DV 2008 Results Announced. DV 2008 Program Closed.
DV 2008 results were already sent to the winners by regular postal mail by KCC in USA. Warning: Winners will not be notified by Email or Phone. If you applied for this Diversity Visa Lottery you can expect the winning notification only by postal mail.
Later the winners were called for the interview to check their eligibility and the ones who are eligible were issued with the available 50,000 immigrant visas and the program was closed on 30th September 2008. All the other visa interviews were cancelled and no one can benefit from the DV 2008 winning any more.Try the next comming lottery to participate again.
Diversity Visa program received more than 6.4 million eligible entries for the 2008 Diversity Visa Lottery program during the 60 days applying period in the year 2006.Applicants whose names were selected randomly are eligible to apply for one of 50,000 permanent resident visas made available annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.
Winners list - Not available.
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Here is the official announcement from the U.S State Department regarding the DV 2008 results.
Diversity Visa Lottery 2008 (DV-2008) Results
The Kentucky Consular Center in Williamsburg, Kentucky has registered and notified the winners of the DV-2008 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 96,000 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-2008 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2008 (October 1, 2007 until September 30, 2008).
Applicants registered for the DV-2008 program were selected at random from over 6.4 million qualified entries received during the 60-day application period that ran from 12:00 AM on October 4, 2006, until midnight, December 3, 2006. 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 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 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 2008 will end. Selected applicants who do not receive visas by September 30, 2008 will derive no further benefit from their DV-2008 registration. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2008 principal applicants are only entitled to derivative diversity visa status until September 30, 2008.
Only participants in the DV-2008 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-2009 lottery if they wish. The dates for the registration period for the DV-2009 lottery program will be widely publicized during August 2007.
* 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-2008 program:
| AFRICA | |||
| ALGERIA | 1,926 | ERITREA | 878 |
| ANGOLA | 27 | ETHIOPIA | 5,241 |
| BENIN | 438 | GABON | 37 |
| BOTSWANA | 22 | GAMBIA, THE | 57 |
| BURKINA FASO | 186 | GHANA | 5,914 |
| BURUNDI | 39 | GUINEA | 463 |
| CAMEROON | 3,152 | GUINEA-BISSAU | 4 |
| CAPE VERDE | 13 | KENYA | 4,547 |
| CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. | 8 | LESOTHO | 4 |
| CHAD | 47 | LIBERIA | 2,148 |
| COMOROS | 5 | LIBYA | 88 |
| CONGO | 1,206 | MADAGASCAR | 43 |
| CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE | 111 | MALAWI | 53 |
| COTE D’IVOIRE | 614 | MALI | 171 |
| DJIBOUTI | 20 | MAURITANIA | 27 |
| EGYPT | 4,392 | MAURITIUS | 62 |
| EQUATORIAL GUINEA | 7 | MOROCCO | 5,017 |
| NAMIBIA | 12 | MOZAMBIQUE | 8 |
