U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman

For Immediate Release
June 23, 2000

STATEMENT BY PHILIP T. REEKER, DEPUTY SPOKESMAN

RESULTS OF THE DIVERSITY
IMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAM (DV-2001)

The National Visa Center will register and notify the winners of the DV-2002 diversity lottery between April and July of 2001. The diversity lottery was conducted under the terms of Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act and makes available *55,000 permanent resident visas annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.

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, principle 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 Immigration and Naturalization Service for information on the requirements and procedures. Once the total *55,000 visa numbers have been used, the program for fiscal year 2002 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2002 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2002 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2002 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2002.

Only participants in the DV-2002 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-2003 lottery if they wish. The dates for the mail-in period for the DV-2003 lottery have not been released. Instructions on entering the DV-2003 program will be widely publicized beginning on July 31, 2001.

*The Nicaraguan and Central American Relief Act (NCARA) 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 NCARA 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-2001 program:

Africa:	ALGERIA-  949 ANGOLA- 9 BENIN- 62 BOTSWANA- 21 BURKINA FASO- 18 BURUNDI- 11 CAMEROON- 653 CAPE VERDE- 11 CENTRAL AFRICAN   REP.- 5 CHAD- 23 COMOROS- 0 CONGO- 45 CONGO,   DEMOCRATIC   REPUBLIC OF THE COTE D'IVOIRE-199 DJIBOUTI- 25 EGYPT- 2,383 EQUATORIAL   GUINEA- 3		ERITREA- 245 ETHIOPIA- 5,007 GABON- 11 GAMBIA, THE- 72 GHANA- 6,000 GUINEA- 283 GUINEA-BISSAU- 2 KENYA- 1,606 LESOTHO- 0 LIBERIA- 1,193 LIBYA- 34 MADAGASCAR- 29 MALAWI- 25 MALI- 59 MAURITANIA- 23 MAURITIUS- 23 MOROCCO- 5,000 MOZAMBIQUE- 8	NAMIBIA- 5 NIGER- 18 NIGERIA- 6,017 RWANDA- 56 SAO TOME AND   PRINCIPE- 0 SENEGAL- 316 SEYCHELLES- 2 SIERRA   LEONE-  2,240 SOMALIA- 2,364 SOUTH AFRICA- 357 SUDAN- 1,661 SWAZILAND- 0 TANZANIA- 231 TOGO- 699 TUNISIA- 83 UGANDA- 154 ZAMBIA- 101 ZIMBABWE- 91
Asia:	AFGHANISTAN   - 309 BAHRAIN- 4 BANGLADESH   - 5,003 BHUTAN- 1 BRUNEI- 0 BRUMA- 734 CAMBODIA- 152 HONG KONG   SPECIAL ADMIN.   REGION- 126 INDONESIA- 369 IRAN- 740		IRAQ- 99 ISRAEL- 115 JAPAN- 408 JORDAN- 80 NORTH KOREA- 2 KUWAIT- 47 LAOS- 8 LEBANON- 78 MALAYSIA- 70 MALDIVES- 269 MONGOLIA- 24	NEPAL- 376 OMAN- 3 PAKISTAN- 4,721 QATAR- 7 SAUDI ARABIA- 88 SINGAPORE- 41 SRI LANKA- 410 SYRIA- 85 THAILAND- 163 UNITED ARAB   EMIRATES- 40 YEMEN- 201
Europe:	ALBANIA- 4,255 ANDORRA- 0 ARMENIA- 989 AUSTRIA- 90 AZERBAIJAN- 300 BELARUS-861 BOSNIA-    HERZEGOVINA   - 59 BULGARIA- 2,893 CROATIA- 62 CYPRUS- 12 CZECH REPUBLIC -137 DENMARK- 45 ESTONIA- 47 FINLAND- 27 FRANCE- 260 REUNION- 1 GEORGIA- 287		GERMANY- 1,902 GREECE- 63 HUNGARY- 120 ICELAND- 9 IRELAND- 221 ITALY- 141 KAZAKHSTAN- 876 KYRGYZSTAN- 184 LATVIA- 175 LIECHTENSTEIN- 0 LITHUANIA- 1,200 LUXEMBOURG- 2 MACEDONIA,   FORMER   YUGOSLAV   REP.   OF- 190 MALTA- 4 MOLDOVA- 269 MONACO- 0 NETHERLANDS- 53 ARUBA- 1	NORTHERN   IRELAND- 42 NORWAY- 14 PORTUGAL- 31 ROMANIA-2,370 RUSSIA- 3,579 SAN MARINO- 0 SERBIA-   MONTENEGRO- 401 SLOVAKIA- 331 SLOVENIA- 10 SPAIN- 37 SWEDEN- 87 SWITZERLAND- 167 TAJIKISTAN- 46 TURKEY- 1,011 TURKMENISTAN- 48 UKRAINE- 5,029 UZBEKISTAN- 1,026
North America:	THE    BAHAMAS- 19
Oceania:	AUSTRALIA- 333 FIJI- 676 KIRIBATI- 0 MARSHALL   ISLANDS- 0 MICRONESIA,   FEDERATED   SATES OF- 0		NAURU- 0 NEW ZEALAND- 224 PALAU- 0 PAPUA NEW GUINEA- 3 SAMOA- 8	SOLOMON    ISLANDS- 0 TONGA- 55 TUVALU- 0 VANUATU- 1
South America, Central America, and the Caribbean:	ANTIGUA AND   BARBUDA- 1 ARGENTINA   -117 BARBADOS- 4 BELIZE- 4 BOLIVIA- 17 BRAZIL- 397 CHILE- 9 COSTA RICA-24 CUBA- 743		DOMINICA- 18 ECUADOR- 1,167 GRENADA- 3 GUATEMALA- 27 GUYANA- 47 HONDURAS- 47 NICARAGUA- 21 PANAMA- 30 PARAGUAY- 8	PERU- 872 SAINT KITTS AND   NEVIS- 1 SAINT LUCIA- 6 SAINT VINCENT   AND THE   GRENADINES- 6 SURINAME- 0 TRINIDAD AND   TOBAGO- 102 URUGUAY- 12 VENEZUELA- 130

Natives of the following were not eligible to participate in DV-2002: Canada, China (mainland born & Macau), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam.