The United States (U.S.) have excluded Nigeria and 17 other countries from its Diversity Visa (DV) Programme for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025.
Already, applications have opened for the registration process into the DV programme aims to offer a special chance for individuals from countries with historically low rates of immigration to the United States.
For the FY2025 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.
Nigeria remains on the list of countries ineligible to apply for the Diversity Visa Programme. This also applies to 17 other countries, which have been excluded for the past couple of years. And it is the only country to be affected in Africa.
Here are countries not qualified for the 2025 US lottery programme
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