Dear Editor:
In response to David Walker's inquiry about UK exclusion from the DV lottery I obtained the following information from the Federal Register of August 21, 2002
Volume 67 at Page 54251-54256 Registration for the Diversity Immigrant (DV-2004) Visa Program: "For DV-2004, natives of the following are not eligible to apply because they sent more than 50,000 immigrants to the United States in
the previous five years: Canada; China (mainland-born); Colombia; Dominican Republic; El Salvador; Haiti; India; Jamaica; Mexico; Pakistan; Philippines; South Korea; United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories
Vietnam; (Persons born in Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taiwan are eligible)". Looking for the numbers, the best I could find was in the 2001 Statistical Yearbook, (the 2002 statistical yearbook is not available on the BCIS website:
(http://www.immigration.gov/graphics/shared/aboutus/statistics/ybpage.htm).
In the 2001
Statistical yearbook listing under Immigrants there is this
info:
http://www.immigration.gov/graphics/shared/aboutus/statistics/IMM01yrbk/IMM2001list.htm
Table 3 - Immigrants admitted by region and country of birth: fiscal years
1989-2001.
These are the number of immigrants posted for the UK: 1989 - 14090; 1990 - 15928; 1991 - 13903; 1992 - 19973; 1993 - 18783; 1994 - 16326; 1995 - 12427; 1996 - 13624; 1997 - 10708; 1998 - 9018; 1999 - 7690; 2000 - 13385; 2001 - 18436.
Every year is over 10,000 except 1998 and 1999;
those two years, added into any continuous block of 5
exceed 50000 for the 5 year block. The result is that the
UK has been classified as a "high-admission state" not
eligible to participate in the DV in the past.
Doug Edmunds
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