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2004 Yearbook of Imm

igration Statistics

U.S. Department of Homeland SecurityOffice of Immigration Statistics

2004 Yearbook of Immigration StatisticsOffice of Immigration Statistics

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2004 Yearbook of Immigration StatisticsOffice of Immigration StatisticsJanuary 2006

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Michael Chertoff Secretary

Office of Policy

Stewart A. Baker Assistant Secretary

Office of Immigration Statistics

Michael D. Hoefer Director

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To Purchase the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics

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The Yearbook is also offered for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954. Orders may be placed by mail, phone (1-866-512-1800; for the Washington, D.C. metro area, 202-512-1800), fax (202-512-2104), or online (http://bookstore.gpo.gov).

Suggested Citation

United States. Department of Homeland Security. Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2004. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Immigration Statistics, 2006.

Library of Congress National Serials Program International Standard Serial Number: (ISSN) 0743-538X

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CONTENTS

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

IMMIGRANTS

1. Immigration to the United States: fiscal years 1820 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2. Immigration by region and selected country of last residence: fiscal years 1820 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . 6

3. Immigrants admitted by region and country of birth: fiscal years 1995 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

4. Immigrants admitted by type and selected class of admission: fiscal years 1995 to 2004 . . . . . . . . 14

5. Immigrants admitted by type and class of admission: fiscal year 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

6. Immigrants admitted by gender, age, marital status, and occupation: fiscal year 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . 21

7. Immigrants admitted by major class of admission and selected demographic characteristics: fiscal year 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

8. Immigrants admitted by selected class of admission and region and country of birth: fiscal year 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

9. Immigrants admitted by selected class of admission and region and country of last permanent residence: fiscal year 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

10. Immigrant-orphans adopted by U.S. citizens by gender, age, and region and country of birth: fiscal year 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

11. Immigrants admitted by state of intended residence: fiscal years 1995 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

REFUGEES AND ASYLEES

12. Refugee-status applications: fiscal years 1980 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

13. Refugee-status applications by geographic area and country of chargeability: fiscal year 2004 . . . . . 46

14. Refugee approvals and arrivals by geographic area of chargeability: fiscal years 1999 to 2004 . . . . . 48

15. Refugee arrivals into the United States by region and country of chargeability: fiscal years 1995 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

16. Asylum cases filed with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) district directors and asylum officers: fiscal years 1973 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

17. Number of individuals granted asylum by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) asylum officers by region and country of nationality: fiscal years 1997 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

18. Asylum cases filed with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) asylum officers by nationality: fiscal year 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

19. Asylum cases filed with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) asylum officers by asylum office and state of residence: fiscal year 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

20. Refugees and asylees granted lawful permanent resident status by enactment: fiscal years 1946 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

21. Refugees and asylees granted lawful permanent resident status by region and selected country of birth: fiscal years 1946 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

NONIMMIGRANT ADMISSIONS

22. Nonimmigrants admitted by selected class of admission and region and selected country of last residence: selected fiscal years 1995 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

23. Nonimmigrants admitted by selected class of admission and region and country of citizenship: fiscal year 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

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24. Nonimmigrants admitted by class of admission: selected fiscal years 1995 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

25. Nonimmigrants admitted as temporary workers, exchange visitors, and intracompany transferees by region and country of citizenship: fiscal year 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

26. Nonimmigrants admitted by selected port of entry and region and country of citizenship: fiscal year 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

27. Nonimmigrants admitted by age and region and country of citizenship: fiscal year 2004 . . . . . . . . . . 119

28. Nonimmigrants admitted by selected class of admission and state of destination: fiscal year 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

29. Nonimmigrants admitted by selected country of citizenship and state of destination: fiscal year 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

30. Nonimmigrants admitted by selected class of admission, age, and gender: fiscal year 2004 . . . . . . 135

NATURALIZATIONS31. Petitions for naturalizations filed, persons naturalized, and petitions for naturalizations denied: fiscal years 1907 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

32. Persons naturalized by region and country of birth: fiscal years 1995 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

33. Persons naturalized by state of residence: fiscal years 1995 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

34. Persons naturalized by gender, age, marital status, and occupation: fiscal year 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS35. Deportable aliens located: fiscal years 1925 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

36. Deportable aliens located by region and country of nationality: fiscal year 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

37. Deportable aliens located by Border Patrol Sector: fiscal years 1995 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

38. Principal activities and accomplishments of the Border Patrol: fiscal years 1995 to 2004 . . . . . . . . 157

39. Principal immigration related activities and accomplishments of the Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Investigations: fiscal year 2004 . . . . 158

40. Aliens expelled: fiscal years 1892 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

41. Aliens expelled by field office: fiscal year 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

42. Aliens removed by administrative reason for removal: fiscal years 1995 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

43. Aliens removed by criminal status and region and country of nationality: fiscal years 1998 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

44. Aliens under docket control required to depart by criminal status and region and country of nationality: fiscal years 1995 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

45. Department of Homeland Security participation in the control of marijuana, narcotics, and dangerous drug traffic: fiscal years 1995 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

46. Prosecutions, fines, and imprisonment for immigration, nationalization, and other violations: fiscal years 1995 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

47. Convictions for immigration, naturalization, and other violations: fiscal years 1995 to 2004 . . . . . . . 193

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INTRODUCTION

Statistical data on immigration have been published annually by the U.S. government since the 1890s. Over the years, the federal agencies responsible for reporting on immigration have changed, as have the content, format, and title of the annual publication. Currently, immigration data are published in the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics by the Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS) in the Policy Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The 2004 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics consists of a compendium of tables organized by subject matter, including:

Immigrants (Tables 1 to 11)

Immigrants are persons who have been granted lawful permanent residence in the United States. They are also known as legal permanent residents (LPRs) or “green card” recipients.

Refugees and Asylees (Tables 12 to 21)

Refugees and asylees are persons who sought residence in the United States in order to avoid persecution in their country of origin. Persons granted refugee status applied for admission while outside the United States. Persons granted asylum applied either at a port of entry or at some point after their entry into the United States.

Nonimmigrant Admissions (Tables 22 to 30)

Nonimmigrant admissions refer to arrivals of persons who are authorized to stay in the United States for a limited period of time. Most nonimmigrants enter the United States as tourists or business travelers, but some come to work, study, or engage in cultural exchange programs.

Naturalizations (Tables 31 to 34)

Naturalizations refer to persons ages 18 and over who become citizens of the United States. Most legal permanent residents are eligible to apply for naturalization within five years after obtaining LPR status.

Enforcement Actions (Tables 35 to 47)

Enforcement actions include the apprehensions, investigations, detention, and removal of foreign nationals who are in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act. These actions occur at the borders of the United States, in the interior of the country, and at designated sites outside the United States.

With a few exceptions, the tables presented in the 2004 Yearbook are identical to those that appeared in the 2003 Yearbook. However, beginning in 2004, the subject matter chapters previously included in the Yearbook have been released in the Annual Flow Report and Annual Report series on the website of the Office of Immigration Statistics at http://www.dhs.gov/immigrationstatistics.

Data Sources

The data presented in the 2004 Yearbook were obtained primarily from workload and case tracking administrative systems of DHS. Unless otherwise noted, the data sources are the same as those in the tables of the 2003 Yearbook.

Confidentiality

The Office of Immigration Statistics is committed to protecting the identity of individuals reported in the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics. All data tables, therefore, have been edited to avoid divulging information about any individual by either direct or indirect means. The practice of cell suppression has been employed by placing a “D” (disclosure standards not met) in any cell that would show a count of 1 or 2, or in any associated cell that might be used to reveal such a count through calculation. The process of suppression does not change the marginal totals, so the integrity of the data is not affected.

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Explanatory Notes

The tables presented in this compendium make use of the following symbols:

NA Not available.

X Not applicable.

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.

For More Information

The 2004 Yearbook is available in PDF format on the Office of Immigration Statistics official website at http://www.dhs.gov/immigrationstatistics. The data tables in Excel format are also available on-line.

Visit the OIS website for more immigration information, including the Annual Flow Report and Annual Report series, earlier editions of the Yearbook, and definitions of terms.

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Table 1. IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES: FISCAL YEARS 1820 TO 2004

Year Number Year Number Year Number Year Number

Total, 1820 to 2004 69,869,450 1871 to 1880 . . . . . 2,812,191 1921 to 1930 . . . . . 4,107,209 1971 to 1980 . . . . . 4,493,314 1820 . . . . . . . . . . . 8,385 1871 . . . . . . . . . . 321,350 1921 . . . . . . . . . . . 805,228 1971 . . . . . . . . . . 370,478 1821 to 1830 . . . . . 143,439 1872 . . . . . . . . . . 404,806 1922 . . . . . . . . . . . 309,556 1972 . . . . . . . . . . 384,685 1821 . . . . . . . . . . . 9,127 1873 . . . . . . . . . . 459,803 1923 . . . . . . . . . . . 522,919 1973 . . . . . . . . . . 400,063 1822 . . . . . . . . . . . 6,911 1874 . . . . . . . . . . 313,339 1924 . . . . . . . . . . . 706,896 1974 . . . . . . . . . . 394,861 1823 . . . . . . . . . . . 6,354 1875 . . . . . . . . . . 227,498 1925 . . . . . . . . . . . 294,314 1975 . . . . . . . . . . 386,194 1824 . . . . . . . . . . . 7,912 1876 . . . . . . . . . . 169,986 1926 . . . . . . . . . . . 304,488 1976 . . . . . . . . . . 398,613 1825 . . . . . . . . . . . 10,199 1877 . . . . . . . . . . 141,857 1927 . . . . . . . . . . . 335,175 1976,TQ1 . . . . . . . 103,676 1826 . . . . . . . . . . . 10,837 1878 . . . . . . . . . . 138,469 1928 . . . . . . . . . . . 307,255 1977 . . . . . . . . . . 462,315 1827 . . . . . . . . . . . 18,875 1879 . . . . . . . . . . 177,826 1929 . . . . . . . . . . . 279,678 1978 . . . . . . . . . . 601,442 1828 . . . . . . . . . . . 27,382 1880 . . . . . . . . . . 457,257 1930 . . . . . . . . . . . 241,700 1979 . . . . . . . . . . 460,348 1829 . . . . . . . . . . . 22,520 1881 to 1890 . . . . . 5,246,613 1931 to 1940 . . . . . 528,431 1980 . . . . . . . . . . 530,639 1830 . . . . . . . . . . . 23,322 1881 . . . . . . . . . . 669,431 1931 . . . . . . . . . . . 97,139 1981 to 1990 . . . . . 7,338,062 1831 to 1840 . . . . . 599,125 1882 . . . . . . . . . . 788,992 1932 . . . . . . . . . . . 35,576 1981 . . . . . . . . . . 596,600 1831 . . . . . . . . . . . 22,633 1883 . . . . . . . . . . 603,322 1933 . . . . . . . . . . . 23,068 1982 . . . . . . . . . . 594,131 1832 . . . . . . . . . . . 60,482 1884 . . . . . . . . . . 518,592 1934 . . . . . . . . . . . 29,470 1983 . . . . . . . . . . 559,763 1833 . . . . . . . . . . . 58,640 1885 . . . . . . . . . . 395,346 1935 . . . . . . . . . . . 34,956 1984 . . . . . . . . . . 543,903 1834 . . . . . . . . . . . 65,365 1886 . . . . . . . . . . 334,203 1936 . . . . . . . . . . . 36,329 1985 . . . . . . . . . . 570,009 1835 . . . . . . . . . . . 45,374 1887 . . . . . . . . . . 490,109 1937 . . . . . . . . . . . 50,244 1986 . . . . . . . . . . 601,708 1836 . . . . . . . . . . . 76,242 1888 . . . . . . . . . . 546,889 1938 . . . . . . . . . . . 67,895 1987 . . . . . . . . . . 601,516 1837 . . . . . . . . . . . 79,340 1889 . . . . . . . . . . 444,427 1939 . . . . . . . . . . . 82,998 1988 . . . . . . . . . . 643,025 1838 . . . . . . . . . . . 38,914 1890 . . . . . . . . . . 455,302 1940 . . . . . . . . . . . 70,756 1989 . . . . . . . . . . 1,090,924 1839 . . . . . . . . . . . 68,069 1891 to 1900 . . . . . 3,687,564 1941 to 1950 . . . . . 1,035,039 1990 . . . . . . . . . . 1,536,483 1840 . . . . . . . . . . . 84,066 1891 . . . . . . . . . . 560,319 1941 . . . . . . . . . . . 51,776 1991 to 2000 . . . . . 9,095,417 1841 to 1850 . . . . . 1,713,251 1892 . . . . . . . . . . 579,663 1942 . . . . . . . . . . . 28,781 1991 . . . . . . . . . . 1,827,167 1841 . . . . . . . . . . . 80,289 1893 . . . . . . . . . . 439,730 1943 . . . . . . . . . . . 23,725 1992 . . . . . . . . . . 973,977 1842 . . . . . . . . . . . 104,565 1894 . . . . . . . . . . 285,631 1944 . . . . . . . . . . . 28,551 1993 . . . . . . . . . . 904,292 1843 . . . . . . . . . . . 52,496 1895 . . . . . . . . . . 258,536 1945 . . . . . . . . . . . 38,119 1994 . . . . . . . . . . 804,416 1844 . . . . . . . . . . . 78,615 1896 . . . . . . . . . . 343,267 1946 . . . . . . . . . . . 108,721 1995 . . . . . . . . . . 720,461 1845 . . . . . . . . . . . 114,371 1897 . . . . . . . . . . 230,832 1947 . . . . . . . . . . . 147,292 1996 . . . . . . . . . . 915,900 1846 . . . . . . . . . . . 154,416 1898 . . . . . . . . . . 229,299 1948 . . . . . . . . . . . 170,570 1997 . . . . . . . . . . 798,378 1847 . . . . . . . . . . . 234,968 1899 . . . . . . . . . . 311,715 1949 . . . . . . . . . . . 188,317 1998 . . . . . . . . . . 654,451 1848 . . . . . . . . . . . 226,527 1900 . . . . . . . . . . 448,572 1950 . . . . . . . . . . . 249,187 1999 . . . . . . . . . . 646,568 1849 . . . . . . . . . . . 297,024 1901 to 1910 . . . . . 8,795,386 1951 to 1960 . . . . . 2,515,479 2000 . . . . . . . . . . 849,807 1850 . . . . . . . . . . . 369,980 1901 . . . . . . . . . . 487,918 1951 . . . . . . . . . . . 205,717 2001 to 2004 . . . . . 3,780,019 1851 to 1860 . . . . . 2,598,214 1902 . . . . . . . . . . 648,743 1952 . . . . . . . . . . . 265,520 2001 . . . . . . . . . . 1,064,318 1851 . . . . . . . . . . . 379,466 1903 . . . . . . . . . . 857,046 1953 . . . . . . . . . . . 170,434 2002 . . . . . . . . . . 1,063,732 1852 . . . . . . . . . . . 371,603 1904 . . . . . . . . . . 812,870 1954 . . . . . . . . . . . 208,177 2003 . . . . . . . . . . 705,827 1853 . . . . . . . . . . . 368,645 1905 . . . . . . . . . . 1,026,499 1955 . . . . . . . . . . . 237,790 2004 . . . . . . . . . . 946,142 1854 . . . . . . . . . . . 427,833 1906 . . . . . . . . . . 1,100,735 1956 . . . . . . . . . . . 321,625 1855 . . . . . . . . . . . 200,877 1907 . . . . . . . . . . 1,285,349 1957 . . . . . . . . . . . 326,867 1856 . . . . . . . . . . . 200,436 1908 . . . . . . . . . . 782,870 1958 . . . . . . . . . . . 253,265 1857 . . . . . . . . . . . 251,306 1909 . . . . . . . . . . 751,786 1959 . . . . . . . . . . . 260,686 1858 . . . . . . . . . . . 123,126 1910 . . . . . . . . . . 1,041,570 1960 . . . . . . . . . . . 265,398 1859 . . . . . . . . . . . 121,282 1911 to 1920 . . . . . 5,735,811 1961 to 1970 . . . . . 3,321,677 1860 . . . . . . . . . . . 153,640 1911 . . . . . . . . . . 878,587 1961 . . . . . . . . . . . 271,344 1861 to 1870 . . . . . 2,314,824 1912 . . . . . . . . . . 838,172 1962 . . . . . . . . . . . 283,763 1861 . . . . . . . . . . . 91,918 1913 . . . . . . . . . . 1,197,892 1963 . . . . . . . . . . . 306,260 1862 . . . . . . . . . . . 91,985 1914 . . . . . . . . . . 1,218,480 1964 . . . . . . . . . . . 292,248 1863 . . . . . . . . . . . 176,282 1915 . . . . . . . . . . 326,700 1965 . . . . . . . . . . . 296,697 1864 . . . . . . . . . . . 193,418 1916 . . . . . . . . . . 298,826 1966 . . . . . . . . . . . 323,040 1865 . . . . . . . . . . . 248,120 1917 . . . . . . . . . . 295,403 1967 . . . . . . . . . . . 361,972 1866 . . . . . . . . . . . 318,568 1918 . . . . . . . . . . 110,618 1968 . . . . . . . . . . . 454,448 1867 . . . . . . . . . . . 315,722 1919 . . . . . . . . . . 141,132 1969 . . . . . . . . . . . 358,579 1868 . . . . . . . . . . . 138,840 1920 . . . . . . . . . . 430,001 1970 . . . . . . . . . . . 373,326 1869 . . . . . . . . . . . 352,768 1870 . . . . . . . . . . . 387,203

1 Transition quarter, July 1 through September 30, 1976.

Note: The numbers shown are as follows: from 1820 – 67, figures represent alien passengers arrived at seaports; from 1868 – 92 and 1895 – 97, immigrant aliens arrived; from 1892 – 94 and 1898 – 2003, immigrant aliens admitted for permanent residence. From 1892 – 1903, aliens entering by cabin class were not counted as immigrants. Land arrivals were not completely enumerated until 1908.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 2. IMMIGRATION BY REGION AND SELECTED COUNTRY OF LAST RESIDENCE: FISCAL YEARS 1820 TO 2004

Region and country of last residence1 1820 1821 – 1830 1831 – 1840 1841 – 1850 1851 – 1860 1861 – 1870 1871 – 1880 1881 – 1890

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,385 143,439 599,125 1,713,251 2,598,214 2,314,824 2,812,191 5,246,613 Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,690 98,797 495,681 1,597,442 2,452,577 2,065,141 2,271,925 4,735,484 Austria-Hungary . . . . . . . . 2 2 2 2 2 7,800 72,969 353,719 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 2 2 2 7,124 3 63,009 226,038 Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 2 2 2 484 3 9,960 127,681 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 27 22 5,074 4,738 6,734 7,221 20,177 Czechoslovakia . . . . . . . . 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 169 1,063 539 3,749 17,094 31,771 88,132 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 8,497 45,575 77,262 76,358 35,986 72,206 50,464 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . 968 6,761 152,454 434,626 951,667 787,468 718,182 1,452,970 Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 20 49 16 31 72 210 2,308 Ireland5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,614 50,724 207,381 780,719 914,119 435,778 436,871 655,482 Italy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 409 2,253 1,870 9,231 11,725 55,759 307,309 Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . 49 1,078 1,412 8,251 10,789 9,102 16,541 53,701 Norway-Sweden . . . . . . . . 3 91 1,201 13,903 20,931 109,298 211,245 568,362 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 6 6 6 6 6 95,323 176,586 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 6 6 6 6 6 115,922 391,776 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 16 369 105 1,164 2,027 12,970 51,806 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 145 829 550 1,055 2,658 14,082 16,978 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 7 7 7 7 7 11 7 6,348 Soviet Union . . . . . . . . . . 14 75 277 551 457 2,512 39,284 213,282 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 2,477 2,125 2,209 9,298 6,697 5,266 4,419 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . 31 3,226 4,821 4,644 25,011 23,286 28,293 81,988 United Kingdom5, 8 . . . . . . 2,410 25,079 75,810 267,044 423,974 606,896 548,043 807,357 Yugoslavia . . . . . . . . . . . 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 Other Europe . . . . . . . . . . – 3 40 79 5 8 1,001 682 Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 30 55 141 41,538 64,759 124,160 69,942 China10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 8 35 41,397 64,301 123,201 61,711 Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11

India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 8 39 36 43 69 163 269 Iran. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13

Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 14 14 14 14 186 149 2,270 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 20 7 59 83 131 404 3,782 Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11

Other Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 1 11 15 72 243 1,910 America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387 11,564 33,424 62,469 74,720 166,607 404,044 426,967 Canada & Newfoundland17, 18 209 2,277 13,624 41,723 59,309 153,878 383,640 393,304 Mexico18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 4,817 6,599 3,271 3,078 2,191 5,162 1,913 19

Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 3,834 12,301 13,528 10,660 9,046 13,957 29,042 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 Dominican Republic . . . 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20

Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21

Other Caribbean . . . . . . 164 3,834 12,301 13,528 10,660 9,046 13,957 29,042 Central America . . . . . . . . 2 105 44 368 449 95 157 404 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20

Other Central America . 2 105 44 368 449 95 157 404 South America . . . . . . . . . 11 531 856 3,579 1,224 1,397 1,128 2,304 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20

Other South America . . 11 531 856 3,579 1,224 1,397 1,128 2,304 Other America . . . . . . . . . 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 16 54 55 210 312 358 857 Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 9 29 158 214 10,914 12,574 Not specified22 . . . . . . . . . . 300 33,030 69,902 53,115 29,011 17,791 790 789

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 2. IMMIGRATION BY REGION AND SELECTED COUNTRY OF LAST RESIDENCE: FISCAL YEARS 1820 TO 2004 – Continued

Region and country of last residence1 1891 – 1900 1901 – 1910 1911 – 1920 1921 – 1930 1931 – 1940 1941 – 1950 1951 – 1960 1961 – 1970

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,687,564 8,795,386 5,735,811 4,107,209 528,431 1,035,039 2,515,479 3,321,677 Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,555,352 8,056,040 4,321,887 2,463,194 347,566 621,147 1,325,727 1,123,492 Austria-Hungary . . . . . . . . 592,707 23 2,145,266 23 896,342 23 63,548 11,424 28,329 103,743 26,022 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . 234,081 3 668,209 3 453,649 32,868 3,563 24 24,860 24 67,106 20,621 Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . 181,288 3 808,511 3 442,693 30,680 7,861 3,469 36,637 5,401 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,167 41,635 33,746 15,846 4,817 12,189 18,575 9,192 Czechoslovakia . . . . . . . . 4 4 3,426 4 102,194 14,393 8,347 918 3,273 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,231 65,285 41,983 32,430 2,559 5,393 10,984 9,201 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,770 73,379 61,897 49,610 12,623 38,809 51,121 45,237 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505,152 23 341,498 23 143,945 23 412,202 114,058 24 226,578 24 477,765 190,796 Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,979 167,519 184,201 51,084 9,119 8,973 47,608 85,969 Ireland5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388,416 339,065 146,181 211,234 10,973 19,789 48,362 32,966 Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651,893 2,045,877 1,109,524 455,315 68,028 57,661 185,491 214,111 Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . 26,758 48,262 43,718 26,948 7,150 14,860 52,277 30,606 Norway-Sweden . . . . . . . . 321,281 440,039 161,469 165,780 8,700 20,765 44,632 32,600 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,015 190,505 66,395 68,531 4,740 10,100 22,935 15,484 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . 226,266 249,534 95,074 97,249 3,960 10,665 21,697 17,116 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,720 23 23 4,813 23 227,734 17,026 7,571 9,985 53,539 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,508 69,149 89,732 29,994 3,329 7,423 19,588 76,065 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,750 53,008 13,311 67,646 3,871 1,076 1,039 2,531 Soviet Union . . . . . . . . . . 505,290 23 1,597,306 23 921,201 23 61,742 1,370 571 671 2,465 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,731 27,935 68,611 28,958 3,258 2,898 7,894 44,659 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . 31,179 34,922 23,091 29,676 5,512 10,547 17,675 18,453 United Kingdom5, 8 . . . . . . 271,538 525,950 341,408 339,570 31,572 139,306 202,824 213,822 Yugoslavia . . . . . . . . . . . 9 9 1,888 9 49,064 5,835 1,576 8,225 20,381 Other Europe . . . . . . . . . . 282 39,945 31,400 42,619 11,949 8,486 16,350 11,604 Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,862 323,543 247,236 112,059 16,595 37,028 153,249 427,642 China10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,799 20,605 21,278 29,907 4,928 16,709 9,657 34,764 Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . 11 11 11 11 11 11 15,541 11 75,007 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 4,713 2,082 1,886 496 1,761 1,973 27,189 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 12 12 241 195 1,380 3,388 10,339 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 13 13 13 13 476 25,476 29,602 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,942 129,797 83,837 33,462 1,948 1,555 46,250 39,988 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 15 15 15 15 107 6,231 34,526 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . 16 16 16 16 528 4,691 19,307 98,376 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,425 157,369 134,066 33,824 1,065 798 3,519 10,142 Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 11 11 11 11 11 335 11 4,340 Other Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,628 11,059 5,973 12,739 7,435 9,551 21,572 63,369 America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,972 361,888 1,143,671 1,516,716 160,037 354,804 996,944 1,716,374 Canada & Newfoundland17, 18 3,311 179,226 742,185 924,515 108,527 171,718 377,952 413,310 Mexico18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971 19 49,642 219,004 459,287 22,319 60,589 299,811 453,937 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,066 107,548 123,424 74,899 15,502 49,725 123,091 470,213 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 12 12 15,901 9,571 26,313 78,948 208,536 Dominican Republic . . . 20 20 20 20 1,150 20 5,627 9,897 93,292 Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 20 20 20 191 20 911 4,442 34,499 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 21 21 21 21 21 8,869 21 74,906 Other Caribbean . . . . . . 33,066 107,548 123,424 58,998 4,590 16,874 20,935 21 58,980 Central America . . . . . . . . 549 8,192 17,159 15,769 5,861 21,665 44,751 101,330 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . 20 20 20 20 673 20 5,132 5,895 14,992 Other Central America . 549 8,192 17,159 15,769 5,188 16,533 38,856 86,338 South America . . . . . . . . . 1,075 17,280 41,899 42,215 7,803 21,831 91,628 257,940 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . 20 20 20 20 1,349 20 3,338 19,486 49,721 Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . 20 20 20 20 1,223 20 3,858 18,048 72,028 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 20 20 20 337 20 2,417 9,841 36,780 Other South America . . 1,075 17,280 41,899 42,215 4,894 12,218 44,253 99,411 Other America . . . . . . . . . 22 22 22 31 22 25 29,276 59,711 19,644 Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350 7,368 8,443 6,286 1,750 7,367 14,092 28,954 Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,965 13,024 13,427 8,726 2,483 14,551 12,976 25,122 Not specified22 . . . . . . . . . . 14,063 33,523 25 1,147 228 – 142 12,491 93

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 2. IMMIGRATION BY REGION AND SELECTED COUNTRY OF LAST RESIDENCE: FISCAL YEARS 1820 TO 2004 – Continued

Region and country of last residence1 1971 – 1980 1981 – 1990 1991 – 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 1820 – 2004

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,493,314 7,338,062 9,095,417 1,064,318 1,063,732 705,827 946,142 69,869,450Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800,368 761,550 1,359,737 177,833 177,652 102,843 130,151 39,049,276 Austria-Hungary . . . . . . . . 16,028 24,885 24,882 2,318 4,016 2,181 3,683 4,379,862 23, 24

Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,478 18,340 15,500 1,004 2,657 1,163 2,442 1,851,712 2, 3

Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,550 6,545 9,382 1,314 1,359 1,018 1,241 1,682,074 2, 3

Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,329 7,066 7,090 1,002 842 518 746 220,754 Czechoslovakia . . . . . . . . 6,023 7,227 9,816 1,921 1,862 1,474 1,870 162,744 4

Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,439 5,370 6,079 741 655 436 568 378,891 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,069 32,353 35,820 5,431 4,596 2,933 4,209 840,576 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,414 91,961 92,606 22,093 21,058 8,102 10,270 7,237,594 23, 24

Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,369 38,377 26,759 1,966 1,516 914 1,213 736,272 Ireland5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,490 31,969 56,950 1,550 1,419 1,010 1,518 4,787,580 Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129,368 67,254 62,722 3,377 2,837 1,904 2,495 5,446,443 Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . 10,492 12,238 13,308 1,895 2,305 1,329 1,713 394,782 Norway–Sweden . . . . . . . . 10,472 15,182 17,893 2,561 2,097 1,520 2,011 2,172,036 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,941 4,164 5,178 588 464 386 457 760,792 6

Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,531 11,018 12,715 1,973 1,633 1,134 1,554 1,265,817 6

Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,234 83,252 163,747 12,355 13,304 11,016 13,972 820,730 23

Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101,710 40,431 22,916 1,654 1,320 821 1,062 529,034 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,393 30,857 51,203 6,224 4,525 3,311 4,064 274,168 7

Soviet Union . . . . . . . . . . 38,961 57,677 462,874 55,099 55,464 33,563 36,646 4,087,352 23

Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,141 20,433 17,157 1,889 1,603 1,107 1,453 308,357 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . 8,235 8,849 11,841 1,796 1,503 867 1,193 376,639 United Kingdom5, 8 . . . . . . 137,374 159,173 151,866 20,258 18,057 11,220 16,680 5,337,231 Yugoslavia . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,540 18,762 66,557 21,937 28,100 8,296 13,211 274,372 Other Europe . . . . . . . . . . 9,287 8,234 57,651 11,766 10,573 10,321 11,574 283,859Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,588,178 2,738,157 2,795,672 337,566 326,871 236,039 314,489 10,029,817 China10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124,326 346,747 419,114 50,821 55,974 37,395 45,942 1,523,622 Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . 113,467 98,215 109,779 10,307 7,952 5,020 5,421 440,709 11

India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164,134 250,786 363,060 65,916 66,864 47,157 65,472 1,064,185 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,136 116,172 68,556 8,063 7,730 4,709 5,898 271,807 12

Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,713 44,273 39,397 4,925 4,938 3,719 5,206 195,725 13

Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,775 47,085 67,942 10,464 9,150 6,724 8,652 565,176 14

Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267,638 333,746 164,166 19,933 20,114 12,177 19,441 878,079 15

Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . 354,987 548,764 503,945 50,870 48,674 43,258 54,632 1,728,032 16

Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,399 23,233 38,212 3,477 3,934 3,332 4,489 465,771 Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172,820 280,782 286,145 34,648 32,425 21,270 30,064 862,829 11

Other Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . 244,783 648,354 735,356 78,142 69,116 51,278 69,272 2,033,882America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,982,735 3,615,225 4,486,806 473,351 478,777 306,793 407,471 19,220,746 Canada & Newfoundland17, 18 169,939 156,938 191,987 30,203 27,299 16,555 22,437 4,584,066 Mexico18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640,294 1,655,843 2,249,421 204,844 217,318 114,984 173,664 6,848,960 19

Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . 741,126 872,051 978,787 96,958 94,240 67,660 81,893 4,022,715 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264,863 144,578 169,322 26,073 27,520 8,722 15,385 995,732 12

Dominican Republic . . . 148,135 252,035 335,251 21,256 22,474 26,157 30,049 945,323 20

Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,335 138,379 179,644 22,535 19,189 11,942 13,502 481,569 20

Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . 137,577 208,148 169,227 15,099 14,567 13,082 13,565 655,040 21

Other Caribbean . . . . . . 134,216 128,911 125,343 11,995 10,490 7,757 9,392 945,051 Central America . . . . . . . . 134,640 468,088 526,915 73,063 66,520 53,435 60,299 1,599,860 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . 34,436 213,539 215,798 31,054 30,539 27,915 29,285 609,258 20

Other Central America . . 100,204 254,549 311,117 42,009 35,981 25,520 31,014 990,602 South America . . . . . . . . . 295,741 461,847 539,656 68,279 73,400 54,155 69,177 2,054,956 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . 29,897 27,327 26,644 3,459 3,811 3,217 4,672 172,921 20

Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . 77,347 122,849 128,499 16,333 18,488 14,455 17,887 491,015 20

Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,077 56,315 76,592 9,694 10,564 7,040 8,351 268,008 20

Other South America . . 138,420 255,356 307,921 38,793 40,537 29,443 38,267 1,123,012 Other America . . . . . . . . . 995 458 40 4 3 4 1 110,189Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80,779 176,893 354,939 50,209 56,135 45,640 62,510 903,578Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,242 45,205 55,845 7,253 6,536 5,102 6,929 286,287Not specified22 . . . . . . . . . . 12 1,032 42,418 18,106 17,761 9,410 24,592 379,746

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 2. IMMIGRATION BY REGION AND SELECTED COUNTRY OF LAST RESIDENCE: FISCAL YEARS 1820 TO 2004 – Continued

– Represents zero.1 Data for years prior to 1906 relate to country whence alien came; data from 1906 – 79 and 1984 – 2004 are for country of last permanent residence; and data for 1980 – 83 refer to country of birth. Because of changes in boundaries, changes in lists of countries, and lack of data for specified countries for various periods, data for certain countries, especially for the total period 1820 – 2004, are not comparable throughout. Data for specified countries are included with countries to which they belonged prior to World War I.2 Data for Austria and Hungary not reported until 1861.3 Data for Austria and Hungary not reported separately for all years during the period.4 No data available for Czechoslovakia until 1920.5 Prior to 1926, data for Northern Ireland included in Ireland.6 Data for Norway and Sweden not reported separately until 1871.7 No data available for Romania until 1880.8 Since 1925, data for United Kingdom refer to England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.9 In 1920, a separate enumeration was made for the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. Since 1922, the Serb, Croat, and Slovene Kingdom recorded as Yugoslavia.10 From 1957 to 1979, China includes Taiwan.11 Data not reported separately until 1952.12 Data not reported separately until 1925.13 Data not reported separately until 1949.14 Data not available for Japan until 1861.15 Data not reported separately until 1948.16 Prior to 1934, Philippines reported as insular travel.17 Prior to 1920, Canada and Newfoundland recorded as British North America. From 1820 – 2001, figures include all British North America possessions.18 Land arrivals not completely enumerated until 1908.19 No data available for Mexico from 1886 – 94.20 Data not reported separately until 1932.21 Data for Jamaica not collected until 1953. In prior years, consolidated under British West Indies, which is included in “Other Caribbean.”22 Included in countries “Not Specified” until 1925.23 From 1899 – 1919, data for Poland included in Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Soviet Union.24 From 1938 – 45, data for Austria included in Germany.25 Includes 32,897 persons returning in 1906 to their homes in the United States.

