The deadline for the 2010 State Department Diversity visa lottery program is December first, so if you are hankering to get into the US sign up for this exciting opportunity real soon. Since America doesn’t have enough diversity, Congress in its infinite wisdom, nearly 20 years ago designed a way for you to gamble your way in and add yourself to our great multicultural melting pot.
However, assimilation is not mandatory because we are hip now—cultural relativism is the rule of the day.
There is a catch, you can’t be from a country that has sent more than 50,000 immigrants to the US in the last 5 years, we only want the really really diverse because that is cooler than the common diverse.
The annual Diversity Visa program makes visas available to persons meeting the simple, but strict, eligibility requirements. A computer-generated, random lottery drawing chooses selectees for Diversity Visas. The visas are distributed among six geographic regions, with a greater number of visas going to regions with lower rates of immigration, and with no visas going to nationals of countries sending more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. over the past five years. Within each region, no single country may receive more than seven percent of the available Diversity Visas in any one year.
For DV-2010, natives of the following countries are not eligible to apply because the countries sent a total of more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. in the previous five years:
BRAZIL, CANADA, CHINA (mainland-born), COLOMBIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, ECUADOR, EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, HAITI, INDIA, JAMAICA, MEXICO, PAKISTAN, PHILIPPINES, PERU, POLAND, SOUTH KOREA, UNITED KINGDOM (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and VIETNAM.
So, when I look at this list of ineligible countries it pretty much means that if you are from a country that hates America you have a good shot at this special visa.