Nigeria and some other countries will
no longer be eligible to participate in the America Diversity Visa lottery
programme.
Information from the United States
Department of State sighted on Sunday said Nigerians and citizens from few
other countries were not eligible for DV-2015.
The department said Nigeria was
excluded since over 50,000 Nigerians had immigrated into the United States in
the last five years.The department listed other countries
not eligible as Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China (mainland-born), Colombia,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador and Haiti.
Others are India, Jamaica, Mexico,
Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern
Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam
However, many African countries would
continue to enjoy the programme.
Some of them are Algeria, Angola,
Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African
Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Djibouti, Egypt,
Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia and Ghana.
Others are Guinea, Guinea-Bissau,
Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania,
Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe,
Senegal, Seychelles and Sierra Leone.
Diversity visas are said to be
distributed among six geographic regions, while no single country could receive
more than seven per cent of the available space in any year.
Already, advertisements for the 2015
US DV lottery have started with several businesses inviting Nigerians to apply
for the program.
Applications for the 2015 US DV
lottery is expected to take off from October 1, 2013.
In 2012, 14,769, 658 persons were
said to have qualified worldwide for the US DV lottery among the 19, 672, 269
which applied.
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