The United States government has banished Nigerian residents from partaking in the US Visa Lottery for 2022. This divulgence is contained in a report, 'Directions for the 2022 diversity immigrant visa program (dv-2022)' got from the US Department of States site on Thursday, October 15, 2020.

The archive expresses that Nigerian residents are the main Africans that are not qualified to partake in the current year's Diversity Visa program. This is on the grounds that over 50,000 locals of the nation moved to the United States in the previous 5 years.

Different nations who fall into this class and are banished from participating they are Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China (counting Hong Kong SAR), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (with the exception of Northern Ireland) and its reliant regions, and Vietnam.

Part of the announcement from the archive peruses, "For DV-2022, people conceived in the accompanying nations are not qualified to apply, in light of the fact that more than, 50,000 locals of these nations moved to the United States in the past five years: Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China (counting Hong Kong SAR), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom (aside from Northern Ireland) and its needy domains, and Vietnam. People conceived in Macau SAR and Taiwan are qualified."

Despite the fact that locals of other African nations are permitted to apply, the archive clarified that "people conceived in the territories prior to June 1967 by Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt are chargeable, separately, to Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt,"

"People conceived in the Gaza Strip are chargeable to Egypt; people conceived in the West Bank are chargeable to Jordan; people conceived in the Golan Heights are chargeable to Syria."

It expresses that candidates who are chosen in the program must meet basic yet severe qualification necessities to fit the bill for a variety visa.

It additionally expresses that “the Department of State decides selectees through a randomized PC drawing and appropriates variety visas among six geographic districts. It takes note of that no single nation may get over 7% of the accessible DVs in any one year."