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Why some country are excluded from the DV lottery

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aaron2020 Grand Master

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Countries where lots of people already immigrate to the US are not eligible for the DV.  Lots of Haitian in the US already who are petitioning their families.  Only countries where there is a low level of immigration to the US are eligible for the DV lottery.

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What Aaron said - the “diversity” part of the visa lottery refers to diversifying the immigrant population. 
Any country that has sent more than 50000 non-DV immigrants to the US over the preceding 5 years is excluded from participating. 

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Countries which have sent 50,000+ immigrants to the US within the previous 5 year period are not eligible for the DV lottery.

 

The whole point of the DV lottery is diversity. As such, if a certain nationality is already very present in the US, that country will be temporarily removed to allow other nationalities a chance to enter, and as such, increase the diversity of residents within the US.

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Interestingly Haitian immigration has dropped dramatically over the last couple of years. If that stays the case (not sure how much is COVID) it could become eligible in a few years time. NOTE that this table excludes adjustment of status which will be counted in the 50k cut off. 
 

 https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/AnnualReports/FY2020AnnualReport/FY20AnnualReport_TableXIII.pdf

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1 hour ago, SusieQQQ said:

Interestingly Haitian immigration has dropped dramatically over the last couple of years. If that stays the case (not sure how much is COVID) it could become eligible in a few years time. NOTE that this table excludes adjustment of status which will be counted in the 50k cut off. 
 

 https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/AnnualReports/FY2020AnnualReport/FY20AnnualReport_TableXIII.pdf

Interesting. I bet a lot has to do with covid and the civil unrest that has been going on the past few years. There have been many days embassy has been closed and they haven’t been full staffed for who knows how long. 

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Just now, Luckycuds said:

Interesting. I bet a lot has to do with covid and the civil unrest that has been going on the past few years. There have been many days embassy has been closed and they haven’t been full staffed for who knows how long. 

Even before Covid it dropped dramatically - if it only goes back to 2019 levels will become eligible after a few years. 

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