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STATE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES SELECTION OF DV-2001 LOTTERY WINNERS
The State Department has registered applicants for further processing in the DV-2001 diversity visa lottery and has sent out notifications to approximately 90,000 people.  While there are only 50,000 visas available, more people are selected because of the strong probability that some of the first 50,000 selected either will not pursue their case or will fail to meet all of the qualifications for an immigrant visa under the DV program.  The visas must be issued during fiscal year 2001, between October 1, 2000 and September 30, 2001, at which point they become unavailable. 
There were 11 million qualified applications this year, and only 2 million applications that were rejected, one of the lowest rates of rejection ever in the program.  
Under the DV program, visas are divided among six regions of the world.  No country can receive more that seven percent of the available visas.  The primary qualification the applicant must meet is completion of high school or two years experience in an occupation that requires at least two years of training or experience within the past five years.  Spouses and minor children are allowed to obtain derivative status.
The following is the statistical breakdown by foreign-state chargeability of those registered for the DV-2001 program: please note that natives of the following were not eligible were not eligible to participate in DV-2001: Canada, China (except Hong Kong S.A.R.), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, South Korea, Taiwan, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam). 
AFRICA 
ALGERIA 949 
ERITREA 245 
NAMIBIA 5 
ANGOLA 9 
ETHIOPIA 5,007 
NIGER 18 
BENIN 62 
GABON 11 
NIGERIA 6,017 
BOTSWANA 21 
GAMBIA, THE 72 
RWANDA 56 
BURKINA FASO 18 
GHANA 6,000 
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 0 
BURUNDI 11 
GUINEA 283 
SENEGAL 316 
CAMEROON 653 
GUINEA-BISSAU 2 
SEYCHELLES 2 
CAPE VERDE 11 
KENYA 1,606 
SIERRA LEONE 2,240 
CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. 5 
LESOTHO 0 
SOMALIA 2,364 
CHAD 23 
LIBERIA 1,193 
SOUTH AFRICA 357 
COMOROS 0 
LIBYA 34 
SUDAN 1,661 
CONGO 45 
MADAGASCAR 29 
SWAZILAND 0 
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC 
MALAWI 25 
TANZANIA 231 
REPUBLIC OF THE 596 
MALI 59 
TOGO 699 
COTE D'IVOIRE 199 
MAURITANIA 23 
TUNISIA 83 
DJIBOUTI 25 
MAURITIUS 23 
UGANDA 154 
EGYPT 2,383 
MOROCCO 5,000 
ZAMBIA 101 
EQUATORIAL GUINEA 3 
MOZAMBIQUE 8 
ZIMBABWE 91 
ASIA 
AFGHANISTAN 309 
IRAQ 99 
NEPAL 376 
BAHRAIN 4 
ISRAEL 115 
OMAN 3 
BANGLADESH 5,003 
JAPAN 408 
PAKISTAN 4,721 
BHUTAN 1 
JORDAN 80 
QATAR 7 
BRUNEI 0 
NORTH KOREA 2 
SAUDI ARABIA 88 
BURMA 734 
KUWAIT 47 
SINGAPORE 41 
CAMBODIA 152 
LAOS 8 
SRI LANKA 410 
HONG KONG SPECIAL 
LEBANON 78 
SYRIA 85 
ADMIN. REGION 126 
MALAYSIA 70 
THAILAND 163 
INDONESIA 369 
MALDIVES 269 
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 40 
IRAN 740 
MONGOLIA 24 
YEMEN 201 
EUROPE 
ALBANIA 4,255 
GERMANY 1,902 
NORTHERN IRELAND 42 
ANDORRA 0 
GREECE 63 
NORWAY 14 
ARMENIA 989 
HUNGARY 120 
PORTUGAL 31 
AUSTRIA 90 
ICELAND 9 
ROMANIA 2,370 
AZERBAIJAN 300 
IRELAND 221 
RUSSIA 3,579 
BELARUS 861 
ITALY 141 
SAN MARINO 0 
BELGIUM 39 
KAZAKHSTAN 876 
SERBIA-MONTENEGRO 401 
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 59 
KYRGYZSTAN 184 
SLOVAKIA 331 
BULGARIA 2,893 
LATVIA 175 
SLOVENIA 10 
CROATIA 62 
LIECHTENSTEIN 0 
SPAIN 37 
CYPRUS 12 
LITHUANIA 1,200 
SWEDEN 87 
CZECH REPUBLIC 137 
LUXEMBOURG 2 
SWITZERLAND 1660 
DENMARK 45 
MACEDONIA, FORMER 
TAJIKISTAN 46 
ESTONIA 47 
YUGOSLAV REP. OF 190 
TURKEY 1,011 
FINLAND 27 
MALTA 4 
TURKMENISTAN 48 
FRANCE 260 
MOLDOVA 269 
UKRAINE 5,029 
REUNION 1 
MONACO 0 
UZBEKISTAN 1,026 
GEORGIA 287 
NETHERLANDS 53 
  
  
ARUBA 1 
  
NORTH AMERICA 
BAHAMAS, THE 19 
  
  
OCEANIA 
AUSTRALIA 333 
NAURU 0 
SOLOMON ISLANDS 0 
FIJI 676 
NEW ZEALAND 224 
TONGA 55 
KIRIBATI 0 
PALAU 0 
TUVALU 0
	
	

		








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