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 from America Diversity Visa lottery programme since over
50,000 Nigerians had immigrated into the United States in the last five years.
The department also listed following countries Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China
(mainland-born), Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador and Haiti
are not eligible to participate too.
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.
Applications for the
2015 US DV lottery is expected to take off from October 1, 2013.
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