The United States of America has excluded Nigeria and 17 other countries as beneficiaries of its Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery for 2025.
Recall in 2022, the US opened the applications for the registration process of the DV programme for the fiscal year 2025.
The DV programme is designed to provide a unique opportunity for nationals from countries with historically low immigration rates to the US.
The programme is also aimed at offering green cards to individuals from countries with low migration rates to the U.S., promoting diversity in immigration.
For the DV2025 programme, individuals from countries who have sent more than 50,000 of their nationals to the United States in the past five years are ineligible to apply.
Here are the 18 countries that missed out on the US 2025 lottery scheme
1. Bangladesh
2. Brazil
3. Canada
4. China
5. Colombia
6. Dominica
7. El Salvador
8. Haiti
9. Honduras
10. India
11. Jamaica
12. Mexico
13. Nigeria
14. Pakistan
15. Philippines
16. South Korea
17. Venezuela
18. Vietnam
