJIBOUTI |
33 |
MAURITIUS |
78 |
UGANDA |
396 |
EGYPT |
4,201 |
MOROCCO |
3,124 |
WESTERN SAHARA |
0 |
EQUATORIAL GUINEA |
15 |
MOZAMBIQUE |
8 |
ZAMBIA |
93 |
ERITREA |
799 |
NAMIBIA |
16 |
ZIMBABWE |
170 |
ASIA |
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AFGHANISTAN |
345 |
ISRAEL |
99 |
OMAN |
2 |
BAHRAIN |
15 |
JAPAN |
302 |
QATAR |
13 |
BANGLADESH |
6,001 |
JORDAN |
143 |
SAUDI ARABIA |
104 |
BHUTAN |
2 |
NORTH KOREA |
3 |
SINGAPORE |
37 |
BRUNEI |
0 |
KUWAIT |
70 |
SRI LANKA |
650 |
BURMA |
473 |
LAOS |
3 |
SYRIA |
98 |
CAMBODIA |
359 |
LEBANON |
181 |
TAIWAN |
368 |
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION |
49 |
MALAYSIA |
60 |
THAILAND |
54 |
INDONESIA |
277 |
MALDIVES |
0 |
TIMOR-LESTE |
0 |
IRAN |
2,773 |
MONGOLIA |
144 |
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES |
30 |
IRAQ |
142 |
NEPAL |
2,132 |
YEMEN |
72 |
EUROPE |
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ALBANIA |
2,311 |
GREECE |
48 |
NEW CALEDONIA |
0 |
ANDORRA |
6 |
GREENLAND |
2 |
NORTHERN IRELAND |
31 |
ARMENIA |
1,332 |
GUADELOUPE |
13 |
NORWAY |
60 |
ARUBA |
16 |
HUNGARY |
192 |
PORTUGAL |
51 |
AUSTRIA |
181 |
ICELAND |
36 |
REUNION |
5 |
AZERBAIJAN |
324 |
IRELAND |
167 |
ROMANIA |
674 |
BELARUS |
1,178 |
ITALY |
470 |
RUSSIA |
1,912 |
BELGIUM |
117 |
KAZAKHSTAN |
343 |
SAN MARINO |
0 |
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA |
72 |
KYRGYZSTAN |
205 |
SERBIA |
367 |
BULGARIA |
842 |
LATVIA |
90 |
SLOVAKIA |
108 |
CROATIA |
74 |
LIECHTENSTEIN |
0 |
SLOVENIA |
19 |
CYPRUS |
23 |
LITHUANIA |
195 |
SPAIN |
169 |
CZECH REPUBLIC |
116 |
LUXEMBOURG |
2 |
ST. PIERRE & MIQUELON |
0 |
DENMARK |
75 |
MACAU SPECIAL ADMIN REGION |
17 |
SWEDEN |
163 |
ESTONIA |
66 |
MACEDONIA |
272 |
SWITZERLAND |
185 |
FINLAND |
83 |
MALTA |
7 |
TAJIKISTAN |
178 |
FRANCE |
703 |
MARTINIQUE |
4 |
TURKEY |
2,826 |
FRENCH GUIANA |
4 |
MOLDOVA |
724 |
TURKMENISTAN |
108 |
FRENCH POLYNESIA |
8 |
MONACO |
0 |
UKRAINE |
5,499 |
FRENCH SOUTHERN & ANTARCTIC LANDS |
0 |
MONTENEGRO |
13 |
UZBEKISTAN |
4,059 |
GEORGIA |
648 |
NETHERLANDS |
200 |
VATICAN CITY |
0 |
GERMANY |
2,188 |
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES |
22 |
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NORTH AMERICA |
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BAHAMAS, THE |
18 |
OCEANIA |
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AUSTRALIA |
705 |
MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF |
0 |
SOLOMON ISLANDS |
3 |
CHRISTMAS ISLANDS |
2 |
NAURU |
3 |
TONGA |
80 |
COCO ISLAND |
0 |
NEW ZEALAND |
258 |
TUVALU |
1 |
COOK ISLANDS |
0 |
NIUE |
16 |
VANUATU |
7 |
FIJI |
674 |
PALAU |
12 |
WESTERN SAMOA |
26 |
KIRIBATI |
1 |
PAPUA NEW GUINEA |
15 |
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MARSHALL ISLANDS |
0 |
SAMOA |
0 |
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SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN |
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ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA |
9 |
DOMINICA |
18 |
SAINT LUCIA |
19 |
ARGENTINA |
188 |
GRENADA |
9 |
SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES |
9 |
BARBADOS |
29 |
GUYANA |
41 |
SURINAME |
10 |
BELIZE |
10 |
HONDURAS |
82 |
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO |
226 |
BOLIVIA |
142 |
NICARAGUA |
50 |
URUGUAY |
17 |
CHILE |
53 |
PANAMA |
39 |
VENEZUELA |
624 |
COSTA RICA |
74 |
PARAGUAY |
29 |
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CUBA |
298 |
SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS |
6 |
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Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2010: Brazil, Canada, China (mainland-born, excluding Hong Kong S.A.R., and Taiwan), Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.
Thanks for this opportunity provided for me.Am a cameroonian by nationality i will like to know when the next DV lotter shall be organise please may you endeavour to provide me with an updateand how to obtian the application forms.
Thanks yours sincerely.