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NIGERIA is among several countries whose citizens are qualified to participate in the next round of US Diversity Visa lottery for 2009, Empowered Newswire has reported.   But with the perceived high rates of Nigerians applying and qualifying for the visa in recent times, it may soon join the category of countries that may become temporarily ineligible for the visa.

For instance, there are some 20 countries which are ineligible for the 2009 US visa lottery. A statement released on Thursday by the US State Department in Washington DC, said citizens and natives from such countries “are not eligible to apply because they sent a total of more than 50,000 immigrants to the United States over the period of the previous five years.”

Those countries included Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Haiti. Others are India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and Vietnam.

That means though the US Diversity visa lottery has been very popular among Nigerians in the last five years, fewer than 50,000 of them ultimately fulfilled the requirements to benefit from the visa even after initial selection.

The US government statement said applications for the 2009 Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery would be accepted only between noon Eastern US Daylight Time on Wednesday, October 3, 2007, and noon Eastern Standard Time on Sunday, December 2, 2007.

DV-2009 visas will be issued between October 1, 2008 and September 30, 2009, by which time, the selection process would have been completed.

All applicants can access the electronic Diversity Visa entry form at www.dvlottery.state.gov during the registration period. However, paper entries will not be accepted.

So as to avoid website delays resulting from heavy demand towards the end of the registration time when people are rushing to participate, applicants are encouraged not to wait until the last week of the registration period.

The annual US Diversity Visa Lottery is a congressionally mandated Immigrant Visa Programme administered yearly by the Department of State and conducted under the terms of Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which provides for “a maximum of up to 55,000 Diversity Visas (DV) each fiscal year to be made available to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.”

Nigerian Tribune
Sept 28 2007

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