0 Nigeria is one of the most winner countries in the Africa region

Nigeria is one of the countries in the Africa region and people born here are allowed to participate in the DV lottery. Those who require to participate in this USA green card lottery visa program must have the necessary schooling or work experience as per the DV lottery instructions.
Winning a DV Lottery doesn't guarantee that you will be issued with an American Immigrant visa, it will only give you a chance to apply for the American immigrant visa by paying the non refundable visa fees. As a winner at the interview you must proof your eligibility to the consular officer to get the visa.
Normally Nigerian people must have successfully done 12 years of schooling including primary and secondary schooling equivalent to USA high school certificate.
Or the candidates must have 2 years of work experience within the last 5 years in a job after 2 years of education/training to perform that job. You can check the DOL Onet* web-site for the job section.
A person can apply one entry (whether they applies or agent or someone else applies), if over one entry is submitted with a person's name as primary applicant, all entries will be rejected without notice.
Married person must include partner and all the single kids who are under the age of 21, failure to do so will disqualify from the program.
Winners will require a sponsor's support from a US citizen or US LPR holder.
Winners who are already living in the USA legally can contact the USCIS to change their current status to LPR status, in the event that they can do it before 30th September.
The winner must pay the non-refundable visa fees and the diversity processing fee on the date of their interview to the US Embassy only.
Winners will be notified by postal mail only, between the months of May and July.
No visas will be issued after 30th September for that fiscal year program.
Be warned in case you get any notification by Emil, phone or by fax, double check them. And don't send any money by bank draft or any money transfer service.
For the DV Lottery 2011 6,000 Nigerians were notified as winners and were asked to proceed with the winning. In total 100,600 people were selected as winners all over the world for the DV 2011 Green card lottery program.
Nigerian DV lottery Winners name list won't be available anywhere.
The US Embassy or the Consulates also cannot provide the names of the dv lottery winners.
DV 2011 winners who are selected by the computer random draw were notified from may till July in 2010.
Issuing of the visas will start in October 2010 and will finish in 30th September 2010.
DV lottery Visas were issued to Nigeria historically as
1995 2,408
1996 4,359
1997 2,605
1998 3,185
1999 3,112
2000 2,821
2001 2,684
2002 2,279
2003 3,119
2004 2,959
2005 2,379
2006 2,942
In case you are a DV Lottery winner make all of your certificates prepared and wait for the interview. Rescheduling the interview date will reduce the chance of getting a visa as fewer visas available and more winners are there.
In case you don't know how to fill the forms get assistance from true consultants or lawyers and don't forget to fill their names and address as who has assisted you in the filling of the form.
DV 2009 program was officially closed on 30th September 2009 and no one can benefit from the winning after this date.
To play the U.S.A Visa Lottery schooling requirements for the Nigeria based candidates are as follows.
Candidates must have 5 scores of “6” or higher in 5 different subjects on the WAEC, SSCE, NECO, or NABTEB certified exams. Candidates may also qualify with BSC degree, HND, or OND from an accredited university or polytechnic institution.
WAEC or NECO to qualify, the subjects must be academic subjects like English, biology, or math. Trade subjects, for like plumbing or garment making, do not count for the program.
Any combination of exams from different years can be combined. For example, candidates can use 3 passing scores from a WAEC examination from 2002 and 2 passing scores from a NECO examination in 2003 that will qualify for the program. However, each of the 5 passing scores MUST be in different subjects.
The next visa lottery is DV 2012 and it will accept entries in the year 2010.