Washington, DC July 18, 2006 Diversity Visa Lottery 2007 (DV-2007) Results The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2007 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 82,000 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-2007 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2007. Applicants registered for the DV-2007 program were selected at random from over 5.5 million qualified entries received during the 60-day application period that ran from 12:00 AM on October 5, 2005, until midnight, December 4, 2005. 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 2007 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2007 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2007 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2007 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2007. Only participants in the DV-2007 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-2008 lottery if they wish. The dates for the registration period for the DV-2008 lottery program will be widely publicized during August 2006. * 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. Diversity Visa Lottery 2007 Winners, by Geographic Region AFRICA ALGERIA 912 ANGOLA 13 BENIN 218 BOTSWANA 1 BURKINA FASO 95 BURUNDI 16 CAMEROON 1461 CAPE VERDE 3 CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. 13 CHAD 28 COMOROS 7 CONGO 687 CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE 42 COTE D’IVOIRE 308 DJIBOUTI 11 EGYPT 7,229 EQUATORIAL GUINEA 1 ERITREA 582 ETHIOPIA 6,871 GABON 42 GAMBIA, THE 50 GHANA 3088 GUINEA 146 GUINEA-BISSAU 5 KENYA 2,337 LESOTHO 0 LIBERIA 734 LIBYA 37 MADAGASCAR 21 MALAWI 18 MALI 76 MAURITANIA 17 MAURITIUS 8 MOROCCO 4,922 MOZAMBIQUE 4 NAMIBIA 8 NIGER 62 NIGERIA 9,849 RWANDA 41 SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 2 SENEGAL 228 SEYCHELLES 4 SIERRA LEONE 540 SOMALIA 160 SOUTH AFRICA 287 SUDAN 569 SWAZILAND 5 TANZANIA 148 TOGO 1,592 TUNISIA 124 UGANDA 213 ZAMBIA 92 ZIMBABWE 73   ASIA AFGHANISTAN 80 BAHRAIN 1 BANGLADESH 5,901 BHUTAN 2 BRUNEI 0 BURMA 651 CAMBODIA 177 HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION 81 INDONESIA 245 IRAN 1361 IRAQ 80 ISRAEL 126 JAPAN 333 JORDAN 63 KUWAIT 42 LAOS 9 LEBANON 86 MALAYSIA 76 MALDIVES 0 MONGOLIA 113 NEPAL  1,529 NORTH KOREA 0 OMAN  1 QATAR 1 SAUDI ARABIA 27 SINGAPORE 46 SRI LANKA 383 SYRIA 40 TAIWAN 398 THAILAND 81 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 19 YEMEN 43   EUROPE ALBANIA 1,988 ANDORRA  0 ARMENIA 691 AUSTRIA 74 AZERBAIJAN 125 BELARUS 705 BELGIUM 57 BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 90 BULGARIA 1,674 CROATIA 40 CYPRUS 7 CZECH REPUBLIC 85 DENMARK  50 ESTONIA 40 FINLAND 33 FRANCE 380 FRENCH POLYNESIA  10 FRENCH SOUTHERN AND ANTARCTIC LANDS 1 GEORGIA 323 GERMANY 1047 GREECE 41 GUADELOUPE 3 HUNGARY 138 ICELAND 13 IRELAND 160 ITALY 214 KAZAKHSTAN  177 KYRGYZSTAN  123 LATVIA 75 LIECHTENSTEIN 0 LITHUANIA 298 LUXEMBOURG 6 MACAU 8 MACEDONIA, FORMER YUGOSLAV REP. OF 213 MALTA 4 MARTINIQUE 2 MOLDOVA 273 MONACO 1 NETHERLANDS 88 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES 8 NEW CALEDONIA 3 NORTHERN IRELAND 42 NORWAY 21 PORTUGAL 29 REUNION 8 ROMANIA 1,255 SAN MARINO 0 SERBIA & MONTENEGRO 505 SLOVAKIA 171 SLOVENIA 7 SPAIN 97 SWEDEN 121 SWITZERLAND 104 TAJIKISTAN 84 TURKEY 1,418 TURKMENISTAN 59 UKRAINE 7,205 UZBEKISTAN 1,536 VATICAN CITY 0 WESTERN SAHARA 1   NORTH AMERICA BAHAMAS, THE 12   OCEANIA AUSTRALIA 532 CHRISTMAS ISLANDS 0 COOK ISLANDS 3 FIJI 514 KIRIBATI 0 MARSHALL ISLANDS 1 MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF 4 NAURU 1 NEW ZEALAND 205 NIUE 0 PALAU 3 PAPUA NEW GUINEA  6 SAMOA 10 SOLOMON ISLAND 0 TONGA 171 TUVALU 7 VANUATU 0   SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 2 ARGENTINA 86 BARBADOS 9 BELIZE 5 BOLIVIA 88 BRAZIL 488 CHILE 42 COSTA RICA 18 CUBA 427 DOMINICA 12 ECUADOR 170 GRENADA 6 GUATEMALA 43 GUYANA 17 HONDURAS 28 NICARAGUA 19 PANAMA  14 PARAGUAY 20 PERU 1,274 SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 4 SAINT LUCIA  4 SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES 3 SURINAME 3 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 85 URUGUAY 4 VENEZUELA 226 Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2007: Canada, China (mainland-born, excluding Hong Kong S.A.R., and Taiwan), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam. 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