Note: From 1820 – 67, figures represent alien passengers arrived at seaports; from 1868 – 91 and 1895 – 97, immigrant aliens arrived; from 1892 – 94 and 1898 – 2004, immigrant aliens admitted for permanent residence. From 1892 – 1903, aliens entering by cabin class were not counted as immigrants. Land arrivals were not completely enumerated until 1908. Data for Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia include independent republics. For this table, fiscal year 1843 covers 9 months ending September 1843; fiscal years 1832 and 1850 cover 15 months ending December 31 of the respective years; and fiscal year 1868 covers 6 months ending June 30, 1868.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 3. IMMIGRANTS ADMITTED BY REGION AND COUNTRY OF BIRTH: FISCAL YEARS 1995 TO 2004

Region and country of birth 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720,459 915,900 798,378 654,451 646,568 849,807 1,064,318 1,063,732 705,827 946,142Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128,185 147,581 119,871 90,793 92,672 132,480 175,371 174,209 100,769 127,669 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,420 4,007 4,375 4,221 3,699 4,756 4,363 3,768 3,363 3,834 Andorra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 5 D – – D D – D – Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,992 2,441 2,094 1,146 1,257 1,259 1,786 1,811 1,291 1,814 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518 554 487 291 231 409 527 487 297 402 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,885 1,991 1,450 504 746 1,054 1,169 1,167 747 951 Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,791 4,268 3,062 981 1,326 2,207 2,909 2,928 1,860 2,114 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569 651 554 421 428 679 818 782 458 638 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . 4,061 6,499 6,392 4,212 5,442 11,828 23,640 25,373 6,168 10,552 Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,797 2,066 2,774 3,735 4,172 4,925 4,411 3,616 3,830 4,194 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608 810 720 549 584 1,078 2,862 3,805 1,162 1,511 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . 72 165 186 144 145 244 308 267 268 457 Czechoslovakia (former) . . 599 561 395 342 319 671 867 909 544 673 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551 608 429 457 368 541 716 614 409 566 Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 280 285 128 142 241 348 344 236 312 Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476 602 376 314 309 378 499 429 242 388 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,505 3,079 2,568 2,352 2,209 3,465 4,608 3,824 2,385 3,595 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710 1,157 812 295 311 495 789 886 735 944 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,237 6,748 5,723 5,472 5,201 7,638 9,886 8,961 5,101 7,099 Gibraltar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 6 3 D D 5 5 D 4 D Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,309 1,452 1,049 863 727 970 1,181 1,038 662 769 Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900 1,183 949 809 698 1,025 1,273 1,284 1,024 1,266 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 182 119 111 79 129 136 93 97 105 Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,315 1,731 1,001 944 812 1,315 1,522 1,425 991 1,531 Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,231 2,501 1,982 1,831 1,530 2,489 3,142 2,605 1,659 2,346 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . 840 1,089 1,025 540 723 1,509 2,315 2,315 1,740 1,363 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 280 287 111 189 396 588 473 356 439 Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651 736 615 370 444 552 712 684 459 598 Liechtenstein . . . . . . . . . . D D D D D D D – – – Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767 1,080 812 1,191 1,149 1,354 1,735 1,787 2,266 2,462 Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . 15 32 28 21 11 26 34 32 16 13 Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . 666 863 783 785 571 794 924 827 656 774 Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 52 54 59 43 55 57 45 37 57 Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,856 1,849 1,347 562 754 1,273 2,077 2,109 1,151 1,488 Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 4 D 5 12 9 17 D 7 Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . 1,196 1,423 1,059 917 777 1,351 1,687 1,560 988 1,303 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 478 372 298 308 462 553 435 321 405 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,824 15,772 12,038 8,469 8,798 10,114 11,818 12,746 10,526 14,250 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,615 2,984 1,665 1,536 1,071 1,372 1,651 1,331 822 1,069 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,871 5,801 5,545 5,112 5,686 6,879 6,649 4,903 3,663 4,557 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,560 19,668 16,632 11,529 12,347 17,110 20,413 20,833 13,951 13,358 San Marino . . . . . . . . . . . D 3 – – – – D D – D Serbia and Montenegro1 . . 2,907 3,605 2,793 2,408 1,897 2,774 6,240 10,401 3,008 3,330 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . 503 663 629 491 493 549 812 725 674 799 Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 77 62 57 58 76 142 141 64 88 Soviet Union (former) . . . . 6,784 3,513 2,944 6,336 5,058 3,332 2,735 2,415 1,073 929 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,321 1,659 1,241 1,043 874 1,264 1,726 1,376 923 1,339 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 976 1,251 958 823 822 1,269 1,692 1,387 966 1,270 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . 881 1,006 1,063 828 649 1,039 1,304 1,010 636 855 Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706 634 311 66 104 157 187 181 138 167 Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . 84 121 99 44 65 100 94 93 84 117 Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,432 21,079 15,696 7,448 10,123 15,810 20,975 21,217 11,666 13,655 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . 12,427 13,624 10,708 9,018 7,690 13,385 18,436 16,421 9,601 14,915 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . 3,645 4,687 3,312 601 1,223 1,659 2,035 2,319 1,446 1,995Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267,931 307,807 265,810 219,696 199,411 265,400 349,776 342,099 244,759 330,004 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . 1,424 1,263 1,129 831 878 1,012 1,207 1,764 1,257 2,137 Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 76 80 53 70 106 119 85 59 116 Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . 6,072 8,221 8,681 8,621 6,046 7,215 7,171 5,492 4,625 8,061 Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D D 4 D 5 14 15 17 Brunei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 20 6 19 16 16 27 28 20 22 Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,233 1,320 1,085 1,371 1,204 1,201 1,383 1,359 1,194 1,379

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Region and country of birth 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,492 1,568 1,638 1,439 1,400 2,142 2,473 2,809 2,271 3,534 China, People’s Republic . . 35,463 41,728 41,147 36,884 32,204 45,652 56,426 61,282 40,659 51,156 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 187 148 119 107 162 218 162 127 143 Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . 7,249 7,834 5,577 5,275 4,917 5,419 8,321 6,090 3,582 3,951 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,748 44,859 38,071 36,482 30,237 42,046 70,290 71,105 50,372 70,116 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,020 1,084 906 1,020 1,187 1,774 2,541 2,429 1,813 2,418 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,201 11,084 9,642 7,883 7,203 8,519 10,497 13,029 7,251 10,434 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,596 5,481 3,244 2,220 3,372 5,134 4,985 5,196 2,460 3,494 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,523 3,126 2,448 1,991 1,858 2,806 3,776 3,857 2,774 4,160 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,837 6,011 5,097 5,138 4,217 7,094 9,619 8,301 5,993 7,694 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,649 4,445 4,171 3,255 3,274 3,909 4,593 3,980 2,935 3,431 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,047 18,185 14,239 14,268 12,840 15,830 20,742 21,021 12,512 19,766 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 961 1,202 837 749 803 1,018 1,270 1,063 710 1,091 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,936 2,847 1,935 1,612 854 1,380 1,416 1,257 901 1,147 Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,884 4,382 3,568 3,290 3,040 3,674 4,601 3,966 2,964 3,811 Macau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 453 277 276 294 270 342 284 246 192 Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,223 1,414 1,051 1,011 994 1,556 2,445 2,130 1,205 1,987 Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D D – D 9 9 15 7 Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 17 22 26 41 46 103 136 153 211 Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 431 447 476 453 617 949 1,138 2,099 2,842 Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 25 36 25 40 51 55 61 76 122 Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,774 12,519 12,967 13,094 13,496 14,535 16,448 13,743 9,444 12,086 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . 50,984 55,876 49,117 34,466 31,026 42,474 53,154 51,308 45,397 57,827 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 79 70 60 78 97 125 108 72 125 Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . 788 1,164 815 703 763 1,063 1,185 1,018 737 906 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 561 460 389 358 671 1,108 1,036 587 966 Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . 960 1,277 1,128 1,085 903 1,123 1,507 1,534 1,246 1,431 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,362 3,072 2,269 2,840 2,056 2,374 3,368 2,567 1,944 2,256 Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,377 13,401 6,745 7,097 6,714 9,040 12,171 9,836 6,947 8,961 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,136 4,310 3,094 3,102 2,381 3,785 4,291 4,175 3,158 4,314 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,947 3,657 3,145 2,682 2,219 2,613 3,229 3,400 3,040 3,833 United Arab Emirates . . . . 317 343 329 329 310 436 461 472 380 586 Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,752 42,067 38,519 17,649 20,393 26,747 35,531 33,627 22,133 31,514 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,501 2,209 1,663 1,859 1,161 1,789 1,615 1,228 1,386 1,760Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,456 52,889 47,791 40,660 36,700 44,731 53,948 60,269 48,738 66,309 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650 1,059 717 804 789 907 878 1,031 760 804 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 125 75 66 57 88 95 92 59 107 Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 38 48 47 59 62 76 137 76 185 Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 21 18 12 5 13 24 30 27 34 Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . 17 17 13 14 17 48 68 64 60 103 Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 36 59 51 16 28 79 121 74 97 Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . 506 803 898 691 826 865 795 985 927 1,309 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . 968 1,012 920 814 909 1,083 872 880 746 1,015 Central African Republic . . D 27 10 6 D 4 11 13 6 17 Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 13 18 8 24 23 45 47 8 23 Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D – – D D 3 3 D Congo, Democratic Republic 355 433 414 155 88 124 148 178 112 155 Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . 11 23 31 118 190 191 313 678 513 670 Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . 289 432 430 364 305 439 605 630 485 666 Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 19 18 15 6 14 23 30 16 37 Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,648 6,186 5,031 4,831 4,429 4,461 5,182 4,875 3,355 5,522 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . D D D 7 D 5 D 8 D 13 Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 992 828 948 641 326 383 544 561 556 673 Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,960 6,086 5,904 4,205 4,272 4,061 5,106 7,574 6,643 8,237 French Southern and Antarctic Lands . . . . . . – – – – – – – D – – Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 29 24 21 4 18 32 41 40 50 Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . 153 207 176 227 183 232 391 343 263 422 Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,152 6,606 5,105 4,458 3,714 4,344 4,031 4,256 4,416 5,328 Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 220 158 46 6 3 11 16 29 347 Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . . D D 24 165 134 204 274 290 177 5 Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,419 1,666 1,387 1,696 1,412 2,210 2,514 3,207 3,216 5,323

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Region and country of birth 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 11 6 D 5 9 6 13 5 13 Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,929 2,206 2,216 1,617 1,358 1,575 2,285 2,879 1,768 2,745 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 250 171 166 156 181 224 159 140 185 Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . 42 43 33 42 26 33 61 43 40 51 Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 58 72 39 41 61 70 56 62 83 Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 124 97 83 72 109 120 106 125 162 Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 26 51 78 24 88 117 124 131 170 Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 84 44 37 38 54 84 83 57 65 Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,726 1,783 2,359 2,410 2,971 3,626 4,968 3,396 3,141 4,128 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . 50 59 48 39 31 41 48 55 36 56 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 30 22 24 13 30 54 47 40 40 Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 102 837 283 12 30 1,341 1,271 814 62 Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,818 10,221 7,038 7,746 6,769 7,853 8,291 8,129 7,892 9,374 Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 3 D – – – – D 3 5 Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 118 170 52 98 73 148 217 109 162 St. Helena . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D – – – D D D – D Sao Tome and Principe . . . 6 4 D 3 6 8 D 4 D 9 Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506 641 435 373 370 555 665 530 522 769 Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 16 15 5 10 18 18 20 17 24 Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . 919 1,918 1,884 955 976 1,590 1,884 2,250 1,496 1,596 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,487 2,170 4,005 2,629 1,710 2,465 3,026 4,537 2,448 3,929 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 2,560 2,966 2,093 1,904 1,580 2,833 4,100 3,880 2,220 3,370 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,645 2,172 2,030 1,161 1,354 1,538 1,655 2,924 1,886 3,211 Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 16 11 8 8 12 18 12 23 15 Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524 553 399 339 316 481 477 584 555 746 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 157 222 246 254 388 489 935 1,188 2,041 Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 228 163 200 150 308 440 540 353 457 Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 422 400 355 250 423 459 577 457 717 Western Sahara . . . . . . . . – 3 – D – D 3 – – – Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 226 262 213 143 211 296 312 282 351 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 385 274 186 184 323 476 492 358 626Oceania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,695 5,309 4,344 3,935 3,676 5,136 6,113 5,557 4,377 5,960 American Samoa . . . . . . . D D – D 11 7 28 27 16 12 Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,751 1,950 1,630 1,147 1,112 2,059 2,830 2,576 1,847 2,604 Christmas Island . . . . . . . – – D – – – – – – – Cocos Islands . . . . . . . . . – – D – – – – – – – Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . . D 5 4 D 3 3 4 4 4 4 Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,491 1,847 1,549 1,717 1,601 1,487 1,457 1,211 1,099 1,592 French Polynesia . . . . . . . 25 15 21 14 9 14 17 12 14 13 Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – D – – Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 6 5 4 – 3 – 4 4 D Marshall Islands . . . . . . . 5 3 D 6 3 3 D 26 26 41 Micronesia, Federated States 7 5 D 4 D 5 9 D 4 5 Nauru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – 3 – 6 4 4 New Caledonia . . . . . . . . . 3 11 – 4 3 D 6 5 D D New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . 727 800 655 628 527 972 1,214 1,129 884 1,131 Niue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 3 D 3 – D – – – Northern Mariana Islands . 4 D 3 3 7 6 D 7 D 6 Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 9 8 6 D 3 3 10 8 6 Papua New Guinea . . . . . . 13 17 15 10 14 22 27 26 34 19 Pitcairn Island . . . . . . . . . – – – – D – – – – – Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 215 138 147 91 184 171 160 181 189 Solomon Islands . . . . . . . D D D 5 D 7 7 7 5 6 Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 416 303 230 283 351 328 335 239 324 Tuvalu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D – D D D – – Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D D D 5 8 3 D Wallis and Futuna Islands . 4 – D D – – D – – –North America . . . . . . . . . . 231,526 340,540 307,488 252,996 271,365 344,805 407,888 404,437 250,726 341,242 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,932 15,825 11,609 10,190 8,864 16,210 21,933 19,519 11,446 15,567 Greenland . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D – – – 4 4 4 – Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,932 163,572 146,865 131,575 147,573 173,919 206,426 219,380 115,864 175,364

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Table 3. IMMIGRANTS ADMITTED BY REGION AND COUNTRY OF BIRTH: FISCAL YEARS 1995 TO 2004 – Continued

Region and country of birth 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

St. Pierre and Miquelon . . D – – – – – D – – – United States . . . . . . . . . 57 51 38 31 29 35 63 66 32 57 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,788 116,801 105,299 75,521 71,683 88,198 103,546 96,489 68,815 88,921 Anguilla . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 36 D 26 20 27 55 20 27 22 Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . . 374 406 393 297 456 431 463 382 301 414 Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 28 26 23 14 25 29 32 27 31 Bahamas, The . . . . . . . 585 768 641 602 401 768 931 811 426 586 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . 734 1,043 829 726 720 783 910 817 517 630 Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . 111 103 75 63 63 72 99 110 92 100 British Virgin Islands . . 98 87 93 55 76 67 70 44 43 35 Cayman Islands . . . . . . 26 24 35 28 18 31 24 24 35 38 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,937 26,466 33,587 17,375 14,132 20,831 27,703 28,272 9,304 20,488 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . 591 797 746 283 41 96 93 148 204 132 Dominican Republic . . . 38,512 39,604 27,053 20,387 17,864 17,536 21,313 22,604 26,205 30,492 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . 583 787 755 655 667 655 645 636 481 609 Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . 48 52 52 30 54 51 84 39 36 59 Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,021 18,386 15,057 13,449 16,532 22,364 27,120 20,268 12,314 13,998 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,398 19,089 17,840 15,146 14,733 16,000 15,393 14,898 13,384 14,414 Martinique . . . . . . . . . . D 23 20 D 23 20 22 19 14 26 Montserrat . . . . . . . . . 83 99 99 65 80 71 61 42 36 33 Netherlands Antilles . . . 58 76 43 61 35 53 116 98 59 72 Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . D D D D 3 3 4 4 D D St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . 360 357 377 405 463 504 466 343 312 299 St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . 403 582 531 509 529 601 678 586 489 616 St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . 349 606 581 414 444 500 563 481 324 400 Trinidad and Tobago . . . 5,424 7,344 6,409 4,852 4,283 6,660 6,665 5,771 4,153 5,384 Turks and Caicos Islands 27 35 37 46 27 46 33 31 26 28 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . D D – D 5 3 6 9 D D Central America . . . . . . . 31,814 44,289 43,676 35,679 43,216 66,443 75,914 68,979 54,565 61,333 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644 786 664 496 572 760 939 974 591 865 Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . 1,062 1,504 1,330 1,204 886 1,324 1,744 1,602 1,253 1,754 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . 11,744 17,903 17,969 14,590 14,606 22,578 31,272 31,168 28,296 29,795 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . 6,213 8,763 7,785 7,759 7,308 9,970 13,567 16,229 14,415 17,999 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . 5,496 5,870 7,616 6,463 4,809 5,939 6,615 6,461 4,658 5,505 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . 4,408 6,903 6,331 3,521 13,389 24,029 19,896 10,850 4,174 4,000 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,247 2,560 1,981 1,646 1,646 1,843 1,881 1,695 1,178 1,415South America . . . . . . . . . 45,666 61,769 52,877 45,394 41,585 56,074 68,888 74,506 55,247 71,785 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,762 2,456 1,964 1,511 1,393 2,331 3,328 3,685 3,157 4,805 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,332 1,913 1,734 1,513 1,448 1,772 1,826 1,670 1,382 1,765 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,558 5,891 4,583 4,401 3,902 6,959 9,505 9,474 6,357 10,504 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,534 1,706 1,443 1,240 1,092 1,712 1,947 1,858 1,323 1,808 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,838 14,283 13,004 11,836 9,966 14,498 16,730 18,845 14,777 18,678 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,397 8,321 7,780 6,852 8,904 7,685 9,706 10,602 7,083 8,611 Falkland Islands . . . . . . . . – – D D – – D – – – French Guiana . . . . . . . . . 4 5 D D 5 13 D 6 4 3 Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,362 9,489 7,257 3,963 3,300 5,746 8,303 9,962 6,820 6,329 Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559 615 304 275 217 342 408 359 209 328 Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,066 12,871 10,853 10,154 8,438 9,613 11,131 11,999 9,444 11,781 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 211 191 D 141 257 245 248 180 166 Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414 540 429 368 271 430 545 539 473 787 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,627 3,468 3,328 3,136 2,508 4,716 5,205 5,259 4,038 6,220Unknown or not reported . . D 5 197 977 1,159 1,181 2,334 2,655 1,211 3,173

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.1 Yugoslavia (unknown republic) prior to February 7, 2003.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Type and class of admission 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

Total, all immigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720,461 915,900 798,378 654,451 646,568New arrivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380,291 421,405 380,719 357,037 401,775Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340,170 494,495 417,659 297,414 244,793

Total, all immigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720,461 915,900 798,378 654,451 646,568IRCA legalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,267 4,635 2,548 955 8 Residents since 1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,124 3,286 1,439 D 4 Special Agricultural Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,143 1,349 1,109 D 4Non-legalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716,194 911,265 795,830 653,496 646,560 Preference immigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323,458 411,673 303,938 268,997 273,700 Family–sponsored immigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238,122 294,174 213,331 191,480 216,883 Unmarried sons/daughters of U.S. citizens1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,182 20,909 22,536 17,717 22,392 Spouses of alien residents1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144,535 182,834 113,681 88,488 108,007 Married sons/daughters of U.S. citizens2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,876 25,452 21,943 22,257 24,040 Siblings of U.S. citizens2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,529 64,979 55,171 63,018 62,444 Employment-based immigrants2, 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85,336 117,499 90,607 77,517 56,817 Priority workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,339 27,501 21,810 21,408 14,898 Professionals with advanced degrees or aliens of exceptional ability . . . . 10,475 18,462 17,059 14,384 8,581 Skilled workers, professionals, other workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,245 62,756 42,596 34,317 27,966 Special immigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,737 7,844 7,781 6,584 5,086 Employment creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540 936 1,361 824 286 Immediate relatives of U.S. citizens4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220,360 300,430 321,008 283,368 258,584 Spouses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123,238 169,760 170,263 151,172 127,988 Children5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,740 63,971 76,631 70,472 69,113 Orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,384 11,316 12,596 14,867 16,037 Parents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,382 66,699 74,114 61,724 61,483 Refugees and asylees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114,664 128,565 112,158 52,193 42,852 Refugees adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106,827 118,528 102,052 44,645 39,495 Asylee adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,837 10,037 10,106 7,548 3,357 Other immigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,712 70,597 58,726 48,938 71,424 Amerasian (P.L. 100–202) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939 956 738 346 239 Cancellation of removal6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,168 5,812 4,628 428 9,032 Children born abroad to alien residents4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,894 1,660 1,432 902 978 Cuban/Haitian entrants (P.L. 99–603) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 29 D D D Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,301 58,245 49,360 45,499 47,571 Diversity transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,944 545 14 X X Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act (HRIFA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Legalization dependents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 184 64 21 – Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA), Sec. 202 entrants (P.L. 105–100) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X D 11,267 Parolees, Polish/Hungarian (P.L. 104–208) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X 20 64 D Parolees, Soviet/Indochinese (P.L. 101–267) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,086 2,269 1,844 1,225 1,827 Registered nurses and their families (P.L. 101–238) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 16 D D – Registry, entry prior to 1/1/72 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469 362 195 176 166 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523 519 420 273 237

See footnotes at end of table.

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Type and class of admission 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Total, all immigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849,807 1,064,318 1,063,732 705,827 946,142New arrivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407,402 411,059 384,427 358,411 362,221Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442,405 653,259 679,305 347,416 583,921

Total, all immigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849,807 1,064,318 1,063,732 705,827 946,142IRCA legalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421 263 55 39 128 Residents since 1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413 246 48 33 123 Special Agricultural Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 17 7 6 5Non-legalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849,386 1,064,055 1,063,677 705,788 946,014 Preference immigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342,304 411,338 362,037 241,031 369,685 Family–sponsored immigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235,280 232,143 187,069 158,894 214,355 Unmarried sons/daughters of U.S. citizens1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,707 27,098 23,567 21,503 26,380 Spouses of alien residents1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124,595 112,260 84,860 53,229 93,609 Married sons/daughters of U.S. citizens2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,833 24,878 21,072 27,303 28,695 Siblings of U.S. citizens2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,145 67,907 57,570 56,859 65,671 Employment-based immigrants2, 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107,024 179,195 174,968 82,137 155,330 Priority workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,706 41,801 34,452 14,544 31,291 Professionals with advanced degrees or aliens of exceptional ability . . . . 20,304 42,620 44,468 15,459 32,534 Skilled workers, professionals, other workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,736 86,058 88,555 46,613 85,969 Special immigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,052 8,523 7,344 5,456 5,407 Employment creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 193 149 65 129 Immediate relatives of U.S. citizens4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347,870 443,035 485,960 332,657 406,074 Spouses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197,525 270,545 294,798 184,741 252,193 Children5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,726 91,526 97,099 78,024 76,347 Orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,120 19,087 21,100 21,320 11,170 Parents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,619 80,964 94,063 69,892 77,534 Refugees and asylees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,941 108,506 126,084 44,927 71,230 Refugees adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,083 97,305 115,832 34,496 61,013 Asylee adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,858 11,201 10,252 10,431 10,217 Other immigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93,271 101,176 89,596 87,173 99,025 Amerasian (P.L. 100–202) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943 376 348 120 32 Cancellation of removal6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,349 22,506 23,827 29,109 32,702 Children born abroad to alien residents4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,009 929 788 746 707 Cuban/Haitian entrants (P.L. 99–603) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 10 3 4 Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,945 42,015 42,829 46,347 50,084 Diversity transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act (HRIFA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 10,111 5,383 1,414 2,451 Legalization dependents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 37 57 21 22 Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA), Sec. 202 entrants (P.L. 105–100) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,641 18,926 9,495 2,577 2,292 Parolees, Polish/Hungarian (P.L. 104–208) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 – 14 3 4 Parolees, Soviet/Indochinese (P.L. 101–267) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,163 5,468 6,012 4,199 7,117 Registered nurses and their families (P.L. 101–238) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – Registry, entry prior to 1/1/72 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 – 305 166 205 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855 808 528 2,468 3,405

X Not applicable.

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.1 Includes children. 2 Includes spouses and children. 3 Includes immigrants issued third preference, sixth preference, and special immigrant visas prior to fiscal year 1992. 4 Under the Immigration Act of 1990, children born abroad to alien residents are included with immediate relatives of U.S. citizens for calculating the annual limit of family-sponsored preference immigrants. 5 Includes orphans.6 Suspension of deportation prior to April 1, 1997.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 5. IMMIGRANTS ADMITTED BY TYPE AND CLASS OF ADMISSION: FISCAL YEAR 2004

Type and class of admission Total Adjustments New Arrivals

Total, all immigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946,142 583,921 362,221 Subject to annual numerical limitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432,373 207,293 225,080 Subject to world-wide numerical limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419,791 194,711 225,080 Family-sponsored preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214,355 64,427 149,928 Employment-based preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155,330 128,238 27,092 Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,084 2,031 48,053 IRCA legalization dependents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 15 7 Other categories subject to annual limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,582 12,582 – Asylees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,016 10,016 – Cancellation of removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,566 2,566 – Not subject to annual numerical limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513,769 376,628 137,141 Immediate relatives of U.S. citizens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406,074 269,964 136,110 Children born to alien residents abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707 – 707 Refugees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,013 61,013 – Other asylees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 201 – Other cancellation of removal (NACARA Section 203) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,136 30,136 – NACARA Section 202 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,292 2,292 – HRIFA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,451 2,451 – Parolees, Soviet and Indochinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,117 7,117 – Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,778 3,454 324

Total, all immigrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946,142 583,921 362,221 Family preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214,355 64,427 149,928 First preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,380 7,782 18,598 Unmarried sons and daughters of U.S. citizens, new arrivals (F11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,365 – 12,365 Unmarried sons and daughters of U.S. citizens, adjustments (F16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,149 7,149 – Unmarried sons and daughters of U.S. citizens, adjustments, self petitioning (B16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Children of F11, and F16, new arrivals (F12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,233 – 6,233 Children of F11, and F16, adjustments (F17) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Second preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93,609 45,669 47,940 Spouses of alien residents, subject to country limits, new arrivals (F21) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,598 – 2,598 Spouses of alien residents, subject to country limits, new arrivals, self petitioning (B21) . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 Spouses of alien residents, subject to country limits, new arrivals, conditional (C21) . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D Spouses of alien residents, subject to country limits, adjustments (F26) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,599 12,599 – Spouses of alien residents, subject to country limits, adjustments, self petitioning (B26) . . . . . . . . . . 287 287 – Spouses of alien residents, subject to country limits, adjustments, conditional (C26) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 6 – Spouses of alien residents, exempt from country limits, new arrivals (FX1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,778 – 4,778 Spouses of alien residents, exempt from country limits, adjustments (FX6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,777 6,777 – Spouses of alien residents, exempt from country limits, adjustments, self petitioning (BX6) . . . . . . . . 116 116 – Spouses of alien residents, exempt from country limits, adjustments, conditional (CX6) . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Children of alien residents, subject to country limits, new arrivals (F22) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,156 – 3,156 Children of alien residents, subject to country limits, new arrivals, self petitioning (B22) . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 Children of 2nd preference spouse or child, subject to country limits, new arrivals, conditional (C23) . . D – D Children of alien residents, subject to country limits, adjustments (F27) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,993 10,993 – Children of alien residents, subject to country limits, adjustments, self petitioning (B27) . . . . . . . . . . . 108 108 – Children of alien residents, subject to country limits, adjustments, self petitioning child of B27, B21, B22, or B26 (B28) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 37 – Children of alien residents, exempt from country limits, new arrivals (FX2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,854 – 11,854 Children of alien residents, exempt from country limits, adjustments (FX7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,172 6,172 – Children of alien residents, exempt from country limits, adjustments, self petitioning (BX7) . . . . . . . . . 34 34 – Step–children of alien residents, exempt from country limits, conditional, adjustments (CX7) . . . . . . . . D D – Children of alien residents, exempt from country limits, adjustments, self petitioning child of BX7, BX1, BX2, or BX6 (BX8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 41 – Children of 2nd preference spouse or child, subject to country limits, new arrivals (F23) . . . . . . . . . . . 2,353 – 2,353 Children of 2nd preference spouse or child, subject to country limits, adjustments (F28) . . . . . . . . . . . 1,265 1,265 – Children of 2nd preference spouse or child, exempt from country limits, new arrivals (FX3) . . . . . . . . . 567 – 567 Children of 2nd preference spouse or child, exempt from country limits, adjustments (FX8) . . . . . . . . . 2,477 2,477 – Unmarried sons and daughters of alien residents, subject to country limits, new arrivals (F24) . . . . . . 12,731 – 12,731 Unmarried sons and daughters of alien residents, subject to country limits, adjustments (F29) . . . . . . 4,459 4,459 – Child of a B24 or B29, new arrivals (B25) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D Children of unmarried sons and daughters of alien residents, subject to country limits, new arrivals (F25) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,892 – 9,892 Children of unmarried sons and daughters of alien residents, subject to country limits, adjustments (F20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 295 –

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Third preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,695 4,672 24,023 Married sons/daughters of U.S. citizens, new arrivals (F31) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,779 – 6,779 Married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens, Amerasians, adjustments (A36) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Married sons/daughters of U.S. citizens, adjustments (F36) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,103 2,103 – Married sons/daughters of U.S. citizens, adjustments, self petitioning (B36) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Spouses of married sons/daughters of U.S. citizens, new arrivals (F32) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,365 – 6,365 Spouses of married sons/daughters of U.S. citizens, adjustments (F37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,453 1,453 – Spouses of married sons/daughters of U.S. citizens, adjustments, conditional (C37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3 – Children of married sons/daughters of U.S. citizens, new arrivals (F33) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,879 – 10,879 Children of married sons/daughters of U.S. citizens, adjustments (F38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,110 1,110 – Fourth preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,671 6,304 59,367 Brothers/sisters of U.S. citizens, new arrivals (F41) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,569 – 20,569 Brothers/sisters of U.S. citizens, adjustments (F46) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,537 3,537 – Spouses of brothers/sisters of U.S. citizens, new arrivals (F42) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,071 – 15,071 Spouses of brothers/sisters of U.S. citizens, adjustments (F47) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,357 1,357 – Children of brothers/sisters of U.S. citizens, new arrivals (F43) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,727 – 23,727 Children of brothers/sisters of U.S. citizens, adjustments (F48) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,410 1,410 – Employment preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155,330 128,238 27,092 First preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,291 27,060 4,231 Aliens with extraordinary ability, new arrivals (E11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350 – 350 Aliens with extraordinary ability, adjustments (E16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,046 2,046 – Outstanding professors or researchers, new arrivals (E12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 – 107 Outstanding professors or researchers, adjustments (E17) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,006 3,006 – Multinational executives or managers, new arrivals (E13) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,190 – 1,190 Multinational executives or managers, adjustments (E18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,588 6,588 – Spouses of E11, E12, E13, E16, E17, or E18, new arrivals (E14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,162 – 1,162 Spouses of E11, E12, E13, E16, E17, or E18, adjustments (E19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,023 8,023 – Children of E11, E12, E13, E16, E17, or E18, new arrivals (E15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,422 – 1,422 Children of E11, E12, E13, E16, E17, or E18, adjustments (E10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,397 7,397 – Second preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,534 31,134 1,400 Professionals holding advanced degrees, new arrivals (E21) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604 – 604 Professionals holding advanced degrees, adjustments (E26) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,273 15,273 – Spouses of E21 or E26, new arrivals (E22) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484 – 484 Spouses of E21 or E26, adjustments (E27) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,610 11,610 – Children of E21 or E26, new arrivals (E23) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 – 312 Children of E21 or E26, adjustments (E28) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,251 4,251 – Third preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85,969 65,875 20,094 Skilled workers, new arrivals (E31) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,270 – 3,270 Skilled workers, adjustments (E36) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,360 16,360 – Professionals with baccalaureate degrees, new arrivals (E32) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,788 – 3,788 Professionals with baccalaureate degrees, adjustments (E37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,346 16,346 – Spouses of E31, E32, E36, or E37, new arrivals (E34) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,741 – 4,741 Spouses of E31, E32, E36, or E37, adjustments (E39) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,813 19,813 – Children of E31, E32, E36, or E37, new arrivals (E35) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,988 – 6,988 Children of E31, E32, E36, or E37, adjustments (E30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,355 11,355 – Chinese Student Protection Act (CSPA) principals, adjustments (EC6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Children of EC6, adjustments (EC8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Needed unskilled workers, new arrivals (EW3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 – 359 Needed unskilled workers, adjustments (EW8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,166 1,166 – Spouses of EW3 or EW8, new arrivals (EW4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 – 320 Spouses of EW3 or EW8, adjustments (EW9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427 427 – Children of EW3 or EW8, new arrivals (EW5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628 – 628 Children of EW3 or EW8, adjustments (EW0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 403 – Fourth preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,407 4,100 1,307 Broadcast (IBCB of BBG) employee, new arrivals (BC1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 11 Spouse of BC1, new arrivals (BC2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 7 Child of BC1, new arrivals (BC3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 17 Broadcast (IBCG of BBG) employee, adjustments (BC6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 6 – Spouse of BC6, adjustments (BC7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3 – Children of BC6 broadcasting employees, adjustments (BC8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 – Ministers, new arrivals (SD1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 – 101 Ministers, adjustments (SD6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689 689 – Spouses of ministers, new arrivals (SD2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 – 79

See footnotes at end of table.

