VISA BULLETIN FOR FEBRUARY MARCH 2010.

Visa bulletin that contains the DV Lottery 2010 case numbers which are going to be current in the coming months of February and March 2010 are now available in the internet for the benefit of the DV 2010selected people as winners. The Green card lottery program is already giving visas to eligible people under the DV 2010 and this will continue till 30th September 2010 or till the visas exhaust.

DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT (DV) CATEGORY

Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act provides a maximum of up to 55,000 immigrant visas each fiscal year to permit immigration opportunities for persons from countries other than the principal sources of current immigration to the United States. The Nicaraguan and Central American Relief Act (NACARA) passed by Congress in November 1997 stipulates that beginning with DV-99, and for as long as necessary, up to 5,000 of the 55,000 annually-allocated diversity visas will be made available for use under the NACARA program. This reduction has resulted in the DV-2010 annual limit being reduced to 50,000. DV visas are divided among six geographic regions. No one country can receive more than seven percent of the available diversity visas in any one year.

For February, immigrant numbers in the DV category are available to qualified DV-2010 applicants chargeable to all regions/eligible countries as follows. When an allocation cut-off number is shown, visas are available only for applicants with DV regional lottery rank numbers BELOW the specified allocation cut-off number:

Region	All DV Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed Separately
AFRICA	27,500	Except: Egypt: 15,600 Ethiopia: 14,700 Nigeria: 14,000
ASIA	10,550
EUROPE	22,400
NORTH AMERICA (BAHAMAS)	4
OCEANIA	870
SOUTH AMERICA, and the CARIBBEAN	950

Entitlement to immigrant status in the DV category lasts only through the end of the fiscal (visa) year for which the applicant is selected in the lottery. The year of entitlement for all applicants registered for the DV-2010 program ends as of September 30, 2010. DV visas may not be issued to DV-2010 applicants after that date. Similarly, spouses and children accompanying or following to join DV-2010principals are only entitled to derivative DV status until September 30, 2010. DV visa availability through the very end of FY-2010 cannot be taken for granted. Numbers could be exhausted prior to September 30.

ADVANCE NOTIFICATION OF THE DIVERSITY (DV) IMMIGRANT CATEGORY RANK CUT-OFFS WHICH WILL APPLY IN MARCH

For March, immigrant numbers in the DV category are available to qualified DV-2010 applicants chargeable to all regions/eligible countries as follows. When an allocation cut-off number is shown, visas are available only for applicants with DV regional lottery rank numbers BELOW the specified allocation cut-off number:

Region	All DV Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed Separately
AFRICA	29,600	Except: Egypt: 18,000 Ethiopia: 16,950 Nigeria: 14,350
ASIA	12,000
EUROPE	24,700
NORTH AMERICA (BAHAMAS)	4
OCEANIA	880
SOUTH AMERICA, and the CARIBBEAN	985