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Quote: The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2009 diversity lottery. The diversity lottery was conducted under the terms of section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act and makes available *50,000 permanent resident visas annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. Approximately 99,600 applicants have been registered and notified and may now make an application for an immigrant visa. Since it is likely that some of the first *50,000 persons registered will not pursue their cases to visa issuance, this larger figure should insure that all DV-2009 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2009 (October 1, 2008 until September 30, 2009). Applicants registered for the DV-2009 program were selected at random from over 9.1 million qualified entries received during the 60-day application period that ran from noon on October 3, 2007, until noon, December 2, 2007. 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, principal applicants must provide proof of a high school education or its #####alent, 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 Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services for information on the requirements and procedures. Once the total *50,000 visa numbers have been used, the program for fiscal year 2009 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2009 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2009 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2009 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2009. Only participants in the DV-2009 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-2010 lottery if they wish. The dates for the registration period for the DV-2010 lottery program will be widely publicized during August 2009. *The Nicaraguan and Central American Relief Act (NACARA) 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 NACARA 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-2009 program: AFRICA ALGERIA 2,205 LIBYA 117 ANGOLA 38 MADAGASCAR 46 BENIN 390 MALAWI 29 BOTSWANA 22 MALI 124 BURKINA FASO 129 MAURITANIA 39 BURUNDI 86 MAURITIUS 62 CAMEROON 3,659 MOROCCO 3,280 CAPE VERDE 9 MOZAMBIQUE 22 CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. 21 NAMIBIA 20 CHAD 27 NIGER 64 COMOROS 6 NIGERIA 6,041 CONGO 1,582 RWANDA 111 CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE 65 SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE 1 COTE D’IVOIRE 642 SENEGAL 1,160 DJIBOUTI 26 SEYCHELLES 8 EGYPT 4,831 SIERRA LEONE 2,230 EQUATORIAL GUINEA 10 SOMALIA 256 ERITREA 829 SOUTH AFRICA 909 ETHIOPIA 5,200 SUDAN 1,143 GABON 35 SWAZILAND 6 GAMBIA, THE 168 TANZANIA 298 GHANA 7,322 TOGO 956 GUINEA 469 TUNISIA 155 GUINEA-BISSAU 9 UGANDA 433 KENYA 4,307 ZAMBIA 156 LESOTHO 4 ZIMBABWE 242 LIBERIA 3,440 ASIA AFGHANISTAN 117 MALAYSIA 85 BAHRAIN 18 MALDIVES 4 BANGLADESH 6,023 MONGOLIA 191 BHUTAN 4 NEPAL 1,891 BRUNEI 0 NORTH KOREA 2 BURMA 556 OMAN 10 CAMBODIA 287 QATAR 10 HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION 75 SAUDI ARABIA 128 INDONESIA 230 SINGAPORE 38 IRAN 1,689 SRI LANKA 792 IRAQ 154 SYRIA 108 ISRAEL 194 TAIWAN 431 JAPAN 320 THAILAND 110 JORDAN 161 TIMOR-LESTE 1 KUWAIT 43 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 33 LAOS 2 YEMEN 102 LEBANON 193 EUROPE ALBANIA 2,894 LIECHTENSTEIN 1 ANDORRA 0 LITHUANIA 273 ARMENIA 1,285 LUXEMBOURG 1 AUSTRIA 145 MACAU 12 AZERBAIJAN 345 MACEDONIA, FORMER YUGOSLAV REP. OF 322 BELARUS 1,240 MALTA 9 BELGIUM 82 MARTINIQUE 4 BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 158 MOLDOVA 542 BULGARIA 1,154 MONACO 0 CROATIA 75 MONTENEGRO 20 CYPRUS 42 NETHERLANDS 226 CZECH REPUBLIC 140 NETHERLANDS ARUBA 9 DENMARK 48 NETHERLANDS ANTILLES 34 ESTONIA 58 NORTHERN IRELAND 35 FINLAND 72 NORWAY 54 FRANCE 738 PORTUGAL 92 FRENCH GUIANA 11 REUNION 0 FRENCH POLYNESIA 2 ROMANIA 757 FRENCH SOUTHERN AND ANTARCTIC LANDS 1 SAN MARINO 0 GEORGIA 661 SERBIA 656 GERMANY 1,973 SLOVAKIA 169 GREECE 63 SLOVENIA 21 GREENLAND 1 SPAIN 172 GUADELOUPE 0 SWEDEN 226 HUNGARY 271 SWITZERLAND 230 ICELAND 25 TAJIKISTAN 168 IRELAND 132 TURKEY 2,331 ITALY 433 TURKMENISTAN 111 KAZAKHSTAN 336 UKRAINE 5,502 KYRGYZSTAN 169 UZBEKISTAN 3,284 LATVIA 100 VATICAN CITY 0 NORTH AMERICA BAHAMAS, THE 12 OCEANIA AUSTRALIA 590 NIUE 11 CHRISTMAS ISLANDS 0 PALAU 0 COOK ISLANDS 0 PAPUA NEW GUINEA 15 FIJI 760 SAMOA 20 KIRIBATI 2 SOLOMON ISLANDS 0 MARSHALL ISLANDS 0 TONGA 129 MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF 2 TUVALU 1 NAURU 1 VANUATU 1 NEW ZEALAND 269 SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 5 HONDURAS 77 ARGENTINA 174 NICARAGUA 58 BARBADOS 8 PANAMA 38 BELIZE 4 PARAGUAY 10 BOLIVIA 108 SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS 1 CHILE 50 SAINT LUCIA 4 COSTA RICA 67 SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES 9 CUBA 555 SURINAME 5 DOMINICA 30 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 141 GRENADA 6 URUGUAY 26 GUATEMALA 6 VENEZUELA 470 GUYANA 41