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Ministers, adjustments (SD6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689 689 – Spouses of ministers, new arrivals (SD2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 – 79 Spouses of ministers, adjustments (SD7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353 353 – Children of ministers, new arrivals (SD3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 – 164 Children of ministers, adjustments (SD8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468 468 – U.S. government employees abroad, new arrivals (SE1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 – 201 Employees of U.S. government abroad, adjustments (SE6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Spouses of SE1 or SE6, new arrivals (SE2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 – 154 Spouses of SE1 or SE6, adjustments (SE7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Children of SE1 or SE6, new arrivals (SE3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 – 379 Children of SE1 or SE6, adjustments (SE8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 – Former employees of the Panama Canal Company or Canal Zone Government, adjustments (SF6) . . . . D D – Spouses or children of SF1 or SF6, adjustments (SF7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Former U.S. government employees in the Panama Canal Zone, new arrivals (SG1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 Former U.S. government employees in the Panama Canal Zone, adjustments (SG6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3 – Spouse or child of an SG1 or SG6, adjustments (SG7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Retired employees of international organizations, new arrivals (SK1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 8 Retired employees of international organizations, adjustments (SK6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 123 – Spouses of SK1 or SK6, new arrivals (SK2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 Spouses of SK1 or SK6, adjustments (SK7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 31 – Unmarried children of SK1 or SK6, new arrivals (SK3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 9 Unmarried children of SK1 or SK6, adjustments (SK8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 128 – Surviving spouses of SK1 or SK6, adjustments (SK9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Juvenile court dependents, new arrivals (SL1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 10 Juvenile court dependents, adjustments (SL6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624 624 – U.S Armed Forces personnel, service (12 years) after 10/1/91, new arrivals (SM1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D U.S Armed Forces personnel, service (12 years) after 10/1/91, adjustments (SM6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – U.S Armed Forces personnel, service (12 years) by 10/91, adjustments (SM9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Spouses of SM1 or SM6, new arrivals (SM2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D Spouses of SM1 or SM6 adjustments (SM7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Children of SM1 or SM6, new arrivals (SM3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 Children of SM1 or SM6, adjustments (SM8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Certain unmarried sons or daughters of SN6 (retired NATO employees), adjustments (SN8) . . . . . . . . . D D – Religious workers, new arrivals (SR1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 – 56 Religious workers, adjustments (SR6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838 838 – Spouses of SR1 of SR6, new arrivals (SR2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 – 35 Spouses of SR1 of SR6, adjustments (SR7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 361 – Children of SR1 or SR6, new arrivals (SR3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 – 61 Children of SR1 or SR6, adjustments (SR8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450 450 – Lost citizenship through marriage, adjustments (SC6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Fifth preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 69 60 Employment creation, not in targeted area, new arrivals, conditional (C51) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 10 Employment creation, not in targeted area, adjustments, conditional (C56) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 10 – Spouses of C51 or C56, new arrivals, conditional (C52) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 Spouses of C51 or C56, adjustments, conditional (C57) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 8 – Children of C51 or C56, new arrivals, conditional (C53) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 14 Children of C51 or C56, adjustments, conditional (C58) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 10 – Employment creation, targeted area, pilot program, adjustments, conditional (I56) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Employment creation, targeted area, new arrivals,conditional (T51) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 8 Employment creation, targeted area, adjustments, conditional (T56) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 18 – Spouses of T51 or T56, new arrivals, conditional (T52) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 7 Spouses of T51 or T56, adjustments, conditional (T57) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Children of T51 or T56, new arrivals, conditional (T53) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 16 Children of T51 or T56, adjustments, conditional (T58) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 13 – Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,084 2,031 48,053 Principals, new arrivals (DV1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,316 – 24,316 Principals, adjustments (DV6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,195 1,195 – Spouses of DV1 or DV6, new arrivals (DV2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,502 – 11,502 Spouses of DV1 or DV6, adjustments (DV7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495 495 – Children of DV1 or DV6, new arrivals (DV3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,235 – 12,235 Children of DV1 or DV6, adjustments (DV8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 341 – Immediate relatives of U.S. citizens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406,074 269,964 136,110 Spouses, new arrivals (IR1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,352 – 21,352 Spouses, new arrivals, conditional (CR1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,315 – 21,315

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Spouses, new arrivals, self petitioning (IB1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 – 75 Spouses, new arrivals, widowers (IW1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 – 93 Spouses, adjustments (IR6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,694 100,694 – Spouses, adjustments, conditional (CR6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84,525 84,525 – Spouses, adjustments, entered as fiance(e), conditional (CF1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,397 18,397 – Spouses, adjustments, self petitioning (IB6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,107 2,107 – Spouses, adjustments, entered as fiance(e) (IF1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,363 3,363 – Spouses, adjustments, widowers (IW6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 272 – Children, new arrivals (IR2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,766 – 30,766 Children, new arrivals, conditional (CR2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,655 – 3,655 Children, new arrivals, self petitioning (IB2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 – 43 Children of IB1, new arrivals (IB3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 18 Children of IW1 or IW6, new arrivals (IW2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 – 38 Children, adjustments (IR7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,213 22,213 – Children, adjustments, conditional (CR7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,122 5,122 – Children, adjustments, self petitioning (IB7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 417 – Children, adjustments, child of IB6 or IB7 (IB8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 158 – Children (step) of CF1, adjustments (CF2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,233 2,233 – Children of IF1, adjustments (IF2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467 467 – Children of IW1 or IW6, adjustments (IW7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 46 – Children, adjustments, Amerasian (AR6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Orphans adopted abroad, new arrivals (IR3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,309 – 5,309 Orphans adopted abroad, adjustments (IR8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 31 – Orphans to be adopted, new arrivals (IR4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,812 – 5,812 Orphans to be adopted, adjustments (IR9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Parents of adult U.S. citizens, new arrivals (IR5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,634 – 47,634 Parents of adult U.S. citizens, adjustments (IR0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,900 29,900 – Children born abroad to alien residents (NA3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707 – 707 Refugees and asylees (adjustments) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,230 71,230 – Refugees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,013 61,013 – Cuban refugees (P.L. 89–732 of 1966) (CU6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,515 14,515 – Non-Cuban spouses or children of Cuban refugees (CU7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,283 1,283 – Indochinese refugees (P.L. 95–145 of 1977) (IC6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Spouse or child of Indochinese refugee not qualified as refugee on own (IC7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Other refugees (P.L. 96–212 Refugee Act of 1980 ) (RE6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,437 18,437 – Spouses of RE6 (RE7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,044 8,044 – Children of RE6 (RE8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,730 18,730 – Other relatives (RE9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Asylees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,217 10,217 – Asylees, subject to 10,000 annual limit (AS6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,619 5,619 – Spouses of AS6 (AS7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,602 1,602 – Children of AS6 (AS8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,795 2,795 – Iraqi asylees, not subject to annual limit; Guam processing (GA6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 78 – Spouses of GA6 (GA7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 32 – Children of GA6 (GA8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 58 – Syrian asylees, not subject to 10,000 annual limit (SY6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 13 – Spouses of Syrian asylees, not subject to annual limit (SY7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 7 – Children of Syrian asylees, not subject to annual limit (SY8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 13 – Nicaraguan and Cuban nationals (Nicaraguan and Central American Relief Act NACARA Section 202, P.L. 105–100) (adjustments) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,292 2,292 – Principals (NC6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,923 1,923 – Spouses of NC6 (NC7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 107 – Children of NC6 (NC8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 250 – Unmarried sons or daughters of NC6 (NC9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 12 – Cancellation of removal (adjustments) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,702 32,702 – Sec. 244, P.L. 89–236, subject to 4,000 annual limit (Z13) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,406 2,406 – Battered spouses and children (Violence Against Women Act), P.L. 103–322 of 1994, subject to 4,000 annual limit (Z14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 160 – Salvadoran, Guatemalan and former Soviet bloc country nationals (NACARA Section 203, P.L. 105–100 of 1997) (Z15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,136 30,136 –Haitian nationals (Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act (HRIFA) (P.L. 105–277) (HA6) (adjustments) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,451 2,451 – Haitian asylum applicants (HA6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 928 928 – Spouses of HA6 (HA7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 177 – Children of HA6 (HA8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526 526 –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Type and class of admission Total Adjustments New Arrivals

Unmarried son or daughter of HA6 (HA9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 29 – Haitian parolees (HB6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440 440 – Spouses of HB6 (HB7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 60 – Children of HB6 (HB8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 178 – Unmarried sons or daughters of HB6 (HB9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3 – Haitian children without parents (HC6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 67 – Spouses of HC6 (HC7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 5 – Children of HC6 (HC8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3 – Haitian children orphaned in U.S (HD6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 9 – Haitian children abandoned by parents (HE6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 26 – IRCA legalization (adjustments) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 128 – Entered without inspection before 1/1/82 (W16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 105 – Entered as nonimmigrant and overstayed visa before 1/1/82 (W26) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 17 – Blanket enforced voluntary departure (EVD) group (W36) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Special Agricultural Workers (SAW) in 1986 (S26) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – IRCA legalization dependents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 15 7 Spouses of legalized aliens, new arrivals (LB1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D Spouses of legalized aliens, adjustments (LB6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 5 – Spouses of legalized aliens, adjustments, conditional (CB6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3 – Children of LB1or LB6, new arrivals (LB2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D Children of LB1or LB6, adjustments (LB7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 7 – Parolees (adjustments) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,121 7,121 – Parolees, Polish/Hungarian (PH6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 – Parolees, Soviet/Indochinese (LA6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,711 3,711 – Parolees, Indochinese (ID6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,406 3,406 – Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,646 3,322 324 Amerasians, born in Vietnam between 1/1/62–1/1/76, new arrivals (AM1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 13 Spouses or children of AM1 or AM6, new arrivals (AM2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 16 Mothers, guardians, or next of kin of AM1 or AM6, new arrivals (AM3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 Individuals born under diplomatic status, adjustments, (DS1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 9 – Cuban Haitian entrants, adjustments (P.L. 99–603) (CH6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 – Late amnesty applicants (Immigration Reform and Control Act) (W46) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,088 3,088 – Private bill, adjustments (Z43) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 6 – Entered before 7/1/24, Section 249, P.L. 89–236, adjustments (Z33) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Entered 7/1/24–6/28/40, Section 249, P.L. 89–236, adjustments (Z03) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – Entered 6/29/40–1/1/72, Section 249, P.L. 89–236, adjustments (Z66) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 201 – Foreign government official who is immediate relative of U.S. citizen or special immigrant (Z83) . . . . . . . 10 10 – American Indians born in Canada, new arrivals (S13) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 – 203 Children born subsequent to issuance of parent’s employment preference visa, new arrivals (XE3) . . . . . 9 – 9 Children born subsequent to issuance of parent’s family preference visa, new arrivals (XF3) . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 18 Children born subsequent to issuance of parent’s immediate relative of U.S. citizen visa, new arrivals (XR3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 8 Children born subsequent to issuance of parent’s visa other, new arrivals (XN3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 – 54

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.

Note: Symbol enclosed in parentheses is the visa or adjustment code.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 6. IMMIGRANTS ADMITTED BY GENDER, AGE, MARITAL STATUS, AND OCCUPATION: FISCAL YEAR 2004

Gender

Characteristic Total Male Female Unknown

AGE Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946,142 430,662 515,314 166Under 1 year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,807 3,326 4,481 –1 to 4 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,932 11,002 11,925 55 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,181 24,370 23,794 1710 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,821 30,269 28,538 1415 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,069 39,421 38,635 1320 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86,278 36,751 49,500 2725 to 29 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124,406 52,608 71,781 1730 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143,921 67,923 75,982 1635 to 39 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107,251 50,329 56,901 2140 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,404 33,867 42,520 1745 to 49 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,223 24,009 31,208 650 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,661 16,943 22,713 555 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,037 12,190 17,844 360 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,829 9,618 14,207 465 to 74 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,346 13,511 18,835 –75 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,936 4,510 6,425 1Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 15 25 –

BROAD AGE GROUPS Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946,142 430,662 515,314 166Under 16 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151,400 76,021 75,343 3616 to 20 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85,216 42,199 43,002 1521 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709,486 312,427 396,944 115Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 15 25 –

MARITAL STATUS Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946,142 430,662 515,314 166Single . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346,185 180,751 165,358 76Married . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561,886 241,192 320,655 39Widowed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,871 2,489 17,382 –Divorced/separated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,899 5,107 10,788 4Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,301 1,123 1,131 47

OCCUPATION Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946,142 430,662 515,314 166Executive and managerial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,689 21,811 9,876 2Professional and technical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,862 46,515 27,338 9Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,872 9,185 7,686 1Administrative support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,820 4,059 7,760 1Farming, forestry, and fisheries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,590 9,024 2,565 1Operators, fabricators, and laborers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,524 28,269 11,244 11Precision production, craft, and repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,705 8,941 2,757 7Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,566 21,365 17,190 11Military . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 121 137 –No occupation/not working outside home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400,743 144,288 256,392 63 Homemakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108,912 2,164 106,742 6 Students or children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229,774 114,198 115,523 53 Retirees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,443 2,093 2,350 – Unemployed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,614 25,833 31,777 4Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309,513 137,084 172,369 60

– Represents zero.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 7. IMMIGRANTS ADMITTED BY MAJOR CLASS OF ADMISSION AND SELECTED DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS: FISCAL YEAR 2004

Family- Employment- Immediate Refugee sponsored based relatives of Diversity and asylee Characteristic Total preferences preferences U.S. citizens program adjustments Other

GENDER Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946,142 214,355 155,330 406,074 50,084 71,230 49,069Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430,662 98,946 80,289 162,057 27,396 36,794 25,180Female . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515,314 115,409 75,025 244,016 22,686 34,315 23,863Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 – 16 1 2 121 26

AGE

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946,142 214,355 155,330 406,074 50,084 71,230 49,069Under 1 year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,807 626 296 5,648 606 – 6311 to 4 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,932 6,955 2,836 8,288 2,845 1,660 3485 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,181 15,776 10,084 12,370 3,212 6,287 45210 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,821 22,610 9,832 16,719 2,842 5,979 83915 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,069 30,715 8,903 25,535 2,991 6,948 2,97720 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86,278 18,955 5,371 44,716 6,930 7,404 2,90225 to 29 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124,406 15,417 18,837 70,599 9,546 6,699 3,30830 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143,921 23,083 36,507 59,935 7,682 7,793 8,92135 to 39 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107,251 20,125 27,167 36,379 5,165 7,504 10,91140 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,404 18,030 17,755 23,527 3,463 6,198 7,43145 to 49 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,223 16,322 9,830 17,577 2,305 4,450 4,73950 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,661 12,535 4,523 15,175 1,382 3,186 2,86055 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,037 7,486 2,121 16,328 677 2,068 135760 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,829 3,495 890 16,936 275 1,595 63865 to 74 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,346 2,030 352 26,798 148 2,452 56675 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,936 185 24 9,522 15 1,003 187Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 10 2 22 – 4 2

BROAD AGE GROUPS

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946,142 214,355 155,330 406,074 50,084 71,230 49,069Under 16 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151,400 51,374 24,695 47,111 10,056 15,406 2,75816 to 20 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85,216 33,192 9,007 28,991 3,593 6,839 3,59421 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709,486 129,779 121,626 329,950 36,435 48,981 42,715Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 10 2 22 – 4 2

MARITAL STATUS

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946,142 214,355 155,330 406,074 50,084 71,230 49,069Single . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346,185 129,953 52,819 82,180 24,145 35,553 21,535Married . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561,886 79,138 99,865 302,850 25,031 30,013 24,989Widowed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,871 1,443 250 15,627 165 1,867 519Divorced/separated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,899 3,668 2,028 5,138 693 2,605 1,767Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,301 153 368 279 50 1,192 259

OCCUPATION

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946,142 214,355 155,330 406,074 50,084 71,230 49,069Executive and managerial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,689 4,522 13,430 6,954 6,015 498 270Professional and technical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,862 7,177 46,001 12,965 6,074 1,209 436Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,872 5,918 1,386 5,913 1,531 1,833 291Administrative support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,820 3,752 1,241 4,130 1,865 604 228Farming, forestry, and fisheries . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,590 5,895 308 4,869 243 134 141Operators, fabricators, and laborers . . . . . . . . 39,524 13,316 1,587 14,443 1,592 6,307 2,279Precision production, craft, and repair . . . . . . . 11,705 2,544 2,382 3,136 937 1,856 850Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,566 11,037 5,459 10,679 5,048 4,620 1,723Military . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 55 20 153 10 11 9No occupation/not working outside home . . . . 400,743 115,254 59,438 172,586 18,996 28,593 5,876 Homemakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108,912 24,694 21,898 57,174 1,705 2,587 854 Students or children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229,774 80,598 33,985 71,899 15,999 22,968 4,325 Retirees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,443 235 58 3,261 12 809 68 Unemployed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,614 9,727 3,497 40,252 1,280 2,229 629Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309,513 44,885 24,078 170,246 7,773 25,565 36,966

– Represents zero.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 8. IMMIGRANTS ADMITTED BY SELECTED CLASS OF ADMISSION AND REGION AND COUNTRY OF BIRTH: FISCAL YEAR 2004

Family- Employment- Immediate relatives of U.S. citizens sponsored based Region and country of birth Total preferences preferences Total Spouses

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946,142 214,355 155,330 406,074 252,193Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127,669 6,855 22,046 51,035 37,573 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,834 142 96 1,236 467 Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,814 111 140 763 534 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402 14 118 208 188 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951 26 43 241 142 Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,114 D 175 599 388 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638 15 278 309 274 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,552 15 38 401 273 Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,194 110 475 1,172 775 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,511 12 92 268 210 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457 4 56 352 322 Czechoslovakia (former) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673 16 101 504 465 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566 12 188 348 320 Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 D 22 221 193 Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388 9 147 208 195 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,595 132 1,387 1,890 1,612 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 944 9 73 503 362 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,099 150 1,931 3,951 3,420 Gibraltar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – D 3 D Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769 48 146 497 378 Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,266 43 243 866 746 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 5 23 72 54 Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,531 D 367 1,034 965 Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,346 79 739 1,422 1,171 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,363 9 77 678 294 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439 5 19 186 131 Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598 D 48 378 306 Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,462 29 107 884 685 Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – D 9 D Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774 149 65 432 314 Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 5 9 35 D Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,488 18 67 267 171 Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 3 3 D Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,303 19 495 743 670 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405 12 62 319 292 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,250 3,746 2,187 5,350 3,837 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,069 160 331 556 388 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,557 295 780 2,216 1,559 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,358 175 1,994 6,710 3,404 San Marino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D D Serbia and Montenegro1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,330 161 256 1,111 755 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799 43 146 401 338 Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 4 11 54 46 Soviet Union (former) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 929 11 145 305 241 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,339 36 386 859 730 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,270 32 382 799 729 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855 15 291 443 401 Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 – 14 66 46 Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 D 6 41 34 Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,655 200 767 3,061 1,783 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,915 679 6,437 7,566 6,581 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,995 29 80 493 334Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330,004 83,406 95,918 123,966 73,041 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,137 195 23 489 344 Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 20 56 36 36 Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,061 2,099 963 2,981 1,586 Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – D D D Brunei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 D 8 11 D Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,379 342 74 343 160

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Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,534 864 D 2,262 1,538 China, People’s Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,156 13,658 15,583 20,947 9,185 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 D 40 88 70 Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,951 2,386 744 710 531 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70,116 13,307 38,443 16,942 9,051 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,418 154 577 1,393 1,107 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,434 2,062 745 3,275 1,442 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,494 873 134 698 514 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,160 264 1,322 2,293 1,712 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,694 144 2,176 4,834 4,287 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,431 1,079 267 2,023 1,241 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,766 2,474 8,662 8,602 4,708 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,091 317 243 425 390 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,147 149 26 729 570 Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,811 1,230 527 1,875 1,309 Macau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 145 19 26 14 Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,987 208 876 781 617 Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – – D D Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 – 28 156 114 Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,842 53 479 415 303 Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 14 91 14 14 Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,086 3,629 2,591 5,330 3,123 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,827 17,406 15,497 24,708 13,444 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 34 43 43 36 Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 906 173 324 313 254 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966 73 481 376 321 Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,431 142 466 362 243 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,256 731 279 1,075 669 Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,961 3,163 2,295 2,865 2,103 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,314 418 565 2,957 2,304 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,833 158 719 1,836 1,484 United Arab Emirates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586 146 278 131 97 Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,514 14,890 D 10,338 7,527 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,760 393 24 1,273 572Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,309 4,363 5,338 23,543 16,134 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804 20 92 259 202 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 11 10 76 61 Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 D 14 71 60 Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 D 10 20 D Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 3 13 75 64 Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 – 4 11 8 Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,309 53 76 447 312 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,015 414 D 587 310 Central African Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 7 7 D Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 D – 6 D Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – – 4 D Congo, Democratic Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 D 14 24 20 Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670 24 D 140 89 Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666 34 51 379 277 Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 D D 9 D Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,522 886 556 2,099 1,518 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – – 4 D Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673 59 25 363 196 Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,237 347 D 1,760 889 Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 D 3 40 D Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422 18 21 289 247 Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,328 553 222 3,216 2,118 Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 13 17 237 178 Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – D 4 D Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,323 154 362 1,651 1,359 Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – D 11 7

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Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,745 183 72 569 227 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 19 31 98 83 Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 D 16 21 12 Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 9 15 51 40 Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 – 13 128 106 Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 – 12 42 39 Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 3 22 25 D Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,128 110 222 1,530 1,275 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 D 12 36 26 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 D 17 19 D Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 D 6 45 35 Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,374 925 685 4,549 2,631 Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – D 3 D Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 D D 11 8 St. Helens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D D Sao Tome and Principe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3 – 6 3 Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769 36 33 600 490 Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 5 6 12 9 Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,596 109 52 493 243 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,929 21 D 191 141 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,370 114 1,925 1,130 928 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,211 16 45 290 180 Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 7 8 4 Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746 76 104 434 374 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,041 9 23 161 135 Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457 5 66 344 321 Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717 61 83 396 305 Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 27 81 200 176 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626 D 174 361 300Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,960 721 1,160 3,318 2,738 American Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 D – 11 D Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,604 44 823 1,562 1,395 Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – – 4 D Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,592 560 32 557 355 French Polynesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – D 9 9 Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D D Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 – D 40 D Micronesia, Federated States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – D 3 D Nauru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D D D New Caledonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D D New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,131 29 285 713 657 Northern Mariana Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – D 4 D Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – D 4 D Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 5 14 D Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 D – 167 120 Solomon Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – – 4 D Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324 69 5 221 163 Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D DNorth America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341,242 105,979 18,362 158,393 91,829 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,567 742 6,694 7,785 6,594 Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175,364 62,463 7,225 99,718 59,052 United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 5 6 28 19 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88,921 33,974 1,994 32,551 16,511 Anguilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 8 – 14 7 Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414 175 30 205 125 Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 D 6 23 17 Bahamas, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586 73 68 380 305 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630 206 58 363 250 Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 10 16 72 59 British Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 14 4 17 7 Cayman Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 9 4 23 12

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Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,488 2,340 34 976 415 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 48 9 75 48 Dominican Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,492 18,099 212 12,087 5,423 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609 200 34 369 235 Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 20 5 32 18 Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,998 5,400 122 5,520 2,099 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,414 5,211 662 8,496 4,907 Martinique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 7 D 17 13 Montserrat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 12 D 17 9 Netherlands Antilles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 10 8 50 31 Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D D St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 146 11 142 73 St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616 169 58 387 266 St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . . . . . . 400 115 57 226 155 Trinidad and Tobago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,384 1,689 589 3,034 2,018 Turks and Caicos Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 6 D 18 12 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 D – 7 D Central America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,333 8,795 2,443 18,311 9,653 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865 214 56 563 369 Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,754 155 196 1,348 1,005 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,795 3,744 996 4,874 2,879 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,999 2,317 585 6,169 2,213 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,505 1,662 424 3,068 1,766 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,000 453 56 1,289 740 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,415 250 130 1,000 681South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,785 12,806 12,091 43,550 29,151 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,805 232 1,402 2,906 2,328 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,765 235 394 1,061 664 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,504 308 3,605 6,362 5,185 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,808 158 348 1,253 956 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,678 3,011 2,166 12,945 8,310 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,611 1,928 1,153 5,057 2,729 French Guiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D – D D Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,329 3,957 203 2,146 1,149 Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328 D 47 220 156 Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,781 2,355 1,119 7,062 4,536 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 57 28 75 D Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787 82 128 545 413 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,220 431 1,498 3,917 2,664Unknown or not reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,173 225 415 2,269 1,727

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Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,347 77,534 50,084 71,230 32,702 16,367Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,709 5,753 18,781 24,854 232 3,866 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 733 2,075 281 D 3 Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 160 523 185 4 88 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 8 25 32 – 5 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 71 149 396 – 96 Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 72 470 617 D 208 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 9 22 8 – 6 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 95 35 10,060 – 3 Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 240 2,342 65 19 11 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 41 40 1,089 9 1 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 8 38 6 – 1 Czechoslovakia (former) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 18 45 D D 2 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 D 16 D – 1 Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 6 26 32 D 7 Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 23 D – – France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 58 160 D D 14 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 49 247 92 – 20 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398 133 464 568 5 30 Gibraltar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 78 64 D D 2 Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 61 70 16 20 8 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 D D – – 1 Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 31 109 D – 5 Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 134 84 D D 9 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344 40 202 267 – 130 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 14 105 84 – 40 Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 10 68 82 D 11 Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 51 1,400 D D 20 Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – 2 Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 96 78 28 20 2 Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 5 D – 1 Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 37 205 662 – 269 Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 16 27 D D 2 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3 11 – – 1 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577 936 2,850 31 30 56 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 103 14 D D 5 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 450 1,145 79 32 10 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,633 673 1,097 2,571 15 796 San Marino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Serbia and Montenegro1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 290 174 1,583 42 3 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 35 208 D – – Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – 19 – – Soviet Union (former) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 48 14 355 6 93 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 76 D 27 D 3 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 11 47 6 – 4 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 13 72 31 – 3 Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 6 33 38 – 16 Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 38 28 – 3 Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831 447 2,975 4,980 8 1,664 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669 316 152 D D 75 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 63 803 451 3 136Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,929 29,996 8,092 14,335 225 4,062 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 95 3 1,418 7 2 Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 4 – – – Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388 1,007 1,756 198 28 36 Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 4 – – – Brunei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 154 200 418 D 1 Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428 296 65 91 D 212 China, People’s Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,273 6,489 76 876 3 13

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Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D 3 – – Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 91 78 22 – 11 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,292 6,599 90 1,181 21 132 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 163 257 23 4 10 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 1,627 349 3,966 8 29 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 157 36 1,748 D 3 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 198 249 13 4 15 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 186 513 5 – 22 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412 370 23 24 7 8 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,422 1,472 12 D D 12 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 27 73 D 5 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 87 D 234 D 3 Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 396 25 134 7 13 Macau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 7 D – – – Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 109 82 23 6 11 Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – 5 Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 22 4 D – Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 49 1,875 15 – 5 Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D D – – Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,063 1,144 9 419 32 76 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,950 6,314 11 35 71 99 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 5 – – – Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 D 27 56 D 12 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 20 28 3 – 5 Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 86 414 46 – 1 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 276 D 151 D 5 Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 494 613 D D 19 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470 183 D 246 D 41 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 224 1,084 25 5 6 United Arab Emirates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 – D D – 4 Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,176 1,635 D 2,831 D 3,246 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662 39 22 48 – –Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,373 3,036 20,337 12,443 101 184 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 44 353 76 3 1 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D 8 – – Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3 75 22 D – Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 3 – – – Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3 8 4 – – Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 3 15 67 – – Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 D 643 86 D 3 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 100 – – D 3 Central African Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – – Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 7 9 – – Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – – – Congo, Democratic Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 5 109 – 1 Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 24 210 284 D 1 Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 116 82 3 1 Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D 7 18 – – Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 374 1,643 313 7 18 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 8 – – Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 117 128 98 – – Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514 357 4,517 1,522 D 5 Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 6 – – – Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 D D 70 19 3 Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891 207 1,152 D D 35 Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 12 23 47 8 2 Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 89 2,730 406 5 15 Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 105 548 1,368 3 2 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 9 25 11 D – Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 6 10 D – –

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Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 D 7 – D – Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3 8 4 8 1 Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 6 109 D – Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 13 D – – Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 175 2,251 3 – 12 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 7 3 D – 1 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D D 1 Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 5 7 – D – Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,024 894 2,959 188 22 46 Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 12 136 – – St. Helens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Sao Tome and Principe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – – Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 D 45 50 D 3 Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D – – – Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 108 211 726 3 2 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 18 69 3,640 D 1 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 97 184 D D 10 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 65 351 2,504 – 5 Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – – – – – Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 25 117 14 – 1 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5 1,640 208 – – Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 14 38 3 – 1 Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 D 90 83 D 2 Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 9 36 4 – 3 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 29 58 – D 5Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334 246 712 28 9 12 American Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – – – Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 10 167 D D 5 Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 161 414 D D 2 French Polynesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – – – Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – Micronesia, Federated States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – Nauru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – New Caledonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 7 100 – – 4 Northern Mariana Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – D – – Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – – – Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – – – Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 23 D – – – Solomon Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – – Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 38 23 – 5 1 Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – –North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,885 31,679 471 18,323 31,871 7,843 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 56 17 D 271 Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,941 22,725 D D 3,357 2,467 United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D 9 – 8 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,790 6,250 D 17,259 D 2,727 Anguilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – – Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 40 D – D 1 Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – – Bahamas, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 13 10 D D 49 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 36 – – – 3 Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 D – D – 1 British Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – – – – – Cayman Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – 2 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 270 298 16,678 5 157 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 9 – – – – Dominican Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,191 2,473 8 32 14 40 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 39 D – D –

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Table 8. IMMIGRANTS ADMITTED BY SELECTED CLASS OF ADMISSION AND REGION AND COUNTRY OF BIRTH: FISCAL YEAR 2004 – Continued

Immediate relatives of U.S. citizens – Continued Refugee Diversity and asylee Cancellation Region and country of birth Children Parents program adjustments of removal Other

Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – 2 Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,810 1,611 – 536 12 2,408 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,281 1,308 D D 14 25 Martinique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – Montserrat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5 D – – – Netherlands Antilles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 D D 3 – – Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 29 – – – – St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 D D – – – St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 D D – – 1 Trinidad and Tobago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679 337 31 D D 34 Turks and Caicos Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 3 – – – 3 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – 1 Central America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,063 2,595 42 916 28,456 2,370 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 54 D D 18 10 Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 87 D 19 D 17 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,020 975 – 263 19,791 127 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,222 734 D D 8,410 126 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912 390 10 93 207 41 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318 231 10 137 17 2,038 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 124 8 D D 11South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,839 6,560 1,588 1,150 242 358 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 316 121 120 5 19 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 148 37 15 16 7 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881 296 129 26 24 50 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 140 10 28 5 6 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,673 1,962 9 375 63 109 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,186 1,142 328 33 55 57 French Guiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462 535 9 D D 6 Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 D 7 – D 2 Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,129 1,397 795 323 48 79 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 D – D D – Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 74 16 11 3 2 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726 527 127 214 12 21Unknown or not reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 264 103 97 22 42

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.1 Yugoslavia (unknown republic) prior to February 7, 2003.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 9. IMMIGRANTS ADMITTED BY SELECTED CLASS OF ADMISSION AND REGION AND COUNTRY OF LAST PERMANENT RESIDENCE: FISCAL YEAR 2004

Family Employment Immediate relatives of U.S. citizensRegion and country of last sponsored- based- permanent residence Total preferences preferences Total Spouses

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946,142 214,355 155,330 406,074 252,193Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130,151 7,627 22,205 50,795 37,302 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,618 115 74 1,166 D Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,827 119 138 780 515 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,442 27 120 234 209 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683 8 33 166 109 Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,953 D 154 515 371 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746 22 287 357 307 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,214 12 19 352 248 Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,983 107 408 1,089 717 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,051 6 64 253 199 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473 3 72 342 315 Czechoslovakia (former) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652 17 99 462 429 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568 23 174 349 319 Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 D 26 241 205 Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346 D 115 202 191 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,209 245 1,574 2,111 1,785 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806 3 61 454 326 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,270 338 2,064 4,572 3,837 Gibraltar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D D Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,213 92 144 541 413 Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,241 41 233 844 731 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 5 22 78 60 Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,518 D 379 1,004 926 Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,495 103 707 1,532 1,280 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,099 7 48 601 226 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378 4 7 164 113 Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640 D 43 394 318 Liechtenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D D Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,410 28 104 840 655 Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 – 17 16 D Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,284 150 59 412 302 Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 4 7 35 D Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,352 11 51 246 159 Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D D Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,713 58 546 848 748 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457 17 70 351 314 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,972 3,689 2,031 5,354 3,564 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,062 165 311 569 417 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,064 283 585 2,016 1,384 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,179 165 1,795 6,252 3,073 San Marino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – D D D Serbia and Montenegro1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,587 164 186 1,065 705 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745 39 146 365 306 Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 – 5 47 43 Soviet Union (former) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 7 57 199 164 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,453 58 358 926 783 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,554 78 462 925 840 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,193 31 418 502 451 Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 – 7 53 38 Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 D D 34 27 Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,005 160 623 2,735 1,723 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,680 1,137 7,253 7,797 6,717 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,722 21 45 397 270Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314,489 80,570 89,445 120,209 70,316 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435 27 10 190 168 Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 26 131 80 73 Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,664 2,007 835 2,876 1,511

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Table 9. IMMIGRANTS ADMITTED BY SELECTED CLASS OF ADMISSION AND REGION AND COUNTRY OF LAST PERMANENT RESIDENCE: FISCAL YEAR 2004 – Continued

Family Employment Immediate relatives of U.S. citizensRegion and country of last sponsored- based- permanent residence Total preferences preferences Total Spouses

Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – D 7 7 Brunei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 – 18 7 7 Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923 254 43 283 134 Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,044 726 D 2,153 1,466 China, People’s Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,942 12,157 13,352 19,552 8,676 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 D 26 100 76 Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,421 3,402 726 1,179 663 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,472 12,628 34,983 16,392 8,661 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,175 113 542 1,283 1,038 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,898 1,726 448 2,715 1,136 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689 91 48 191 146 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,206 320 1,627 2,486 1,837 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,652 187 2,502 5,387 4,686 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,186 1,854 318 2,653 1,701 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,441 2,396 8,221 8,795 4,864 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,015 201 341 324 262 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857 123 18 659 510 Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,800 1,164 433 1,762 1,192 Macau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 237 27 54 D Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,833 186 800 724 558 Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – D D D Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 – 23 107 90 Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,782 60 423 418 301 North Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – D D D Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441 48 335 37 28 Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,888 3,514 2,249 5,298 3,076 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,632 17,084 14,021 23,315 12,352 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 44 76 57 45 Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,283 175 473 350 275 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,113 110 1,440 506 411 Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,192 127 341 315 204 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,549 701 232 1,020 622 Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,270 3,397 2,158 3,063 2,056 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,728 416 579 2,838 2,219 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,489 167 678 1,786 1,451 United Arab Emirates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,495 318 810 269 193 Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,064 14,194 D 9,719 7,037 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,787 380 24 1,257 563Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,510 4,062 4,529 22,212 15,025 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657 15 41 217 167 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 D 4 47 35 Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392 D 19 71 59 Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 4 27 29 23 Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 4 10 81 66 Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 – – 5 D Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,324 D 61 407 279 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999 404 D 582 308 Central African Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 8 6 D Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 D – 8 8 Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – – 4 4 Congo, Democratic Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 D 4 18 14 Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402 14 D 104 69 Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,021 45 58 352 252 Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 11 D 18 9 Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,590 860 479 2,088 1,518 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – – 4 D Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546 48 16 321 165 Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,131 311 D 1,563 719 Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 D D 42 D

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Table 9. IMMIGRANTS ADMITTED BY SELECTED CLASS OF ADMISSION AND REGION AND COUNTRY OF LAST PERMANENT RESIDENCE: FISCAL YEAR 2004 – Continued

Family Employment Immediate relatives of U.S. citizensRegion and country of last sponsored- based- permanent residence Total preferences preferences Total Spouses

Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621 23 24 303 249 Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,863 544 170 3,081 1,993 Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769 27 19 223 164 Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 D – 5 D Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,919 132 289 1,693 1,368 Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 6 11 7 Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,528 152 70 481 201 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 4 10 59 49 Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 5 4 18 10 Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 D 14 43 34 Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 – 13 125 103 Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 – 10 36 32 Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 D 15 22 D Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,910 97 177 1,400 1,164 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 D 8 21 17 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 D 5 18 D Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 D 3 43 35 Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,910 902 565 4,409 2,528 Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D D Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 – D 14 D St. Helena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D D Sao Tome and Principe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – D – Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855 39 28 576 464 Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3 6 9 6 Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745 78 37 447 214 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 3 D 54 42 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,335 141 1,889 1,100 873 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779 15 26 259 163 Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – D 10 5 Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658 38 67 392 346 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,930 8 22 164 133 Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429 6 41 334 309 Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694 18 52 375 299 Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350 25 53 183 151 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514 25 97 334 265Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,929 873 1,757 3,509 2,901 Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,397 148 1,223 1,799 1,594 Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – – 4 D Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,539 548 36 532 334 French Polynesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 3 12 D Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D D Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 – 4 36 D Micronesia, Federated States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 4 3 D New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,420 95 471 752 678 Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – D 5 5 Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 D D 10 10 Pitcairn Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D D Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 D – 147 105 Solomon Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – – D D Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 65 4 203 150 Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D DNorth America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338,294 106,294 21,321 157,928 91,583 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 2,126 9,893 D D Greenland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D D Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173,664 62,158 7,061 98,765 58,339 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,893 33,303 1,962 31,356 15,622 Anguilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 10 – 13 8 Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462 183 55 220 133 Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 – 10 23 19

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Family Employment Immediate relatives of U.S. citizensRegion and country of last sponsored– based– permanent residence Total preferences preferences Total Spouses

Bahamas, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620 82 83 390 306 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692 226 99 364 246 Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 14 27 91 76 British Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 23 10 26 13 Cayman Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 11 8 40 26 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,385 2,265 31 909 376 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 43 7 68 41 Dominican Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,049 17,920 216 11,810 5,182 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555 190 36 323 202 Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 16 D 27 19 Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,502 5,288 105 5,323 1,970 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,565 4,906 583 8,029 4,597 Martinique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 7 – 20 15 Montserrat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 6 D 13 8 Netherlands Antilles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 24 13 68 45 St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286 139 9 138 69 St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600 178 64 358 243 St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . . . . . . 376 106 49 220 148 Trinidad and Tobago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,144 1,661 550 2,868 1,869 Turks and Caicos Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 5 3 15 11 Central America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,299 8,707 2,405 18,019 9,454 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882 220 68 561 3725 Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,810 171 202 1,365 1,011 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,285 3,688 976 4,780 2,824 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,734 2,304 570 6,117 2,174 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,336 1,634 404 2,971 1,705 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,833 434 46 1,242 699 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,419 256 139 983 669South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,177 12,370 11,506 42,025 27,917 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,672 248 1,312 2,851 2,251 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,716 231 389 1,023 646 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,195 327 3,477 6,176 5,011 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,717 144 319 1,206 914 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,887 2,940 2,017 12,390 7,914 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,351 1,872 1,133 4,891 2,598 French Guiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – – 5 D Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,699 3,643 124 1,913 981 Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324 45 46 220 155 Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,356 2,279 1,052 6,811 4,344 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 62 31 73 D Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750 83 112 521 396 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,335 496 1,494 3,945 2,652Unknown or not reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,592 2,559 4,567 9,396 7,149

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Table 9. IMMIGRANTS ADMITTED BY SELECTED CLASS OF ADMISSION AND REGION AND COUNTRY OF LAST PERMANENT RESIDENCE: FISCAL YEAR 2004 – Continued

Immediate relatives of U.S. citizens – Continued RefugeeRegion and country of last Diversity and asylee Cancellation permanent residence Children Parents program adjustments of removal Other

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,347 77,534 50,084 71,230 32,702 16,367Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,662 5,831 18,364 27,129 225 3,806 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 715 1,972 287 D 3 Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 203 506 182 6 96 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 13 36 2,019 – 6 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 34 58 355 – 63 Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 58 452 584 D 217 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 20 35 40 – 5 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 77 20 809 – 2 Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 224 2,298 52 18 11 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 38 36 6,681 10 1 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 5 41 14 – 1 Czechoslovakia (former) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 50 23 D – Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 18 D – 1 Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 13 29 56 D 5 Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 21 D – – France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 95 243 23 – 13 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 30 203 69 – 16 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474 261 485 2,782 5 24 Gibraltar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 159 273 D 2 Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 51 63 36 18 6 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D – – 1 Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 28 111 D – 5 Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 135 112 D D 9 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344 31 138 201 – 104 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 15 94 74 – 35 Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 25 71 108 D 15 Liechtenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 46 1,404 D D 16 Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – 2 Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 89 75 567 20 1 Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 4 8 – 1 Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 32 183 620 – 241 Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – – Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 40 215 D 4 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 7 18 – – 1 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873 917 2,802 18 31 47 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 92 10 D D 4 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 428 1,075 66 30 9 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,558 621 882 3,263 14 808 San Marino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Serbia and Montenegro1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 296 160 1,971 39 2 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 29 190 5 – – Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – – 23 – – Soviet Union (former) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 24 9 75 4 69 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 84 D 73 D 3 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 25 61 24 – 4 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 20 77 162 – 3 Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3 7 30 – 5 Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 19 61 – 3 Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576 436 2,972 4,781 9 1,725 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654 426 393 D D 78 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 44 693 424 3 139Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,687 29,206 8,480 11,540 222 4,023 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 15 – 202 5 1 Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 8 D – – Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376 989 1,692 197 27 30 Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – – –

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Table 9. IMMIGRANTS ADMITTED BY SELECTED CLASS OF ADMISSION AND REGION AND COUNTRY OF LAST PERMANENT RESIDENCE: FISCAL YEAR 2004 – Continued

Immediate relatives of U.S. citizens – Continued RefugeeRegion and country of last Diversity and asylee Cancellation permanent residence Children Parents program adjustments of removal Other

Brunei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 134 207 D 1 Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 269 59 53 D 12 China, People’s Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,186 5,690 59 809 3 10 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 14 D 21 – – Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 417 81 21 – 12 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,268 6,463 56 1,270 19 124 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 133 214 10 4 9 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 1,393 276 702 8 23 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 38 D 354 D 2 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 266 734 20 4 15 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491 210 547 D D 21 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451 501 56 287 8 10 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,494 1,437 13 D D 12 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 39 54 89 – 6 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 80 D 51 D 2 Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 408 18 404 8 11 Macau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 29 D – – – Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 116 73 33 6 11 Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – 5 Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 16 D D – Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 53 1,859 19 – 3 North Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 19 D D – Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,087 1,135 9 1,711 32 75 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,740 6,223 12 30 71 99 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 6 21 5 – – Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 79 194 D 11 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 48 45 7 – 5 Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 78 374 34 – 1 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 259 D 581 D 4 Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 740 627 D D 19 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441 178 D 592 D 215 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 206 1,100 747 5 6 United Arab Emirates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 37 89 6 – 3 Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,145 1,537 – 2,796 D 3,265 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657 37 52 74 – –Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,275 2,912 19,678 11,785 98 146 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 39 321 59 3 1 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D 7 – – Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 44 256 D – Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3 18 8 – – Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D 15 – – Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 10 13 – – Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 48 592 216 D 3 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 97 – – D 3 Central African Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 4 D – – Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Congo, Democratic Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 5 65 – 1 Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 19 197 79 D 1 Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 5 190 372 3 1 Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – 95 – – Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 359 1,621 1,521 6 15 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 107 115 46 – – Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495 349 4,405 783 D 5 Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 7 D – – Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 16 7 244 19 1

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Immediate relatives of U.S. citizens – Continued RefugeeRegion and country of last Diversity and asylee Cancellation permanent residence Children Parents program adjustments of removal Other

Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888 200 1,095 943 – 30 Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 12 18 472 8 2 Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 102 2,763 5,021 5 16 Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – – – – – Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 93 532 289 3 1 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 16 5 D – Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5 4 6 – – Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 4 – D – Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 4 8 8 – Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 5 34 – 1 Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 7 – – – Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 2,223 D – 10 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D 5 – 1 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – D – Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 4 3 D – Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,007 874 2,856 126 22 30 Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 11 53 – – St. Helena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Sao Tome and Principe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 36 174 D – Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – D – – Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 98 96 83 3 1 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 6 232 – – South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 116 175 D D 10 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 55 272 203 – 4 Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D – – – Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 17 106 54 – 1 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 8 1,694 42 – – Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 16 41 6 – 1 Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 70 176 D 1 Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 16 46 40 – 3 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 33 50 D D 3Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338 270 740 30 8 12 Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 39 218 D D 6 Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 158 394 D D 2 French Polynesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Micronesia, Federated States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 97 D – 4 Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – – Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Pitcairn Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 20 D – – – Solomon Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – – Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 23 – 4 – Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – –North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,537 31,808 737 13,403 31,269 7,342 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,134 D 320 53 D 254 Greenland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,787 22,639 21 150 3,243 2,266 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,611 6,123 347 12,316 55 2,554 Anguilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – – – – – Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 43 D – D 1 Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – – Bahamas, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 23 14 D D 42

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Immediate relatives of U.S. citizens – Continued RefugeeRegion and country of last Diversity and asylee Cancellation permanent residence Children Parents program adjustments of removal Other

Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 39 – – – 3 Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – D – 1 British Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – – Cayman Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5 – – – 1 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 248 287 11,740 5 148 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 9 – – – – Dominican Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,178 2,450 9 38 15 41 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 25 D – D – Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – 2 Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,768 1,585 – 519 12 2,255 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,186 1,246 – 9 14 24 Martinique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – – – – – Montserrat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D – – – Netherlands Antilles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – D – – St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 29 – – – – St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 38 – – – – St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 19 – – – 1 Trinidad and Tobago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654 345 29 – 4 32 Turks and Caicos Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – 3 Central America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,005 2,560 49 884 27,967 2,268 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 55 D D 19 8 Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 100 D 29 D 18 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,007 949 – 252 19,469 120 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,214 729 D D 8,262 119 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887 379 11 89 188 39 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 221 10 133 16 1,952 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 127 D 19 D 12South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,589 6,519 1,543 1,166 230 337 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 340 118 122 4 17 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 145 36 16 14 7 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850 315 116 28 23 48 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 135 11 28 5 4 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,588 1,888 8 368 62 102 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,168 1,125 318 34 51 52 French Guiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – – – Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443 489 D D 6 5 Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 20 8 D D 2 Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,106 1,361 779 312 46 77 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 D – D D – Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 71 16 13 3 2 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675 618 127 240 12 21Unknown or not reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,259 988 542 6,177 650 701

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.1 Yugoslavia (unknown republic) prior to February 7, 2003.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 10. IMMIGRANT–ORPHANS ADOPTED BY U.S. CITIZENS BY GENDER, AGE, AND REGION AND COUNTRY OF BIRTH: FISCAL YEAR 2004

Gender Age

Region and country of birth Total Male Female Under 1 year 1 to 4 years 5 to 9 years Over 9 years

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,911 8,070 14,841 9,195 10,384 2,100 1,232Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,158 4,024 4,134 2,144 4,068 1,320 626 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 7 3 – 7 D D Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 14 15 22 D D – Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 13 13 11 10 5 – Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 91 109 26 147 13 14 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – D – – Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 57 55 D 90 15 D Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – – – Czech Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – D – – Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 9 3 – D D 8 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 6 16 13 D D – Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – D – D Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – – D Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 D D – 8 – – Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – D – – Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824 394 430 290 349 128 57 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – – – Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 7 8 – D D 8 Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 20 9 – 20 D D Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – D – – – Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 12 18 – 21 6 3 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 47 55 D 35 42 D Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D – D D D Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 22 36 D 48 D 5 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,878 2,937 2,941 1,768 2,823 883 404 Serbia and Montenegro1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – D D – Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – D – – Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D – – – D Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 D D – – Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772 372 400 D 478 207 D United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – – D Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D – D D –Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,797 1,817 7,980 4,596 4,758 281 162 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – D Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5 5 D D – – Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D – – – D Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 17 30 – 43 D D China, People’s Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,033 350 6,683 2,742 4,116 133 42 Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 9 6 D 12 D – India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394 126 268 84 239 52 19 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – D – – Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D D – – D Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 24 20 31 D – D Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D D D – – Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,708 1,020 688 1,599 92 11 6 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D – – – 4 Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5 6 D – – D Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – D – – – Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 14 8 D D – – Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 27 45 27 37 D D Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 9 21 12 3 3 12 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 99 89 14 83 43 48 Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5 8 6 D D 4 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D – – – 3 Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 49 40 47 25 D D Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 28 39 D 52 9 D Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D D D D D Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 15 10 – 15 D D Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – D

See footnotes at end of table.

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Gender Age

Region and country of birth Total Male Female Under 1 year 1 to 4 years 5 to 9 years Over 9 years

Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580 254 326 95 178 159 148 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D D D – – Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – D – – Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D – – D D Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3 3 – – D D Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – D – – Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – D – Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D D – – D Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D – D D D Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 123 154 55 67 87 68 Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4 7 – D D 5 Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 7 11 D 9 4 D Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – – – Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 38 50 11 31 21 25 Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D – – 3 – Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – D – – Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D D D D D Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – D – D Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 25 34 13 33 4 9 Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D – – – 3 Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D – D – – Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – D – Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 11 25 – D 21 D Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D – – D D South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 6 6 9 D D – Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – D – – Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 – – – 4 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – D – Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 9 5 – D D 10 Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4 5 – D D 4 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3 – – – D DOceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 24 27 19 20 8 4 Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – D – – Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 D D D D D 4 Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 12 18 D 13 D – Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D D D – –North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,869 1,732 2,137 2,156 1,270 240 203 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4 4 – D D D Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 41 57 27 D D 41 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447 182 265 17 212 97 121 Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – D Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – – D Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – – D D Dominican Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 11 9 D D D 7 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – D Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 145 210 11 194 85 65 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 18 33 D 9 D 34 St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – D – D St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . . . D D D – – D D Trinidad and Tobago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 D D – D D 7 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – – D Central America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,316 1,505 1,811 2,112 1,032 D D Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3 9 D 4 D D Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 D D – 3 3 4 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 4 11 – 10 5 – Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,252 1,491 1,761 2,109 1,002 118 23 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D D – 3 – 6 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3 9 – 6 3 D Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 – D D –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Gender Age

Region and country of birth Total Male Female Under 1 year 1 to 4 years 5 to 9 years Over 9 years

South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452 217 235 185 88 91 88 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D D – D D Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 38 34 12 18 21 21 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D – D D D Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 120 159 165 35 50 29 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 20 10 D 20 D 6 Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 18 18 D D 12 20 Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 13 10 D 11 D 7 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D – – – DUnknown or not reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 2 – 2 1 1

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.1 Yugoslavia (unknown republic) prior to February 7, 2003.

Note: This table includes 11,741 orphan children (with IR3 class of admission) who were not included in the Annual Flow Report, U.S. Legal Permanent Residents: 2004.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 11. IMMIGRANTS ADMITTED BY STATE OF INTENDED RESIDENCE: FISCAL YEARS 1995 TO 2004

State of intended residence 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720,461 915,900 798,378 654,451 646,568 849,807 1,064,318 1,063,732 705,819 946,142Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,900 1,782 1,613 1,608 1,275 1,904 2,257 2,570 1,693 2,139Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,049 1,280 1,060 1,008 1,058 1,374 1,401 1,564 1,196 1,219Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,700 8,900 8,632 6,211 8,667 11,980 16,362 17,719 11,001 19,297Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 934 1,494 1,428 914 940 1,596 2,572 2,535 1,911 2,251California . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166,482 201,529 203,305 170,126 161,247 217,753 282,957 291,216 176,375 252,920Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,713 8,895 7,506 6,513 6,984 8,216 12,494 12,060 10,713 10,923Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,240 10,874 9,528 7,780 7,887 11,346 12,148 11,243 8,296 12,138Delaware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,051 1,377 1,148 1,063 1,026 1,570 1,850 1,862 1,490 1,671District of Columbia . . . . . . 3,047 3,784 3,373 2,377 2,134 2,542 3,043 2,723 2,497 2,110Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,023 79,461 82,318 59,965 57,484 98,391 104,715 90,819 52,969 75,644Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,381 12,608 12,623 10,445 9,404 14,778 19,431 20,555 10,805 16,286Hawaii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,537 8,436 6,867 5,465 4,299 6,056 6,313 5,503 4,907 6,347Idaho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,612 1,825 1,447 1,504 1,906 1,922 2,296 2,236 1,692 2,229Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,898 42,517 38,128 33,163 36,971 36,180 48,296 47,235 32,488 46,314Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,590 4,692 3,892 3,981 3,557 4,128 6,010 6,853 5,255 5,929Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,260 3,037 2,766 1,655 1,780 3,052 5,029 5,591 3,425 3,984Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,434 4,303 2,829 3,184 3,263 4,582 4,030 4,508 3,811 4,041Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,857 2,019 1,939 2,017 1,537 2,989 4,548 4,681 3,047 3,624Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000 4,092 3,319 2,193 2,048 3,016 3,778 3,199 2,221 2,998Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814 1,028 817 709 568 1,133 1,186 1,269 999 1,264Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,055 20,732 19,090 15,561 15,605 17,705 22,060 23,751 17,813 20,253Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . 20,523 23,085 17,317 15,869 15,180 23,483 28,965 31,615 20,184 27,676Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,135 17,253 14,727 13,943 13,650 16,773 21,528 21,787 13,546 18,334Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,111 8,977 8,233 6,981 5,956 8,671 11,166 13,522 8,435 11,708Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . 757 1,073 1,118 701 698 1,083 1,340 1,155 730 1,252Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,990 5,690 4,190 3,588 4,171 6,053 7,616 8,610 6,179 6,782Montana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409 449 375 299 309 493 488 422 456 419Nebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,831 2,150 2,270 1,267 1,439 2,230 3,850 3,657 2,836 2,954Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,306 5,874 6,541 6,106 8,305 7,827 9,618 9,499 6,369 8,758New Hampshire . . . . . . . . . 1,186 1,512 1,143 1,010 999 2,001 2,595 3,009 1,873 2,198New Jersey . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,729 63,303 41,184 35,091 34,095 40,013 59,920 57,721 40,818 50,303New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,758 5,780 2,610 2,199 2,445 3,973 5,207 3,399 2,342 3,024New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128,406 154,095 123,716 96,559 96,979 106,061 114,116 114,827 89,661 102,390North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . 5,617 7,011 5,935 6,415 5,792 9,251 13,918 12,910 9,479 10,718North Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . 483 606 535 472 314 420 558 776 332 578Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,585 10,237 8,189 7,697 6,855 9,263 14,725 13,875 9,805 11,599Oklahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,792 3,511 3,157 2,273 2,376 4,586 3,492 4,229 2,394 3,506Oregon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,923 7,554 7,699 5,909 5,233 8,543 9,638 12,125 6,968 8,389Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . 15,065 16,938 14,553 11,942 13,514 18,148 21,441 19,473 14,638 18,232Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . 2,609 3,098 2,543 1,976 2,058 2,526 2,820 3,067 2,495 3,689South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . 2,165 2,151 2,446 2,125 1,773 2,267 2,882 2,966 1,946 2,496South Dakota . . . . . . . . . . 495 519 490 356 356 465 671 902 488 727Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,392 4,343 4,357 2,806 2,584 4,882 6,257 5,694 3,373 5,620Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,963 83,385 57,897 44,428 49,393 63,840 86,315 88,365 53,592 91,799Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,831 4,250 2,840 3,360 3,564 3,710 5,247 4,889 3,174 4,255Vermont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535 654 627 513 497 810 954 1,007 554 790Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,319 21,375 19,277 15,686 15,144 20,087 26,876 25,411 19,781 21,695Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,862 18,833 18,656 16,920 13,046 18,486 23,085 25,704 18,017 19,442West Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . 540 583 418 375 392 573 737 636 485 583Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,919 3,607 3,175 3,724 3,043 5,057 8,477 6,498 4,378 5,257Wyoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 280 252 159 253 248 308 281 259 295U.S. territories, possessions, and armed services posts . . 11,261 12,940 8,180 6,256 6,512 5,771 6,717 6,001 5,628 7,087 American Samoa . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – D – Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,419 2,820 2,083 1,835 1,729 1,556 1,722 1,698 1,363 1,272 Northern Mariana Islands . . 171 176 103 103 150 122 113 138 53 69 Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . 7,160 8,560 4,884 3,251 3,048 2,649 3,459 3,071 3,120 4,754 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . . . 1,511 1,384 1,110 979 1,480 1,328 1,327 994 974 878 Armed Services Posts . . . – – – 88 105 116 96 100 118 114Other or unknown . . . . . . . 135 119 100 4 3 – 15 8 D 6

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 12. REFUGEE–STATUS APPLICATIONS: FISCAL YEARS 1980 TO 2004

Applications Applications Applications Applications filed during approved denied otherwise closed Year year during year during year during year

1980 (April – Sept.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,241 89,580 6,149 1,1971981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178,273 155,291 15,322 3,998 1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,150 61,527 14,943 6,631 1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,522 73,645 20,255 2,489 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99,636 77,932 16,220 604 1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80,734 59,436 18,430 1,842 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,310 52,081 9,679 3,362 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85,823 61,529 13,911 6,126 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105,024 80,282 11,821 5,632 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190,597 95,505 33,179 4,005 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135,251 99,697 29,805 24,904 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123,492 107,962 12,644 5,700 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133,786 115,330 14,886 6,780 1993 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127,676 106,026 20,280 5,107 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142,068 105,137 20,557 19,485 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143,223 78,936 32,412 34,251 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155,868 74,491 26,317 59,589 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122,741 77,600 22,725 17,270 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124,777 73,198 31,001 6,768 1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111,576 85,592 19,094 6,358 2000 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91,854 66,546 21,010 10,482 2001 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103,499 66,198 19,812 7,479 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,726 18,652 19,773 28,876 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,705 25,329 16,550 32,124 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,536 49,638 12,361 20,878

1 Data for Vietnam are incomplete. Data represent only Vietnamese processed by the Resettlement Opportunity for Vietnamese Returnees (ROVR) Program. Data are unavailable for refugees processed under other Vietnam in–country programs that dealt with former re-education camp detainees and adult children of formerly admitted refugees.

Note: The Refugee Act of 1980 went into effect April 1, 1980.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Applications Applications Applications Applications filed during approved denied otherwise closed Geographic area and country of chargeability year during year during year during year

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,536 49,638 12,361 20,878Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,264 8,413 3,990 479 Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 116 102 D Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367 275 59 41 Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818 563 258 18 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 207 216 92 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 104 D – Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 24 14 – Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 14 19 D Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 180 91 20 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 52 54 19 Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 41 13 D Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 5 D – Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,712 1,176 438 38 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,198 1,973 663 36 Serbia and Montenegro1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 65 52 D Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 8 18 D Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4 – – Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,478 3,317 1,937 179 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 289 49 23Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,468 17,988 355 841 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,138 940 221 24 Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,410 1,398 12 – Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 7 6 – China, People’s Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 6 – Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,727 1,561 83 106 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 32 16 695 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,035 14,035 – – Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 D – D Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 4 – Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 12 7 – Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – – 7Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,136 17,566 6,159 17,413 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 12 7 D Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577 380 142 – Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3 D – Central African Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – Congo, Democratic Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517 304 137 – Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 16 5 – Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3 – – Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 63 25 D Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,575 961 384 2,124 Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 D 16 – Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,873 4,918 1,909 6,005 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 – – Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D – Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 36 22 105 Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,385 919 740 191 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,187 6,616 2,131 7,270 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,291 3,249 601 1711 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 70 33 – Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 8 – – Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Applications Applications Applications Applications filed during approved denied otherwise closed Geographic area and country of chargeability year during year during year during year

North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,661 5,671 1,846 2,144 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,661 5,671 1,846 2,144 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,661 5,671 1,846 2,144Not reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 11 1

D Disclosure standards not met

– Represents zero.1 Yugoslavia prior to February 7, 2003.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 14. REFUGEE APPROVALS AND ARRIVALS BY GEOGRAPHIC AREA OF CHARGEABILITY: FISCAL YEARS 1999 TO 2004

Geographic area of chargeability 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Authorized admissions1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91,000 90,000 80,000 70,000 70,000 70,000Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,000 18,000 21,000 22,000 20,000 30,000East Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,500 8,000 6,000 4,000 4,000 8,500Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,000 44,500 37,000 26,000 16,500 13,000Latin America/Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,250 3,500 3,500 3,000 2,500 3,500Near East/South Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,250 10,000 12,500 15,000 7,000 3,000Unallocated reserve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 6,000 – – 20,000 12,000

Approvals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85,592 66,546 2 66,198 2 18,652 25,329 49,638Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,581 20,014 18,402 3,419 6,860 17,566East Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,728 941 2 277 2 791 2,026 15,453Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,666 32,355 32,686 7,621 11,868 8,413Latin America/Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,796 2,896 2,768 2,534 1,599 5,671Near East/South Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,725 10,266 12,030 4,247 2,940 2,535Not reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 74 35 40 36 –

Arrivals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85,076 72,143 68,925 26,839 28,306 52,835Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,036 17,560 19,016 2,545 10,717 29,125East Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,963 3,557 3,346 3,260 1,608 8,046Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,877 37,664 31,526 15,408 11,269 9,254Latin America/Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,110 3,233 2,973 1,937 452 3,556Near East/South Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,090 10,129 12,064 3,689 4,260 2,854

– Represents zero.1 Data are for authorized final ceiling admissions.2 Data for Vietnam are incomplete. Data represent Vietnamese processed by the Resettled Opportunity for Vietnamese Returnees Program only. Data are unavailable for refugees processed under other Vietnam in-country programs that deal with former reeducation camp detainees and adult children of formerly admitted refugees.

Note: The geographic areas used in this table are unique in the Yearbook and are based on the classification used by the Department of State in its reports on refugees. The corresponding country composition of the geographic areas used is also based on the same Department of State classification. The objective of using the Department of State classification was to make approval data comparable on a regional basis with authorized admission and arrival data.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of State

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Table 15. REFUGEE ARRIVALS INTO THE UNITED STATES BY REGION AND COUNTRY OF CHARGEABILITY: FISCAL YEARS 1995 TO 2004

Country of chargeability 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,520 74,791 69,276 76,181 85,076 72,143 68,925 26,839 28,306 52,835Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,703 41,617 48,450 54,260 55,877 37,664 31,526 15,408 11,269 9,254 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 23 9 D 8 D 3 5 D D Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA 35 20 27 30 63 88 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA 210 259 449 115 406 407 Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA 1,008 1,050 971 680 702 659 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . 9,870 12,030 21,357 30,906 22,699 19,033 14,593 3,463 525 244 Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – – – – – – – – – Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 1,660 2,995 1,020 109 144 92 Czechoslovakia (former) . . – D – – – D – – – – Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA 71 81 57 38 28 27 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – D – Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 50 30 49 14 53 33 Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – – Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA 412 284 291 222 118 312 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA 140 147 116 69 46 100 Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA 167 103 125 57 49 52 Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA 20 16 40 D 21 13 Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 3 D D 4 13 – Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA 1,035 1,056 1,168 1,021 616 1,711 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 D 6 D 3 D 4 – – – Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 16 3 – D 4 – – – – Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA 4,386 3,723 4,454 2,100 1,394 1,446 Serbia and Montenegro1 . . – – 3 – 14,280 524 153 1,860 1,839 151 Slovakia . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA D – Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – D – D – – – Soviet Union (former)2 . . . 35,716 29,536 27,072 23,349 194 282 133 D – – Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA 9 24 9 4 13 D Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA 16 D 7 D 4 7 Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA 8,649 7,334 7,172 5,219 5,065 3,482 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA 818 693 681 394 166 426Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,420 22,131 11,771 13,669 14,041 13,622 15,356 6,949 5,864 10,896 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . D – – D 365 1,709 2,930 1,677 1,453 959 Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – D – Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – 5 3 – – – Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 11 182 186 295 637 543 128 203 1,056 Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – 23 4 7 3 China, People’s Republic . . – D – – D D 12 7 9 3 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 6 – – – – – – D Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D 26 14 5 18 17 5 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 978 1,256 1,305 1,699 1,750 5,145 6,590 1,525 2,471 1,787 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,482 2,528 2,679 1,407 1,955 3,158 2,473 465 298 66 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – D – Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – 5 – – – – Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – 13 – 6 – 14 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,675 2,201 939 – 19 64 22 18 13 6,005 Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – D 7 D D Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – 5 – – – Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – D D – – – Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – D Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – 6 3 – 18 11 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – D – Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 5 D D 5 7 D Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – D 18 8 4 3 – Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – 4 4 D – Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,244 16,130 6,660 10,288 9,622 2,841 2,730 3,081 1,356 974 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – D D – – D 8Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,779 7,502 6,069 6,665 13,048 17,624 19,070 2,545 10,721 29,129 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 12 57 31 – 4 D Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – D 34 16 21 20 Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – D D – Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . – – D – – D – – – – Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 8 33 24 223 165 109 62 16 276 Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 19 15 9 7 5 6 6 D

See footnotes at end of table.

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Country of chargeability 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Central African Republic . . D – – – D – D – D 24 Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 45 41 22 D D D D 4 Congo, Democratic Republic . 85 38 45 52 42 1,354 260 105 251 569 Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . – – – – 27 11 6 5 41 73 Cote d’ Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . – – – D 5 – D 3 4 – Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 16 15 8 – 12 D D 6 Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – 6 8 – – 3 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . – – – – – 12 – – 3 – Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 14 7 9 32 94 109 13 23 128 Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 194 197 152 1,873 1,347 1,429 329 1,704 2,710 Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . – – 16 50 13 13 5 – 12 3 Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D D – 5 3 D 4 13 D Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 6 D 4 5 D – Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 6 – 13 D 11 13 24 3 – Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – – Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 46 231 1,494 2,495 2,620 3,429 559 2,957 7,140 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – 5 – – – Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – – – – – – Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – – Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – D – 202 6 – – Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – – Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – 5 D – – – Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 34 7 312 625 50 85 27 57 34 Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 118 100 86 153 345 94 47 47 176 Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – 3 – – Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . 48 13 57 176 675 1,128 2,004 176 1,378 1,084 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,506 6,436 4,974 2,951 4,320 6,026 4,951 238 1,993 13,331 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . – D D – – – – – – – Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,705 575 277 1,252 2,393 3,833 5,959 895 2,140 3,500 Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – D – D D – – Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 D 30 15 93 511 280 16 39 35 Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 3 – D 10 – – – Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 10 9 D 12 18 12 D D 8 Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 4 – – – – – – D D Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – 6 – – –North America . . . . . . . . . . 7,618 3,539 2,986 1,587 2,109 3,233 2,968 1,929 303 2,977 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,618 3,537 2,986 1,587 2,109 3,233 2,968 1,929 303 2,976 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,133 3,498 2,911 1,587 2,018 3,184 2,944 1,925 303 2,959 Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,485 39 75 – 91 49 24 4 – 17 Central America . . . . . . . . – D – – – – – – – D Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – D El Salvador . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – – Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . – D – – – – – – – –South America . . . . . . . . . . – 2 – – 1 – 5 8 149 579 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – 5 – – – Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – 8 149 577 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – – Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 2 – – 1 – – – – 2

NA Not available.

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.1 Yugoslavia (unknown republic) prior to February 7, 2003.2 Data are for unknown republic only. For the former Soviet Union, data are not available for independent republics prior to 1999. The Department of State includes Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania with the republics of the former Soviet Union.

Note: Prior to 1996, refugee arrival data were derived from the Nonimmigrant Information System of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Beginning in fiscal year 1996, arrival data for all years are from the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, Department of State. Any comparison of refugee arrival data prior to 1996 must be made with caution. Arrivals may be higher than approvals because of the arrivals of persons approved in prior years.

Source: U.S. Department of State

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Table 16. ASYLUM CASES FILED WITH U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES (USCIS) DISTRICT DIRECTORS AND ASYLUM OFFICERS: FISCAL YEARS 1973 TO 2004

Cases Cases Cases Cases Cases Year received1 completed2 approved denied adjudicated3

1973 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,913 1,510 380 1,130 1,510 1974 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,716 2,769 294 2,475 2,769 1975 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,432 1,664 562 1,102 1,664 1976 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,733 1,914 590 1,324 1,914 1976,TQ4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896 370 97 273 370 1977 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,529 1,939 754 1,185 1,939 1978 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,702 2,312 1,218 1,094 2,312 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,801 2,312 1,227 1,085 2,312 1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,512 2,000 1,104 896 2,000 1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,568 4,521 1,175 3,346 4,521 1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,296 11,326 3,909 7,255 11,164 1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,091 25,447 7,215 16,811 24,026 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,295 54,320 8,278 32,344 40,622 1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,622 28,528 4,585 14,172 18,757 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,889 45,792 3,359 7,882 11,241 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,107 44,785 4,062 3,454 7,516 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,736 68,357 5,531 8,582 14,113 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101,679 102,795 6,942 31,547 38,489 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,637 48,342 4,173 24,156 28,329 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,310 16,552 2,108 4,167 6,275 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103,964 21,996 3,919 6,506 10,425 1993 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142,680 31,970 5,053 17,610 22,664 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143,225 46,527 8,133 28,183 36,336 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147,430 88,116 12,448 13,589 61,607 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116,877 104,885 13,537 2,355 61,697 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,620 116,628 10,213 2,302 52,673 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,841 79,055 9,932 2,989 42,362 1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,896 52,292 13,149 1,604 34,165 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,340 57,911 16,553 1,699 37,828 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,871 67,627 20,283 1,515 46,927 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,021 81,875 18,846 1,541 52,215 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,015 86,755 11,331 1,467 39,107 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,682 108,223 10,101 1,560 31,582

1 Beginning in 1992, includes cases newly filed and cases reopened.2 Includes approvals, denials, cases otherwise closed, cases referred to an immigration judge (interviewed and not interviewed), and cases referred to an immigration judge because the alien failed to meet the filing deadline.3 Includes approvals, denials, cases referred to an immigration judge following an interview, and cases referred to an immigration judge because the alien failed to meet the filing deadline.4 Transition quarter, July 1 through September 30, 1976.

