by Staff writer
The Diversity Visa lottery has that name because it is designed to encourage diversity of origin in the US immigrant population.
For that reason, countries that have sent 50,000 or more immigrants to the US in the previous five years are not eligible.
Each country has a set number of people they can send to the U.S. through the lottery scheme, and Nigeria has exceeded her quota, hence, her exclusion from participating in the lottery.
18 countries whose nationals cannot enter the 2019 lottery are:
1. Bangladesh
2. Brazil
3. Canada
4. China (mainland born)
5. Colombia
6. Dominican Republic
7. El Salvador
8. Haiti
9. India
10. Jamaica
11. Mexico
12. Nigeria
13. Pakistan
14. Peru
15. Philippines
16. South Korea
17. United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and
18. Vietnam.
This list has not changed as from 2018.
Lottery applications for the 2019 draw has since started since May 2017.
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