Claim: 1,221 people win DV in Liberia
Source: Shine Liberia
Verdict: the blog is correct about the number of people who won the 2022/2023 DV in Liberia.
Full Text: A social media blog, Shine Liberia posted this, “DV result, Congratulations to all the 1,221 persons who were successful.”
The post attracted 838 comments, 78 shares and 855 reactions.
The Immigration Act of 1990 established the Diversity Visa (DV) program, where 55,000 immigrant visas would be available in an annual lottery, starting in fiscal year 1995.
The lottery aims to diversify the immigrant population in the United States, by selecting applicants mostly from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States in the previous five years.
The Trump administration imposed the rule so that the people applying for the Diversity Visa Program would have to submit their valid passports during the application process. As a result, people in low-income countries could not apply because passports were challenging to obtain and expensive. Due to the implementation of the passport rule, the number of applicants for the Diversity Visa Program was reduced by 50% in 2019, 2020, and 2021 and aspiring immigrants from Africa suffered the most because of this rule.
In 2022, a US Judge Timothy J. Kelly has rejected the previous government’s passport rule, according to which a passport was necessary for applying for the Diversity Visa Program.
The judge granted the motion and declared that the passports were no longer necessary for the upcoming Diversity Immigrant Visa Program in 2022 (DV-2024)
Verification: we checked the information and found that the 1,221 people from liberia did turnout successfully in the just ended DV . The following chart shows how many people from various countries were selected as winners of the DV-Lottery in 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016:
| COUNTRY | DV-2023 | DV-2022 | DV-2021 | DV-2020 | DV-2019 | DV-2018 | DV-2017 |
| AFGHANISTAN | 2,724 | 3,410 | 2,189 | 981 | 543 | 636 | 285 |
| ALBANIA | 2,001 | 2,756 | 3,962 | 3,603 | 2503 | 4484 | 2373 |
| ALGERIA | 5,526 | 6,001 | 6,001 | 2,745 | 2462 | 2897 | 1561 |
| ANDORRA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ANGOLA | 422 | 855 | 627 | 150 | 316 | 184 | 80 |
| ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 11 |
| ARGENTINA | 133 | 146 | 191 | 30 | 81 | 109 | 53 |
| ARMENIA | 3,525 | 2,066 | 2,293 | 1,422 | 1738 | 2844 | 1669 |
| Aruba | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 2 |
| AUSTRALIA | 461 | 1,031 | 1,130 | 647 | 777 | 2154 | 748 |
| AUSTRIA | 34 | 36 | 35 | 38 | 24 | 89 | 71 |
| AZERBAIJAN | 1,260 | 919 | 1,439 | 899 | 1203 | 961 | 470 |
| BAHAMAS, THE | 16 | 16 | 29 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 10 |
| BAHRAIN | 10 | 15 | 19 | 10 | 16 | 14 | 12 |
| BANGLADESH | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| BARBADOS | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| BELARUS | 1,535 | 1,808 | 2,143 | 1,512 | 1355 | 1466 | 899 |
| BELGIUM | 32 | 35 | 32 | 32 | 42 | 86 | 95 |
| BELIZE | 4 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| BENIN | 404 | 735 | 830 | 443 | 751 | 611 | 617 |
| BHUTAN | 115 | 114 | 69 | 27 | 38 | 16 | 16 |
| BOLIVIA | 46 | 38 | 38 | 22 | 19 | 52 | 30 |
| BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA | 47 | 67 | 36 | 40 | 53 | 92 | 119 |
| BOTSWANA | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 15 |
| BRUNEI | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| BULGARIA | 161 | 220 | 348 | 343 | 411 | 776 | 666 |
| BURKINA FASO | 137 | 72 | 83 | 84 | 174 | 317 | 217 |
| BURMA/MYANMAR | 1,107 | 561 | 776 | 444 | 273 | 209 | 213 |
| BURUNDI | 400 | 390 | 398 | 228 | 300 | 193 | 106 |
