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.
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