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DV-1 LOTTERY UPDATE
The National Visa Center has completed notification of winners of the DV-1 lottery in which more than 6.5 million qualified entries were processed. In previous lotteries, a large number of winners did not pursue or were not eligible to pursue a visa. Consequently, in the DV-1 lottery, many more applicants were chosen than visas are available. DV-1 winners will have to act quickly. Because there is considerable confusion about what is the fastest way to pursue a DV-1 visa, many applicants in the US are simultaneously pursuing both adjustment of status at an INS office and consular processing at a U.S. consulate in their home country. 
The final breakdown of DV-1 winners is as follows: 
I. Africa - (20,200 visas available in fiscal year 1995)
A total of 64,189 applicants have been registered as follows: 
Algeria (1,384)	       Gabon (30)		Nigeria (15,047)
Angola  (93)	       Gambia, The (291)	Rwanda (27)
Benin (105)	       Ghana (8,477)	Sao Tome & Principe (2)
Botswana (8)	       Guinea (324)		Senegal (2,127)
Burkina Faso (15)	       Guinea-Bissau (35)	Seychelles (0)
Burundi (76)	       Kenya (2,354)	Sierra Leone (1,046)
Cameroon (908)	       Lesotho (8)		Somalia (1,729)
Cape Verde (170)	       Liberia (2,004)	South Africa (2,054)
Central Af.Rep.(14)       Libya (86)		Sudan (1,863)
Chad (17)	       Madagascar (35)	Swaziland (11)
Comoros (3)	       Malawi (47)		Tanzania (649)
Congo (35)	       Mali (220)		Togo (289)
Cote D'Ivoire (548)       Mauritania (45)	Tunisia (268)
Djibouti (22)	       Mauritius (68)		Uganda (582)
Egypt (7,951)	       Morocco (2,148)	Zaire (537)
Equatorial Guin.(0)        Mozambique (21)	Zambia (184)
Eritrea (1,584)	       Namibia (10)		Zimbabwe (308)
Ethiopia (8,295)	       Niger (35)
II. Asia - (6,837 visas for fiscal year 1995)
A total of 25,354 applicants have been registered as follows: 
Afghanistan (354)	       Israel (104)		Oman (4)
Bahrain (11)	       Japan (279)		Pakistan (5,137)
Bangladesh (14,541)     Jordan (202)		Qatar (1)
Bhutan (0)	       North Korea (12)	Saudi Arabia (64)
Brunei (4)	       Kuwait (48)		Singapore (23)
Burma (437)	       Laos (17)		Sri Lanka (515)
Cambodia (325)	       Lebanon (131)	Syria (101)
Hong Kong (1,123)	       Malaysia (141)	Thailand (121)
Indonesia (211)	       Maldives (0)		United Arab Em. (22)
Iran (679)	       Mongolia (11)		Yemen (42)
Iraq (174)	       Nepal (520)
(Asia countries that did not qualify for this year's DV-1 are: CHINA - mainland born and Taiwan born, INDIA, SOUTH KOREA, PHILIPPINES, AND VIETNAM.) 
III. Europe (24,549 visas for fiscal year 1995)
A total of 92,959 applicants have been registered as follows: 
Albania (829)	       Greece (348)		N. Ireland (269)
Andorra (2)	       Hungary (417)	Norway (265)
Armenia (1,303)	       Iceland (77)		Poland (49,985)
Austria (301)	       Ireland (2,148)	Portugal (801)
Azerbaijan (427)	       Italy (881)		Macau (428)
Belarus (252)	       Kazakhstan (4)	Romania (4,893)
Belgium (252)	       Kyrgyzstan (47)	Russia (7,223)
Bosnia & Herz.(255)       Latvia (207)		San Marino (0)
Bulgaria (2,696)	       Liechtenstein (0)	Serbia and 
Croatia (418)	       Lithuania (764)	Montenegro (1,788)
Cyprus (66)	       Luxembourg (5)	Slovakia (683)
Czech Rep. (262)	       Macedonia, The (4)	Slovenia (38)
Denmark (247)	          Former Yugoslav 	Spain (493)
Estonia (143)	          Republic of		Sweden (577)
Finland (321)	       Malta (27)		Switzerland (361)
France (1,144)	       Moldova (397)	Tajikistan (46)
Fr. Polynesia (9)	       Monaco (0)		Turkey (3,215)
French Guina (1)	       Netherlands (427)	Turkmenistan (20)
Guadeloupe (8)	       Aruba (1)		Ukraine (4,634)
Georgia (267)	       Netherlands		Uzbekistan (0)
Germany (2,013)	          Antilles (27)	Vatican City (0)
(The UNITED KINGDOM (GREAT BRITAIN) did not qualify for this year's DV-1 program; Northern Ireland and Hong Kong did qualify, however, and are noted in the listings.) 
IV. North America (8 visas for fiscal year 1995)
A total of 23 applicants have been registered as follows: 
Bahamas, The (23)
(In North America, CANADA, did not qualify for this year's DV-1 program.) 
V. Oceania (817 visas for fiscal year 1995)
A total of 2,787 applicants have been registered as follows: 
Australia (926)	       Micronesia, Fed.(0)	Papua New Guinea (12)
Fiji (1,226)	       States of		Solomon Islands (2)
Kiribati (0)	          Nauru (0)		Tonga (261)
Marshall Islands(0)	       New Zealand (309)	Tuvalu (0)
Niue (20)		       Vanuatu (0)		Palau (0)
Western Samoa (31)
VI. South America, C. America, and the Caribbean (2,589 visas for fiscal year 1995)
A total of 9,475 applicants have been registered as follows: 
Antigua & Barbuda (8)   Dominica (30)		Peru (1,538)
Argentina (163)	       Ecuador (888)	St. Kitts & Nevis (5)
Barbados (45)	       Grenada (48)           	Saint Lucia (25)
Belize (22)	       Guatemala (954)        	St. Vincent and (28)
Bolivia (131)	       Guyana (407)           	The Grenadines
Brazil (477)	       Haiti (578)            	Suriname (57)
Chile (94)	       Honduras (455)         	Trinidad and 
Colombia (1,100)	       Nicaragua (617)          	   Tobago (733)
Costa Rica (55)	       Panama (90)            	Uruguay (58)
Cuba (504)                  Paraguay (16)          	Venezuela (349)
(Countries in this region that do not qualify for this year's DV-1 program are: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, EL SALVADOR, JAMAICA, MEXICO.) 
Finally, while no final details on the next lottery have been released, the lottery is expected to take place during February 1995.