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INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE 2006 DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAM (DV-2006)
The congressionally mandated Diversity Immigrant Visa Program is administered on an annual basis by the Department of State and conducted under the terms of Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Section 131 of the Immigration Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-649) amended INA 203 to provide for a new class of immigrants known as "diversity immigrants" (DV immigrants). The Act makes available 50,000 permanent resident visas annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. The instructions for the 2006 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program are also available in PDF Format.
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.
For DV-2006, natives of the following countries are not eligible to apply because they sent a total of more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. in the previous five years:
CANADA, CHINA (mainland-born), COLOMBIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, EL SALVADOR, HAITI, INDIA, JAMAICA, MEXICO, PAKISTAN, PHILIPPINES, RUSSIA, 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.
LIST OF COUNTRIES BY REGION WHOSE NATIVES QUALIFY
The lists below show the countries whose natives are QUALIFIED within each geographic region for this diversity program. The determination of countries within each region is based on information provided by the Geographer of the Department of State. The countries whose natives do not qualify for the DV-2006 program were identified by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) according to the formula in Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Dependent areas overseas are included within the region of the governing country. The countries whose natives do NOT qualify for this diversity program (because they are the principal source countries of Family-Sponsored and Employment-Based immigration, or "high admission" countries) are noted after the respective regional lists.
AFRICA
Algeria
Libya
Angola
Madagascar
Benin
Malawi
Botswana
Mali
Burkina Faso
Mauritania
Burundi
Mauritius
Cameroon
Morocco
Cape Verde
Mozambique
Central African Republic
Namibia
Chad
Niger
Comoros
Nigeria
Congo
Rwanda
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Sao Tome and Principe
Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Senegal
Djibouti
Seychelles
Egypt
Sierra Leone
Equatorial Guinea
Somalia
Eritrea
South Africa
Ethiopia
Sudan
Gabon
Swaziland
Gambia, The
Tanzania
Ghana
Togo
Guinea
Tunisia
Guinea-Bissau
Uganda
Kenya
Zambia
Lesotho
Zimbabwe
Liberia
LIST OF COUNTRIES BY REGION WHOSE NATIVES QUALIFY
ASIA
Afghanistan Lebanon
Bahrain Malaysia
Bangladesh Maldives
Bhutan Mongolia
Brunei Nepal
Burma North Korea
Cambodia Oman
East Timor Qatar
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Saudi Arabia
Indonesia Singapore
Iran Sri Lanka
Iraq Syria
Israel Taiwan
Japan Thailand
Jordan United Arab Emirates
Kuwait Yemen
Laos
Natives of the following Asian countries do not qualify for this year's diversity program: China [mainland-born], India, Pakistan, South Korea, Philippines, and Vietnam. The Hong Kong S.A.R and Taiwan do qualify and are listed above. Macau S.A.R. also qualifies and is listed below.
LIST OF COUNTRIES BY REGION WHOSE NATIVES QUALIFY
EUROPE
Albania Lithuania
Andorra Luxembourg
Armenia Macau Special Administrative Region
Austria Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic
Azerbaijan Malta
Belarus Moldova
Belgium Monaco
Bosnia and Herzegovina Netherlands (including components and dependent areas overseas)
Bulgaria Northern Ireland
Croatia Norway
Cyprus Poland
Czech Republic Portugal (including components and dependent areas overseas)
Denmark (including components and dependent areas overseas) Romania
Estonia San Marino
Finland Serbia and Montenegro
France (including components and dependent areas overseas) Slovakia
Georgia Slovenia
Germany Spain
Greece Sweden
Hungary Switzerland
Iceland Tajikistan
Ireland Turkey
Italy Turkmenistan
Kazakhstan Ukraine
Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan
Latvia Vatican City
Liechtenstein
Natives of the following European countries do not qualify for this year's diversity program: Great Britain and Russia. Great Britain (United Kingdom) includes the following dependent areas: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn, St. Helena, Turks and Caicos Islands. 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.
LIST OF COUNTRIES BY REGION WHOSE NATIVES QUALIFY
NORTH AMERICA
The Bahamas
In North America, natives of Canada and Mexico do not qualify for this year's diversity program.
OCEANIA
Australia (including components and dependent areas overseas) Palau
Fiji Papua New Guinea
Kiribati Solomon Islands
Marshall Islands Tonga
Micronesia, Federated States of Tuvalu
Nauru Vanuatu
New Zealand (including components and dependent areas overseas) Samoa
SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN
Antigua and Barbuda Guyana
Argentina Honduras
Barbados Nicaragua
Belize Panama
Bolivia Paraguay
Brazil Peru
Chile Saint Kitts and Nevis
Costa Rica Saint Lucia
Cuba Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Dominica Suriname
Ecuador Trinidad and Tobago
Grenada Uruguay
Guatemala Venezuela
Countries in this region whose natives do not qualify for this year's diversity program: Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Jamaica, and Mexico.
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