US Bars Nigeria From 2022 US Visa Lottery; Only African Country So Banned

Nigerians have been barred from the 2022 United States of America visa lottery

This is contained in a 19-page document obtained from the US website on Thursday, titled ‘Instructions for the 2022 diversity immigrant visa program (dv-2022)’.

The document emphasized that in “Africa, natives of Nigeria are not eligible for this year’s Diversity Visa program”, because more than 50,000 Nigerians have immigrated to USA in the past five years.

Also, it was added that natives from other African countries are eligible to apply but “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. Persons born in the Gaza Strip are chargeable to Egypt; persons born in the West Bank are chargeable to Jordan; persons born in the Golan Heights are chargeable to Syria.”

Furthermore, US stated that the qualified applicants must strictly meet the eligibility requirements.

“Applicants who are selected in the program (selectees) must meet simple but strict eligibility requirements to qualify for a diversity visa. The Department of State determines selectees through a randomized computer drawing. The Department of State distributes diversity visas among six geographic regions, and no single country may receive more than seven percent of the available DVs in any one year.

“For DV-2022, persons born in the following countries are not eligible to apply, because more than 50,000 natives of these countries immigrated to the United States in the previous five years: 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 document partly read .