From the official adsense blog website:

- If you’re outside of North America, Latin America, and Japan, AdSense referrals will be retired.

 

For publishers not located in any of the three regions detailed above, we’ll soon be retiring referrals promoting AdSense. We’ve found that this referral product has not performed as well as we had hoped in these regions. Again, please keep in mind that you can still generate referrals for the other products listed under the ‘Referrals’ section of your AdSense Setup tab.

 

Soon, you’ll no longer see the option to create a referral button for AdSense in your account, although existing buttons will display as normal. This specific referral type will then be retired during the last week of January - any users who meet the conversion criteria (reaching $100 in earnings within 180 days of sign-up and removing all payment holds) before the change will generate earnings of $250 for the referring publishers. Any conversions which occur after this change is made will not be recorded in your account. You may wish to begin replacing any existing referrals promoting AdSense with referrals for another product or an AdSense for content unit.

 

We appreciate your support of this referral product, and hope it won’t cause you any inconvenience.

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If you are a publisher living outside of the locations mentioned above, then you cannot participate in the Adsense referral program anymore. Yes dude! it doesn’t matter if your audience live in the locations mentioned, its not about the quality of your blog anymore nor the content of your website, its about your location.

The worst part of it is the last part of their statement, “We appreciate your support of this referral product, and hope it won’t cause you any inconvenience.” Won’t cause any inconvenience???? Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!

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