Podział zwycięzców w 2008

Distribution of winners 2008

The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2009 diversity lottery.  The diversity lottery was conducted under the terms of section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act and makes available *50,000 permanent resident visas annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.  Approximately 99,600 applicants have been registered and notified and may now make an application for an immigrant visa. Since it is likely that some of the first *50,000 persons registered will not pursue their cases to visa issuance, this larger figure should insure that all DV-2009 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2009 (October 1, 2008 until September 30, 2009).
Applicants registered for the DV-2009 program were selected at random from over 9.1 million qualified entries received during the 60-day application period that ran from noon on October 3, 2007, until noon, December 2, 2007.  The visas have been apportioned among six geographic regions with a maximum of seven percent available to persons born in any single country.  During the visa interview, principal applicants must provide proof of a high school education or its equivalent, or show two years of work experience in an occupation that requires at least two years of training or experience within the past five years.  Those selected will need to act on their immigrant visa applications quickly.  Applicants should follow the instructions in their notification letter and must fully complete the information requested.
Registrants living legally in the United States who wish to apply for adjustment of their status must contact the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services for information on the requirements and procedures.  Once the total *50,000 visa numbers have been used, the program for fiscal year 2009 will end.  Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2009 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2009 registration.  Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2009 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2009.
Only participants in the DV-2009 program who were selected for further processing have been notified.  Those who have not received notification were not selected.  They may try for the upcoming DV-2010 lottery if they wish.  The dates for the registration period for the DV-2010 lottery program will be widely publicized during August 2009.
* The Nicaraguan and Central American Relief Act (NACARA) passed by Congress in November 1997 stipulated that up to 5,000 of the 55,000 annually-allocated diversity visas be made available for use under the NACARA program.  The reduction of the limit of available visas to 50,000 began with DV-2000.
The following is the statistical breakdown by foreign-state chargeability of those registered for the DV-2009 program: 

	AFRICA
	BENIN 390 BOTSWANA 22 BURKINA FASO 129 BURUNDI 86 CAMEROON 3,659 CAPE VERDE 9 CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. 21 CHAD 27 COMOROS 6 CONGO 1,582 CONGO, DEM. REP.   OF THE 65 COTE D’IVOIRE 642 DJIBOUTI 26 EGYPT 4,831 EQUATORIAL GUINEA 10 ERITREA 829 ETHIOPIA 5,200	GABON 35 GAMBIA, THE 168 GHANA 7,322 GUINEA 469 GUINEA-BISSAU 9 KENYA 4,307 LESOTHO 4 LIBERIA 3,440 LIBYA 117 MADAGASCAR 46 MALAWI 29 MALI 124 MAURITANIA 39 MAURITIUS 62 MOROCCO 3,820 MOZAMBIQUE 22 NAMIBIA 20 NIGER 64	NIGERIA 6,041 RWANDA 111 SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE SENEGAL 1,160 SEYCHELLES 8 SIERRA LEONE 2,230 SOMALIA 256 SOUTH AFRICA 909 SUDAN 1,143 SWAZILAND 6 TANZANIA 298 TOGO 956 TUNISIA 155 UGANDA 433 ZAMBIA 156 ZIMBABWE 242
	ASIA
	AFGHANISTAN 117 BAHRAIN 18 BANGLADESH 6,023 BHUTAN 4 BRUNEI 0 BURMA 556 CAMBODIA 287 HONG KONG 75 INDONESIA 230 IRAN 1,689 IRAQ 154	ISRAEL 194 JAPAN 320 JORDAN 161 NORTH KOREA 2 KUWAIT 43 LAOS 2 LEBANON 193 MALAYSIA 85 MALDIVES 4 MONGOLIA 191 NEPAL 1,891	OMAN 10 QATAR 10 SAUDI ARABIA 128 SINGAPORE 38 SRI LANKA 792 SYRIA 108 THAILAND 110 TAIWAN 431 TIMOR-LESTE 1 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 33 YEMEN 102
	EUROPE
	ALBANIA 2,894 ANDORRA 0 ARMENIA 1,285 AUSTRIA 145 AZERBAIJAN 345 BELARUS 1,240 BELGIUM 82 BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 158 BULGARIA 1,154 CROATIA 75 CYPRUS 42 CZECH REPUBLIC 140 DENMARK 48 Greenland 1 ESTONIA 58 FINLAND 72 FRANCE 738 French Guiana 11 French Polynesia 2 French Southern &   Antarctic Lands 1 Guadeloupe 6 Martinique 4 Reunion 0	GEORGIA 661 GERMANY 1,973 GREECE 63 HUNGARY 271 ICELAND 25 IRELAND 132 ITALY 433 KAZAKHSTAN 336 KYRGYZSTAN 169 LATVIA 100 LIECHTENSTEIN 1 LITHUANIA 273 LUXEMBOURG 1 MACEDONIA 322 MALTA 9 MOLDOVA 542 MONACO 0 MONTENEGRO 20 NETHERLANDS 226 Aruba 9 Netherlands Antilles 34 NORTHERN IRELAND 35 NORWAY 54 PORTUGAL 92	Macau 12 ROMANIA 757 SAN MARINO 0 SERBIA 656 SLOVAKIA 169 SLOVENIA 21 SPAIN 172 SWEDEN 226 SWITZERLAND 230 TAJIKISTAN 168 TURKEY 2,331 TURKMENISTAN 111 UKRAINE 5,502 UZBEKISTAN 3,284 VATICAN CITY 0
	NORTH AMERICA
	BAHAMAS, THE 12
	OCEANIA
	AUSTRALIA 590 Christmas Islands 0 FIJI 760 KIRIBATI 2 MARSHALL ISLANDS 0	MICRONESIA 2 NAURU  1 NEW ZEALAND 269 Cook Islands 0 Niue 11	PALAU 0 PAPUA NEW GUINEA 15 SAMOA 20
	SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
	ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 5 ARGENTINA 174 BARBADOS 8 BELIZE 4 BOLIVIA 108 CHILE 50 COSTA RICA 67 CUBA 555	DOMINICA 30 GRENADA 6 GUATEMALA 6 GUYANA 41 HONDURAS 77 NICARAGUA 58 PANAMA 38 PARAGUAY 10	SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 1 SAINT LUCIA 4 SAINT VINCENT AND   THE GRENADINES 9 SURINAME 5 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 141 URUGUAY 26 VENEZUELA 470

Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2009:  Brazil, Canada, China (mainland-born, excluding Hong Kong S.A.R., and Taiwan), Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam