Nigeria And 17 Others Excluded From U.S. Green Card Lottery For 2025

Nigeria And 17 Others Excluded From U.S. Green Card Lottery For 2025

In its ongoing effort to diversify immigrant populations, the United States has opened applications for the Diversity Visa (DV) Programme, commonly known as the Green Card Lottery, for the fiscal year 2025. However, Nigeria and 17 other countries find themselves ineligible for this unique opportunity…..READ RELATED STORY HERECBN’s Ongoing Triumph: Nigeria’s Forex Backlog Slashes Dramatically To $2.2 Billion from $7 Billion

The exclusion criteria are rooted in the immigration history of these countries, with those having sent more than 50,000 immigrants to the U.S. over the past five years automatically disqualified from participating in the DV Programme.

The list of countries ineligible for the 2025 U.S. lottery programme includes:

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

This development emphasizes the stringent selection process aimed at ensuring diversity and equitable representation among immigrants to the United States.