The US Department of Statement has issued a report containing details on the results of the DV-97 green card lottery selection which is now complete. 100,000 applicants were selected and 55,000 permanent residency visas will actually be granted (the Department of State issues more approval notices than visas available based on the assumption that many of the winners will already have been approved for permanent residency through other means or will no longer be interested in immigrating to the US).
Approximately 6.5 million applications were considered in the lottery which ran from February 12, 1996. A further 1.1 million people were disqualified for failing to follow directions. Here are the results according to the DOS report:
The following is the statistical breakdown by foreign state chargeability=20 of those registered for the DV-97 program:
I. AFRICA - (20,623 visas are available in fiscal year 1997):
ALGERIA (548) ANGOLA (16) BENIN (66) BOTSWANA (6) BURKINA FASO (16) BURUDI (20) CAMEROON (1,115) CAPE VERDE ((113) CENTRAL AF. REP. (8) CHAD (22) COMORO (O) CONGO (8) COTE D'IVOIRE (356) DJIBOUTI (13) EGYPT (3,905) EQUATORIAL GUINEA (5) ERITREA (951) ETHIOPIA (3,210) GABON (10) GAMBIA, THE (230) GHANA (7,119) GUINEA (337) GUINEA-BISSAU (1) KENYA (927) LESOTHO (5) LIBERIA (1,500) LIBYA (28) MADAGASCAR (50) MALAWI (64) MALI (151) MAURITANIA (17) MAURITIUS (31) MOROCCO (2,016) MOZAMBIQUE (7) NAMIBIA (1) NIGER (8) NIGERIA (7,080) RWANDA (72) SAO TOME & PRINCIPE (4) SENEGAL (1,137) SEYCHELLES (0) SIERRA LEONE (2,440) SOMALIA (862) SOUTH AFRICA (544) SUDAN (1,371) SWAZILAND (1) TANZANIA (267) TOGO (281) TUNISIA (106) UGANDA (308) ZAIRE (303) ZAMBIA (160) ZIMBABWE (104)
II. ASIA - (7,187 visas are available for fiscal year 1997):
AFGHANISTAN (198) BAHRAIN (4) BANGLADESH (6,784) BHUTAN (1) BRUNEI (1) BURMA (231) CAMBODIA (28) HONG KONG (504) INDONESIA (176) IRAN (523) IRAQ (113) ISRAEL (52) JAPAN (428) JORDAN (65) NORTH KOREA (10) KUWAIT (32) LAOS (4) LEBANON (80) MALAYSIA (73) MALDIVES (0) MONGOLIA (0) NEPAL (160) OMAN (1) PAKISTAN (1) QATAR (1) SAUDI ARABIA (11) SINGAPORE (18) SRI LANKA (378) SYRIA (57) THAILAND (52) UNITED ARAB EM. (0) YEMEN (52)
(Asia countries that did not qualify for the DV-97 are: CHINA - mainland=20 born and Taiwan born, INDIA, SOUTH KOREA, PHILIPPINES, and VIETNAM.)
III. EUROPE (23,910 visas for fiscal year 1997):
ALBANIA (6,764) ANDORRA (0) ARMENIA (1,970) AUSTRIA (213) AZERBAIJAN (326) BELARUS (450) BELGUIM (138) BOSNIA & HERZ. (163) BULGARIA (3,144) CROATIA (180) CYPRUS(43) CZECH REPUBLIC (221) DENMARK (79) ESTONIA (108) FINLAND (171) FRANCE (513) French Guiana (1) Guadeloupe (2) Martinique (2) GEORGIA (224) GERMANY (2,330) GREECE (164) HUNGARY (275) ICELAND (47) IRELAND (990) ITALY (515) KAZAKSTAN (247) KYRGYZSTAN (46) LATVIA (183) LIECHTENSTEIN (2) LITHUANIA (712) LUXENBOURG (4) MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC (369) MALTA (4) MOLDOVA (216) MONACO (0) NETHERLANDS (237) Aruba (2) Netherlands=20 Antilles (7) N. IRELAND (128) NORWAY 42) POLAND (5,003) PORTUGAL (249) Macau (108) ROMANIA (3,769) RUSSIA (3,255) SAN MARINO (0) SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO (671) SLOVAKIA (763) SLOVENIA (18) SPAIN (179) SWEDEN (294) SWITZERLAND (772) TAJIKISTAN (74) TURKEY (2,885) TURKMENISTAN (24) URRAINE (3,154) UZBEKISTAN (297) VATICAN CITY (0)
(The UNITED KINGDOM (Great Britain) did not qualify for the DV-97 program;= =20 Northern Ireland did qualify, however, and is noted in the listings.)
IV. NORTH AMERICA (8 visas for fiscal year 1997):
BAHAMAS, THE (17)
(The Bahamas is the only country that qualified in the region for the=20 DV-97 program, CANADA did not qualify.)
V. OCEANIA (817 visas for fiscal year 1997):
AUSTRALIA (260) FIJI (915) KIRIBATI (0) MARSHALL ISLANDS (0) MICRONESIA, FED. STATE OF (0) NAURU (0) NEW ZEALAND (175) PALAU (0) PAPAU NEW GUINEA (2) SOLOMON ISLANDS (0) TONGA (125) TUVALU (0) VANUATU (0) WESTERN SAMOA (13)
VI. South AMERICA, Central AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN (2,455 visas for=20 fiscal year 1997):
ANTIGUA & BARBUDA (2) ARGENTINA (150) BARADOS (25) BELIZE (15) BOLIVA (81) BRAZIL (274) CHILE (51) COSTA RICA (43) CUBA (1,475) DOMINICA (17) ECUADOR (547) GRENADA (17) GUATEMALA (280) GUYANA (121) HAITI (112) HONDURAS (101) NICARAGUA (229) PANAMA (21) PARAGUAY (12) PERU (430) ST. KITTS & NEVIS (3) SAINT LUCIA (12) ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES (7) SURINAME (14) TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO (177) URUGUAY (28) VENEZUELA (227)
Countries in the region that did not qualify for the DV-97 program are:=20 COLOMBIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, EL SALVADOR, JAMAICA, and MEXICO.)
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