Law Offices
of Svetlana Boukhny represents both companies and individuals, and welcomes inquiries
regarding individual immigration situations. Please feel free to use the "CONTACT
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we will make every effort to respond to your email within 48 hours. Please note
that depending on the nature of your inquiry, we may not be able to respond and
can refer you to more appropriate immigration counsel, or we may request that you
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Diversity Visa Lottery
The congressionally mandated Diversity Immigrant Visa Program I s
administered on an annual basis by the Department of State and conducted under
the terms of Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act
(INA). Section 131 of the Immigration Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-649) amended INIA
203 to provide for a new class of immigrants known as "diversity immigrants" (DV
immigrants). The Act makes available 50,000 permanent resident visas annually to
persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. The
comprehensive instructions for the 2006 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program are
available under News and Alerts on the website.
The annual DV program
makes permanent residence visas available to persons meeting the simple, but
strict, eligibility requirements. Applicants for Diversity Visas are chosen by a
computer-generated random lottery drawing. The visas, however, are distributed
among six g geographic regions with a greater number of visas going to regions
with lower rates o f immigration, and with 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-2006, 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, RUSSIA, SOUTH
KOREA, UNITED KINGDOM (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories,
and VIETNAM. Persons born in Hong Kong, SAR, Macau SAR and Taiwan are eligible.
Entries for the DV-2006 Diversity Visa Lottery MUST be submitted
electronically between Friday, November 5, 2004 and Friday, January 7,
2005. Applicants may access the electronic diversity visa entry form at www.dvlottery.state.gov d
during the registration period beginning noon November 5. Paper entries will not
b e accepted. Applicants are strongly encouraged to not wait until the last week
of the registration period to enter. Heavy demand may result in delays. No
entries will be accepted after noon on January 7, 2005.
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