The United States of America (USA), has exempted Nigeria from the 2022 United States (US) Diversity Immigrant Visa programme (DV-2022).
According to the programme of schedule released, Nigeria is the only African nation barred from participating.
This is the first time Nigeria will be exempted from the DIV since the inception of the lottery.
The US immigration service explained on a portal opened for the lottery that Nigeria is barred from the programme because more than 50,000 of its citizens immigrated to the country in the last five years.
Part of the 19-page document that captures the above reason read: “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.”
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