| CAPE VERDE / CABO VERDE | 24 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 24 | 7 |
| CAMBODIA | 397 | 1,094 | 1,174 | 790 | 237 | 390 | 824 |
| CAMEROON | 2,392 | 2,656 | 3,686 | 1,589 | 2978 | 3720 | 2096 |
| CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC | 19 | 21 | 22 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 9 |
| CHAD | 257 | 231 | 191 | 93 | 47 | 85 | 52 |
| CHILE | 27 | 24 | 36 | 21 | 41 | 76 | 27 |
| Christmas Island | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Cocos Keeling Islands | 3 | 2 | 19 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| COMOROS | 3 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 5 |
| CONGO | 389 | 574 | 740 | 258 | 248 | 240 | 94 |
| CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE | 4,385 | 3,347 | 4,503 | 4,743 | 4186 | 4497 | 3835 |
| Cook Islands | 6 | 19 | 32 | 15 | 7 | 19 | 8 |
| COSTA RICA | 39 | 8 | 68 | 12 | 28 | 66 | 18 |
| COTE D’IVOIRE / IVORY COAST | 552 | 597 | 737 | 364 | 1036 | 1029 | 891 |
| CROATIA | 12 | 21 | 32 | 40 | 43 | 63 | 36 |
| CUBA | 1,358 | 975 | 1,235 | 2,703 | 326 | 733 | 493 |
| Curacao | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
| CYPRUS | 8 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 19 | 12 |
| CZECH REPUBLIC | 19 | 27 | 44 | 31 | 64 | 95 | 53 |
| DENMARK | 12 | 15 | 24 | 17 | 32 | 45 | 44 |
| DJIBOUTI | 249 | 187 | 175 | 59 | 89 | 121 | 53 |
| DOMINICA | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 |
| ECUADOR | 466 | 249 | 246 | 134 | 224 | 1228 | 0 |
| EGYPT | 5,529 | 6,005 | 6,002 | 5,568 | 4185 | 4495 | 4501 |
| EQUATORIAL GUINEA | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 11 | 3 |
| ERITREA | 376 | 261 | 509 | 140 | 284 | 556 | 316 |
| ESTONIA | 17 | 24 | 18 | 30 | 26 | 61 | 34 |
| ETHIOPIA | 2,761 | 2,988 | 3957 | 1,974 | 3856 | 4496 | 4500 |
| Faroe Islands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| FIJI | 1,718 | 950 | 1,087 | 435 | 396 | 900 | 404 |
| FINLAND | 14 | 28 | 26 | 15 | 47 | 68 | 51 |
| FRANCE | 209 | 205 | 272 | 212 | 366 | 649 | 467 |
| French Guiana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| French Polynesia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 1 |
| French Southern & Antarctic Lands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GABON | 45 | 66 | 65 | 34 | 41 | 41 | 26 |
| GAMBIA, THE | 65 | 77 | 71 | 25 | 41 | 64 | 46 |
| GEORGIA | 2,071 | 1,604 | 1,899 | 1,131 | 867 | 1195 | 680 |
| GERMANY | 512 | 526 | 563 | 328 | 488 | 886 | 532 |
| GHANA | 3,398 | 3,145 | 3,284 | 1,343 | 2484 | 3549 | 3170 |
| GREECE | 28 | 42 | 71 | 48 | 98 | 171 | 86 |
| Greenland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GRENADA | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 7 |
| GRENADINES | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Guadeloupe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GUATEMALA | 84 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 50 | 120 | 29 |
| GUINEA | 706 | 672 | 805 | 271 | 719 | 1470 | 1233 |
| GUINEA-BISSAU | 9 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 |
| GUYANA | 15 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 10 |
| HONDURAS | 0 | 0 | 74 | 58 | 44 | 144 | 44 |
| HONG KONG S.A.R. | 0 | 0 | 569 | 92 | 69 | 84 | 37 |
| HUNGARY | 66 | 100 | 93 | 84 | 92 | 205 | 153 |
| ICELAND | 4 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 13 |
| INDONESIA | 115 | 218 | 317 | 194 | 179 | 167 | 115 |
| IRAN | 5,506 | 5,739 | 6,001 | 4,101 | 4199 | 4500 | 4500 |
| IRAQ | 1,300 | 1,512 | 1,184 | 615 | 731 | 754 | 302 |
| IRELAND | 13 | 24 | 29 | 19 | 52 | 123 | 63 |
| ISRAEL | 66 | 207 | 190 | 128 | 214 | 159 | 127 |
| ITALY | 154 | 324 | 289 | 220 | 333 | 546 | 443 |
| JAPAN | 194 | 510 | 532 | 333 | 376 | 263 | 204 |
