THE DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAM

DV-2003 will make permanent residence visas available to persons meeting the simple, but strict, eligibility requirements. Applicants for the Diversity Visas are chosen by a computer-generated random lottery drawing. The visas, however, are distributed among six geographic regions with a greater number of visas going to regions with lower rates of immigration, and no visas going to citizens of countries sending more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. in the past five years. Within each region, no one country may receive more than seven percent of the available Diversity Visas in any one year.

For DV-2003, natives of the following countries are not eligible to apply because they sent a total of more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. in the previous five years:

CANADA,
CHINA (mainland-born),
COLOMBIA,
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC,
EL SALVADOR,
HAITI, INDIA,
JAMAICA,
MEXICO,
PAKISTAN,
PHILIPPINES,
SOUTH KOREA,
UNITED KINGDOM (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories,
VIETNAM. Persons born in Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taiwan are eligible.

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