Okay, I know a lady from South Africa over here and she’s having immigration problems. She’s about to give up and head back to SA. She mentioned the green card lottery to me on Friday and before I could ask her about it, the conversation went somewhere else. Do you know if the South Africans are excluded or is just the British?
Not eligible are:
BRAZIL, CANADA, CHINA, COLOMBIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC,
ECUADOR, EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, HAITI, INDIA, JAMAICA, MEXICO, PAKISTAN,
PHILIPPINES, PERU, POLAND, RUSSIA, SOUTH KOREA, UNITED KINGDOM(except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and VIETNAM.
This means that the lady you mentioned is permitted to apply for the lottery.
BTW I mistakenly said in my previous post that Poles are permitted, apparently they aren’t this year.
Note that the list of barred countries can change each year, although most of listed countries remain the same all the time.