Note: The Refugee Act of 1980 went into effect April 1, 1980. Data for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 have been estimated due to changes in the reporting procedures during those two periods. Since April 1, 1991, authority to decide most asylum claims has resided with the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Asylum Officer Corps.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 17. NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS GRANTED ASYLUM BY U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES (USCIS) ASYLUM OFFICERS BY REGION AND COUNTRY OF NATIONALITY: FISCAL YEARS 1997 TO 2004

Region and country of nationality 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,221 13,007 17,827 22,852 28,677 25,720 15,339 14,359Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,300 2,553 2,742 3,701 3,984 2,843 1,761 1,430 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 537 393 428 524 379 246 179 Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 321 384 1,163 1,427 958 454 249 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 151 140 266 377 253 74 87 Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 31 31 68 83 75 120 167 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – D D – – – Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . 42 21 26 23 31 30 11 13 Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 72 62 79 53 65 50 41 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 41 43 46 9 7 D 3 Czechoslovakia (former) . . D D – – – – – D Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 7 – 8 10 14 10 8 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – D D 4 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 80 126 143 114 65 45 55 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D 3 – D D – Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D 5 – D 4 D Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D 6 3 D – 4 Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – – – – Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . 19 29 24 53 32 24 23 25 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 5 15 16 18 20 24 19 Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D 12 6 7 12 9 Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 3 D D 10 15 9 6 Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . 35 27 3 8 32 35 6 7 Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – D Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3 D 13 22 11 11 10 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – – – – Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 6 D D D D – – Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 47 40 39 95 134 128 55 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389 454 555 610 518 381 279 232 San Marino . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – – – – – Serbia and Montenegro1 . . 519 448 726 514 363 121 85 57 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . 3 3 4 – D – D D Soviet Union (former) . . . . 23 9 3 6 – – – – Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – – – – – Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 16 19 18 5 5 6 8 Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . 20 15 D 10 17 16 13 20 Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 156 99 95 101 90 60 47 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . 8 5 4 D – – – – Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . 43 55 34 60 130 132 83 118Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,664 3,371 5,785 7,696 10,388 10,146 4,512 2,444 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . 287 296 341 269 334 184 26 35 Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – D 3 – D – Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . 118 108 125 85 80 99 65 40 Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 4 15 15 9 6 3 Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 271 348 341 1,316 333 197 180 Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 124 145 62 15 41 27 44 China, People’s Republic . . 484 661 1,187 3,343 4,799 5,691 2,401 919 Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 3 – – – India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884 400 384 642 838 1,041 278 130 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 13 1,548 943 618 490 215 104 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408 704 773 855 872 708 329 193 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,785 179 208 385 642 568 333 161 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 8 10 14 8 10 3 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 23 38 21 52 48 23 22 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D – – – – D – Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 13 15 6 8 D 4 3 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 18 19 15 9 11 13 26 Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 63 43 27 51 41 37 30 Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 5 14 26 20 26 16 10 Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D 5 6 4 22 61 Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 17 13 17 19 69 143 163 Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – – – –

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 17. NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS GRANTED ASYLUM BY U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES (USCIS) ASYLUM OFFICERS BY REGION AND COUNTRY OF NATIONALITY: FISCAL YEARS 1997 TO 2004 – Continued

Region and country of nationality 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 273 372 380 408 506 280 199 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . 19 19 28 18 D 20 13 28 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 4 – – – Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . D 7 D 4 3 5 D D Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . D 5 3 4 8 D D 3 Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 53 42 60 96 77 15 19 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 44 34 29 24 43 8 24 Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 5 4 – – – D Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 5 – – D D – D Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 19 29 49 73 75 33 25 United Arab Emirates . . . . – – D 3 D – – D Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 10 12 16 7 13 8 7 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 36 42 58 47 30 4 6Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,078 4,940 7,127 7,271 6,337 5,877 4,012 3,857 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 184 143 66 37 21 17 10 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 12 35 57 51 28 20 6 Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 8 D D 3 D 3 Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . 5 D 6 9 4 3 7 7 Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 43 51 29 51 62 26 24 Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 155 238 336 322 710 818 594 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – – – – – Central African Republic . . – 3 D D 4 23 24 8 Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 13 20 16 11 15 24 20 Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – D – – – Congo, Democratic Republic 139 208 225 243 156 211 78 74 Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . 5 111 256 238 232 237 116 90 Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . 15 12 17 25 43 23 126 86 Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D D – D – – Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 358 402 468 472 485 242 151 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . – D – D – D – – Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 103 155 197 161 172 124 135 Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454 540 1,104 1,415 1,115 1,040 569 769 Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 3 3 D D 4 6 Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . 56 42 48 24 29 20 28 33 Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 16 12 19 6 6 D 10 Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 52 49 92 156 182 120 164 Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . . – – D 6 D D – 9 Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 70 103 96 97 233 230 182 Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479 498 669 678 760 608 349 312 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 10 12 21 4 4 D 3 Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – D D – Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 5 – D 3 – – Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 D 9 4 D 9 13 19 Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 139 100 93 94 90 60 60 Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 3 – D – D – – Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 5 6 7 8 15 5 D Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – – D – Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – – – – Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 106 95 49 28 20 30 20 Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 148 129 44 32 24 19 31 Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 84 109 96 61 44 33 35 Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 8 19 14 15 18 14 18 Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . 25 158 183 218 309 169 43 60 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699 1,313 2,344 1,985 1,276 453 145 144 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . D – 6 7 D 14 9 6 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 404 441 508 521 448 111 84 Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 5 – – – Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 9 4 5 18 15 4 14 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 49 57 64 82 198 325 356 Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D D 3 D – D Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 72 55 118 116 153 73 60 Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – 6 16 7 8 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 3 8 42 93 193 243

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Table 17. NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS GRANTED ASYLUM BY U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES (USCIS) ASYLUM OFFICERS BY REGION AND COUNTRY OF NATIONALITY: FISCAL YEARS 1997 TO 2004 – Continued

Region and country of nationality 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3 34 79 340 179 60 62 Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3 34 79 340 179 60 62North America . . . . . . . . . . 1,757 1,690 1,334 1,368 1,662 1,361 1,490 2,219 Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 37 55 40 44 29 30 52 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,013 602 444 873 1,276 1,045 1,198 1,830 Bahamas, The . . . . . . . – D – – – – – – Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – – – – – Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 198 251 119 76 54 D 27 Dominican Republic . . . – D D – D – – D Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693 394 188 754 1,195 986 1,161 1,794 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D – – – D D St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . – – D – – – – – Trinidad and Tobago . . . – D D – D 5 – 6 Central America . . . . . . . . 712 1,051 835 455 342 287 262 337 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D – – – Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – – – D El Salvador . . . . . . . . . 182 388 300 146 160 75 90 118 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . 350 468 433 274 147 178 156 213 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . D 49 64 D D 24 9 D Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . 127 146 29 20 19 10 7 D Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 9 – – – – –South America . . . . . . . . . . 321 392 709 2,668 5,862 5,184 3,432 4,288 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D 5 7 5 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 11 7 3 D 12 D Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 27 45 19 27 33 28 23 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 4 21 9 6 5 4 8 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 108 229 2,465 5,683 4,976 2,995 2,930 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D D 3 12 25 D 5 Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – – 8 D Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – D – D D – D Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 219 373 136 86 69 70 106 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . D 16 6 D – – – – Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – 3 D D D D Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 14 18 23 39 67 305 1,204Stateless . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 57 96 69 103 129 72 59Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 1 – – 1 1 – –

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.1 Yugoslavia (unknown republic) prior to February 7, 2003.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 18. ASYLUM CASES FILED WITH U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES (USCIS) ASYLUM OFFICERS BY NATIONALITY: FISCAL YEAR 2004

Individuals Region and country Cases filed Cases reopened Cases granted granted asylum Cases denied of nationality during year1 during year2 during year during year during year

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,551 5,131 10,101 14,359 1,560Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,629 223 1,102 1,430 101 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468 15 125 179 13 Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . 612 29 203 249 16 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . 67 12 57 87 3 Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . 414 3 123 167 D Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . 21 D 10 13 – Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 4 31 41 3 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D 3 D Czech Republic . . . . . . . 4 – – – – Czechoslovakia (former) . 9 3 D D – Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 – 6 8 D Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – France . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 16 D 4 – Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 4 48 55 4 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – – – D Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D D – Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 5 D 4 – Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 – – – Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . 34 D 18 25 4 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . 33 – 13 19 – Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 7 9 D Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . 39 – 5 6 – Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . 25 4 6 7 D Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 D 7 10 – Netherlands . . . . . . . . . D D – – – Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 17 – – D Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D – – – Romania . . . . . . . . . . . 123 9 43 55 3 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657 44 198 232 20 Serbia and Montenegro5 . 188 14 42 57 8 Slovak Republic . . . . . . 8 – D D – Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – – – D Soviet Union (former) . . – 10 – – – Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – D Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . 12 D 4 8 D Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . 40 – 19 20 D Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 10 35 47 5 United Kingdom . . . . . . 7 D – – – Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . 269 9 89 118 9Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,512 860 1,783 2,444 227 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . 24 6 24 35 D Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . 53 58 30 40 D Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 3 D Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 16 155 180 23 Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . 81 D 34 44 D China, People’s Republic 2,839 236 737 919 71 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . D – – – D India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422 209 114 130 5 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . 487 19 63 104 49 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 19 135 193 15 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 4 88 161 15 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 D D 3 D Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 10 12 22 D Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – – – – Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D 3 3 –

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Individuals Region and country Cases filed Cases reopened Cases granted granted asylum Cases denied of nationality during year1 during year2 during year during year during year

Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 103 18 26 D Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 13 20 30 D Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . 26 – 10 10 D Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . 72 D 26 61 3 Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 3 115 163 10 Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 60 121 199 11 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . 39 61 11 28 D Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . 4 – D D D Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D 3 3 – Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . 74 4 13 19 3 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 4 13 24 D Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D D – Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 15 D D – Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 5 20 25 D United Arab Emirates . . D – D D – Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 D 6 7 D Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4 3 6 –Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,020 326 3,161 3,857 446 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 D 10 10 – Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 D 5 6 – Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – D 3 – Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . 13 – 4 7 D Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 D 20 24 5 Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . 1,189 10 556 594 75 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . 5 – – – – Central African Republic 36 5 8 8 – Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 – 18 20 D Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – – Congo, Democratic Republic . . . . . . . . . . 154 7 60 74 8 Congo, Republic . . . . . . 177 4 74 90 9 Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . 335 16 76 86 13 Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 9 99 151 9 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . D – – – – Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 D 107 135 7 Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . 968 18 651 769 25 Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 4 6 – Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . 137 28 24 33 7 Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 8 10 10 D Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660 24 133 164 19 Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . 25 D 6 9 D Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 7 124 182 12 Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 38 254 312 127 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D 3 3 – Madagascar . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 13 13 19 3 Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . 446 36 60 60 D Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – D D – Mozambique . . . . . . . . . – D – – – Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 10 19 20 7 Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 13 26 31 11 Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 D 27 35 7 Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 11 15 18 D Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . 215 13 49 60 11 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 17 117 144 – South Africa . . . . . . . . . 16 D 4 6 D Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 4 64 84 11 Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 5 9 14 –

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Table 18. ASYLUM CASES FILED WITH U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES (USCIS) ASYLUM OFFICERS BY NATIONALITY: FISCAL YEAR 2004 – Continued

Individuals Region and country Cases filed Cases reopened Cases granted granted asylum Cases denied of nationality during year1 during year2 during year during year during year

Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472 8 304 356 34 Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 7 57 60 4 Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 – 6 8 D Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . 362 D 140 243 30Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 34 25 62 5 Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – – Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 D 25 62 5 Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D – – –North America . . . . . . . . . 6,110 3,424 1,722 2,219 625 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 36 52 3 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . 3,725 253 1,445 1,830 109 Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . – – – – – Bahamas, The . . . . . . D – – – – Barbados . . . . . . . . . . – D – – – Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 11 26 27 D Dominica . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – Dominican Republic . . 7 3 D D – Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – – Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,543 215 1,412 1,794 101 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . 96 8 D D D St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . 3 D – – – St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . D – – – – Trinidad and Tobago . . 10 10 4 6 – Central America . . . . . . 952 3,029 241 337 513 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . D D D D – El Salvador . . . . . . . . . 199 1,590 81 118 413 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . 703 1,350 154 213 90 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . 29 51 D D 6 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . 16 34 D D 4 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – –South America . . . . . . . . . 4,912 249 2,260 4,288 156 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . 34 50 5 5 4 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D D D – Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774 14 23 23 D Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 8 8 – Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . 2,452 112 1,544 2,930 99 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 20 5 5 D Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 13 D D D Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – D D – Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 19 58 106 5 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . – 3 – – – Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D D D – Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . 1,418 14 610 1,204 43Stateless . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 8 48 59 –Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 7 – – –

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Table 18. ASYLUM CASES FILED WITH U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES (USCIS) ASYLUM OFFICERS BY NATIONALITY: FISCAL YEAR 2004 – Continued

Individuals Cases referred to Cases referred to Cases referred to Region and country denied asylum immigration judge, Cases otherwise immigration judge, immigration judge, of nationality during year past filing deadline3 closed during year4 not interviewed interviewed

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,440 7,209 72,808 3,833 12,712Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 692 530 260 1,915 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 143 69 16 261 Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 101 25 48 351 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . 4 12 3 24 38 Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 29 4 12 237 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . – D D – D Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . – 3 4 – 10 Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 25 27 10 45 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D 3 – 4 Czech Republic . . . . . . . – – – D D Czechoslovakia (former) – 5 6 D 3 Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . D 12 4 D 20 Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – – France . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 14 – 5 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 30 D 18 67 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . D – 3 D D Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – D Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 18 D 3 Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 9 3 D Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . 5 11 D 3 22 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . D 11 D 3 15 Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4 4 3 15 Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . – 11 D D 15 Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . 4 9 3 3 16 Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . – 5 3 4 12 Netherlands . . . . . . . . . – – 3 – – Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 39 37 3 26 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 4 D – Romania . . . . . . . . . . . 4 13 68 3 59 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 97 76 63 336 Serbia and Montenegro5 . 11 49 59 3 98 Slovak Republic . . . . . . – 4 D – D Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 4 – D Soviet Union (former) . . – – 30 – – Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – D Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – D Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . D D D – 7 Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . D 4 D – 20 Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 38 24 20 75 United Kingdom . . . . . . – D 5 – D Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . 16 27 7 11 142Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374 1,370 1,271 466 2,637 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . 4 7 7 3 12 Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . 3 22 52 10 39 Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 20 46 11 70 Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . D 19 3 7 71 China, People’s Republic 101 772 320 208 1,349 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – D Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . D – – – D India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 65 333 64 225 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . 81 219 56 77 325 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 51 61 30 50 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 11 8 – 66 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 3 D D 20 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – D Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 12 15 5 23 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 4 D D Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 5 D D

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Table 18. ASYLUM CASES FILED WITH U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES (USCIS) ASYLUM OFFICERS BY NATIONALITY: FISCAL YEAR 2004 – Continued

Individuals Cases referred to Cases referred to Cases referred to Region and country denied asylum immigration judge, Cases otherwise immigration judge, immigration judge, of nationality during year past filing deadline3 closed during year4 not interviewed interviewed

Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 4 136 – 15 Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 16 28 D 24 Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . D 8 – 3 5 Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . 10 7 – D 26 Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 28 5 4 123 Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 39 64 18 73 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . D 23 89 3 32 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . D – – D D Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . – D D – – Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . 5 19 D 11 35 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 8 3 – 12 Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 3 – D Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 16 – D Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 6 6 D 16 United Arab Emirates . . – D – – – Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . D 5 – D 7 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 7 – 6Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572 1,664 466 555 2,756 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 8 4 D 10 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 10 – D 6 Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – D Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . D 4 D D 4 Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 17 3 9 17 Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . 80 116 29 17 570 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . – D D – D Central African Republic – 9 D 3 19 Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 3 – D 25 Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Congo, Democratic Republic . . . . . . . . . . . 15 38 15 13 47 Congo, Republic . . . . . . 9 56 14 20 52 Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . 15 161 15 22 91 Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 24 15 10 109 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . – – – – D Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 13 3 3 51 Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 86 74 13 330 Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – 3 Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . 13 48 20 6 42 Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 6 10 D 15 Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 214 24 39 279 Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . D 5 4 3 5 Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 79 13 27 88 Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 37 52 29 130 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 3 – D Madagascar . . . . . . . . . – – – – D Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – D D Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 15 13 D 12 Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . D 233 38 120 216 Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . – D D – – Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . – 4 – – 5 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 15 11 3 19 Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 29 19 8 31 Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5 D D 17 Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . D 32 12 D 23 Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . 13 76 10 76 66 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . – 70 21 84 54 South Africa . . . . . . . . . 4 6 5 4 11 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 6 3 7 38 Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . – 22 D D 15

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Table 18. ASYLUM CASES FILED WITH U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES (USCIS) ASYLUM OFFICERS BY NATIONALITY: FISCAL YEAR 2004 – Continued

Individuals Cases referred to Cases referred to Cases referred to Region and country denied asylum immigration judge, Cases otherwise immigration judge, immigration judge, of nationality during year past filing deadline3 closed during year4 not interviewed interviewed

Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 47 6 13 231 Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 3 – – Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 22 12 D 42 Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 23 – D 5 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . 51 117 6 7 71Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 8 73 4 31 Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – – Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 D D D 31 Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D D D –North America . . . . . . . . . 893 2,452 69,620 1,594 3,295 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 3 D D Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1,128 260 D D Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . 189 D 2,340 487 2,083 Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . – – – – – Bahamas, The . . . . . . – D D – – Barbados . . . . . . . . . . – – D – D Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D 130 7 19 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . – D – – – Dominican Republic . . – 3 D 3 D Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – – Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 496 2,184 466 2,042 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . 6 66 9 8 13 St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . – 3 D – – St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . – – – – – Trinidad and Tobago . . – D 8 3 6 Central America . . . . . . 695 749 67,017 684 1,103 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . – D D – – Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . – – D – – El Salvador . . . . . . . . . 555 81 36,787 142 434 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . 126 639 29,546 526 628 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . 9 17 80 13 31 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . 5 9 591 D D Panama . . . . . . . . . . . – D 6 D DSouth America . . . . . . . . . 415 879 834 948 1,852 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . 8 14 309 17 6 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D D D – Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 27 175 602 20 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 4 D 3 D Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . 269 536 217 267 1,253 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . D 15 30 7 17 Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4 16 D 7 Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – D Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 35 34 10 85 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . – – 6 – D Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 27 D 3 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . 122 241 16 37 456Stateless . . . . . . . . . . . . – 27 13 6 58Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 117 1 – 168

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.1 Cases filed and reopened in the same year are included only with cases filed.2 Cases reopened that were filed in a prior fiscal year.3 These cases referred because they were filed after the applicants had been in the United States for a year.4 Includes ABC interview no show cases.5 Yugoslavia (unknown republic) prior to February 7, 2003.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 19. ASYLUM CASES FILED WITH U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES (USCIS) ASYLUM OFFICERS BY ASYLUM OFFICE AND STATE OF RESIDENCE: FISCAL YEAR 2004

Individuals Asylum office and Cases filed Cases reopened Cases granted granted asylum Cases denied state of residence during year1 during year2 during year during year during year

ASYLUM OFFICE Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,551 5,131 10,101 14,359 1,560Arlington . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,657 321 1,782 2,254 249Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,421 383 910 1,221 198Houston . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,647 135 211 315 220Los Angeles . . . . . . . . . . 3,736 1171 779 1057 254Miami . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,537 703 3,449 5,582 234New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,684 638 541 692 101Newark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,946 866 826 1101 150San Francisco . . . . . . . . . 2,923 914 1603 2,137 154

STATE Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,551 5,131 10,101 14,359 1,560Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 12 11 23 3Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 15 23 3Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 26 45 64 6Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 15 5 7 15California . . . . . . . . . . . . 5696 1929 2025 2,681 380Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 11 41 55 12Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . 94 39 36 44 6Delaware . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 41 16 25 3District of Columbia . . . . . 198 21 113 126 21Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6882 685 3292 5,384 239Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461 67 97 151 8Hawaii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 D D D –Idaho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4 5 8 –Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 69 162 225 20Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 25 63 88 15Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 36 18 30 5Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 10 29 40 8Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 16 27 32 12Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 D 4 7 13Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 D 6 13 –Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,050 74 1,079 1279 124Massachusetts . . . . . . . . 392 130 218 283 14Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 42 126 211 19Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 43 243 281 52Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D 3 5 DMissouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 12 35 48 15Montana . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – – – –Nebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 32 52 70 27Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 42 33 54 9New Hampshire . . . . . . . . 55 3 12 20 DNew Jersey . . . . . . . . . . . 465 349 167 225 33New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D 3 4 DNew York . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,160 870 798 1012 147North Carolina . . . . . . . . . 173 41 102 178 24North Dakota . . . . . . . . . . 5 D 3 D –Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797 81 151 192 22Oklahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 D 9 17 4Oregon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 23 47 77 7Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . 389 40 134 199 48Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . 41 34 27 44 4South Carolina . . . . . . . . . 74 7 14 23 DSouth Dakota . . . . . . . . . 12 8 5 7 3Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 20 41 54 17Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1136 81 112 171 144Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 3 10 17 6Vermont . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – D 3 –

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Individuals Asylum office and Cases filed Cases reopened Cases granted granted asylum Cases denied state of residence during year1 during year2 during year during year during year

Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614 109 349 450 61Washington . . . . . . . . . . . 519 37 185 255 4West Virginia . . . . . . . . . . 3 D 7 16 –Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 8 16 18 DWyoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – – – DU.S. territories and possessions: Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 10 6 10 – Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . 7 D 3 4 – U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . 604 13 98 102 –

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Table 19. ASYLUM CASES FILED WITH U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES (USCIS) ASYLUM OFFICERS BY ASYLUM OFFICE AND STATE OF RESIDENCE: FISCAL YEAR 2004 – Continued

Individuals Cases referred to Cases referred to Cases referred to Asylum office and denied asylum immigration judge, Cases otherwise immigration judge, immigration judge, state of residence during year past filing deadline3 closed during year4 not interviewed interviewed

ASYLUM OFFICE Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,440 7,209 72,808 3,833 12,712Arlington . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344 852 5,015 474 1,518Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286 1008 2,024 425 1,291Houston . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 211 5,737 707 487Los Angeles . . . . . . . . . . . 369 1327 34,416 510 1,513Miami . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529 1,363 6,212 847 3,584New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 825 5,223 156 1,476Newark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 1,152 5,217 281 1,687San Francisco . . . . . . . . . 238 471 8,964 433 1,156

STATE Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,440 7,209 72,808 3,833 12,712Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 18 5 13 16Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 6 54 D 10Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 87 272 96 72Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 5 368 5 17California . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561 1,560 40,362 568 2,206Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 42 431 12 84Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . 6 31 271 16 65Delaware . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 7 249 D 34District of Columbia . . . . . 26 19 648 8 79Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541 1,350 6,174 795 3,376Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 360 85 363 160Hawaii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 6 D DIdaho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 46 D 5Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 84 454 14 141Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 35 136 4 63Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 124 172 79 46Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 42 147 6 31Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 69 74 23 77Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 19 63 3 6Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 10 – DMaryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 292 1,837 44 826Massachusetts . . . . . . . . 22 144 1732 63 290Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 53 144 33 132Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 57 235 25 197Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . D – 17 D DMissouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 43 97 9 48Montana . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D D – DNebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 167 265 78 207Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 21 896 18 73New Hampshire . . . . . . . . 7 29 23 9 55New Jersey . . . . . . . . . . . 48 166 1719 79 299New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . 3 6 33 D DNew York . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 1449 5739 246 2177North Carolina . . . . . . . . . 36 42 347 15 92North Dakota . . . . . . . . . . – – D D DOhio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 342 228 143 339Oklahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 11 55 6 16Oregon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 24 1146 35 91Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . 66 125 181 33 248Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . 5 7 497 4 30South Carolina . . . . . . . . . 3 17 11 4 16South Dakota . . . . . . . . . . 3 6 36 3 15Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 48 238 40 104Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 75 4414 632 221Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 9 180 4 28Vermont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – 4

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Table 19. ASYLUM CASES FILED WITH U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES (USCIS) ASYLUM OFFICERS BY ASYLUM OFFICE AND STATE OF RESIDENCE: FISCAL YEAR 2004 – Continued

Individuals Cases referred to Cases referred to Cases referred to Asylum office and denied asylum immigration judge, Cases otherwise immigration judge, immigration judge, state of residence during year past filing deadline3 closed during year4 not interviewed interviewed

Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 100 2163 26 290Washington . . . . . . . . . . . 4 75 471 170 146West Virginia . . . . . . . . . . – – D – DWisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . D 5 37 D 27Wyoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 – DU.S. territories and possessions: Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 16 26 52 53 Puerto Rico. . . . . . . . . . – – D – 3 U.S. Virgin Islands. . . . . – 17 D 45 183

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.1 Cases filed and reopened in the same year are included only with cases filed.2 Cases reopened that were filed in a prior fiscal year.3 These cases referred because they were filed after the applicants had been in the United States for a year. 4 Includes ABC interview no show cases.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 20. REFUGEES AND ASYLEES GRANTED LAWFUL PERMANENT RESIDENT STATUS BY ENACTMENT: FISCAL YEARS 1946 TO 2004 – Continued

Enactment 1991 to 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,021,266 108,506 126,084 44,927 71,230Presidential Directive of 12/22/45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X XDisplaced Persons Act of 6/25/48 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X XOrphan Act of 7/29/53 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X XRefugee Relief Act of 8/7/53 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X XRefugee-Escapee Act of 9/11/57 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X XHungarian Refugee Act of 7/25/58 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 3 X X XAzores & Netherlands Refugee Act of 9/2/58 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X XRefugee Relatives Act of 9/22/59 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X XFair Share Refugee Act of 7/14/60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D X X X XRefugee Conditional Entrants Act of 10/3/65 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X XCuban Adjustment Act of 11/2/66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116,604 21,207 22,374 7,664 15,798Indochinese Refugee Act of 10/28/77 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D D DRefugee Parolee Act of 10/5/78 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 D X D XRefugee Act of 1980, 3/17/80 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901,173 86,201 103,170 36,848 55,229 Refugee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807,437 76,090 93,457 26,822 45,213 Asylee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93,736 10,111 9,713 10,026 10,016P.L. 105–277 (Iraqi asylees) of 10/20/98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,116 1,090 D 199 DSyrian Adjustment Act of 10/27/00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X D 206 D

X Not applicable.

D Disclosure not met.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Table 20. REFUGEES AND ASYLEES GRANTED LAWFUL PERMANENT RESIDENT STATUS BY ENACTMENT: FISCAL YEARS 1946 TO 2004

Enactment 1946 to 1950 1951 to 1960 1961 to 1970 1971 to 1980 1981 to 1990

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213,347 492,371 212,843 539,447 1,013,620Presidential Directive of 12/22/45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,324 X X X XDisplaced Persons Act of 6/25/48 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173,023 236,669 4 X XOrphan Act of 7/29/53 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 466 X X XRefugee Relief Act of 8/7/53 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 188,993 28 D DRefugee-Escapee Act of 9/11/57 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 24,263 5,199 X XHungarian Refugee Act of 7/25/58 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 30,491 258 D DAzores & Netherlands Refugee Act of 9/2/58 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 10,057 12,156 X XRefugee Relatives Act of 9/22/59 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 1,432 388 X XFair Share Refugee Act of 7/14/60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X 19,714 D 3Refugee Conditional Entrants Act of 10/3/65 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X 39,149 102,625 329Cuban Adjustment Act of 11/2/66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X 135,947 252,119 105,898Indochinese Refugee Act of 10/28/77 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X 137,309 37,752Refugee Parolee Act of 10/5/78 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X 46,058 92,971Refugee Act of 1980, 3/17/80 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X 1,250 776,664 Refugee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X 734,259 Asylee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X 1,250 42,405P.L. 105–277 (Iraqi asylees) of 10/20/98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X XSyrian Adjustment Act of 10/27/00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X

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Table 21. REFUGEES AND ASYLEES GRANTED LAWFUL PERMANENT RESIDENT STATUS BY REGION AND SELECTED COUNTRY OF BIRTH: FISCAL YEARS 1946 TO 2004

Region and country of birth 1946 to 1950 1951 to 1960 1961 to 1970 1971 to 1980 1981 to 1990

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213,347 492,371 212,843 539,447 1,013,620Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211,983 456,146 55,235 71,858 155,512 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 1,409 1,952 395 289 Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,801 11,487 233 185 424 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 21 33 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 1,138 1,799 1,238 1,197 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Czech Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Czechoslovakia (former)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,449 10,719 5,709 3,646 8,204 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D D Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,143 4,103 16 D 25 Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D 5 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 139 268 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,633 62,860 665 143 851 Gibraltar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D – Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 28,568 586 478 1,408 Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,086 55,740 4,044 4,358 4,942 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D D Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 8 6 Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642 60,657 1,198 346 394 Kazakstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Kyrgystan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,422 16,783 49 16 48 Liechtenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA – Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,694 8,569 72 23 37 Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA – D Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 6 5 Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D – Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 14,336 3,134 8 14 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 4 7 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,529 81,323 3,197 5,882 33,889 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 3,650 1,361 21 21 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,180 12,057 7,158 6,812 29,798 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X San Marino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D – Serbia and Montenegro2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,816 44,755 18,299 11,297 324 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Soviet Union (former)3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,072 30,059 871 31,309 72,306 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 246 4,114 5,317 736 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 3 NA Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 12 NA Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 58 192 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Unknown Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,082 7,687 778 123 80Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,106 33,422 19,895 210,683 712,092 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – 542 22,946 Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA – NA Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D NA Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA NA

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Region and country of birth 1946 to 1950 1951 to 1960 1961 to 1970 1971 to 1980 1981 to 1990

Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 70 NA Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 7,739 114,064 China4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 12,008 5,308 13,760 7,928 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 48 NA Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 1,076 2,128 3,468 1,916 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 41 NA Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 8,253 7,658 222 1,385 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 192 58 364 46,773 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 130 119 6,851 7,540 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 76 NA Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3,803 554 56 110 Jordan5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 88 NA Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 3,116 1,316 65 120 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 11 NA Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 21,690 142,964 Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 595 NA Macau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 29 NA Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 189 NA Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA – NA Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA NA Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D NA Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D 5 Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 20 NA Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 213 NA Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA NA Saudia Arabia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 10 NA Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 28 NA Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 24 NA Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 119 383 1,336 2,145 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 15 13 1,241 30,259 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603 1,427 1,489 1,193 1,896 United Arab Emirates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA NA Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 7 150,266 324,453 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 22 11 Unknown Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 3,280 862 422 7,577Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 1,768 5,486 2,991 22,149 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D 5 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 4 255 Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA NA Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA 85 Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D – Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA 8 Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA 9 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 4 13 Central African Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D D Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 7 – Congo, Democratic Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 7 192 Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D D Cote d’ Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D D Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA 19 Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1,354 5,396 1,473 426 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA – D Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Ethiopia6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA 61 D 1,307 18,542 Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA D Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA – Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 3 135 Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA 15 Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA NA

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Region and country of birth 1946 to 1950 1951 to 1960 1961 to 1970 1971 to 1980 1981 to 1990

Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 4 87 Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D 29 Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D 109 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 14 363 Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA – D Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 8 33 Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA NA Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA D Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D NA Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 3 11 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 3 72 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 3 71 Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA D Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 6 14 Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA – D Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA – 3 Sao Tome and Principe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA – D Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D NA Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA 12 Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D 21 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 6 70 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 14 285 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 4 739 Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA NA Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D 7 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D NA Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D NA Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 58 301 Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 3 53 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 3 24 Unknown Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 353 D 40 130Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 75 21 37 22 American Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D – Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 21 NA Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA NA French Polynesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA NA Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D – New Caledonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D NA New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D 4 Northern Mariana Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D 3 Solomon Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA – – Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X – – Wallis and Futuna Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA NA Unknown Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 75 21 8 15North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 831 132,068 252,633 121,840 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 96 NA Greenland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D D Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 202 NA St. Pierre and Miquelon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D – United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 5 NA Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 6 131,557 251,825 114,213 Anguilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA – 5 Antiqua-Barbuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D – Bahamas, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D 832 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D 4 Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 5 – British Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA NA Cayman Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 9 NA

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Region and country of birth 1946 to 1950 1951 to 1960 1961 to 1970 1971 to 1980 1981 to 1990

Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 6 131,557 251,514 113,367 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 4 NA Dominican Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 152 NA Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D NA Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA – NA Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 86 NA Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 25 NA Martinique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D NA Montserrat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA NA Netherlands Antilles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 3 NA Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA D St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D D St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D D St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 13 NA Trinidad and Tobago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 4 NA Turks and Caicos Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA D NA Central America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 4 289 6,973 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 8 NA Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 51 NA El Salvador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D 45 1,383 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 47 NA Honduras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 69 NA Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D 27 5,590 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 42 NA Unknown North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 824 507 214 653South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 74 123 1,244 1,986 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 101 NA Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 10 NA Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 16 NA Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 5 4 415 532 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 217 350 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 149 NA Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 7 NA Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 4 NA Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 132 251 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA NA Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 43 NA Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA 83 407 Unknown South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 69 119 67 446Unknown or not reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 55 15 D 19

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Region and country of birth 1991 to 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,021,266 108,506 126,084 44,927 71,230Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426,565 55,825 62,911 17,290 24,854 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,255 114 170 350 281 Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,161 321 265 150 185 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390 37 71 20 32 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,072 476 497 275 396 Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,581 1,548 1,446 523 617 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 7 7 D 8 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,591 23,303 25,033 5,847 10,060 Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,679 57 34 82 65 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,807 2,337 3,315 814 1,089 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D – 6 Czechoslovakia (former)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,255 14 15 D 4 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 D 3 D D Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843 93 79 22 32 Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – D – D France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 14 15 11 11 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,593 178 174 70 92 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,309 1,345 1,889 484 568 Gibraltar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374 12 5 4 11 Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,285 19 24 10 16 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 D D – D Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412 15 33 20 12 Kazakstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,269 659 648 176 267 Kyrgystan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,248 305 196 62 84 Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,757 175 154 54 82 Liechtenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,161 69 33 23 21 Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 114 185 63 28 Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D D – D Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,717 1,322 1,336 422 662 Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 8 48 22 15 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D – – Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,500 71 54 31 31 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – D 3 D Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,708 119 85 94 79 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,404 4,758 5,089 1,738 2,571 San Marino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Serbia and Montenegro2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,274 4,190 8,556 1,513 1,583 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 5 4 3 D Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 60 70 15 19 Soviet Union (former)3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90,533 1,621 1,508 610 355 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443 39 31 19 27 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 9 11 5 6 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 39 72 25 31 Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,546 100 53 29 38 Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410 28 33 15 28 Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109,739 11,130 10,601 3,350 4,980 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 9 23 12 4 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,539 1,099 1,038 318 451 Unknown Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – –Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351,347 19,992 21,414 9,885 14,335 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,725 257 1,044 716 1,418 Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – – – – Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566 204 180 155 198 Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D –

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Region and country of birth 1991 to 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,447 332 411 188 406 Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721 181 372 327 418 Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,388 75 47 38 91 China4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,608 813 695 805 878 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D D 7 3 Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611 247 105 18 22 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,544 942 1,558 1,517 1,181 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 111 58 20 23 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,313 1,364 4,806 2,030 3,966 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,557 3,060 3,434 1,223 1,748 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 12 18 12 13 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 D 5 11 5 Jordan5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 11 32 20 24 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 3 7 4 D Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469 37 61 36 73 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,265 520 374 191 234 Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,028 38 101 77 134 Macau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – – – – Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 210 72 13 23 Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 5 D – 4 Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 D 5 12 15 Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – D Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,650 320 467 365 419 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 968 89 68 30 35 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 D – – – Saudia Arabia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 880 70 57 46 56 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 9 5 D 3 Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354 19 52 43 46 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,125 327 261 308 151 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,759 653 498 224 246 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559 32 36 28 25 United Arab Emirates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 3 4 D D Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206,857 10,351 6,926 1,581 2,831 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 22 61 23 48 Unknown Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – –Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,649 6,906 13,454 7,723 12,443 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 46 77 78 76 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 3 8 6 8 Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 15 50 19 22 Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – D 3 – Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 13 10 D 4 Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 64 107 63 67 Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 44 77 87 86 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 D – D – Central African Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D D Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 18 23 D 9 Congo, Democratic Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 924 77 128 87 109 Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 34 341 166 284 Cote d’ Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 52 102 44 82 Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 9 22 8 18 Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 136 269 187 313 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D D 8 Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608 36 51 56 98 Ethiopia6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,865 881 1,897 1,225 1,522 Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 4 – – Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 61 57 44 70 Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431 81 101 86 149 Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 D 4 D 47 Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 31 26 31 –

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Region and country of birth 1991 to 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – – – – Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,839 976 1,680 883 1,368 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591 8 8 13 11 Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 4 – D – Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 8 8 5 4 Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 68 62 88 109 Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 7 D D D Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 D 5 5 3 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 D 3 D D Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 D D 4 D Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 70 88 25 – Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443 300 442 206 188 Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389 106 187 87 136 Sao Tome and Principe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 19 16 20 50 Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – – D – Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 215 722 540 726 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,837 2,484 4,084 2,157 3,640 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 11 6 5 6 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,191 593 1,987 1,107 2,504 Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D D – Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 9 16 13 14 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 44 303 126 208 Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 6 3 4 3 Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439 35 53 31 83 Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 D 7 5 4 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 D D 6 – Unknown Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – –Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 19 33 18 28 American Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D – D D Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 D 28 D 24 French Polynesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D – Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – New Caledonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Northern Mariana Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – D Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – – Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Solomon Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D D D D Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – – Wallis and Futuna Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – Unknown Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – –North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185,333 24,696 26,807 8,454 18,323 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 D D D 17 Greenland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416 67 100 85 122 St. Pierre and Miquelon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 D D D 9 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154,235 23,448 25,706 7,547 17,259 Anguilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Antiqua-Barbuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Bahamas, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3 4 D 3 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – D British Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – Cayman Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144,612 22,687 24,893 7,047 16,678

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Region and country of birth 1991 to 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – – D – Dominican Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 13 25 16 32 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D – Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D D – – Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,364 735 769 472 536 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 4 6 7 5 Martinique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – – – – Montserrat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – Netherlands Antilles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 3 D 3 Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – – St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – Trinidad and Tobago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D 3 – D Turks and Caicos Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – – – – Central America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,582 1,165 974 806 916 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 D D D D Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 26 23 D 19 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,073 195 187 194 263 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,033 456 353 294 387 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,050 124 116 99 93 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,486 350 281 169 137 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714 D D 24 15 Unknown North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – –South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,857 936 1,222 1,518 1,150 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 17 58 122 120 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 15 13 29 15 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 34 40 41 26 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 27 16 61 28 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,132 217 380 462 375 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 40 43 38 33 Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 12 8 5 D Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D 3 – Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,507 399 402 457 323 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 D D 8 3 Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 5 D 11 11 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,395 167 253 281 214 Unknown South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – –Unknown or not reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 132 243 39 97

NA Not available.

