Nigerians disqualified from 2015 visa lottery

 Nigerian citizens have been disqualified from participating in the United States 2015 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (DV-2015) otherwise know as US visa lottery.
According to a statement by the US Department of State, Nigerians would no longer be eligible to apply for the programme as over 50,000 citizens had emigrated to the US under the visa lottery scheme in the last five years.
The US government statement reads in part: “The congressionally mandated Diversity Immigrant Visa Program is administered annually by the Department of State. Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provides for a class of immigrants known as “diversity immigrants,” from countries with historically low rates of immigration to the United States. For fiscal year 2015, 50,000 diversity visas (DVs) will be available.