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The DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAM (DV-2002) makes available 55,000 permanent resident immigrant visas each year by random selection through a Diversity Visa lottery (DV-2002). The DV-2002 registration mail-in period will be held from noon on Monday, October 4, 2000 through noon on Wednesday, November 3, 2000. The basic requirements for participants and the countries that are eligible remain unchanged from DV-2001.

The visas will be apportioned among six geographic regions. A greater number of visas will go to those regions that have lower immigration rates and no visas may be issued to countries that have sent more than 50,000 immigrants to the United States during the previous five years. No one country can receive more than seven percent of the available diversity visas in any one year. Information about visa allotments for each region is determined by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) each year according to a formula specified in Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.