| JORDAN | 937 | 917 | 1,578 | 633 | 613 | 447 | 259 |
| KAZAKHSTAN | 1,908 | 1,978 | 2,406 | 1,584 | 693 | 1020 | 518 |
| KENYA | 3,417 | 2,882 | 2,777 | 1,801 | 2107 | 2997 | 2090 |
| KIRIBATI | 2 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 18 | 3 |
| KOSOVO | 413 | 334 | 311 | 260 | 286 | 464 | 348 |
| KUWAIT | 118 | 222 | 302 | 165 | 158 | 167 | 101 |
| KYRGYZSTAN | 2,846 | 1,993 | 2,130 | 1,223 | 693 | 753 | 292 |
| LAOS | 13 | 22 | 43 | 64 | 11 | 6 | 0 |
| LATVIA | 48 | 43 | 63 | 68 | 52 | 91 | 64 |
| LEBANON | 249 | 320 | 249 | 135 | 268 | 221 | 183 |
| LESOTHO | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| LIBERIA | 1,221 | 1,417 | 1,858 | 1,142 | 2484 | 3989 | 3105 |
| LIBYA | 397 | 311 | 259 | 102 | 261 | 441 | 274 |
| LIECHTENSTEIN | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| LITHUANIA | 91 | 110 | 180 | 151 | 184 | 257 | 183 |
| LUXEMBOURG | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 |
| Macau S.A.R. | 7 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| MACEDONIA (NORTH MACEDONIA) | 258 | 0 | 336 | 249 | 270 | 514 | 286 |
| MADAGASCAR | 21 | 19 | 23 | 9 | 38 | 50 | 13 |
| MALAWI | 23 | 22 | 32 | 4 | 22 | 36 | 17 |
| MALAYSIA | 45 | 44 | 95 | 68 | 104 | 70 | 39 |
| MALDIVES | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| MALI | 90 | 74 | 103 | 30 | 58 | 126 | 82 |
| MALTA | 8 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 3 |
| MARSHALL ISLANDS | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Martinique | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MAURITANIA | 174 | 158 | 12 | 25 | 25 | 79 | 27 |
| MAURITIUS | 1 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 11 | 24 | 9 |
| MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF | 4 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
| MOLDOVA | 670 | 798 | 1,565 | 1,112 | 1138 | 1418 | 1762 |
| MONACO | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| MONGOLIA | 296 | 293 | 496 | 265 | 196 | 197 | 144 |
| MONTENEGRO | 28 | 48 | 33 | 35 | 28 | 38 | 25 |
| MOROCCO | 4,469 | 4,138 | 4,458 | 2,202 | 1717 | 2719 | 1905 |
| MOZAMBIQUE | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 7 |
| NAMIBIA | 6 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 12 |
| NAURU | 3 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 22 | 25 | 5 |
| NEPAL | 3,808 | 3,802 | 3,801 | 3,696 | 3633 | 4097 | 4000 |
| NETHERLANDS | 19 | 34 | 43 | 56 | 69 | 79 | 82 |
| New Caledonia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| NEW ZEALAND | 173 | 248 | 360 | 181 | 242 | 546 | 213 |
| NICARAGUA | 77 | 18 | 69 | 23 | 15 | 51 | 9 |
| NIGER | 78 | 49 | 55 | 31 | 58 | 57 | 34 |
| Niue | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Norfolk Island | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NORTH KOREA | 2 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| NORTHERN IRELAND | 4 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 8 | 16 | 13 |
| NORWAY | 4 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 19 | 47 | 24 |
| OMAN | 25 | 27 | 32 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 9 |
| PALAU | 3 | 30 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| PANAMA | 11 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 22 | 12 |
| PAPUA NEW GUINEA | 21 | 26 | 29 | 11 | 8 | 23 | 6 |
| PARAGUAY | 9 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 3 |
| PERU | 1,191 | 198 | 1,559 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| POLAND | 228 | 355 | 383 | 384 | 461 | 863 | 517 |
| PORTUGAL | 10 | 20 | 24 | 12 | 30 | 84 | 36 |
| QATAR | 92 | 90 | 82 | 72 | 38 | 46 | 33 |
| REUNION ISLAND | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ROMANIA | 228 | 264 | 365 | 311 | 430 | 516 | 480 |