X Not applicable.

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.1 Prior to 1993, data include independent republics; beginning in 1993 data are for unknown republic only.2 Yugoslavia (unknown republic) prior to February 7, 2003. Prior to 1992, data include independent republics; beginning in 1992, data are for unknown republic only.3 Prior to 1992, data include independent republics; beginning in 1992 data are for unknown republic only.4 Includes People’s Republic of China and Taiwan.5 Prior to 2003, includes Palestine; beginning in 2003, Palestine included in Unknown.6 Prior to 1993, data Include Eritrea.

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Table 22. NONIMMIGRANTS ADMITTED BY SELECTED CLASS OF ADMISSION AND REGION AND SELECTED COUNTRY OF LAST RESIDENCE: FISCAL YEARS 1995 TO 2004

Region/country of last residence 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,640,524 24,842,503 30,174,627 31,446,054 33,690,082 32,824,088 27,907,139 27,849,443 30,781,330Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,777,452 9,386,830 11,124,312 11,812,769 12,451,315 11,517,642 9,721,496 10,152,991 11,497,497 Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,137 3,774 4,370 9,672 10,438 10,118 6,204 4,780 4,886 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170,493 184,307 192,271 201,743 191,132 153,140 107,204 114,599 135,062 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,378 1,244 1,557 2,178 2,643 2,614 1,946 2,471 2,509 Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,355 4,004 5,337 7,440 7,732 7,333 6,743 10,274 8,747 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203,189 223,811 238,544 254,972 264,458 222,963 188,179 181,601 213,604 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . 531 925 2,283 4,015 6,036 6,173 4,521 4,757 5,494 Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,075 9,958 14,068 16,742 17,510 19,281 22,188 26,162 29,117 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,426 11,520 14,548 15,684 16,808 17,533 14,806 15,954 18,678 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . 17,792 29,233 44,932 47,644 50,853 51,013 34,074 42,434 41,299 Czechoslovakia (former) . . 18,019 13,534 13,859 13,089 12,741 12,157 20,076 11,658 9,877 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110,645 124,811 145,690 151,933 157,944 148,870 127,761 143,730 166,511 Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70,212 78,842 90,406 96,280 102,550 88,820 73,691 73,842 88,369 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 918,778 962,335 1,042,965 1,106,375 1,172,934 1,077,729 915,860 900,832 1,072,387 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,283 3,151 5,589 7,102 4,606 3,911 3,705 4,547 4,787 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,817,702 1,916,768 1,991,598 2,120,045 2,017,155 1,630,710 1,281,811 1,334,215 1,518,492 Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,813 61,715 67,179 67,055 70,260 67,509 48,723 51,813 53,086 Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,581 45,951 54,722 59,089 66,404 60,473 42,319 41,311 41,078 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,467 19,997 25,820 29,617 29,148 25,662 20,720 22,597 28,791 Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154,182 184,796 260,331 309,890 345,453 348,867 294,727 318,417 369,802 Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526,537 541,894 630,106 650,338 660,159 603,461 464,860 518,559 623,830 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . 4,323 5,056 4,652 4,361 4,829 5,328 5,126 5,105 5,763 Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . 17,272 19,396 20,407 20,763 18,074 14,348 10,490 11,122 12,637 Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . 2,080 3,418 3,867 4,190 3,991 4,537 4,594 4,456 4,571 Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,195 1,549 1,546 1,802 2,664 2,050 2,182 2,347 2,721 Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . 400,215 423,467 502,995 528,683 576,628 493,794 436,977 450,959 508,958 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105,378 118,387 152,982 155,106 156,252 148,358 122,020 131,013 151,788 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,490 67,395 98,119 118,541 137,477 142,408 140,092 145,101 161,885 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,728 56,064 71,234 80,657 91,245 84,856 60,615 64,046 75,660 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,151 20,881 29,600 32,230 35,928 41,532 40,325 40,618 47,052 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116,418 133,718 156,905 122,811 114,881 111,915 101,269 99,158 109,863 Serbia and Montenegro1 . . 8,805 11,046 12,359 8,229 9,475 12,486 13,719 8,810 4,392 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . 17,148 16,361 16,120 16,308 18,612 22,047 23,390 22,030 21,833 Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,201 1,460 12,621 15,537 16,569 13,968 7,754 10,766 12,819 Soviet Union (former) . . . . 2,858 1,245 439 426 332 291 222 218 190 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304,882 324,404 344,189 373,151 396,597 372,452 349,245 373,565 481,026 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215,991 247,801 309,373 330,291 343,150 294,442 212,062 232,301 282,555 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . 386,333 405,257 425,490 416,283 419,223 374,845 293,073 284,211 306,946 Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,983 24,802 22,843 20,320 25,311 27,398 22,599 24,788 30,719 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . 2,856,679 3,041,476 4,042,544 4,336,299 4,803,920 4,717,751 4,133,487 4,357,843 4,781,015 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . 1,741 2,938 3,669 4,903 8,175 8,708 7,103 6,483 5,688 Other Europe . . . . . . . . . . 36,123 41,913 50,553 50,975 61,018 65,791 55,034 53,498 53,010Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,999,931 6,912,817 7,935,517 7,924,717 8,695,996 8,547,771 6,470,338 6,257,727 7,256,125 Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . 13,205 12,906 11,042 13,525 15,434 15,665 12,343 10,845 10,731 China2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614,059 618,140 654,694 697,994 771,119 720,721 564,222 457,260 559,506 Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . 223,445 235,858 230,105 205,738 214,004 204,342 145,216 130,324 140,685 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154,997 176,347 293,808 332,561 409,609 419,232 368,822 392,382 442,328 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,529 78,812 57,851 71,913 86,954 86,660 59,609 53,895 62,517 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,948 9,174 8,923 9,008 10,583 11,015 7,847 4,328 5,125 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214,825 245,129 287,089 298,934 341,688 357,638 298,034 285,070 316,886 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,380,416 4,048,986 5,160,213 4,900,462 5,119,915 4,932,835 3,526,243 3,463,108 4,208,240 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,346 15,684 15,728 18,235 20,145 23,709 15,415 14,872 16,292 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612,222 736,706 438,089 520,206 710,038 736,938 694,349 730,137 714,820 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,205 24,193 25,905 26,193 26,201 26,163 15,104 14,913 16,523 Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,951 10,650 14,023 16,608 20,078 23,441 15,763 14,215 17,061 Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,359 79,439 57,500 64,202 76,994 78,422 45,286 39,311 52,371 Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,945 37,738 45,333 45,970 57,946 72,982 46,735 39,429 41,876 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . 170,872 165,910 178,644 203,368 236,617 272,958 261,766 227,417 227,691 Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . 68,167 67,331 75,278 80,745 84,436 83,761 30,065 23,254 22,235 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,592 113,517 123,443 119,658 145,452 134,948 97,680 97,993 118,345 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,053 95,746 64,925 83,332 96,898 95,296 76,895 71,691 80,807

See footnotes at end of table.

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Region/country of last residence 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,279 54,359 85,063 98,610 116,715 107,440 86,567 88,551 90,867 United Arab Emirates . . . . 22,844 26,924 36,768 40,339 44,174 43,712 20,800 20,287 24,512 Other Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,877 72,174 82,135 77,116 90,996 99,893 81,577 78,445 86,707Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227,773 258,227 334,460 363,183 396,101 406,010 328,942 314,493 324,381 Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,500 33,611 44,797 50,761 53,647 54,712 31,527 26,537 27,126 Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,529 11,511 15,046 15,290 17,242 22,504 21,162 16,627 17,716 Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,701 992 2,537 2,196 4,322 2,928 1,717 1,092 1,290 Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,953 13,543 18,474 21,674 22,142 20,971 16,942 14,496 15,600 Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,291 20,127 29,603 32,412 31,100 39,108 42,312 49,994 50,577 Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,721 5,917 7,640 8,804 12,485 12,739 9,181 8,252 7,337 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 84,803 99,063 123,522 122,641 129,589 125,474 96,865 94,428 99,035 Other Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 66,275 73,463 92,841 109,405 125,574 127,574 109,236 103,067 105,700Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610,940 651,104 714,151 719,723 791,436 747,328 720,362 744,132 872,054 Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428,297 448,384 497,138 503,945 563,551 518,455 479,158 509,211 596,906 Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,404 5,495 7,734 8,119 8,548 8,465 8,253 7,302 7,105 New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . 138,886 152,163 166,979 164,325 177,799 171,169 183,052 175,021 197,426 Other Oceania . . . . . . . . . 37,353 45,062 42,300 43,334 41,538 49,239 49,899 52,598 70,617North America . . . . . . . . . . 3,090,862 3,186,719 6,477,295 7,108,432 7,817,444 8,123,850 7,714,627 7,821,600 8,171,106 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252,403 225,170 312,858 366,741 427,856 445,579 450,928 521,691 584,554 Mexico3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,213,891 1,275,322 3,498,280 3,786,684 4,135,319 4,332,783 4,149,079 4,273,664 4,429,284 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,087,627 1,154,172 1,293,125 1,395,441 1,487,938 1,440,246 1,299,821 1,259,639 1,339,833 Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . . 21,793 21,830 25,486 25,861 25,932 23,761 21,114 21,362 23,499 Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,581 22,664 23,544 26,148 25,087 23,073 24,122 22,524 22,212 Bahamas, The . . . . . . . 266,116 309,535 327,559 343,844 383,015 370,158 329,913 317,293 332,428 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . 48,753 51,195 63,763 62,832 60,528 56,032 49,101 51,738 58,832 British Virgin Islands . . 15,364 18,660 25,803 28,860 31,511 32,123 27,961 30,043 33,328 Cayman Islands . . . . . . 38,367 43,055 50,206 53,423 54,155 53,409 46,473 47,789 57,565 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,645 6,104 8,089 6,775 38,348 28,559 23,477 9,357 13,039 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . 16,853 16,141 16,610 18,175 18,164 17,083 22,471 9,493 10,426 Dominican Republic . . . 185,599 184,634 204,151 220,350 205,907 205,782 178,069 196,449 202,766 Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . 10,634 12,350 12,284 11,273 10,253 8,587 7,240 9,099 8,021 Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,860 52,424 62,378 75,175 76,200 72,418 68,725 66,675 70,187 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . 200,782 214,514 238,688 257,775 271,111 272,780 241,250 210,353 210,945 Netherlands Antilles . . 40,117 33,641 33,920 42,099 43,730 37,530 46,754 47,910 47,629 St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . 12,454 13,648 16,224 18,561 19,343 17,638 14,912 14,501 16,155 Trinidad and Tobago . . . 81,877 90,087 108,855 121,449 141,656 144,446 131,741 129,920 144,512 Turks and Caicos Islands 9,482 11,659 14,341 16,993 17,448 16,544 13,317 12,464 14,583 Other Caribbean . . . . . . 50,350 52,031 61,224 65,848 65,550 60,323 53,181 62,669 73,706 Central America . . . . . . . . 536,157 531,062 722,578 792,497 853,800 900,203 863,525 845,499 868,881 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,924 22,204 25,045 28,309 32,214 32,493 28,279 27,753 27,692 Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . 122,521 121,821 162,879 173,237 183,821 177,226 163,685 157,211 168,281 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . 86,737 85,524 130,271 160,947 181,848 218,535 219,321 204,801 203,823 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . 134,779 131,277 167,448 178,902 186,681 205,771 187,026 193,128 197,095 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . 59,780 60,504 91,552 92,955 101,037 105,894 110,068 109,191 109,156 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . 38,173 35,162 47,328 51,872 52,399 50,734 52,395 50,577 53,787 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,243 74,570 98,055 106,275 115,800 109,550 102,751 102,838 109,047 Other North America . . . . . 784 993 650,454 767,069 912,531 1,005,039 951,274 921,107 948,554South America . . . . . . . . . . 2,480,867 2,538,934 3,117,926 3,030,233 3,079,107 3,055,235 2,331,053 2,003,562 2,037,651 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383,486 412,897 536,398 529,066 533,679 523,938 234,016 219,156 217,306 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,072 25,636 34,697 40,174 52,546 43,660 35,199 31,987 31,755 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846,732 867,232 953,245 813,802 768,250 730,536 557,184 479,853 512,992 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153,946 163,540 195,653 193,920 209,410 188,377 150,110 134,966 137,227 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238,191 257,450 390,134 436,241 450,382 435,323 373,710 334,748 347,509 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,495 103,227 155,488 135,053 135,827 167,908 174,421 158,539 151,937 Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,379 16,151 18,987 20,537 19,789 19,972 22,241 20,725 18,255 Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,045 21,019 21,307 20,974 20,593 21,092 18,362 15,963 14,891 Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145,397 150,923 180,532 178,529 215,159 220,879 205,001 201,416 196,072

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Region/country of last residence 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,899 50,661 64,027 61,767 68,653 70,669 57,504 52,575 39,546 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . 500,434 462,414 559,764 592,674 596,832 625,654 497,073 346,931 362,702 Other South America . . . . 7,791 7,784 7,694 7,496 7,987 7,227 6,232 6,703 7,459Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452,699 1,907,872 470,966 486,997 458,683 426,252 620,321 554,938 622,516

1 Yugoslavia (unknown republic) prior to February 7, 2003.2 Includes People’s Republic of China and Taiwan.3 The increased use of DHS Form I–94 for the inspection of Mexican nationals helps explain the increased number of admissions after 1997.

Note: Data for 1997 not available.

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Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,781,330 152,649 4,593,124 22,802,907 338,175 182,934Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,487,585 48,433 1,906,400 9,582,957 85,813 71,256 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,811 262 876 4,301 9 7 Andorra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720 3 50 613 – – Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,238 172 903 2,623 13 – Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152,285 832 27,815 112,628 594 944 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,523 225 480 831 13 D Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,690 77 1,151 4,207 135 – Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208,754 720 48,756 143,902 579 1,120 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,048 155 955 4,758 87 19 Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,688 419 3,293 10,889 3,083 22 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,096 305 4,398 9,111 4,932 49 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,455 520 9,315 24,463 702 52 Czechoslovakia (former) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,345 85 2,167 6,118 164 20 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186,821 551 41,653 129,510 1,392 873 Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,230 275 1,467 4,067 620 14 Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101,983 743 25,114 65,898 417 956 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,241,511 4,333 196,831 941,748 2,612 10,232 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,064 288 891 2,340 73 D Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,630,247 3,733 310,340 1,184,126 3,697 23,834 Gibraltar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 – 9 219 – – Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,809 802 12,033 35,230 3,628 64 Holy See . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 80 18 26 4 – Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,162 483 8,955 26,090 1,743 33 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,787 112 4,610 24,526 203 9 Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428,209 837 43,694 358,319 624 562 Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759,895 2,864 119,929 588,810 4,946 6,270 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,275 376 1,674 1,766 15 7 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,532 165 259 346 4 – Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,140 346 1,453 4,273 2,187 26 Liechtenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,457 18 205 1,066 11 4 Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,928 357 1,733 5,632 1,293 14 Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,581 121 1,320 6,545 12 30 Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,420 224 849 2,429 528 D Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,756 51 815 5,496 25 D Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,313 160 573 1,198 80 D Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721 15 65 599 – D Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607,110 1,253 117,178 454,730 2,392 3,126 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162,016 1,004 31,063 114,246 2,532 2,020 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170,531 503 20,523 106,247 8,468 49 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,887 322 13,847 77,799 1,458 27 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,483 962 7,945 25,084 8,212 29 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121,774 2,891 28,941 45,895 5,183 42 San Marino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408 D 29 353 D – Serbia and Montenegro4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,088 16 1,208 4,554 327 9 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,365 424 3,623 9,141 1,227 42 Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,769 211 3,120 9,162 174 135 Soviet Union (former) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 D 31 223 4 – Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542,733 1,799 63,960 437,433 1,483 1,858 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307,827 2,340 64,899 215,761 1,283 1,464 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276,433 1,229 43,595 212,694 471 1,598 Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636 158 91 63 – – Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488 47 85 153 D – Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,638 576 6,543 14,013 4,650 21 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,996,211 13,700 624,154 4,137,553 13,413 15,664 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,038 286 916 3,150 108 DAsia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,828,316 49,804 1,160,824 5,512,730 114,734 91,851 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,526 143 176 646 D D Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,667 303 501 1,186 8 D Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,710 332 2,085 8,125 130 8 Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 30 52 126 7 – Brunei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686 62 162 354 10 D

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Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,029 8 337 754 262 D Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,903 35 441 2,965 21 D China5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687,148 2,505 208,664 341,863 7,498 4,668 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,406 76 1,104 5,272 47 3 Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,237 16 24,562 44,744 381 38 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611,327 2,079 116,237 239,632 19,883 260 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,859 1,575 9,167 40,033 10,119 35 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,808 8 621 5,214 15 30 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,041 78 588 685 3 D Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337,513 6,979 75,888 219,399 407 2,524 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,335,975 11,439 382,162 3,686,185 8,318 69,166 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,068 1,811 3,215 12,540 72 10 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829,031 6,518 177,568 491,007 2,574 12,870 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,404 656 1,870 7,000 8 5 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,856 44 56 1,226 9 – Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,610 212 3,771 14,295 39 14 Macau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,076 – 117 603 8 – Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,712 1,074 24,941 29,914 584 45 Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 25 32 40 50 – Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,801 208 876 2,869 39 18 Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,327 226 1,468 3,899 821 5 Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,996 371 364 513 10 – Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,566 1,197 7,730 34,911 194 406 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266,840 2,015 32,789 145,729 57,205 565 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,845 385 390 574 3 D Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,091 2,273 2,318 6,937 57 7 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,849 2,374 32,423 51,942 316 67 Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,617 319 2,898 6,297 480 28 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,357 59 731 4,403 D 3 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,205 1,467 19,646 37,733 3,331 329 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106,338 1,393 19,472 53,004 1,722 729 United Arab Emirates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,645 793 1,108 2,244 4 D Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,244 437 4,158 7,452 90 7 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,370 279 136 415 4 –Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384,477 12,264 85,010 204,179 5,870 270 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,968 281 1,219 1,521 18 D Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,432 308 1,441 1,139 55 6 Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,569 138 361 531 55 D Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,980 201 466 715 16 – Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,760 82 423 594 18 – Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678 47 136 239 61 D Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,971 235 1,307 4,441 29 31 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,509 30 93 1,270 9 – Central African Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 19 26 45 – D Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 59 60 112 4 – Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 8 D 8 D – Congo, Democratic Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 7 30 46 D – Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,838 206 566 1,333 43 D Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,433 61 409 1,258 33 D Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 43 51 93 D – Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,164 3,075 6,405 17,337 106 33 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 59 25 22 D – Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,605 28 171 1,194 3 – Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,189 126 1,127 5,083 176 7 French Southern and Antarctic Lands . . . . . . . . . D D – – – – Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,427 399 185 508 8 – Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,853 105 523 1,729 13 D Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,027 348 5,396 17,836 119 9 Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,919 267 1,297 3,700 27 6 Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 D 18 41 3 – Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,636 328 3,935 9,062 49 8 Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372 77 109 77 – D

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Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,684 219 258 819 8 3 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402 26 50 199 3 D Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939 135 180 228 42 – Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,472 90 391 510 5 – Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,608 46 721 1,132 32 – Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,194 106 228 530 16 – Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,510 65 283 810 45 – Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,617 1,211 1,848 11,333 58 35 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 980 164 236 236 22 5 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,265 135 314 493 14 – Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,955 101 887 2,226 13 – Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,550 736 13,756 38,103 136 17 Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 – D D – – Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,461 167 329 547 14 – St. Helena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – D D – – Sao Tome and Principe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 30 14 13 D – Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,350 292 2,133 5,035 42 D Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 23 57 146 12 – Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,594 67 389 1,487 6 D Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 – 24 134 – – South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111,563 896 30,032 56,865 4,122 63 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,562 53 283 777 D – Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 74 66 66 D – Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,762 163 1,126 1,751 58 D Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,201 46 334 1,109 21 – Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,906 417 974 2,207 94 8 Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,587 273 1,695 1,984 58 D Western Sahara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – – D – – Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,646 163 934 1,395 65 D Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,026 24 1,681 4,066 125 8Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 936,470 7,869 150,743 668,952 7,006 2,350 American Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 D 41 244 13 – Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645,234 6,077 113,962 477,932 2,799 2,298 Christmas Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – Cocos Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 – D 27 – – Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,595 121 1,342 5,615 2,081 – French Polynesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,203 – 96 1,094 D D Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 – D 35 D – Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,152 43 140 422 510 – Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,914 23 21 171 41 – Micronesia, Federated States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,922 24 17 323 39 D Nauru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 D 11 30 8 – New Caledonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394 – 36 348 – – New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226,132 1,215 34,297 177,931 980 32 Northern Mariana Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 5 D – – Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,689 76 41 170 29 6 Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588 50 115 260 73 D Pitcairn Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – – Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,599 28 210 1,169 63 D Solomon Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684 33 93 392 34 8 Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,405 126 255 2,637 154 D Tuvalu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 29 21 36 150 – Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 20 32 86 29 – Wallis and Futuna Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – – D – –North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,736,812 14,745 832,128 5,277,122 45,912 11,174 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238,897 D 21,686 20,594 D 4,171 Greenland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 D 9 34 – – Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,454,061 3,474 432,588 3,763,882 7,477 6,176 St. Pierre and Miquelon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – D D – – United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 – D 44 D D Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,210,672 5,785 189,110 915,304 15,242 415

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Anguilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,817 16 625 2,007 D D Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,205 146 6,689 13,598 35 D Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,244 15 528 6,483 D 14 Bahamas, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321,046 1,297 21,750 284,471 414 46 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,198 740 12,820 38,824 323 5 Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,189 D 287 2,509 15 5 British Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,413 26 1,450 4,279 5 D Cayman Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,464 27 4,478 23,809 39 4 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,520 194 722 9,277 14 D Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,809 75 2,082 5,898 163 – Dominican Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205,903 953 42,547 145,998 1,107 32 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,254 110 2,087 7,960 446 D Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887 – 62 803 6 – Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,100 111 14,294 61,621 1,006 10 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223,896 882 35,470 154,309 5,066 169 Martinique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532 D 46 470 – – Montserrat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749 4 220 499 D D Netherlands Antilles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,232 – 979 9,007 9 6 Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 D 56 152 6 D St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,313 161 4,550 8,790 43 D St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,206 188 4,160 11,535 340 3 St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . . . . . 13,521 104 2,538 7,598 2,790 4 Trinidad and Tobago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149,476 690 28,356 107,257 3,369 101 Turks and Caicos Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,257 39 2,264 8,024 41 6 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 D 50 126 – – Central America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833,058 4,863 188,729 577,257 21,669 D Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,855 330 6,685 16,816 555 7 Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156,609 471 41,868 103,652 2,493 162 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205,045 943 36,339 159,047 2,515 37 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190,044 828 45,212 131,849 1,962 41 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107,858 592 23,858 69,854 7,650 108 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,152 390 10,542 33,973 4,505 12 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,495 1,309 24,225 62,066 1,989 44South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,167,668 17,530 426,918 1,378,692 75,012 5,264 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242,102 2,122 58,598 131,344 2,007 1,805 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,652 693 7,425 19,720 1,653 101 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534,163 3,015 103,735 321,001 45,183 281 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139,261 2,691 35,724 83,577 2,702 36 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394,152 3,037 72,862 266,819 3,714 2,400 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152,958 1,075 25,704 112,171 2,099 60 Falkland Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – D 21 D – French Guiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 – D 45 – – Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,679 133 5,873 17,883 853 – Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,983 577 2,868 7,993 1,011 68 Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219,764 1,225 35,119 147,054 13,512 87 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,252 189 1,383 3,993 D 59 Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,666 1,056 9,911 23,987 847 31 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363,962 1,717 67,710 243,084 1,143 336Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240,002 2,004 31,101 178,275 3,828 769

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Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620,210 36,163 618,162 142,873 109,355 37,108Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110,533 3,383 160,189 27,294 41,065 21,650 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528 9 166 41 185 31 Andorra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 6 – 19 – Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 19 233 89 147 12 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,529 31 2,149 249 674 413 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 13 60 20 143 D Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 12 356 147 170 12 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,588 51 2,659 442 1,396 474 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 3 161 29 150 16 Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,699 93 2,515 380 422 75 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,041 11 652 98 255 133 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,212 28 1,472 191 297 118 Czechoslovakia (former) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 10 331 52 63 11 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,302 37 2,341 462 1,143 391 Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 5 331 52 93 19 Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843 18 1,180 242 750 162 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,947 321 18,932 2,889 6,126 1,939 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 7 287 65 114 49 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,302 348 17,582 2,590 3,815 3,429 Gibraltar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – – – Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,443 42 1,977 155 501 274 Holy See . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 7 – 11 – Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,364 34 1,337 392 457 207 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785 125 443 109 200 8 Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,816 21 6,265 526 827 498 Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,446 190 8,227 992 3,390 1,060 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562 19 172 44 152 10 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 3 50 6 108 4 Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427 5 218 46 149 16 Liechtenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 – 14 D 19 D Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613 19 456 82 101 37 Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 8 102 9 132 18 Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 5 180 39 129 22 Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 – 68 17 74 D Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 11 156 52 124 3 Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – D – 21 – Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,057 104 5,280 924 2,133 715 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,471 75 1,980 351 831 293 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,514 120 3,192 585 529 334 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,490 51 994 99 436 102 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,837 181 2,514 781 471 264 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,110 345 7,619 2,076 2,425 478 San Marino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 18 – Serbia and Montenegro4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833 24 378 73 99 12 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914 21 1,055 156 198 57 Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 D 187 15 97 38 Soviet Union (former) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D D – Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,088 200 8,037 925 2,352 574 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,295 58 4,416 709 1,372 406 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,457 120 3,231 552 877 385 Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 4 13 D 40 6 Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 D 3 D D – Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,353 102 1,804 619 422 108 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,341 462 48,242 8,841 6,274 8,406 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346 15 150 76 123 20Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352,228 24,733 174,031 70,005 21,103 8,454 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 D 16 11 86 – Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431 34 44 9 34 7 Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,346 146 505 264 545 13

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Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 D 20 D 95 – Brunei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – D – 65 D Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 10 93 20 144 – Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 14 71 8 62 – China5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,940 4,536 17,034 5,491 1,992 975 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,835 12 308 32 113 13 Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,238 52 2,193 170 109 94 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,191 1,729 87,961 41,604 4,166 275 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,330 159 1,191 280 784 64 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 47 166 196 308 8 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 5 68 103 56 8 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,384 357 8,430 3,358 424 186 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77,044 3,270 18,468 4,232 2,644 4,569 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,421 165 470 268 386 27 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,926 10,653 11,291 5,257 967 1,318 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,202 307 65 7 96 9 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 4 53 4 41 – Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,391 34 947 228 420 44 Macau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 D 28 3 – 4 Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,931 118 2,341 415 618 116 Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 D D – 19 – Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855 169 225 37 141 20 Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,027 202 768 203 318 12 Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424 46 22 3 69 D Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,343 235 2,709 1,758 1,038 43 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,441 112 7,097 3,949 2,363 91 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 46 12 D 80 – Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,340 994 146 46 263 6 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,116 176 2,250 447 280 77 Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,290 83 802 236 519 19 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 12 111 98 126 5 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,890 173 2,165 249 495 133 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,518 611 5,601 949 803 287 United Arab Emirates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,171 130 21 6 49 4 Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,295 60 323 48 315 19 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 24 11 11 70 4Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,383 1,236 14,138 3,167 13,760 530 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 D 91 43 390 39 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646 18 31 5 191 11 Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 3 38 9 201 3 Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 14 80 7 103 – Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 10 71 15 275 9 Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 – D – 134 3 Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595 26 196 50 628 9 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 D 6 D 26 – Central African Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 4 D 33 – Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 – 6 7 36 – Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – 56 D Congo, Democratic Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 4 – 16 – Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 15 69 8 368 3 Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 8 58 19 182 3 Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – 39 – Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911 174 771 445 727 64 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – – – 19 D Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 7 12 D 64 D Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393 17 134 26 468 4 French Southern and Antarctic Lands . . . . . . . . . – D – – – – Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 3 3 D 90 6 Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 9 31 9 171 D Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,843 228 811 134 637 29

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Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 8 117 D 224 D Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D 3 D 23 D Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,226 211 1,045 157 802 13 Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – D – 58 – Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 7 27 5 79 D Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 3 D 90 – Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 D 47 3 210 4 Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 15 50 7 164 4 Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 8 77 7 255 D Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 – 29 4 180 D Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 – 40 D 122 – Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,449 15 499 79 687 82 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 11 20 D 173 4 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 D 18 9 116 D Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 10 69 24 148 – Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,039 113 1,237 330 883 64 Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 5 43 18 117 – St. Helena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Sao Tome and Principe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – – D 4 – Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 18 259 29 832 25 Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 5 – 28 – Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 12 69 15 298 D Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 D 23 – South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,725 89 6,880 1,422 966 100 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 10 27 13 234 – Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 – 4 – 40 D Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702 26 197 37 453 7 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 18 32 9 172 D Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 8 140 39 367 11 Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363 21 346 42 472 3 Western Sahara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – – – Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 40 107 25 298 9 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747 47 317 101 388 DOceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,271 163 15,267 2,667 2,697 1,361 American Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 12 D D – Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,821 111 11,621 2,037 1,691 1,073 Christmas Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Cocos Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – – – Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 5 64 21 111 D French Polynesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – D – – – Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – – – Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 8 – 12 – Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – D – – – Micronesia, Federated States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D – 16 D Nauru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 6 – New Caledonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – D – – – New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,148 32 3,348 596 767 280 Northern Mariana Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D D – – Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 6 – D D Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4 6 D 34 D Pitcairn Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 D 66 D 6 – Solomon Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 4 20 5 15 3 Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 – 102 D 20 – Tuvalu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – D – Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – 9 – Wallis and Futuna Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – –North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83,438 3,228 184,397 19,000 11,026 2,483

