Over 3000 Ghanaians win US Visa Lottery

A total of 3080 Ghanaians have won the 2007 edition of the US Diversity Immigration Visa Lottery (DV-2007), a substantial drop over the 2004 highs of 7,145.

Ghana was allocated the fifth highest number of visas in Africa behind Nigeria, Egypt, Ethiopia and Morocco.

According to a release announcing the results, approximately 50,000 applicants have been registered and notified. The winners may now make an application for an immigration visa.

The diversity lottery was conducted under the terms of United States section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act and makes available *50,000 permanent resident visas annually to persons from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States.

Approximately 82,000 applicants have been registered and notified and may now make an application for an immigrant visa. Since it is likely that some of the first 50,000 persons registered will not pursue their cases to visa issuance, this larger figure should insure that all DV-2007 numbers will be used during fiscal year 2007

Applicants registered for the DV-2007 program were selected at random from over 5.5 million qualified entries received during the 60-day application period that ran from 12:00 AM on October 5, 2005, until midnight, December 4, 2005.