{"id":43884,"date":"2020-10-15T19:27:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T18:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=43884"},"modified":"2020-10-15T19:27:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T18:27:06","slug":"nigeria-only-african-country-barred-from-2022-us-visa-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/nigeria-only-african-country-barred-from-2022-us-visa-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Only African Country Barred From 2022 US Visa Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nigerians have been barred from participating in the United States\u2019 visa lottery in 2022.<\/p>\n

This was contained in a document obtained from the US\u2019 website on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The 19-page document is titled \u2018Instructions for the 2022 diversity immigrant visa program (dv-2022)\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Africa, natives of Nigeria are not eligible for this year\u2019s Diversity Visa program,\u201d the document stated.<\/p>\n

However, natives from other African countries are eligible to apply, but \u201cpersons born in the areas administered prior to June 1967 by Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt are chargeable,<\/p>\n

respectively, to Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt. Persons born in the Gaza Strip are chargeable to Egypt; persons born in the West Bank are chargeable to Jordan; persons born in the Golan Heights are chargeable to Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n

It stated that Nigeria was barred because more than 50,000 of its citizens immigrated to the United States in the previous five years.<\/p>

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Part of the document read, \u201cApplicants who are selected in the program (selectees) must meet simple but strict eligibility requirements to qualify for a diversity visa. The Department of State determines selectees through a randomized computer drawing. The Department of State distributes diversity visas among six geographic regions, and no single country may receive more than seven percent of the available DVs in any one year.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor DV-2022, persons born in the following countries are not eligible to apply, because more than 50,000 natives of these countries immigrated to the United States in the previous five years: Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China (including Hong Kong SAR), Colombia, Dominican<\/p>\n

Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan,<\/p>\n

Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent<\/p>\n

territories, and Vietnam.<\/p>\n

\u201cPersons born in Macau SAR and Taiwan are eligible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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