It now means that from the next lottery year 2015 which commences from October/November 2013, Nigerians will not be able to partake in the randomly selected 55000 Diversity Winners (DV) cutting across eligible countries around the globe. This may be the case for the next four(4) years, if the sponsored US Senate bill on proposed immigration reforms does not pass into law in this current year

www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/16/us-usa-immigration-congress-idUSBRE93F05520130416


The first program was DV-1995, and the
following 13 countries were ineligible from
the start: Canada, China (mainland), Dominican
Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica,
Mexico, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan,
United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam. Changes to the list of countries over the years
include the following:

DV-1996: Colombia now ineligible.
DV-1998: Poland now ineligible.
DV-2002: Poland and Taiwan now eligible, Pakistan ineligible.
DV-2004: East Timor added, eligible.
DV-2005: Russia now ineligible.
DV-2007: Poland again ineligible.
DV-2008: Brazil and Peru now ineligible; Serbia and Montenegro listed separately, both eligible.
DV-2009: Ecuador and Guatemala now ineligible.
DV-2010: Russia now eligible; Kosovo added, eligible.
DV-2013: Poland again eligible, Bangladesh now ineligible; South Sudan added, eligible. DV-2014: Guatemala again eligible.

**DV-2015: Nigeria will become ineligible, as per the recently released 2012 immigration statistics.

Nija brothers and sisters will now surely have to stay put in the country to salvage the nation together and effect a positive change....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_Immigrant_Visa

The hope of many poor guys to go to America is gone now. What next

With or without DV lottery!Nigerians will survive.

That is one channel closed. I am sure Nigerians will devise alternative route with time.

[quote author=lyfe]That is one channel closed. I am sure Nigerians will devise alternative route with time.[/quote visa lottery my foot,Mexico root still open. USA by road on mind.

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But that route is damn dangerous...

One door closes another open....till then

They will still find another way. You can hardly stop a Nigerian from getting whatever he needs.

Dates for the DV-2015 program registration period will be widely publicized in the coming months. Those interested in entering the DV-2015 program should check the Department of State’s Visa web page for more details in September.

maxwello.yg:
They will still find another way. You can hardly stop a Nigerian from getting whatever he needs.

Dates for the DV-2015 program registration period will be widely publicized in the coming months. Those interested in entering the DV-2015 program should check the Department of State’s Visa web page for more details in September.

This this visa lottery thing is out but Nigerians are not eligible. I will tell my friend living in Bakassi to try his luck. After all I always yab him that he is not a Nigerian...

lyfe: That is one channel closed. I am sure Nigerians will devise alternative route with time.

true that.

before visa lottery, were nigerians not travelling to the US.

does europe have a lottery program yet nigerians full there.