haiti excluded from american diversity lottery

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There are some fraudulent Companies and sites on the Internet that claim to help Haitians get a permanent residency visa in the USA. However Haiti along with the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Brazil are some of the countries that are excluded from this diversity visa program in the Americas; Get the facts, pass it on. Those sites might be collecting information for identity theft.

US IMMIGRATION
uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis
Who can obtain a US Visa
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From US Immigration:
"Please note: There have been instances of fraudulent websites posing as official U.S. Government sites.

Some companies posing as the U.S. Government have sought money in order to "complete" lottery entry forms.

There is no charge to download and complete the Electronic Diversity Visa Entry Form. The Department of State notifies successful Diversity Visa applicants by letter, and NOT be electronic mail. To learn more, see the Department of State Warning and the Federal Trade Commission Warning in the Related Links section of this page."
About the Diversity Visa Lottery
travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/types/types_1322.html
Download Instruction PDF file ( This is what it says)
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE 2010 DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAM (DV-2010)
The congressionally mandated Diversity Immigrant Visa Program is administered on an annual basis by the Department of State and conducted under the terms of Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).

Section 131 of the Immigration Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-649) amended INA 203 and provides for a class of immigrants known as "diversity immigrants." Section 203(c) of the INA provides a maximum of 55,000 Diversity Visas (DV) each fiscal year to be made available to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.

The annual DV program makes visas available to persons meeting the simple, but strict, eligibility requirements.

A computer-generated, random lottery drawing chooses selectees for diversity visas.

The visas are distributed among six geographic regions, with a greater number of visas going to regions with lower rates of immigration, and with no visas going to nationals of countries sending more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. over the period of the past five years.

Within each region, no single country may receive more than seven percent of the available Diversity Visas in any one year.
For DV-2010, natives of the following countries1 are not eligible to apply because the countries sent a total of more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. in the previous five years: BRAZIL, CANADA, CHINA (mainland-born), COLOMBIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, ECUADOR, EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, HAITI, INDIA, JAMAICA, MEXICO, PAKISTAN, PHILIPPINES, PERU, POLAND, SOUTH KOREA, UNITED KINGDOM (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and VIETNAM.

Julian, August 13 2009, 6:59 PM

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