DV-2015 Winners Announced!

Diversity Immigrant 2015 (“DV-2015”) lottery winners have been notified.
Please check your result!

For DV-2015, approximately 125,514 applicants have been registered and notified. The winners may now make an application for an immigration visa.   50,000 resident visas will be given annually.  The larger figure should insure all DV-2015 numbers will be used since it is likely that some of the first 50,000 persons registered may not pursue their cases to visa issuance.  For the DV-2015, 9,388,986 qualified entries (14,397,781 with derivatives) were received during the 30-day application period.  

Dates for the DV-2016 program registration period will be publicized in the coming month.  Congratulations to the DV-2015 winners!

The following is the statistical breakdown by foreign-state chargeability of those registered for the DV-2015 program:

(source:  http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/law-and-policy/bulletin/2014/visa-bulletin-for-june-2014.html )

AFRICA
ALGERIA  3,076	ETHIOPIA  4,988	NIGER  334
ANGOLA  173	GABON  81	RWANDA  690
BENIN  1,758	GAMBIA, THE  110	SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE  0
BOTSWANA  12	GHANA  3,381	SENEGAL  620
BURKINA FASO  390	GUINEA  2,314	SEYCHELLES  9
BURUNDI  188	GUINEA-BISSAU  7	SIERRA LEONE  2,182
CABO VERDE  20	KENYA  3,534	SOMALIA  275
CAMEROON  5,000	LESOTHO  3	SOUTH AFRICA  924
CENTRAL AFRICAN REP.  33	LIBERIA  5,000	SOUTH SUDAN  21
CHAD  99	LIBYA  263	SUDAN  3,484
COMOROS  6	MADAGASCAR  62	SWAZILAND  5
CONGO  243	MALAWI  27	TANZANIA  231
CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE  4,943	MALI  123	TOGO  1,824
COTE D’IVOIRE  1,487	MAURITANIA  29	TUNISIA  221
DJIBOUTI  77	MAURITIUS  55	UGANDA  642
EGYPT  4,988	MOROCCO  2,844	ZAMBIA  116
EQUATORIAL GUINEA  14	MOZAMBIQUE  11	ZIMBABWE  249
ERITREA  815	NAMIBIA  19
ASIA
AFGHANISTAN  305	JAPAN  636	QATAR  51
BAHRAIN  12	JORDAN  374	SAUDI ARABIA  517
BHUTAN  45	NORTH KOREA  0	SINGAPORE  47
BRUNEI  0	KUWAIT  241	SRI LANKA  1,303
BURMA  453	LAOS  1	SYRIA  598
CAMBODIA  2,079	LEBANON  408	TAIWAN  498
HONG KONG SPECIAL	MALAYSIA  129	THAILAND  81
ADMIN. REGION  160
INDONESIA  288	MALDIVES  2	TIMOR-LESTE  0
IRAN  4,992	MONGOLIA  186	UNITED ARAB EMIRATES  195
IRAQ  289	NEPAL  4,991	YEMEN  875
ISRAEL  231	OMAN  15
EUROPE
ALBANIA  2,946	GREECE  147	NORTHERN IRELAND  41
ANDORRA  2	HUNGARY  329	NORWAY  49
ARMENIA  2,049	ICELAND  42	POLAND  961
AUSTRIA  134	IRELAND  157	PORTUGAL  82
AZERBAIJAN  454	ITALY  779	Macau  29
BELARUS  1,466	KAZAKHSTAN  772	ROMANIA  1,068
BELGIUM  107	KOSOVO  227	RUSSIA  4,103
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA  171	KYRGYZSTAN  403	SAN MARINO  0
BULGARIA  1,418	LATVIA  92	SERBIA  399
CROATIA  87	LIECHTENSTEIN  3	SLOVAKIA  110
CYPRUS  32	LITHUANIA  287	SLOVENIA  11
CZECH REPUBLIC  125	LUXEMBOURG  0	SPAIN  393
DENMARK  65	MACEDONIA  436	SWEDEN  217
ESTONIA  71	MALTA  16	SWITZERLAND  194
FINLAND  88	MOLDOVA  2,809	TAJIKISTAN  528
FRANCE  816	MONACO  1	TURKEY  3,688
French Polynesia  11	MONTENEGRO  16	TURKMENISTAN  191
Saint Martin  1	NETHERLANDS  151	UKRAINE  4,679
St. Pierre & Miquelon  2	Aruba  5	UZBEKISTAN  4,368
GEORGIA  804	Curacao  13	VATICAN CITY  0
GERMANY  1,354	Sint Maarten  1
NORTH AMERICA
BAHAMAS, THE  14
OCEANIA
AUSTRALIA  1,798	MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF  6	SAMOA  32
Christmas Island  1	NAURU  19	SOLOMON ISLANDS  3
Cocos Islands  1	NEW ZEALAND  589	TONGA  123
Norfolk Island  12	Cook Islands  14	TUVALU  1
FIJI  857	Niue  3	VANUATU  7
KIRIBATI  6	PALAU  6
MARSHALL ISLANDS  1	PAPUA NEW GUINEA  20
SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA  6	DOMINICA  5	SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS  7
ARGENTINA  109	GRENADA  8	SAINT LUCIA  18
BARBADOS  15	GUATEMALA  86	SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES  7
BELIZE  3	GUYANA  53	SURINAME  11
BOLIVIA  69	HONDURAS  165	TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO  193
CHILE  37	NICARAGUA  54	URUGUAY  20
COSTA RICA  72	PANAMA  19	VENEZUELA  1,556
CUBA  1,480	PARAGUAY  6

