Error on curly brackets

using MVCContactBook.ViewModel;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;

namespace MVCContactBook.Controllers
{
    public class HomeController : Controller
    {
        //
        // GET: /Home/

        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            List<ContactModel> contacts = new List<ContactModel>();
            //here MyContactBookiEntities is our datacontext
            using (MyContactBookEntities dc = new MyContactBookEntities())
            {
                var v = (from a in dc.Contacts
                         join b in dc.Countries on a.CountryID equals b.CountryID
                         join c in dc.States on a.StateID equals c.StateID
                         select new ContactModel
                         {
                             ContactID = a.ContactId,
                             FirstName = a.ContactPersonFName,
                             LastName = a.ContactPersonLName,
                             ContactNo1 = a.ContactNo1,
                             ContactNo2 = a.ContactNo2,
                             EmailID = a.EmailID,
                             Country = b.CountryName,
                             State = c.StateName,
                             Address = a.Address,
                             ImagePath = a.ImagePath
                         }).ToList();
                contacts = v;
            }
            return View(contacts);
        }

        public ActionResult Add()
        {
            // fetch country data
            List<Country> AllCountry = new List<Country>();
            List<State> states = new List<State>();
            // Here MyContactBookEntities is DbContext
            using (MyContactBookEntities dc = new MyContactBookEntities())
            {
                AllCountry = dc.Countries.OrderBy(a => a.CountryName).ToList();
                //Not need to fetch states as we dont know which country will user select here
            }

            ViewBag.Country = new SelectList(AllCountry, "CountryID", "CountryName");
            ViewBag.State = new SelectList(states, "StateID", "StateName");

            return View();
        }

        //Add more actions for fetch states from jquery code
        public JsonResult GetStates(int countryID)
        {
            using (MyContactBookEntities dc = new MyContactBookEntities())
            {
                //Off Lazy Loading
                var State = {from a in dc.States 
                             where a.CountryID.Equals(countryID)
                             orderby a.StateName 
                             select a).ToList();
                return new JsonResult { Data = State, JsonRequestBehavior = JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet };
            }
        }
    }
}

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