Nigeria has been barred from the US visa lottery application for 2022, a document obtained from the US Government website, revealed.
In a 19-page document published on the website, Nigeria is the only African country barred from the visa lottery.
According to the report, For DV-2022, persons born in the following countries are not eligible to apply, because more than, 50,000 natives of the countries immigrated to the United States in the previous five years. Those country include Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China (including Hong Kong SAR), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam. Persons born in Macau SAR and Taiwan are eligible.
The report further revealed that although natives of other African countries are allowed to apply, the document also explained that persons born in the areas administered prior to June 1967 by Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt are chargeable, respectively, to Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt.
In the document captioned “Instructions for the 2022 diversity immigrant visa program (dv-2022),” applicants must meet certain guidelines to be eligible for the visa lottery, saying that The Department of State determines selectees through a randomized computer drawing and distributes diversity visas among six geographic regions, and no single country may receive more than seven per cent of the available DVs in any one.
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