58250 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 192 / Wednesday, October 5, 2005 / Notices 

Anyone wishing to make an oral 

presentation to the Board must contact 

Erika Fischer, Senior Program Analyst, 

U.S. Small Business Administration, 

Office of Small Business Development 

Centers, 409 3rd Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20416, telephone (202) 

205–7045 or fax (202) 481–0681. 

Matthew K. Becker, 

Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 05–19978 Filed 10–4–05; 8:45 am] 

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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

National Small Business Development 

Center Advisory Board; Public Meeting 

The U.S. Small Business 

Administration, Office of Small 

Business Development Centers, National 

Advisory Board will be hosting a public 

meeting via conference call to discuss 

such matters that may be presented by 

members, and the staff of the U.S. Small 

Business Administration, or interested 

others. The conference call will be held 

on Tuesday, October 18, 2005 at 1 p.m. 

eastern standard time. 

Anyone wishing to make an oral 

presentation to the Board must contact 

Erika Fischer, Senior Program Analyst, 

U.S. Small Business Administration, 

Office of Small Business Development 

Centers, 409 3rd Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20416, telephone (202) 

205–7045 or fax (202) 481–0681. 

Matthew K. Becker, 

Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 05–19980 Filed 10–4–05; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 5199] 

Bureau of Consular Affairs; 

Registration for the Diversity 

Immigrant (DV–2007) Visa Program 

ACTION: Notice of Registration for the 

Diversity Immigrant Visa Program. 

This public notice provides 

information on how to apply for the DV 

2007 Program. This notice is issued 

pursuant to 22 CFR 42.33(b)(3) which 

implements sections 201(a)(3), 201(e), 

203(c) and 204(a)(1)(G) of the 

Immigration and Nationality Act, as 

amended, (8 U.S.C. 1151, 1153, and 

1154(a)(1)(G)). 

Instructions for the 2007 Diversity 

Immigrant Visa Program (DV–2007) 

The congressionally mandated 

Diversity Immigrant Visa Program is 

administered on an annual basis by the 

Department of State and conducted 

under the terms of Section 203(c) of the 

Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). 

Section 131 of the Immigration Act of 

1990 (Pub. L. 101–649) amended INA 

203 to provide for a new class of 

immigrants known as ‘‘Diversity 

Immigrants’’ (DV immigrants). The Act 

makes available 50,000 permanent 

resident visas annually to persons from 

countries with low rates of immigration 

to the United States. 

The annual DV program makes 

permanent residence visas available to 

persons meeting the simple, but strict, 

eligibility requirements. Applicants for 

Diversity Visas are chosen by a 

computer-generated random lottery 

drawing. The visas, however, are 

distributed among six geographic 

regions, with a greater number of visas 

going to regions with lower rates of 

immigration, and with no visas going to 

citizens of countries sending more than 

50,000 immigrants to the U.S. in the 

past five years. Within each region, no 

one country may receive more than 

seven percent of the available Diversity 

Visas in any one year. 

For DV–2007, natives of the following 

countries 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 (the term 

‘‘country’’ in this notice includes 

countries, economies and other 

jurisdictions explicitly listed in this 

notice): 

Canada, China (mainland-born), 

Colombia, Dominican Republic, El 

Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, 

Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Russia, 

South Korea, United Kingdom (except 

Northern Ireland) and its dependent 

territories, and Vietnam. Persons born in 

Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and 

Taiwan are eligible. 

Application Submission Dates 

Entries for the DV–2007 Diversity 

Visa Lottery must be submitted 

electronically between noon, eastern 

standard time, (e.s.t.) Wednesday, 

October 5, 2005 and noon, e.s.t. Sunday, 

December 4, 2005. Applicants may 

access the Electronic Diversity Visa 

Entry Form (EDV Entry Form) at 

http://www.dvlottery.state.gov during 

the registration period beginning noon, 

e.s.t. October 5, 2005. Paper entries will 

not be accepted. Applicants are strongly 

encouraged to not wait until the last 

week of the registration period to enter. 

Heavy demand may result in delays. No 

entries will be accepted after noon, 

e.s.t., on December 4, 2005. 

Requirements for Entry 

Applicant must be a native of one of 

the countries listed. See ‘‘List of 

Countries by Region Whose Natives 

Qualify.’’

In most cases this means the country 

in which the applicant was born. 

However, there are two other ways a 

person may be able to qualify. First, if 

a person was born in a country whose 

natives are ineligible but his/her spouse 

was born in a country whose natives are 

eligible, such person can claim the 

spouse’s country of birth provided both 

the applicant and spouse are issued 

visas and enter the U.S. simultaneously. 

Second, if a person was born in a 

country whose natives are ineligible, but 

neither of his/her parents was born 

there or resided there at the time of his/ 

her birth, such person may claim 

nativity in one of the parents’ country 

of birth if it is a country whose natives 

qualify for the DV–2007 program. 

Applicants must meet either the 

education or training requirement of the 

DV program. 

An applicant must have either a high 

school education or its equivalent, 

defined as successful completion of a 

12-year course of elementary and 

secondary education; or two years of 

work experience within the past five 

years in an occupation requiring at least 

two years of training or experience to 

perform. The U.S. Department of Labor’s 

O*Net OnLine database will be used to 

determine qualifying work experience. 

If the applicant cannot meet these 

requirements, he/she should not submit 

an entry to the DV program. 

Procedures for Submitting an Entry to 

DV–2007 

The Department of State will only 

accept completed EDV Entry Forms 

submitted electronically at http:// 

www.dvlottery.state.gov during the 

registration period beginning at 12 p.m. 

e.s.t. (GMT–5) on October 5, 2005 and 

ending at 12 p.m. e.s.t. (GMT–5) on 

December 4, 2005. 

All entries by an applicant will be 

disqualified if more than one entry for 

the applicant is received, regardless of 

who submitted the entry. Applicants 

may prepare and submit their own 

entries or have someone submit the 

entry for them. 

Successfully registered entries will 

result in a display of a confirmation 

screen containing the applicant’s name, 

date of birth, country of chargeability, 

and a date/time stamp. The applicant 

may print this confirmation screen for 

his/her records using the print function 

of the Web browser. 

Paper entries will not be accepted.