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STATE DEPARTMENT RELEASES DV-1 NUMBERS THROUGH JULY
The State Department has released information regarding visa availability for winners of the DV-1 lottery which occurred last year. The State Department has noted that visa numbers have already been allocated for all persons who had been reported documentarily qualified prior to the issuance of these numbers and who had been eligible under previous cutoff number announcements.. The same is true for persons who applied for adjustment of status and whose cases are scheduled for completion during May, June, or July. The numbers are as follows: 
For MAY, immigrant numbers in the DV category are available to

qualified applicants chargeable to all regions/eligible countries

as follows.  When an allocation cut-off number is shown, visas

are available only for applicants with DV regional lottery rank

numbers BELOW the specified allocations cut-off number.


               All DV Charge-
               ability Areas 
               Except Those Regions
Region         Listed Separately

AFRICA         AF 21,953      EXCEPT:   ETHIOPIA  14,695 
                                        NIGERIA   17,455

ASIA           AS 04,293      EXCEPT:   BANGLADESH AS 02,292

EUROPE         Current        EXCEPT:   POLAND (see note 1 below)

NORTH AMERICA  (see note 2 below)
 (BAHAMAS)

OCEANIA        OC 00,564

SOUTH AMERICA, SA 02,536 
CENTRAL AMERICA, 
and the CARIBBEAN


For JUNE, immigrant numbers in the DV category are available to

qualified applicants chargeable to all regions/eligible countries

as follows.  When an allocation cut-off number is shown, visas

are available only for applicants with DV regional lottery rank

numbers BELOW the specified allocations cut-off number.


               All DV Charge-
               ability Areas 
               Except Those Regions
Region         Listed Separately

AFRICA         AF 21,953      EXCEPT:   ETHIOPIA  19,539 
                                        NIGERIA   18,250

ASIA           AS 04,296      EXCEPT:   BANGLADESH AS 03,233

EUROPE         Current        EXCEPT:   POLAND (see note 1 below)

NORTH AMERICA  (see note 2 below)
 (BAHAMAS)

OCEANIA        OC 00,564

SOUTH AMERICA, Current 
CENTRAL AMERICA, 
and the CARIBBEAN


For JULY, immigrant numbers in the DV category are available to

qualified applicants chargeable to all regions/eligible countries

as follows.  When an allocation cut-off number is shown, visas

are available only for applicants with DV regional lottery rank

numbers BELOW the specified allocations cut-off number:


               All DV Charge-
               ability Areas 
               Except Those Regions
Region         Listed Separately

AFRICA         AF 26,931      EXCEPT:   ETHIOPIA  25,440 
                                        NIGERIA   24,319

ASIA           AS 05,721      EXCEPT:   BANGLADESH AS 04,733

EUROPE         Current        EXCEPT:   POLAND (see note 1 below)

NORTH AMERICA  (see note 2 below)
 (BAHAMAS)

OCEANIA        OC 00,075

SOUTH AMERICA, SA 02,843 
CENTRAL AMERICA, 
and the CARIBBEAN


NOTE 1:  Visas have already been made available for FY-1995 to

the Poland limit (3,850).  At present there are no numbers

available for this country. Further allocations will be possible

only to the extent that numbers already made available are

returned unused and can then be reallocated.  When the May DV

allocations were initially made, Diversity visa numbers were

provided for Poland applicants with lottery rank numbers below

1,314.  Applicants for whom numbers were allocated were scheduled

for visa interviews and sent notification letters by the National

Visa Center. Such scheduled visa interviews are not affected by

the unavailability of further allocations, but if final action on

such cases is not taken during the month for which a visa number

has been allocated, there is no assurance that a further

allocation will be possible in the future. No Poland numbers were

allocated or appointments scheduled for June or July.


NOTE 2:  Visas have already been made available for FY-1995 to

the North America limit (8).  At present further North America DV

allocations are "Unavailable".


Some North America numbers made available to consular offices may

be returned unused to the Department of State at the end of the

month of allocation; such numbers would then be available for

reallocation.  It is not likely that the amount of such numbers

will be very great, however.


DV Number Allocations for the Remainder of FY-1995:

July is the first month of the final quarter of Fiscal (visa)

Year 1995, which ends on September 30.  By the time that DV

allocations for July (based on the visa availability cut-offs

noted above) were made, applicant demand was sufficient for

numbers to have reached the FY-1995 limits in five of the DV

regions:  Africa, Asia, North America, Oceania, and South

America.  The amount of numbers remaining for July allocation was

sufficient to permit only those documentarily qualified

applicants to be accommodated whose rank numbers were below the

cut-offs indicated.  In the Europe region applicant demand was

less than the total of numbers available, however.  Thus, Europe

allocations are shown as "current" for July, with a balance of

numbers remaining for use during the latter months of FY-1995.


In addition, DV allocations for four countries have reached the

3,850 per-country limit: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and

Poland. Applicant demand in excess of the per-country limit has

oversubscribed DV allocations for those countries, and visa

availability for each is indicated separately from that of the

regions in which they are located.