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The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2008 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 96,000 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-2008 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2008 (October 1, 2007 until September 30, 2008).

Applicants registered for the DV-2008 program were selected at random from over 6.4 million qualified entries received during the 60-day application period that ran from 12:00 AM on October 4, 2006, until midnight, December 3, 2006. 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 2008 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2008 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2008 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2008 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2008.

Only participants in the DV-2008 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-2009 lottery if they wish. The dates for the registration period for the DV-2009 lottery program will be widely publicized during August 2007.

Afghanistan

57

Albania

2,862

Algeria

1,926

Angola

27

Antigua and Barbuda

1

Argentina

106

Armenia

1,130

Australia

649

Austria

70

Azerbaijan

271

Bahamas

17

Bahrain

11

Bangladesh

5,983

Barbados

17

Belarus

1,072

Belgium

89

Belize

14

Benin

438

Bhutan

10

Bolivia

148

Bosnia & Herzegovina

73

Botswana

22

Brazil

0

Bulgaria

1,567

Burkina Faso

186

Burma

653

Burundi

39

Cambodia

187

Cameroon

3,152

Cape Verde

13

Central African Republic

8

Chad

47

Chile

26

Comoros

5

Congo

1,206

Congo, Democratic Republic of the

111

Cook Islands

0

Costa Rica

22

Cote D'ivoire

614

Croatia

41

Cuba

691

Cyprus

16

Czech Republic

158

Denmark

58

Djibouti

20

Dominica

9

Ecuador

217

Egypt

4,392

Equatorial Guinea

7

Eritrea

878

Estonia

37

Ethopia

5,241

Fiji

630

Finland

59

France

603

French Polynesia

6

French Southern And Antarctic Lands

0

Gabon

37

Gambia

57

Georgia

516

Germany

1,469

Ghana

5,914

Greece

77

Grenada

1

Guadeloupe

4

Guatemala

74

Guinea

463

Guinea-Bissau

4

Guyana

24

Honduras

42

Hong Kong Special Admin. Region

69

Hungary

182

Iceland

13

Indonesia

266

Iran

1,435

Iraq

164

Ireland

162

Israel

150

Italy

363

Japan

382

Jordan

56

Kazakhstan

304

Kenya

4,547

Kuwait

46

Kyrgyzstan

180

Laos

7

Latvia

75

Lebanon

190

Liberia

2,148

Libya

88

Lithuania

334

Luxembourg

12

Macau

19

Macedonia, former Yugoslv Republic of

343

Madagascar

43

Malawi

53

Malaysia

87

Mali

171

Malta

5

Marshall Islands

0

Martinique

4

Mauritania

27

Mauritius

62

Micronesia, Federated States of

0

Moldova

4

Monaco

4

Mongolia

259

Morocco

5,017

Mozambique

8

Namibia

7

Nauru

1

Nepal

2,562

Netherlands

123

Netherlands Antilles

18

New Caledonia

0

New Zealand

260

Nicaragua

39

Niger

165

Nigeria

8,773

Northern Ireland

34

Norway

43

Oman

5

Palau

7

Panama

17

Papua New Guinea

4

Paraguay

26

Peru

0

Portugal

48

Qatar

6

Reunion

0

Romania

1,526

Rwanda

138

Saint Kitts and Nevis

1

Saint Lucia

5

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

1

Samoa

27

Saudi Arabia

61

Senegal

917

Sierra Leone

1,137

Singapore

70

Slovakia

157

Slovenia

12

Somalia

214

South Africa

713

Spain

135

Sri Lanka

675

Sudan

1,147

Suriname

3

Swaziland

4

Sweden

118

Switzerland

132

Syria

94

Taiwan

446

Tajikistan

126

Tanzania

218

Thailand

108

Togo

1,509

Tonga

120

Trinidad and Tobago

82

Tunisia

150

Turkey

2,188

Turkmenistan

124

Tuvalu

0

Uganda

370

Ukraine

5,018

United Arab Emirates

27

Uruguay

23

Uzbekistan

3,101

Venezuela

256

Western Sahara

0

Yemen

70

Zambia

214

Zimbabwe

167