Diversity Visa Lottery 2006 (DV-2006) Results

Applicants
registered for the DV-2005 program were selected at random from over
6.3 million qualified entries received during the 60-day application
period that ran from 12:00 AM on November 5, 2004, until midnight,
January 7, 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
2006 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by
September 30, 2006 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2006
registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following
to join DV-2006 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative
diversity visa status until September 30, 2006.

Only
participants in the DV-2006 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-2007 lottery if
they wish. The dates for the registration period for the DV-2007
lottery program will be widely publicized during August 2005.

*
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-2006 program:

Natives
of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2006:
Canada, China (mainland-born, excluding Hong Kong S.A.R., and Taiwan),
Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica,
Mexico, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russia, South Korea, United Kingdom
(except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.