| NIGER | 165 | SOUTH AFRICA | 713 |
| NIGERIA | 8,773 | SUDAN | 1,147 |
| RWANDA | 138 | SWAZILAND | 4 |
| SENEGAL | 917 | TANZANIA | 218 |
| SIERRA LEONE | 1,137 | TOGO | 1,509 |
| SOMALIA | 214 | TUNISIA | 150 |
| UGANDA | 370 | WESTERN SAHARA | 1 |
| ZAMBIA | 214 | ZIMBABWE | 167 |
| ASIA | |||
| AFGHANISTAN | 57 | LEBANON | 190 |
| BAHRAIN | 11 | MALAYSIA | 87 |
| BANGLADESH | 5,983 | MALDIVES | 0 |
| BHUTAN | 10 | MONGOLIA | 259 |
| BRUNEI | 2 | NEPAL | 2,562 |
| BURMA | 653 | NORTH KOREA | 4 |
| CAMBODIA | 187 | OMAN | 5 |
| HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMIN. REGION | 69 | QATAR | 6 |
| INDONESIA | 266 | SAUDI ARABIA | 61 |
| IRAN | 1,435 | SINGAPORE | 70 |
| IRAQ | 164 | SRI LANKA | 675 |
| ISRAEL | 150 | SYRIA | 94 |
| JAPAN | 382 | TAIWAN | 446 |
| JORDAN | 56 | THAILAND | 108 |
| KUWAIT | 46 | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | 27 |
| LAOS | 7 | YEMEN | 70 |
| EUROPE | |||
| ALBANIA | 2,862 | GEORGIA | 516 |
| ANDORRA | 1 | GERMANY | 1,469 |
| ARMENIA | 1,130 | GREECE | 77 |
| AUSTRIA | 70 | GUADELOUPE | 4 |
| AZERBAIJAN | 271 | HUNGARY | 182 |
| BELARUS | 1,072 | ICELAND | 13 |
| BELGIUM | 89 | IRELAND | 162 |
| BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA | 73 | ITALY | 363 |
| BULGARIA | 1,567 | KAZAKHSTAN | 304 |
| CROATIA | 41 | KYRGYZSTAN | 180 |
| CYPRUS | 16 | LATVIA | 75 |
| CZECH REPUBLIC | 158 | LIECHTENSTEIN | 0 |
| DENMARK | 58 | LITHUANIA | 334 |
| ESTONIA | 37 | LUXEMBOURG | 12 |
| FINLAND | 59 | MACEDONIA, FORMER YUGOSLAV REP. OF | 343 |
| FRANCE | 603 | MALTA | 5 |
| FRENCH GUIANA | 6 | MOLDOVA | 474 |
| FRENCH POLYNESIA | 6 | MONACO | 4 |
| FRENCH SOUTHERN AND ANTARCTIC LANDS | 0 | MONTENEGRO | 22 |
| MACAU | 19 | NETHERLANDS | 123 |
| MARTINIQUE | 4 | SERBIA | 557 |
| NETHERLANDS ANTILLES | 18 | SLOVENIA | 12 |
| NETHERLANDS ARUBA | 8 | SPAIN | 135 |
| NEW CALEDONIA | 0 | SWEDEN | 118 |
| NORTHERN IRELAND | 34 | SWITZERLAND | 132 |
| NORWAY | 43 | TAJIKISTAN | 126 |
| PORTUGAL | 48 | TURKEY | 2,188 |
| REUNION | 0 | TURKMENISTAN | 124 |
| ROMANIA | 1,526 | UKRAINE | 5,018 |
| SAN MARINO | 0 | UZBEKISTAN | 3,101 |
| SLOVAKIA | 157 | WESTERN SAHARA | 0 |
| NORTH AMERICA | |||
| BAHAMAS, THE | 17 | ||
| OCEANIA | |||
| AUSTRALIA | 649 | COOK ISLANDS | 0 |
| CHRISTMAS ISLANDS | 0 | NAURU | 1 |
| FIJI | 630 | NEW ZEALAND | 260 |
| KIRIBATI | 9 | NIUE | 5 |
| MARSHALL ISLANDS | 0 | PALAU | 7 |
| MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF | 0 | PAPUA NEW GUINEA | 4 |
| SAMOA | 27 | TUVALU | 0 |
| SOLOMON ISLAND | 2 | VANUATU | 0 |
| TONGA | 120 | ||
| SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN | |||
| ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA | 1 | DOMINICA | 9 |
| ARGENTINA | 106 | ECUADOR | 217 |
| BARBADOS | 17 | GRENADA | 1 |
| BELIZE | 14 | GUATEMALA | 74 |
| BOLIVIA | 148 | GUYANA | 24 |
| BRAZIL | 0 | HONDURAS | 42 |
| CHILE | 26 | NICARAGUA | 39 |
| COSTA RICA | 22 | PANAMA | 17 |
| CUBA | 691 | PARAGUAY | 26 |
| PERU | 0 | SURINAME | 3 |
| SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS | 1 | TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO | 82 |
| SAINT LUCIA | 5 | URUGUAY | 23 |
| SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES | 1 | VENEZUELA | 256 |
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