| RUSSIA | 5,505 | 6,001 | 6,001 | 5,118 | 3641 | 4500 | 2290 |
| RWANDA | 1,024 | 983 | 1,067 | 603 | 510 | 542 | 277 |
| SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| SAINT LUCIA | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 9 |
| SAINT BARTHELEMY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Saint Martin (France) | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| SAINT PIERRE AND MIQUELON | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| ST VINCENT & THE GRENADINES | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| SAN MARINO | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SAUDI ARABIA | 658 | 944 | 1,126 | 699 | 630 | 489 | 253 |
| SENEGAL | 253 | 277 | 167 | 91 | 260 | 400 | 357 |
| SERBIA | 134 | 214 | 239 | 210 | 307 | 560 | 376 |
| SEYCHELLES | 0 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| SIERRA LEONE | 522 | 271 | 504 | 217 | 1207 | 1790 | 2065 |
| SINGAPORE | 11 | 19 | 40 | 15 | 27 | 43 | 20 |
| Sint Maarten (Netherlands) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| SLOVAKIA | 20 | 24 | 23 | 30 | 27 | 82 | 49 |
| SLOVENIA | 2 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 16 |
| SOLOMON ISLANDS | 0 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| SOMALIA | 1,541 | 435 | 217 | 72 | 196 | 436 | 215 |
| SOUTH AFRICA | 222 | 497 | 510 | 162 | 454 | 500 | 427 |
| SOUTH SUDAN | 53 | 75 | 40 | 23 | 37 | 34 | 17 |
| SPAIN | 96 | 184 | 114 | 99 | 164 | 311 | 204 |
| SRI LANKA | 2,019 | 838 | 1,566 | 765 | 784 | 777 | 375 |
| SUDAN | 4,863 | 6,001 | 6,001 | 3,691 | 2617 | 3781 | 2522 |
| SURINAME | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| SVALBARD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| SWAZILAND | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| SWEDEN | 26 | 32 | 41 | 36 | 53 | 130 | 94 |
| SWITZERLAND | 27 | 31 | 48 | 49 | 47 | 85 | 96 |
| SYRIA | 381 | 483 | 487 | 265 | 420 | 414 | 356 |
| TAIWAN | 188 | 574 | 693 | 476 | 374 | 318 | 260 |
| TAJIKISTAN | 2,485 | 2,122 | 2,332 | 1,401 | 1171 | 1209 | 414 |
| TANZANIA | 165 | 103 | 184 | 72 | 106 | 173 | 89 |
| THAILAND | 685 | 186 | 290 | 127 | 122 | 60 | 41 |
| TIMOR-LESTE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| TOGO | 1,036 | 1,119 | 1,118 | 600 | 1242 | 1667 | 963 |
| TOKELAU | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |
| TONGA | 78 | 133 | 95 | 42 | 58 | 129 | 42 |
| TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO | 31 | 26 | 44 | 19 | 33 | 79 | 34 |
| TUNISIA | 168 | 203 | 173 | 82 | 115 | 181 | 169 |
| TURKEY (TÜRKİYE) | 3,383 | 2,526 | 2,874 | 2,709 | 2411 | 4390 | 2186 |
| TURKMENISTAN | 555 | 745 | 870 | 515 | 258 | 306 | 91 |
| TUVALU | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| UGANDA | 1,044 | 722 | 908 | 374 | 318 | 485 | 240 |
| UKRAINE | 3,808 | 4,949 | 5,604 | 3,313 | 4025 | 4478 | 4500 |
| UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | 175 | 275 | 282 | 206 | 157 | 197 | 97 |
| URUGUAY | 7 | 0 | 19 | 15 | 8 | 36 | 12 |
| UZBEKISTAN | 5,511 | 6,001 | 5,319 | 1,743 | 3461 | 4494 | 4501 |
| VANUATU | 21 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 17 | 5 |
| VATICAN CITY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| VENEZUELA | 0 | 1,800 | 1,872 | 1,068 | 1282 | 2209 | 1134 |
| WESTERN SAHARA | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| WESTERN SAMOA | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| YEMEN | 2,807 | 1,561 | 1,222 | 550 | 1193 | 1239 | 694 |
| ZAMBIA | 59 | 56 | 67 | 12 | 41 | 68 | 36 |
| ZIMBABWE | 202 | 222 | 276 | 61 | 90 | 149 | 106 |
| TOTAL WINNERS | 119,262 | 119,021 | 132,404 | 83,884 | 87,610 | 97,640 | 83,910 |
Conclusion: True, 1,221 people did win the 2023 Diversity Visa (DV) program.
