Nigerians Not Eligible For Visa Lottery

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Nigeria has been barred from participating in the America Diversity Visa lottery programme also known ‘US Visa Lottery’. In a statement released on Sunday, September 15, 2013, the United States Department of State disclosed that citizens from Nigeria and 18 other countries will not be eligible for DV-2015. The reason for the debarment is because more than 50,000 natives of these countries immigrated to the United States in the previous five years.

Other countries barred from the Visa lottery include United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland), Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, South Korea, and Bangladesh. including India, Jamaica, Brazil, Canada, China (mainland-born), Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador and Haiti.

Nigeria appears to be the only African country released along with the non-eligible list.

Phone calls to the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the US State Department were not answered as at the time of turning in this report. E-mails sent to the official e-mail addresses have also not been replied.

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