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**IMMIGRATION BULLETIN**
DV LOTTERY Announced for 2010
The Department of State (DOS or Department) has issued the registration procedures for the Diversity Visa (DV) lottery for 2010. Registration
for the program opens at noon Eastern Standard Time (EST) on October 2, 2008, and closes at noon EST on December 1, 2008. As with the
registration for the last several years, only electronic applications will be accepted. Applicants must complete the form found on the e-DV Web
site,
http://www.dvlottery.state.gov,
and are encouraged not to wait until the last minute to file. The form and instructions for the DV-2010 lottery
remain essentially the same as those from the DV-2009 lottery. Successfully registered entries will again receive a confirmation screen containing
the applicant's name, date of birth, country of chargeability, and a date/time stamp. The applicant may print the confirmation screen for his or her records.
Lottery winners will be selected at random by a computer program, and the winners will be notified between May and July 2009.
For the DV-2010 lottery, natives of the following 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. The instructions also note that Russia and Kosovo have been added to the list of eligible countries.
TPS Extended for El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua
The State Department announced earlier this week that it was extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for certain foreign nationals
from El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. To qualify for an extension, the TPS holder is required to re-register with U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services. Specific re-registration instructions for TPS holders from El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua will soon be available.
TPS is a humanitarian form of relief that allows citizens from those countries to stay and work legally in the U.S., while those countries are still
recovering from the devastating effects of natural disasters. For Honduras and Nicaragua, it was Hurricane Mitch in 1999. For El Salvador, it was
a series of severe earthquakes in 2001.
There are currently 70,000 Hondurans, 3,500 Nicaraguans and 229,000 Salvadorans with TPS in the United States.
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