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Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,158 761 36,684 8,766 3,129 216 Greenland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – D – Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,575 1,480 110,922 7,077 D 1,032 St. Pierre and Miquelon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – D – Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,580 702 25,964 1,938 2,738 487 Anguilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 – 19 8 – – Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401 3 145 12 40 D Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 3 20 – 3 8 Bahamas, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,263 189 629 96 178 9 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891 10 662 96 164 10 Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835 66 165 37 4 113 British Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597 11 11 D D 5 Cayman Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715 36 27 9 5 D Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 D 231 12 307 D Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 D 149 15 5 8 Dominican Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,943 45 4,187 567 393 185 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 4 76 11 62 D Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 6 – – – Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788 16 891 64 213 31 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,797 202 16,065 649 503 86 Martinique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – – D D – Montserrat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 5 – – – Netherlands Antilles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 D 28 7 – 3 Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D 7 D – – St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491 3 140 7 36 3 St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542 14 122 21 115 – St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . . . . . 240 6 47 5 50 3 Trinidad and Tobago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,397 63 2,279 300 642 17 Turks and Caicos Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587 21 53 17 15 – U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – – D – D Central America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 285 D 1,219 2,633 748 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688 10 256 30 153 D Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,617 77 1,748 298 675 166 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,287 40 1,132 170 432 223 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,982 74 4,335 297 474 97 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,686 37 1,434 160 276 85 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613 22 705 55 295 D Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,251 25 1,216 209 328 102South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,511 3,189 66,766 20,002 18,288 2,387 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,982 539 13,606 4,277 3,255 566 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,177 51 658 147 961 16 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,623 712 12,993 2,910 3,282 490 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,118 356 2,921 856 1,540 357 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,924 484 13,520 3,686 2,678 251 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,254 116 2,179 643 762 67 Falkland Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – French Guiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – – – Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363 7 323 204 315 15 Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416 24 257 107 292 D Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,903 300 5,203 1,301 2,508 152 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 3 D 8 80 D Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626 51 1,064 389 1,131 136 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,024 546 14,009 5,474 1,484 321Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,846 231 3,374 738 1,416 243

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Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321,975 38,802 33,061 314,484 142,099 14,813Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188,438 9,442 7,198 139,555 55,294 12,313 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 11 26 12 9 – Andorra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – – 11 – – Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731 41 37 8 3 – Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,903 157 27 1,724 431 9 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408 35 21 24 18 – Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,894 34 152 11 D D Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,505 211 35 3,017 1,290 767 Bosnia–Herzegovina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 6 28 – 5 D Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,226 87 71 149 46 4 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752 36 17 144 19 D Czech Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,265 148 39 295 114 44 Czechoslovakia (former) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866 22 11 103 32 11 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,206 223 19 2,827 1,280 420 Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834 23 27 37 10 – Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,350 189 25 2,842 1,144 3 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,901 1,146 130 17,654 8,682 52 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532 65 16 10 6 – Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,248 1,279 345 20,777 7,086 4,894 Gibraltar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – D – Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,107 125 20 418 90 608 Holy See . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,821 257 39 427 214 105 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 103 D 107 79 5 Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,963 152 85 4,995 1,669 D Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,663 476 82 5,139 1,675 978 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,225 38 81 49 32 – Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353 22 57 D – – Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788 22 48 38 13 10 Liechtenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 D D 21 12 D Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,350 15 64 45 25 – Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 D – 69 30 13 Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604 22 16 D 10 – Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 5 5 65 3 – Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600 17 85 6 10 – Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – – – – – Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,599 261 98 7,653 3,413 740 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,833 232 21 1,762 666 451 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,099 371 293 862 392 353 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909 89 24 621 209 258 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,676 152 323 333 97 4 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,084 533 2,046 711 388 D San Marino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – Serbia and Montenegro4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375 32 13 35 4 D Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,034 86 36 137 77 5 Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 20 D 27 5 D Soviet Union (former) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 3 – – – Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,896 804 66 5,229 2,070 399 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,272 268 42 4,187 1,739 6 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,017 331 29 3,400 1,136 5 Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 6 D – – – Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 6 3 D – – Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,166 194 1,400 147 65 9 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,301 1,039 1,082 53,397 20,966 2,144 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594 47 102 25 27 DAsia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,108 21,162 15,489 76,269 42,750 745 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 D 123 4 5 – Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 17 D D 4 – Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 83 13 71 32 D Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 6 D – – –

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Brunei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – – 3 3 – Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 6 30 9 D D Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 14 711 D D – China5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,464 2,854 2,058 4,775 2,532 51 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505 12 D 29 11 D Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726 40 75 357 134 4 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,716 1,593 837 23,134 11,912 56 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774 113 163 396 273 4 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 76 337 14 15 – Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 22 112 D 3 – Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,289 1,746 61 4,641 3,317 29 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,336 5,119 320 30,807 17,922 21 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707 129 76 59 31 D Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,339 7,074 362 4,779 3,063 33 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 15 D 31 10 D Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 7 333 D – – Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498 109 168 111 43 D Macau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – D 4 – – Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851 89 54 1,655 739 D Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D – – – – Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 75 6 5 5 – Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 54 16 46 35 – Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 14 D 22 28 – Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796 265 274 321 291 4 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,281 244 3,946 2,092 782 14 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 10 D 7 D – Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 216 D 103 123 D Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850 202 38 1,398 718 – Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 60 15 215 114 D Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 66 134 9 8 D Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,436 122 823 297 233 9 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,470 585 85 760 310 500 United Arab Emirates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 12 D 7 D – Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867 95 4,294 97 44 3 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 15 8 D D –Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,819 1,170 1,444 4,507 2,156 29 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 8 32 27 12 – Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 24 D 171 150 – Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 5 4 9 4 – Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 10 D 7 D – Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 D 5 – D – Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – – 3 D – Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 20 41 38 11 – Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D 24 – – – Central African Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 D D 6 3 – Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Congo, Democratic Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – – – – – Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 7 9 – 7 – Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 6 13 17 7 – Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947 310 56 294 202 D Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – D D – Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 6 – D – Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 20 78 25 9 – French Southern and Antarctic Lands . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 D – 22 16 – Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3 8 5 – – Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865 60 185 65 8 D Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 – 20 D 9 – Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D

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Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429 58 39 67 39 D Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 D – – – – Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3 23 8 – – Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 11 – – – Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 D D D 3 – Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 9 3 13 4 – Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 6 3 D 3 – Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5 – D D – Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 D D 11 7 – Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492 41 193 122 63 – Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 6 D – 3 – Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 7 – 8 – – Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 15 11 35 16 D Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630 118 444 619 312 8 Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 D D 4 – – St. Helena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Sao Tome and Principe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 21 22 12 D – Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 3 – – – Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 D 46 3 8 – Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 9 7 – – South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,832 268 81 2,670 1,122 8 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 5 – – – Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 – D 7 – – Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 19 9 15 11 – Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 3 7 D D D Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 17 6 30 7 D Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 23 20 6 10 – Western Sahara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 14 5 15 17 – Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 45 11 152 80 DOceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,390 693 347 11,581 4,750 22 American Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,926 548 266 9,516 3,984 9 Christmas Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – Cocos Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – – – Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 14 32 7 7 French Polynesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D – – Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D D – Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – – Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – – Micronesia, Federated States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 5 – – Nauru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – New Caledonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,406 140 44 1,997 744 D Northern Mariana Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D – Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 D D 6 D – Pitcairn Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 3 D – – Solomon Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 D – 16 10 D Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D 14 – – – Tuvalu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Wallis and Futuna Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – –North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,496 2,856 5,528 42,494 16,544 1,380 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,035 829 998 21,593 6,034 946 Greenland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,137 1,279 1,372 16,336 8,838 307

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St. Pierre and Miquelon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – 3 D – Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,084 451 2,656 2,105 D 79 Anguilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 D 3 5 D – Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D 3 – – Bahamas, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 20 19 158 44 13 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 38 3 82 20 4 Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D D 62 35 3 British Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D – – Cayman Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 3 20 5 D Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 40 707 4 4 3 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 – 37 7 D – Dominican Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,128 56 1,102 625 239 10 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 D 4 21 – – Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D D – Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 11 302 81 27 7 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,059 218 401 487 198 13 Martinique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – – Montserrat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D – – Netherlands Antilles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 3 6 5 – Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – D D – D St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3 D 6 – – St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 4 D 26 7 D St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 D 3 27 D 5 Trinidad and Tobago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 52 61 466 192 12 Turks and Caicos Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 D D 13 8 5 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – Central America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,229 297 502 2,457 881 48 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 6 11 24 22 D Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742 122 74 816 332 9 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 30 125 364 132 10 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358 67 77 507 173 D Honduras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 20 122 290 102 9 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 15 51 84 18 D Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382 37 42 372 102 5South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,640 3,225 2,456 38,932 19,985 119 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,473 678 131 8,296 4,181 16 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 24 48 236 116 5 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,452 947 461 9,681 4,817 19 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,057 393 85 2,108 1,078 10 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,040 383 963 5,587 2,684 22 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,286 129 175 761 421 6 Falkland Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – French Guiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 D 123 79 21 D Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 20 21 77 47 3 Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,352 197 302 1,775 753 10 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 D 3 21 15 – Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334 66 7 625 218 D Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,167 382 137 9,686 5,634 24Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,084 254 599 1,146 620 205

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Spouses and Spouse Spouse of legal Child of legal Dependent children of and/or child permanent permanent child of spouse Free-Trade Free-Trade of US citizen, resident, resident, or accompanying Agreement Agreement immigrant immigrant immigrant child, immigrant Region/country of citizenship workers workers visa pending visa pending visa pending visa pending

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,219 12,635 22,117 17,866 15,239 15,556Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 215 2,519 1,042 411 184 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 4 17 18 15 – Andorra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 26 D D D Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 10 8 12 D D Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 9 – – – Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 37 17 6 3 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 5 6 6 D – Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 27 6 3 D Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 6 11 43 22 18 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 12 13 – – Czech Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 8 13 D – Czechoslovakia (former) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D D D D – Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 6 D 13 3 – Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 4 D – – Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 7 12 D – France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 17 72 57 8 9 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D 7 – 3 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 21 186 107 22 3 Gibraltar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 21 9 – D Holy See . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 6 9 3 – Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D D Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 8 83 12 4 – Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 11 87 37 D 8 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 10 12 D 3 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 3 13 D – – Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 12 4 D – Liechtenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – – – Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 23 9 7 3 Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – – – Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 18 15 3 5 Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 3 D – – Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 7 D – – Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 7 24 23 D – Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 5 12 7 D – Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 8 38 176 141 80 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 3 13 6 3 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 5 351 39 29 D Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 14 431 80 24 10 San Marino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Serbia and Montenegro4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 5 6 5 6 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 7 26 7 – Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Soviet Union (former) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 37 36 4 – Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 24 15 – – Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 26 8 4 – Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 3 – – – Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – – Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 3 144 46 40 6 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 50 673 120 28 16 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 23 4 D –Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 492 8,831 3,814 2,184 1,309 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 61 4 12 D Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – –

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Spouses and Spouse Spouse of legal Child of legal Dependent children of and/or child permanent permanent child of spouse Free-Trade Free-Trade of US citizen, resident, resident, or accompanying Agreement Agreement immigrant immigrant immigrant child, immigrant Region/country of citizenship workers workers visa pending visa pending visa pending visa pending

Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 12 264 254 83 174 Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Brunei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 22 11 4 5 Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 181 D 20 – China5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 65 1,384 1,193 821 63 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – – Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 30 26 10 3 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 130 1,035 662 154 307 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 4 97 23 4 D Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 167 36 42 10 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 5 65 12 18 4 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 8 38 25 21 D Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 29 74 91 23 10 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 420 42 86 26 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 24 190 121 52 25 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D D D D – Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D D D – Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 15 153 14 23 9 Macau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 3 – – Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 3 16 15 5 5 Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 3 – – Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 14 9 D D Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 120 909 378 208 235 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 19 2,142 518 309 263 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 9 D – – Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 5 34 5 – – Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 12 20 8 D – Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 3 125 13 10 10 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 12 406 26 10 5 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 6 59 43 15 17 United Arab Emirates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D – Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 4 812 261 198 127 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 101 10 43 4Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 58 1,635 399 680 70 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 5 60 7 6 D Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – – Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 3 D D – Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 4 – – – Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 5 – – – Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 33 18 24 5 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 8 13 3 Central African Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D D – – – Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Congo, Democratic Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 8 4 10 – Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 3 9 D – – Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – – – Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 11 109 32 17 9 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 35 3 6 – Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 4 220 27 53 – French Southern and Antarctic Lands . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – –

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Spouses and Spouse Spouse of legal Child of legal Dependent children of and/or child permanent permanent child of spouse Free-Trade Free-Trade of US citizen, resident, resident, or accompanying Agreement Agreement immigrant immigrant immigrant child, immigrant Region/country of citizenship workers workers visa pending visa pending visa pending visa pending

Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 21 – 6 – Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 6 156 44 144 22 Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 6 – Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 6 60 14 22 – Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 14 6 40 D Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 3 – D D Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – – – Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – D – Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 10 D – – Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D D D – Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 3 253 48 37 D Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – – – Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – D – Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 15 5 6 – Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 6 438 114 216 12 Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – D – St. Helena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Sao Tome and Principe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 33 8 7 – Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – – – Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 20 8 15 – Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 17 3 5 D South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 5 38 15 4 D Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 3 25 5 D 3 Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 5 D D – Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D 12 18 7 Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 13 D 4 – Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 11 5 5 – Western Sahara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – D – Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 4 D 6 –Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 27 122 37 14 4 American Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 18 85 20 7 D Christmas Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Cocos Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 23 D D D French Polynesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – D – Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Micronesia, Federated States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Nauru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – New Caledonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 11 8 4 – Northern Mariana Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Pitcairn Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Solomon Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 3 D – –

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Spouses and Spouse Spouse of legal Child of legal Dependent children of and/or child permanent permanent child of spouse Free-Trade Free-Trade of US citizen, resident, resident, or accompanying Agreement Agreement immigrant immigrant immigrant child, immigrant Region/country of citizenship workers workers visa pending visa pending visa pending visa pending

Tuvalu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Wallis and Futuna Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – –North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,970 11,738 7,024 11,620 11,093 13,612 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,847 10,950 911 75 27 26 Greenland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,123 736 2,997 9,132 8,100 12,628 St. Pierre and Miquelon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 35 2,290 2,161 2,207 811 Anguilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – – Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D D D – Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Bahamas, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 11 12 6 9 D Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 6 D 17 8 D Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – – British Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – – Cayman Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D – Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 330 64 79 35 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 24 24 36 5 Dominican Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 712 1,249 1,234 512 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 5 D 5 – Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – D – Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 603 441 535 136 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 551 317 240 111 Martinique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – D – Montserrat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Netherlands Antilles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D – St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D D 5 – St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 10 9 10 3 St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . . . . . – D 5 5 D – Trinidad and Tobago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 6 33 17 38 6 Turks and Caicos Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Central America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 17 826 252 759 147 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 9 3 3 – Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 90 8 8 D El Salvador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 152 116 417 101 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 189 58 164 17 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 4 220 38 95 24 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 65 22 67 D Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 8 101 7 5 –South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 74 1,672 687 586 203 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 77 19 8 – Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 27 16 13 6 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 16 127 62 22 D Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 6 42 12 D – Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 20 474 112 173 5 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 5 330 171 166 74 Falkland Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – French Guiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 6 114 117 48 47 Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 13 D D – Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 8 334 129 117 60 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 4 D 7 D Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D D – – Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 7 126 44 23 7Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 31 314 267 271 174

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Spouses, Spouses, children, and children, Victims of parents of victims and parents severe forms of severe forms Victim of of victim of Other andRegion/country of citizenship of trafficking of trafficking criminal activity criminal activity unknown

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612 467 140 158 131,427Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 40 37 16 11,689 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 56 Andorra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 3 – – 30 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D 139 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 21 Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 31 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 221 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 53 Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 3 D 108 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 114 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D – D 147 Czechoslovakia (former) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 46 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – D – 162 Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 35 Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – 83 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 5 D D 850 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 31 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 9 5 4 1,424 Gibraltar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D – D 254 Holy See . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – 182 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 26 Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D – 244 Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – D – 602 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – 23 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 23 Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 55 Liechtenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – 46 Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 15 Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 17 Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 55 Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 10 Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 D – – 380 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – 156 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 D 4 D 627 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – 124 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – – D 186 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – – D 428 San Marino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 1 Serbia and Montenegro4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 69 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 88 Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 19 Soviet Union (former) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 4 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – D – 468 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 3 – – 263 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – D – 256 Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 3 Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – 5 Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 D D – 198 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 6 9 – 3,291 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 20Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 284 44 37 11,193 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 20 Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 7 Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D 48

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Spouses, Spouses, children, and children, Victims of parents of victims and parents severe forms of severe forms Victim of of victim of Other andRegion/country of citizenship of trafficking of trafficking criminal activity criminal activity unknown

Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 1 Brunei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 1 Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 7 Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 24 China5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 13 10 5 1,677 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 29 Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 232 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 51 4 3 1,705 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – D 265 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – 63 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 32 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 7 – D 987 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 15 8 4 1,669 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – 5 94 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 30 D D 1,963 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 44 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 19 Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – 69 Macau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 1 Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D 179 Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 20 Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 26 Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 15 Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 4 D 193 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 6 863 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 9 Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 48 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 131 Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 50 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D D – 7 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D D 204 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D 4 D 382 United Arab Emirates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 23 Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 154 4 D 76 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – 10Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 13 5 6 1,658 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 16 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 14 Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D 3 Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 8 Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 2 Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 7 Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D 82 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 2 Central African Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 1 Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 1 Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Congo, Democratic Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 2 Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – 23 Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 14 Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – 124 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 13 Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 82 French Southern and Antarctic Lands . . . . . . . . . – – – – 3 Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 6 Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 4 Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D D 72

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Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 18 Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – 61 Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 1 Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 74 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 4 Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 2 Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 5 Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 6 Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 4 Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – 66 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 2 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 4 Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D 12 Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D D 216 Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 13 St. Helena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Sao Tome and Principe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 43 Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 1 Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 18 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 148 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 5 D – 340 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 44 Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 2 Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 8 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 10 Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 13 Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – 22 Western Sahara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 11 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 31Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4 D – 45,120 American Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 1 Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D – 417 Christmas Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Cocos Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 39 French Polynesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 27 Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 6 Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 7,638 Micronesia, Federated States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – 23,485 Nauru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 1 New Caledonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – 138 Northern Mariana Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 13,353 Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 1 Pitcairn Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 3 Solomon Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 3 Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 3 Tuvalu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 5 Wallis and Futuna Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – –North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 103 42 81 42,370

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Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 38 D D 1,109 Greenland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 1 Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 44 D 56 25,732 St. Pierre and Miquelon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 1 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 14 19 20 9,673 Anguilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 6 Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 87 Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 1 Bahamas, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 4,324 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – 336 Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 39 British Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 21 Cayman Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 281 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – 457 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D 28 Dominican Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 7 9 1,057 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 40 Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 6 6 776 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 8 D D 1,080 Martinique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Montserrat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 3 Netherlands Antilles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 7 Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 1 St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 55 St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 50 St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D 49 Trinidad and Tobago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 863 Turks and Caicos Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 112 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Central America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 7 D D 5,854 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 177 Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 1,177 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – 1,121 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D 1,267 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – D 962 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – D 485 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – – – 665South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 14 6 11 13,455 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D D D 1,104 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D 251 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3 – D 2,318 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – 581 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4 3 3 3,293 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D 1,301 Falkland Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – French Guiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D 111 Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – 48 Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – D 1,354 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 42 Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – 179 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D 2,873Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 9 4 7 5,942

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D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.1 Includes spouses and unmarried minor (or dependent) children.2 Includes foreign government officials and their spouses and unmarried minor (or dependent) children in transit.3 Includes minor children of fiances(ees).4 Yugoslavia (unknown republic) prior to February 7, 2003.5 Includes People’s Republic of China and Taiwan.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Class of admission 1995 1996 1998 1999 20001

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,640,540 24,842,503 30,174,627 31,446,054 33,690,082Foreign government officials and families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103,606 118,157 126,543 133,005 138,230 Ambassadors, public ministers, career diplomats or consular officers (A–1) . 23,259 25,354 26,710 28,374 28,012 Other foreign government officials or employees (A–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,299 90,765 97,706 102,466 107,751 Attendants, servants, or personal employees of A1 and A2 classes (A–3) . . 2,048 2,038 2,127 2,165 2,467Temporary visitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,886,872 22,880,330 27,667,580 28,696,911 30,511,125 For business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,275,336 3,770,326 4,413,440 4,592,540 X For business (B–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,332,797 2,399,874 2,453,888 2,446,912 X Visa waiver, business (WB, GB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 942,539 1,370,452 1,959,552 2,145,628 X For pleasure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,611,536 19,110,004 23,254,140 24,104,371 X For pleasure (B–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,204,257 7,887,788 9,395,244 9,731,586 X Visa waiver, pleasure (WT, GT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,407,256 11,222,156 13,858,799 14,372,727 X Bering Strait agreement (BE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 60 97 58 XTransit aliens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320,333 325,538 365,607 385,768 437,671 Aliens in transit (C–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168,602 170,219 200,593 205,621 215,084 Aliens in transit to the U.N. (C–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903 1,368 2,137 2,400 3,009 Foreign government officials and families in transit (C–3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,099 11,285 12,239 12,371 10,713 Transit without visa (C–4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141,729 142,666 150,638 165,376 208,865Treaty traders and investors and families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131,777 138,568 144,572 151,353 168,214 Treaty traders (E–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,557 54,289 50,817 50,521 51,241 Treaty investors (E–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,220 84,279 93,755 100,832 116,973Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364,220 426,903 564,683 567,146 659,081 Academic students (F–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356,585 418,117 553,865 557,688 648,793 Vocational students (M–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,635 8,786 10,818 9,458 10,288Spouses and children of students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,260 32,485 33,837 36,641 40,872 Academic students (F–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,849 31,978 33,062 36,004 40,179 Vocational students (M–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411 507 775 637 693Representatives (and families) to international organizations . . . . . . . . . . . 71,982 79,528 86,129 91,829 97,555 Principals of recognized foreign governments (G–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,319 10,563 11,790 11,378 11,708 Other representatives of recognized foreign governments (G–2) . . . . . . . . 9,497 13,455 11,495 12,675 14,373 Representatives of nonrecognized foreign governments (G–3) . . . . . . . . . 290 407 388 365 415 International organization officers or employees (G–4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,410 53,656 60,946 65,743 69,375 Attendants, servants or personal employees of representatives (G–5) . . . . 1,466 1,447 1,510 1,668 1,684Temporary workers and trainees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220,664 254,427 430,714 525,700 635,229 Registered nurses (H–1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,512 2,046 551 534 565 Specialty occupations (H–1B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117,574 144,458 240,947 302,326 355,605 Chile/Singapore Free Trade Agreement (H–1B1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Registered Nurses participating in the Nursing Relief for Disadvanaged Areas (H–1C) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Performing services unavailable in the United States (H–2) . . . . . . . . . . . 25,587 23,980 52,203 68,187 84,754 Agricultural workers (H–2A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,394 9,635 27,308 32,372 33,292 Nonagricultural workers (H–2B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,193 14,345 24,895 35,815 51,462 Industrial trainees (H–3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,787 2,986 3,157 3,462 3,208 Workers with extraordinary ability/achievement (O–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,974 7,177 12,221 15,946 21,746 Workers accompanying and assisting in performance of O1 workers (O–2) . . 1,813 2,112 2,802 3,248 3,627 Internationally recognized athletes or entertainers (P–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,397 25,968 34,447 36,228 40,920 Artists or entertainers in reciprocal exchange programs (P–2) . . . . . . . . . 660 1,727 3,089 3,772 4,227 Artists or entertainers in culturally unique programs (P–3) . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,315 5,938 9,452 8,471 11,230 Workers in international cultural exchange programs (Q–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,399 2,056 1,921 2,466 2,447 Workers in Irish Peace Process Cultural and Training Program (Q–2) . . . . . X X X 19 279 Workers in religious occupations (R–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,742 8,992 10,863 12,687 15,342 Professional workers U.S.– Canada Free-Trade Agreement (TC) . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Professional workers NAFTA (TN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,904 26,987 59,061 68,354 91,279Spouses and children of temporary workers and trainees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,582 61,266 104,682 128,768 151,174 Spouses and children of H1, H2, and H3 workers (H–4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,247 50,106 81,796 102,774 120,212 Spouses and children of O1 and O2 workers (O–3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751 877 1,668 2,568 3,546 Spouses and children of P1, P2, and P3 workers (P–4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592 667 1,052 1,245 1,304 Spouses and children of Q2 workers (Q–3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X – D Spouses and children of R1 workers (R–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,790 1,922 2,350 3,094 3,930 Spouses and children of Canada Free Trade worker (TB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Spouses and and children of NAFTA workers (TD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,202 7,694 17,816 19,087 22,181

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Class of admission 1995 1996 1998 1999 20001

Representatives (and families) of foreign information media (I–1) . . . . . . . . 24,220 33,596 28,888 31,917 33,918Exchange visitors (J–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201,095 215,475 250,959 275,519 304,225Spouses and children of exchange visitors (J–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,269 41,250 41,771 43,841 47,518Fiances(ees) of U.S. citizens (K–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,793 9,011 12,306 15,940 20,558Children of fiances(ees) of U.S. citizens (K–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768 1,012 1,442 2,268 3,113Intracompany transferees (L–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112,124 140,457 203,255 234,443 294,658Spouses and children of intracompany transferees (L–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,621 73,305 99,196 111,891 132,105NATO officials and families (N–1 to N–7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,579 10,945 12,376 12,992 14,133Parents or children of international organization special immigrants (N–8, N–9) . 8 80 75 75 47Legal Immigration Family Equity (LIFE) Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Spouse US citizen visa pending (K–3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Child US citizen visa pending (K–4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Spouse permanent resident visa pending (V–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Child permenant resident visa pending (V–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Child of spouse visa pending (V–3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X XVictims of trafficking and violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Victims of severe trafficking (T–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Spouse of victim trafficking (T–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Children of victim trafficking (T–3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Parent of victim trafficking (T–4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Victim of crime (U–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Spouse of victims of crime (U–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Child of victims of crime (U–3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X Parent of victims of crime (U–4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X XUnknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767 170 12 47 656

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Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,792,029 27,897,734 27,849,443 30,781,330Foreign government officials and families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131,313 140,898 138,496 152,649 Ambassadors, public ministers, career diplomats or consular officers (A–1) . 26,683 28,489 26,903 28,046 Other foreign government officials or employees (A–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102,478 110,131 109,699 122,809 Attendants, servants, or personal employees of A1 and A2 classes (A–3) . . 2,152 2,278 1,894 1,794Temporary visitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,387,534 24,333,165 24,358,623 27,396,031 For business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 4,376,935 4,215,714 4,593,124 For business (B–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 2,329,708 2,245,350 2,352,404 Visa waiver, business (WB, GB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 2,047,227 1,970,364 2,240,720 For pleasure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 19,956,230 20,142,909 22,802,907 For pleasure (B–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 8,773,307 8,532,461 9,185,492 Visa waiver, pleasure (WT, GT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 11,182,774 11,610,325 13,617,305 Bering Strait agreement (BE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 149 123 110Transit aliens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456,174 614,934 554,559 338,175 Aliens in transit (C–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214,814 221,443 239,681 322,187 Aliens in transit to the U.N. (C–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,785 2,346 2,181 2,283 Foreign government officials and families in transit (C–3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,960 10,080 10,870 13,700 Transit without visa (C–4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229,615 381,065 301,827 5Treaty traders and investors and families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178,534 171,368 168,508 182,934 Treaty traders (E–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,443 46,440 44,090 47,083 Treaty investors (E–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127,091 124,928 124,418 135,851Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698,595 646,016 624,917 620,210 Academic students (F–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688,970 637,954 617,556 613,221 Vocational students (M–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,625 8,062 7,361 6,989Spouses and children of students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,326 41,490 38,049 36,163 Academic students (F–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,544 40,433 37,112 35,771 Vocational students (M–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782 1,057 937 392Representatives (and families) to international organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,109 99,012 98,389 109,355 Principals of recognized foreign governments (G–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,948 12,987 12,231 13,189 Other representatives of recognized foreign governments (G–2) . . . . . . . . . 10,947 13,052 9,813 13,685 Representatives of nonrecognized foreign governments (G–3) . . . . . . . . . . 356 381 392 593 International organization officers or employees (G–4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,215 71,096 74,343 80,515 Attendants, servants or personal employees of representatives (G–5) . . . . . 1,643 1,496 1,610 1,373Temporary workers and trainees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688,480 655,949 650,126 684,381 Registered nurses (H–1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627 1,145 924 7,795 Specialty occupations (H–1B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384,191 370,490 360,498 386,821 Chile/Singapore Free Trade Agreement (H–1B1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X 326 Registered Nurses participating in the Nursing Relief for Disadvanaged Areas (H–1C) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 111 48 70 Performing services unavailable in the United States (H–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,082 102,615 116,927 109,099 Agricultural workers (H–2A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,695 15,628 14,094 22,141 Nonagricultural workers (H–2B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,387 86,987 102,833 86,958 Industrial trainees (H–3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,245 2,695 2,370 2,226 Workers with extraordinary ability/achievement (O–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,685 25,008 25,541 27,127 Workers accompanying and assisting in performance of O1 workers (O–2) . 3,834 4,156 5,321 6,332 Internationally recognized athletes or entertainers (P–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,430 41,453 43,274 40,466 Artists or entertainers in reciprocal exchange programs (P–2) . . . . . . . . . . 3,877 3,754 3,898 3,810 Artists or entertainers in culturally unique programs (P–3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,484 9,487 8,869 10,038 Workers in international cultural exchange programs (Q–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,089 1,755 2,074 2,113 Workers in Irish Peace Process Cultural and Training Program (Q–2) . . . . . . 299 466 664 368 Workers in religious occupations (R–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,122 19,115 20,272 21,571 Professional workers U.S.– Canada Free-Trade Agreement (TC) . . . . . . . . . . 7 5 6 12 Professional workers NAFTA (TN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,479 73,694 59,440 66,207Spouses and children of temporary workers and trainees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167,936 155,505 148,369 155,508 Spouses and children of H1, H2, and H3 workers (H–4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135,907 129,188 124,487 130,847 Spouses and children of O1 and O2 workers (O–3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,540 4,023 3,665 3,719 Spouses and children of P1, P2, and P3 workers (P–4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,575 1,605 1,667 1,853 Spouses and children of Q2 workers (Q–3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 10 9 11 Spouses and children of R1 workers (R–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,404 5,348 6,105 6,443 Spouses and children of Canada Free Trade worker (TB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 73 31 40 Spouses and and children of NAFTA workers (TD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,447 15,258 12,405 12,595

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Class of admission 20011 2002 2003 2004

Representatives (and families) of foreign information media (I–1) . . . . . . . . . 34,488 33,414 32,030 37,108Exchange visitors (J–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339,848 325,580 321,660 321,975Spouses and children of exchange visitors (J–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,587 44,596 41,122 38,802Fiances(ees) of U.S. citizens (K–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,634 27,340 24,643 28,546Children of fiances(ees) of U.S. citizens (K–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,487 4,257 3,652 4,515Intracompany transferees (L–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328,480 313,699 298,054 314,484Spouses and children of intracompany transferees (L–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144,911 140,446 136,227 142,099NATO officials and families (N–1 to N–7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,805 12,628 12,569 14,813Parents or children of international organization special immigrants (N–8, N–9) . 69 56 68 54Legal Immigration Family Equity (LIFE) Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,557 60,838 80,794 70,778 Spouse US citizen visa pending (K–3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 4,575 12,774 17,864 Child US citizen visa pending (K–4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1,158 2,960 4,253 Spouse permanent resident visa pending (V–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,691 18,169 22,509 17,866 Child permenant resident visa pending (V–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,540 19,642 20,496 15,239 Child of spouse visa pending (V–3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318 17,294 22,055 15,556Victims of trafficking and violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 965 1,005 1,377 Victims of severe trafficking (T–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 493 471 612 Spouse of victim trafficking (T–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 139 183 283 Children of victim trafficking (T–3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 10 28 158 Parent of victim trafficking (T–4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 36 23 26 Victim of crime (U–1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 139 147 140 Spouse of victims of crime (U–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 104 106 86 Child of victims of crime (U–3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 36 34 58 Parent of victims of crime (U–4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 8 13 14Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 75,578 117,583 131,373

NA Not available.

X Not applicable.

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.1 Due to the temporary expiration of the Visa Waiver Program from May through October 2000, data for business and pleasure not available separately for 2000 and 2001.

