The legal provisions behind the Diversity Visa program can be found in the Sections 201 to 204 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) as ammended by Section 131 of the Immigration Act of 1990. Basically, the Diversity Visa program aims to broaden the population of immigrants in the United States by accepting visa registrants from natives of countries with "low immigration rates" for the past 5 years.
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