F2Aビザ、EB3ビザの待ち時間の変更！

２０１４年６月号のVisa Bulletin 広報が発行されました。

米国への移民ビザは、移民局までの申請手続きが完了すれば、ビザを取得するまで待ち時間がありませんが、年間発行される申請数に限りがあるカテゴリーの場合は、待ち時間が発生することがあります。　その場合、請願書の提出日（優先登録日）の順に処理され、申請者の優先登録日が、ビザの割り当てを受けられるまではビザが発給されません。今回の広報で、家族ベースのF2Aビザ（グリーンカード保持者の配偶者のためのビザ）の優先登録日の割り当て日が、２０１２年５月１日まで遡ったことが発表されました。つまり、現在２０１２年５月１日以前の優先登録日の方のビザが発給されることになり、それ以降の優先登録日を持つ申請者のビザの待ち時間が延びたことになります。これは、優先登録日の割り当て日を早めたことにより、過去７ヶ月のビザ発給手続きの数が一気に増加し、そのため、今回、優先登録日の割り当て日を遡ることになりました。

また、同じ理由で、雇用ベースのビザ、EB３カテゴリーにおいても、優先登録日の割り当て日が遡りました。新しい割り当て日は、２０１１年４月１日の優先登録日となっています。

Retrogression of June Cut-Off Date

 

Retrogression of June Cut-Off Date

June 2014 Visa Bulletin has been released.  The new cut-off date has been announced in the bulletin. For F2A family based sponsored visas, the cut-off date was retrogressed to May 01, 2012.  

The cut-off date for F2A category was advanced at a very rapid pace during the fiscal year 2013 in order to generate demand to use all numbers available under that annual limit.  However, it has resulted in a dramatic increase in the level of applicant demand in the past seven months.  This has caused the retrogression of the F2A cut-off date to hold number use within the annual limit.  If the applicant demand with early priority dates continues to increase, further retrogression may be expected.

 

Similarly the priority date for EB3 employment based visas was retrogressed to April 1, 2011.  There was also an unexpected and dramatic increase in applicant demand received in the past several months, which resulted in the necessary retrogression of the cut-off dates for the month of June.