2012 Results
For the 2012 Diversity Visa Lottery, the winning applicants were apportioned as follows:
| Region | Winner allocation | Country with highest number of winners | Countries with high fraud level (percent of entries which are illegitimate and therefore disqualified during selection process) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 50.00% | Nigeria | Nigeria 82.71%, Egypt 65.6%, Ethiopia 64.06%, Ghana 56.65%, Sudan 54.7%, Niger 46.73% |
| Europe | 30.98% | Ukraine | Ukraine 71.49%, Belarus 61.63%, Latvia 52.28%, Uzbekistan 47.81%, Armenia 40.38%, Lithuania 40.04% |
| Asia | 15.00% | Iran | Bangladesh 96.71% |
| South and Central America and the Caribbean | 2.00% | Venezuela | Almost no fraudulent entries |
| Oceania | 2.00% | Australia | Fiji 16.32% |
| North America | 0.02% | Bahamas (only eligible country in North America) | Almost no fraudulent entries |
The percentage of fraudulent entries from Bangladesh has been difficult to eradicate from the very beginning. According to Testimony of Stephen A. Edson Before the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement Hearing on the Diversity Visa Program "In Bangladesh, for example, one agent is reported to have enrolled an entire phone book so that he could then either extort money from winning applicants who had never entered the program to begin with or sell their winning slots to others"
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