Note: Data for 1997 not available.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 25. NONIMMIGRANTS ADMITTED AS TEMPORARY WORKERS, EXCHANGE VISITORS, AND INTRACOMPANY TRANSFEREES BY REGION AND COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP: FISCAL YEAR 2004

Other temporary workers (H–2) Workers with Registered specialty Non- Intracompany Region/country nurses occupations Agricultural agricultural Industrial Exchange transferees of citizenship Total (H–1A, H–1C) (H–1B, H–1B1) (H–2A) (H–2B) trainees (H–3) visitors (J–1) (L–1)

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,320,840 7,865 387,147 22,141 86,958 2,226 321,975 314,484Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488,182 44 112,393 194 4,307 696 188,438 139,555 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 – 147 – D – 228 12 Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 972 – 101 – D – 731 8 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,776 D 1,397 D 64 20 1,903 1,724 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . 492 – 46 – D – 408 24 Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,261 – 231 – D D 2,894 11 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,181 – 2,107 – 28 8 1,505 3,017 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . 415 – 109 – 5 – 254 – Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,890 D 1,457 D 593 – 8,226 149 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,548 – 425 D 10 5 752 144 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . 6,032 – 686 3 208 D 4,265 295 Czechoslovakia (former) . . 1,300 – 120 – 47 D 866 103 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,374 D 1,733 12 19 12 2,206 2,827 Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,202 – 185 – 6 D 834 37 Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,372 – 787 D 19 D 1,350 2,842 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,487 D 15,447 D 128 115 14,901 17,654 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829 – 104 5 4 – 532 10 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,607 D 14,259 D 118 80 26,248 20,777 Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,502 – 1,467 D 7 D 1,107 418 Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,585 – 916 – 13 8 1,821 427 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879 – 293 – D – 329 107 Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,223 D 3,860 10 186 17 6,963 4,995 Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,029 – 6,132 4 63 33 6,663 5,139 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . 1,446 – 138 – D 3 1,225 49 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . 404 – 22 – D – 353 D Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,044 – 145 D 11 D 788 38 Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,851 – 268 – 77 D 2,350 45 Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . 228 – 95 – – D 57 69 Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . 787 – 129 – 5 – 604 D Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 – 37 – – – 22 65 Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762 D 99 – 6 11 600 6 Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . 16,532 D 3,966 D 55 12 3,599 7,653 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,575 – 1,254 – D 44 1,833 1,762 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,153 D 1,548 37 385 56 23,099 862 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,524 – 783 D 8 D 909 621 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,523 10 1,771 42 353 10 4,676 333 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,414 D 3,996 D 50 16 17,084 711 Serbia and Montenegro1 . . 788 – 283 – 13 – 375 35 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . 8,226 – 646 D 196 5 7,034 137 Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459 – 126 – 11 – 245 27 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,162 – 6,096 3 87 44 7,896 5,229 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,875 – 3,229 D 58 29 3,272 4,187 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . 8,648 D 2,527 4 22 7 2,017 3,400 Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 – D – D – 173 – Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . 114 – D – D – 110 D Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,117 – 984 D 34 10 3,166 147 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . 122,940 20 32,134 34 1,375 128 21,301 53,397 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . 769 D 77 3 10 D 594 25 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 – 20 – 4 – 70 32Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313,408 101 152,792 254 1,865 1,089 63,108 76,269 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . 194 – 11 – – D 174 4 Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 – 37 – D – 76 4 Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . 747 – 429 – D – 171 71 Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 – 43 – – – 36 D Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 – 5 – – – 66 D China2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,273 D 14,636 D 73 169 10,464 4,775 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 842 – 257 – – – 505 29 Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . 3,276 – 1,845 – 8 D 726 357

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Other temporary workers (H–2) Workers with Registered specialty Non- Intracompany Region/country nurses occupations Agricultural agricultural Industrial Exchange transferees of citizenship Total (H–1A, H–1C) (H–1B, H–1B1) (H–2A) (H–2B) trainees (H–3) visitors (J–1) (L–1)

India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,811 12 83,536 19 230 158 4,716 23,134 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,361 – 959 – 101 12 774 396 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 – 147 – – – 98 14 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 – 62 – – – 143 D Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,360 – 6,324 4 38 15 4,289 4,641 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,611 – 14,322 11 291 498 12,336 30,807 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,236 – 427 – 8 D 707 59 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,409 D 9,111 D 97 39 12,339 4,779 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 – 49 – D – 71 31 Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,556 – 721 D D D 498 111 Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,847 D 2,090 D 5 126 851 1,655 Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460 – 71 D D – 230 5 Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 988 D 389 5 146 3 174 46 Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 – D – D – 91 22 Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,826 – 2,443 D 7 4 796 321 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . 10,470 59 5,112 – 671 30 1,281 2,092 Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . 446 D 96 5 22 – 197 103 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,498 – 2,031 – 35 14 850 1,398 Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,163 – 720 D D 3 146 215 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326 – 75 – D D 206 9 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,898 19 1,450 192 78 D 4,436 297 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,831 – 5,195 D 27 7 4,470 760 Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,287 – 110 – D D 867 97 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 – 8 – D – 106 D Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 – 61 – 8 1 218 23Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,464 133 7,682 683 2,109 60 9,819 4,507 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 – 76 – D – 113 27 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419 – 18 – – – 217 171 Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 – 40 – D – 102 7 Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . 100 – 52 – – – 29 – Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 – 142 – D D 149 38 Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . 114 – 33 – – – 45 – Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . 105 – 40 – – D 30 17 Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,012 – 548 D 6 3 947 294 Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 – 80 – – D 110 25 Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,741 – 396 – 78 D 865 65 Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 – 28 – – – 34 4 Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,541 – 704 – 6 D 429 67 Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 – 27 – – – 89 D Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 – 31 – – – 60 D Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,113 – 378 – 11 – 492 122 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 D 9 D D – 100 8 Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 – 48 – D – 42 35 Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,486 – 854 – 4 3 630 619 Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 – 147 – D – 112 12 Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . 105 – 61 – D – 33 D South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 13,382 D 3,059 680 1,977 44 3,832 2,670 Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 – 126 – – – 169 15 Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453 – 116 – D D 283 30 Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576 – 154 – – – 224 6 Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 – 41 – 4 – 119 15 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . 657 – 242 – 4 D 188 152 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866 – 232 – 8 – 376 91Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,238 46 9,679 149 1,738 26 9,390 11,581 Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,063 3 7,738 53 1,135 D 6,926 9,516 Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 – 24 – D – 14 32 New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . 7,751 43 1,889 95 597 D 2,406 1,997 Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 – – – D – 5 – Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 – 28 1 3 – 39 36

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Other temporary workers (H–2) Workers with Registered specialty Non- Intracompany Region/country nurses occupations Agricultural agricultural Industrial Exchange transferees of citizenship Total (H–1A, H–1C) (H–1B, H–1B1) (H–2A) (H–2B) trainees (H–3) visitors (J–1) (L–1)

North America . . . . . . . . . . 312,357 7,307 51,514 20,429 73,552 213 19,496 42,494 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129,159 67 24,077 486 2,972 58 7,035 21,593 Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136,518 7,110 17,917 17,218 56,280 127 7,137 16,336 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 1 – – – 11 3 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,153 93 5,504 2,634 9,638 23 3,084 2,105 Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . . 181 – 81 – 9 – 31 D Bahamas, The . . . . . . . 871 – 471 – 6 D 84 158 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . 879 – 351 – 24 D 135 82 Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . 236 – 122 – – – 9 62 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 – 6 – 3 – 14 4 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . 215 – 27 – 39 – 59 7 Dominican Republic . . . 5,940 – 988 D 822 D 1,128 625 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . 133 – 56 – – D 36 21 Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,091 – 175 – 12 – 119 81 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,611 D 1,780 2,630 8,685 D 1,059 487 St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . 160 – 40 – 3 – 14 6 St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . 190 – 102 – 3 D 42 26 St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . 108 – 28 – – – 34 27 Trinidad and Tobago . . . 3,004 D 1,152 D 20 D 259 466 Turks and Caicos Islands 115 – 45 – D D 49 13 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 1 80 – 9 – 12 35 Central America . . . . . . . . 15,512 37 4,015 91 4,662 5 2,229 2,457 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 – 107 D 108 – 67 24 Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . 3,306 – 1,038 D 458 D 742 816 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . 1,802 – 459 – 195 D 306 364 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . 5,200 D 860 45 3,077 D 358 507 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . 1,945 – 488 D 482 – 221 290 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . 942 D 236 40 178 – 153 84 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,970 – 827 – 164 – 382 372South America . . . . . . . . . . 134,338 200 51,629 326 2,743 124 28,640 38,932 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,375 – 9,969 10 473 17 4,473 8,296 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,199 – 554 – 12 D 305 236 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,126 – 9,812 9 844 37 11,452 9,681 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,086 D 2,038 32 231 15 2,057 2,108 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,147 – 11,026 – 193 21 3,040 5,587 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,226 D 1,756 8 65 D 1,286 761 Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436 – 262 D D D 34 79 Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456 – 175 – D – 122 77 Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,330 183 3,688 263 362 7 4,352 1,775 Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,023 – 828 – 43 D 334 625 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,862 – 11,498 D 516 17 1,167 9,686 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 – 23 – – – 18 21Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,853 34 1,458 106 644 18 3,084 1,146

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Workers Artists or Artists or Workers in Workers with accompanying Internationally entertainers entertainers international extraordinary and assisting in recognized in reciprocal in culturally cultural Workers in Free-Trade ability or performance athletes or exchange unique exchange religious Agreement Region/country achievement of O–1 workers entertainers programs programs programs occupations workers of citizenship (O–1) (O–2) (P–1) (P–2) (P–3) (Q–1, Q–2) (R–1) (TC, TN)

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,127 6,332 40,466 3,810 10,038 2,481 21,571 66,219Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,778 2,472 14,760 236 3,459 1,427 4,423 – Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – 7 – 6 – Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 17 49 D 57 – D – Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 7 326 D 21 – 46 – Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – D – 5 – D – Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 81 – 6 – 10 – Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 40 137 D 32 D 58 – Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . 11 D – – 32 – D – Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 D 301 4 26 D 26 – Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 – 39 4 57 D 34 – Czech Republic . . . . . . . . 96 D 378 3 70 – 25 – Czechoslovakia (former) . . 26 D 108 D 20 – D – Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 18 198 D 15 5 64 – Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 6 105 D D – 7 – Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 5 220 – 5 – 15 – France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,615 122 763 6 217 274 240 – Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 32 77 – 32 – 16 – Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,591 80 790 8 86 202 362 – Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 23 38 9 190 – 37 – Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 7 158 7 29 – 75 – Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 9 41 D – D 3 – Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427 80 810 D 448 180 241 – Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,119 45 359 4 34 170 264 – Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . D – 10 – – – 17 – Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . – D 20 – D – – – Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 17 D D – 13 – Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 D 30 – 34 – 24 – Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . D – 3 – – – D – Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . 14 D 7 D 20 – 3 – Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 D D – – – 15 – Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 28 – – – 9 – Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . 484 108 408 8 10 21 201 – Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 42 128 D 18 179 103 – Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 4 358 8 266 D 393 – Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 14 71 D 4 – 34 – Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 D 63 D 57 16 83 – Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421 36 2,308 14 612 6 157 – Serbia and Montenegro1 . . 16 D 14 D 36 – 12 – Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . 42 6 84 6 18 D 48 – Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 – 13 D – – D – Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568 96 494 25 290 23 311 – Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413 57 524 7 19 D 76 – Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . 396 24 116 – 4 D 127 – Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – D – D – Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 17 333 D 237 – 113 – United Kingdom . . . . . . . . 6,308 1,561 4,727 99 399 334 1,123 – Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . D D 20 – 32 – 3 – Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – – – 2 3 6 –Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,160 797 2,730 309 3,377 461 7,096 – Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – – – Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – 4 – Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D – D 50 – 12 – Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 14 D 9 – 25 – Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D D – 62 – China2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 152 689 59 464 43 516 –

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Workers Artists or Artists or Workers in Workers with accompanying Internationally entertainers entertainers international extraordinary and assisting in recognized in reciprocal in culturally cultural Workers in Free-Trade ability or performance athletes or exchange unique exchange religious Agreement Region/country achievement of O–1 workers entertainers programs programs programs occupations workers of citizenship (O–1) (O–2) (P–1) (P–2) (P–3) (Q–1, Q–2) (R–1) (TC, TN)

Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 3 D – 7 – D – Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . 38 126 52 D 40 27 51 – India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415 105 96 53 1,514 3 1,820 – Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 4 20 D 4 D 60 – Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – – – 7 – 9 – Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D – – – – D – Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521 28 418 34 140 3 905 – Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 977 136 677 14 439 356 747 – Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 D D D – – 16 – Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 46 401 73 209 16 1,045 – Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 D D – – – D – Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 41 4 D 88 – 34 – Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 9 13 D D – 60 – Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 68 – 11 – 67 – Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 D 3 – 17 – 195 – Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – – – Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 D 7 6 163 – 21 – Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . 178 97 148 29 39 5 729 – Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . 4 D 5 – – D 10 – Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 24 12 D D – 80 – Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – D D 9 D 53 – Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 5 – – 16 – 8 – Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 4 35 5 49 D 279 – Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 D 50 16 77 – 45 – Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 9 – 17 – 179 – Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – – – Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1 3 1 2 1 59 –Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388 58 801 50 551 151 1,472 – Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 5 – D – 4 – Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 3 – 4 – 6 – Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 D 12 D – 15 D – Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . D – 8 – – 5 D – Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D 10 – D – 33 – Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . – D 10 – D – 23 – Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . 3 D 5 D D – 5 – Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 8 4 D 50 D 108 – Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 37 D D – 13 – Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D 39 3 120 D 161 – Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 74 D 8 – 3 – Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D 139 3 20 4 157 – Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – – – 22 – Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 29 D 8 – D – Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 D 18 D 11 41 15 – Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – 4 – Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D – D – 17 – Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 5 26 9 13 – 297 – Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D 55 D 47 – D – Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . D D D – – – D – South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 220 28 241 D 119 75 298 – Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 7 D – – 60 – Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 5 D – – D – Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 10 – 62 3 114 – Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – 30 – 29 – Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D 28 4 – 5 27 – Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3 30 4 50 – 62 –Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,476 232 988 42 58 7 826 – Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,171 144 831 D 37 D 440 –

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Table 25. NONIMMIGRANTS ADMITTED AS TEMPORARY WORKERS, EXCHANGE VISITORS, AND INTRACOMPANY TRANSFEREES BY REGION AND COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP: FISCAL YEAR 2004 – Continued

Workers Artists or Artists or Workers in Workers with accompanying Internationally entertainers entertainers international extraordinary and assisting in recognized in reciprocal in culturally cultural Workers in Free-Trade ability or performance athletes or exchange unique exchange religious Agreement Region/country achievement of O–1 workers entertainers programs programs programs occupations workers of citizenship (O–1) (O–2) (P–1) (P–2) (P–3) (Q–1, Q–2) (R–1) (TC, TN)

Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – D – – – 30 – New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . 287 88 149 D 20 D 176 – Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – 98 – Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 5 1 1 1 82 –North America . . . . . . . . . . 3,276 2,165 16,213 2,969 1,874 324 4,561 65,970 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,530 428 2,692 2,696 148 105 1,425 63,847 Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 991 718 8,077 171 327 172 1,814 2,123 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . 595 998 4,305 64 1,377 41 692 – Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . . D – 42 D – – 11 – Bahamas, The . . . . . . . 9 D 74 4 – – 61 – Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . 15 17 197 D 27 – 27 – Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . – – 4 – – – 39 – Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 162 D 49 – 7 – Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D 73 – – – D – Dominican Republic . . . 98 19 1,987 18 8 D 240 – Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – 9 – Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D 66 D 532 – 91 – Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . 387 923 878 11 542 D 98 – St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . – – 20 – 72 – 5 – St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . D D 4 D – – 8 – St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . 4 D 10 D – – D – Trinidad and Tobago . . . 56 31 776 15 145 – 68 – Turks and Caicos Islands 3 – – – – – D – Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 3 1 2 1 22 – Central America . . . . . . . . 160 21 1,139 38 22 6 630 – Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D 3 – – – 29 – Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . 46 D 48 7 D – 140 – El Salvador . . . . . . . . . 17 D 285 9 5 D 156 – Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . 32 6 145 9 D D 153 – Honduras . . . . . . . . . . 10 3 386 6 – D 56 – Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 151 D 7 – 43 – Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 4 121 4 5 – 53 –South America . . . . . . . . . . 2,926 574 4,556 184 518 91 2,895 – Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804 158 1,327 50 87 4 707 – Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 30 D 5 – 30 – Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 106 849 44 239 76 578 – Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 28 206 8 D – 190 – Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506 128 995 18 D D 617 – Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 11 49 10 86 D 139 – Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 10 17 D 12 – 11 – Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 20 D D – 33 – Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 19 173 21 53 6 244 – Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 D 37 D D D 73 – Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . 706 105 853 27 15 D 267 – Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – – – – – 6 –Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 34 418 20 201 20 298 249

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.1 Yugoslavia (unknown republic) prior to February 7, 2003.2 Includes People’s Republic of China and Taiwan.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Region/country of citizenship All ports Miami New York Los Angeles Honolulu Newark Chicago San Francisco

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,781,330 3,828,943 3,626,323 3,331,876 1,666,062 1,597,137 1,523,374 1,419,629Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,487,585 1,431,721 2,008,495 1,071,089 33,365 1,100,432 891,364 524,145 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,811 173 2,480 42 D 299 423 20 Andorra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720 258 196 40 – 34 18 28 Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,238 58 1,022 2,046 – 109 206 122 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152,285 25,745 30,359 13,399 438 4,545 9,347 8,316 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . 2,523 97 761 71 D 36 261 56 Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,690 256 4,210 249 D 645 904 149 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208,754 24,267 36,858 9,445 183 29,276 22,636 6,021 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . 7,048 161 1,413 176 D 438 861 213 Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,688 2,306 10,241 1,477 11 2,314 3,637 941 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,096 2,401 4,067 1,567 D 1,094 1,907 926 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . 43,455 3,957 10,266 2,901 53 6,102 3,023 2,088 Czechoslovakia (former) . . 10,345 966 2,558 735 9 1,383 619 378 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186,821 18,775 14,345 12,191 356 36,049 19,665 8,527 Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,230 1,111 2,045 421 D 1,081 861 323 Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101,983 18,223 24,046 5,802 208 5,599 13,357 4,765 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,241,511 157,137 193,047 241,367 6,965 90,207 55,181 63,451 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,064 91 2,385 174 7 210 186 111 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,630,247 176,717 216,068 120,387 3,103 91,772 134,208 94,201 Gibraltar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 43 41 31 – 4 6 D Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,809 4,795 22,661 2,934 54 1,907 4,804 2,454 Holy See . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 38 25 4 D 12 8 3 Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,162 5,202 11,436 3,416 75 4,573 2,780 1,861 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,787 545 4,571 341 D 298 235 424 Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428,209 14,711 83,837 27,747 1,241 28,868 24,636 13,752 Italy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759,895 171,266 163,256 54,175 633 94,340 37,719 26,109 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . 6,275 144 1,659 460 D 209 398 213 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,532 12 532 64 D 30 145 21 Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,140 946 2,373 594 3 1,082 1,680 278 Liechtenstein . . . . . . . . . . 1,457 250 235 146 4 144 110 42 Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,928 1,104 2,599 600 D 907 2,597 267 Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . 8,581 1,287 1,521 816 7 597 491 514 Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . 5,420 312 1,505 120 D 364 654 66 Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,756 1,818 861 541 15 126 190 259 Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,313 116 998 90 D 100 114 88 Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721 151 204 124 D 20 13 26 Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . 607,110 102,075 65,210 31,144 770 64,409 44,397 22,603 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162,016 16,480 12,825 9,553 412 38,837 13,033 6,017 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170,531 8,377 47,570 5,949 75 22,765 44,755 3,836 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,887 14,773 7,546 4,370 183 35,507 2,347 3,307 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,483 7,199 11,260 3,430 32 2,185 4,627 1,908 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121,774 5,296 54,784 11,146 719 3,490 6,219 3,195 San Marino . . . . . . . . . . . 408 117 92 23 D 46 16 10 Serbia and Montenegro1 . . 8,088 574 2,386 483 18 455 930 242 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . 24,365 2,091 6,751 1,364 34 2,783 1,479 692 Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,769 1,910 2,510 1,414 15 586 1,171 846 Soviet Union (former) . . . . 277 18 91 31 D 7 24 16 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542,733 192,484 108,319 19,161 215 40,945 26,867 11,434 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307,827 33,755 26,004 21,168 747 62,526 57,491 12,959 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . 276,433 53,742 46,025 26,797 769 35,826 15,695 7,832 Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . 636 4 183 5 – 13 47 11 Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . 488 6 109 40 – 4 54 34 Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,638 2,163 11,271 2,229 27 1,937 3,212 849 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . 4,996,211 355,143 746,714 427,897 15,903 383,260 324,808 211,297 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . 6,038 75 4,164 192 10 77 312 41Asia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,828,316 100,821 822,662 1,237,115 1,504,283 280,290 408,794 715,915 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . 1,526 5 387 107 D 147 74 75 Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,667 223 280 141 4 83 217 51 Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . 14,710 216 5,229 1,259 130 1,082 832 450 Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 3 163 41 8 18 9 40 Brunei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686 23 133 153 17 46 21 68

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Region/country of citizenship All ports Miami New York Los Angeles Honolulu Newark Chicago San Francisco

Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,029 90 373 569 55 76 92 286 Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,903 12 327 3,050 42 135 73 529 China2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687,148 5,783 56,526 227,601 26,819 7,663 37,788 134,869 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,406 637 3,023 344 D 846 593 181 Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . 81,237 781 9,101 18,792 1,877 2,919 7,411 18,060 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611,327 20,595 96,841 52,742 1,356 76,214 78,398 61,621 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,859 2,579 6,694 25,790 1,951 2,232 2,412 11,590 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,808 106 956 1,652 8 252 434 646 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,041 18 688 60 – 35 505 44 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337,513 22,072 124,351 20,719 228 101,314 6,615 6,369 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,335,975 21,141 263,925 475,464 1,416,681 51,664 146,582 267,153 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,068 555 6,558 910 9 681 5,801 520 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829,031 5,659 109,045 207,605 39,568 4,571 63,611 107,570 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,404 482 4,228 707 D 144 2,425 156 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,856 D 63 643 50 5 135 413 Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,610 959 3,403 2,510 11 1,297 1,600 645 Macau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,076 6 41 305 31 34 88 299 Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,712 808 4,459 24,384 1,687 8,432 3,932 10,803 Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 12 31 16 9 28 19 9 Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,801 35 724 2,026 198 29 779 784 Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,327 353 2,173 2,007 111 265 452 841 Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,996 63 189 118 – 86 290 D Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,566 1,012 20,118 2,703 75 3,033 8,158 1,804 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . 266,840 5,871 18,714 88,608 5,812 5,963 6,057 47,868 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,845 50 325 118 D 50 237 38 Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . 16,091 423 7,489 940 12 216 756 284 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,849 876 11,684 27,827 2,791 6,746 5,777 22,336 Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,617 406 2,121 2,622 207 999 1,127 887 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,357 179 1,255 794 D 269 923 178 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,205 767 6,597 29,979 4,114 675 6,976 12,409 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106,338 7,773 52,087 3,687 37 1,437 15,728 2,469 United Arab Emirates . . . 5,645 144 500 294 D 216 603 117 Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,244 93 1,413 9,781 374 348 1,182 3,373 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,370 6 448 47 – 40 82 52Africa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384,477 16,974 114,014 15,833 397 26,019 22,051 6,325 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,968 162 767 211 D 152 218 143 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,432 290 301 23 – 1,005 112 27 Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,569 66 522 15 D 62 72 26 Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,980 75 481 48 3 48 145 31 Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . 1,760 52 771 30 4 106 46 24 Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678 25 105 5 – 224 15 D Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . 7,971 224 1,190 220 – 814 565 105 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . 1,509 27 43 D D 143 – – Central African Republic . . 145 8 38 – – 7 D 8 Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 5 84 4 – 55 16 3 Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 D 41 4 D 3 D – Congo, Democratic Republic 117 D 33 D – 25 5 – Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . 2,838 244 716 45 – 381 138 D Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . 2,433 81 856 23 D 178 77 25 Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 3 45 D – 26 D – Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,164 930 12,722 2,378 7 979 2,214 794 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . 158 12 21 – – 15 15 D Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,605 11 232 60 – 39 59 68 Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,189 74 523 207 5 4,401 274 165 French Southern and Antarctic Lands . . . 5 – – – – – – – Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,427 36 348 55 D 86 46 7 Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . 2,853 15 1,192 20 – 297 35 D Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,027 651 11,710 570 D 1,827 1,623 198 Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,919 512 3,261 60 6 468 96 15 Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . . 102 20 11 4 – 44 – D Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,636 543 2,550 761 3 2,097 1,823 402

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Region/country of citizenship All ports Miami New York Los Angeles Honolulu Newark Chicago San Francisco

Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372 8 135 5 D 5 7 – Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,684 23 581 20 – 256 138 8 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402 27 101 20 – 24 31 21 Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . 939 28 170 32 D 41 39 9 Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,472 35 299 25 D 45 97 20 Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,608 70 1,394 27 – 124 37 18 Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . 1,194 29 432 41 D 48 33 37 Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,510 92 263 96 D 92 59 57 Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,617 861 9,525 589 D 335 687 278 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . 980 63 357 5 – 79 15 6 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,265 105 391 24 – 31 62 33 Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,955 140 1,223 147 – 196 164 48 Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,550 1,957 15,411 2,856 23 5,133 5,448 847 Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 4 3 9 – 6 – 3 Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,461 22 223 26 D 287 120 7 St. Helena . . . . . . . . . . . 12 D – – – – – – Sao Tome and Principe . . . 67 3 10 – – 32 D D Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,350 119 6,117 76 D 887 157 49 Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . 282 25 61 18 D 4 11 4 Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . 2,594 42 660 63 D 302 78 19 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 D 60 9 D 120 33 D South Africa . . . . . . . . . . 111,563 7,974 31,226 5,801 265 2,698 5,021 2,206 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,562 16 497 85 – 98 194 31 Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 10 120 – – D 8 – Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,762 149 873 152 D 363 333 66 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,201 48 722 30 D 103 181 11 Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,906 560 827 347 D 153 316 184 Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,587 105 1,144 188 D 585 374 73 Western Sahara . . . . . . . 6 – – D D – – – Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,646 76 899 68 – 136 281 45 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,026 312 1,727 325 14 348 526 160Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 936,470 21,375 53,453 480,397 120,410 10,924 16,189 59,115 American Samoa . . . . . . . 322 4 D 119 189 – – D Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645,234 17,100 44,731 316,918 85,129 8,446 13,371 46,914 Christmas Island . . . . . . . 1 – D – – – – – Cocos Islands . . . . . . . . . 1 – – – – – – – Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . 33 – 3 D 16 – D – Fiji. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,595 70 91 4,562 2,159 19 25 150 French Polynesia . . . . . . . 1,203 12 6 1,023 138 D D 3 Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 6 8 – D D – – Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,152 38 D 206 646 4 7 97 Marshall Islands . . . . . . . 7,914 9 11 21 6,070 11 7 17 Micronesia, Federated States . . . . . 23,922 6 D 29 5,980 92 7 20 Nauru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 D 7 16 D – – D New Caledonia . . . . . . . . . 394 D D 298 61 D D 4 New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . 226,132 4,012 8,443 154,196 17,340 2,134 2,719 11,623 Northern Mariana Islands . 21 8 5 D – – D – Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,689 15 9 39 299 162 D 36 Papua New Guinea . . . . . . 588 21 25 269 63 3 5 11 Pitcairn Island . . . . . . . . . 2 – – – – D – – Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,599 10 7 498 1,024 – – 8 Solomon Islands . . . . . . . 684 31 71 116 43 31 29 27 Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,405 12 4 1,860 1,188 11 5 181 Tuvalu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 9 11 146 31 D D 11 Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 8 12 53 22 D 5 9 Wallis and Futuna Islands . 19 D – 15 – D – –North America . . . . . . . . . . 6,736,812 1,034,305 351,019 412,389 2,013 98,307 128,949 93,589 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238,897 4,555 9,820 5,517 465 4,437 4,883 5,543 Greenland . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 8 6 9 – 4 D D Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,454,061 228,494 74,147 304,920 1,269 37,201 114,443 73,050 St. Pierre and Miquelon . . 8 – – – – – D D

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United States . . . . . . . . . 59 6 8 5 D 6 11 D Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,210,672 416,241 228,925 4,564 D 30,601 3,237 702 Anguilla . . . . . . . . . . . 2,817 123 59 D D 17 D D Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . . 21,205 701 1,891 11 4 1,095 32 7 Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,244 3,077 338 10 D 61 14 D Bahamas, The . . . . . . . 321,046 77,867 2,116 244 24 646 211 141 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . 55,198 25,148 13,700 171 D 1,097 70 33 Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . 4,189 415 700 87 7 267 13 15 British Virgin Islands . . 6,413 69 47 7 D 18 13 D Cayman Islands . . . . . 29,464 19,765 61 34 12 72 256 14 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,520 10,159 624 217 3 73 29 12 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . 8,809 1,834 1,786 26 – 516 D 6 Dominican Republic . . . 205,903 63,308 69,418 305 8 14,061 179 107 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . 11,254 2,036 4,759 51 – 118 22 D Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . 887 215 37 62 – D 17 12 Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,100 51,949 15,307 79 D 227 99 19 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . 223,896 80,061 51,585 2,522 13 8,339 1,687 78 Martinique . . . . . . . . . 532 282 32 11 – 8 4 D Montserrat . . . . . . . . . 749 37 34 3 – 9 4 – Netherlands Antilles . . 10,232 5,482 250 29 D 108 21 D Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . 244 59 12 24 D 20 4 12 St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . 14,313 371 217 23 D 59 27 D St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . 17,206 2,509 4,833 75 D 409 51 D St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . 13,521 4,486 3,346 37 D 93 25 5 Trinidad and Tobago . . . 149,476 57,270 56,960 484 26 3,257 239 201 Turks and Caicos Islands 11,257 9,011 806 48 – 22 210 20 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . 197 7 7 D – D D – Central America . . . . . . . . 833,058 385,001 38,113 97,374 148 26,058 6,369 14,289 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,855 11,314 208 1,561 D 366 119 264 Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . 156,609 84,393 4,816 8,723 49 10,248 1,058 1,209 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . 205,045 46,059 17,599 49,792 11 3,553 856 8,792 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . 190,044 75,378 10,295 26,656 34 2,463 3,659 2,274 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . 107,858 77,245 3,104 3,196 11 1,061 373 688 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . 52,152 40,303 434 2,400 D 189 119 766 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,495 50,309 1,657 5,046 31 8,178 185 296South America . . . . . . . . . . 2,167,668 1,191,085 251,754 90,388 994 66,855 35,598 8,971 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242,102 142,840 32,814 7,270 80 1,735 2,308 1,260 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,652 26,904 805 1,843 4 212 247 105 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534,163 210,354 105,653 41,726 442 21,517 27,158 2,119 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139,261 73,896 13,086 11,172 75 879 943 889 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . 394,152 237,139 31,553 5,388 115 15,480 1,518 1,281 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152,958 99,413 19,771 3,414 31 10,005 975 471 Falkland Islands . . . . . . . 24 10 D 7 – D – – French Guiana . . . . . . . . . 50 37 D – – D D – Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,679 6,225 12,890 73 D 254 31 20 Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,983 8,093 1,963 1,332 9 330 127 57 Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219,764 105,306 15,437 14,802 161 9,669 897 1,781 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,252 4,879 554 36 D D D 46 Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,666 24,093 5,634 1,293 11 313 476 405 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . 363,962 251,896 11,584 2,032 63 6,404 891 537Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240,002 32,662 24,926 24,665 4,600 14,310 20,429 11,569

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Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,184,129 1,004,174 922,457 912,666 680,184 652,886 642,874 7,788,616Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,281 564,750 313,322 596,672 3,880 197,374 560,028 3,182,667 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 447 50 971 7 43 13 1,838 Andorra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 28 6 8 – 5 4 95 Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 24 16 878 – 12 3 738 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 8,649 2,268 15,358 54 2,405 1,535 29,714 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . – 211 190 551 – 30 D 251 Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 217 68 1,471 – 43 D 1,464 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 22,720 4,367 23,428 59 1,852 1,714 25,816 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . – 449 110 1,148 D 61 D 1,971 Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1,419 348 3,524 17 234 254 6,962 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 1,987 754 2,363 D 164 67 4,747 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . 21 2,304 1,427 2,688 9 462 176 7,978 Czechoslovakia (former) . . 8 552 322 539 4 125 50 2,097 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 3,853 6,817 19,967 67 1,365 2,959 41,751 Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 209 225 625 – 87 97 1,137 Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 2,872 1,567 4,104 23 3,779 568 17,002 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730 54,085 61,726 61,132 411 25,365 2,267 228,440 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 345 90 814 – 14 4 633 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,481 140,590 24,985 89,964 529 40,063 37,860 458,319 Gibraltar . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 14 5 5 – D 28 52 Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 1,723 1,881 2,764 17 519 161 14,109 Holy See . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 9 5 13 – D – 26 Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 1,406 937 3,323 8 425 266 8,415 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 104 122 177 D 101 5,899 18,944 Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 16,933 2,966 5,425 33 2,625 9,075 196,194 Italy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 41,007 13,030 19,762 454 12,738 2,923 122,136 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . – 166 389 913 D 67 11 1,641 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . – 23 9 343 D 7 55 285 Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 182 228 1,061 – 50 23 1,636 Liechtenstein . . . . . . . . . . – 89 16 65 – 112 10 234 Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 355 174 1,251 D 88 135 2,828 Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . 3 357 139 634 – 118 121 1,976 Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . D 304 169 843 D 55 5 1,018 Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 108 104 277 – 86 404 1,953 Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 408 43 472 D 12 4 863 Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 18 16 14 – 4 D 127 Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . 293 33,224 27,380 49,756 123 2,886 18,659 144,181 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 2,729 14,404 10,213 26 1,141 2,984 33,287 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 2,881 2,290 8,356 30 1,267 490 21,800 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 1,777 1,285 2,352 60 647 288 24,325 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2,635 1,171 5,140 12 397 108 15,360 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 2,523 3,035 9,196 16 1,213 160 20,700 San Marino . . . . . . . . . . . – D 8 3 – 6 4 72 Serbia and Montenegro1 . . D 391 100 705 D 98 46 1,657 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . 13 1,355 357 2,390 3 268 88 4,697 Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 912 342 1,164 8 110 69 2,709 Soviet Union (former) . . . . – D 6 15 – D 5 59 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 23,752 10,409 9,277 1,262 5,031 2,037 91,399 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 5,772 6,651 20,474 69 2,406 4,018 53,620 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . 266 16,514 2,731 7,700 140 13,848 2,083 46,465 Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 13 20 257 – 9 – 74 Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . – 18 18 122 – 27 3 53 Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 1,335 746 4,150 18 231 89 7,355 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . 3,606 164,632 116,776 197,959 407 74,654 462,134 1,511,021 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . D 111 24 568 D 13 D 443Asia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,127,633 113,399 102,615 139,526 1,159 123,756 5,219 1,145,129 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . D 17 13 267 – 26 D 404 Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 45 48 428 – 67 153 927 Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . D 368 389 1,095 D 282 55 3,280 Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 16 D 44 – D – 78

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Brunei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 D 12 43 D D – 134 Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 27 20 145 – 11 5 256 Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . D 59 D 85 – 33 – 547 China2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,793 2,340 3,600 3,721 68 4,989 189 148,399 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 137 370 490 – 62 D 2,664 Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . 3,379 322 219 343 6 555 59 17,413 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592 20,836 14,922 28,904 106 11,279 1,199 145,722 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,932 565 594 1,212 12 586 77 13,633 Iran. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 202 251 706 8 145 50 2,383 Iraq. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 39 29 262 – 4 – 357 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 3,056 2,321 4,096 74 2,731 308 43,153 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971,150 45,229 60,882 41,743 519 76,935 926 495,981 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 773 541 1,696 5 146 104 3,764 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,627 28,925 3,881 27,654 269 17,626 196 112,224 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 101 308 1,038 – 67 197 2,542 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 108 8 85 – 50 – 290 Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1,046 879 2,003 4 272 153 7,822 Macau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 5 D 6 – D D 227 Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366 381 1,138 846 10 693 186 10,587 Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 10 D 20 – 12 D 33 Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 36 10 665 – 60 – 425 Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 376 103 1,315 7 269 6 1,982 Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 32 177 393 – 57 33 529 Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 811 3,742 3,434 17 1,077 297 12,270 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . 20,132 1,313 3,359 1,832 32 1,579 215 59,485 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 30 152 343 – 55 25 407 Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . D 581 719 1,300 D 138 180 3,045 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . 783 352 824 1,286 D 686 D 16,754 Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 671 110 1,020 – 161 56 3,160 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 300 174 446 D 38 63 1,720 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364 1,125 533 2,996 6 1,080 55 14,529 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2,199 1,748 5,110 7 546 131 13,362 United Arab Emirates . . . . 10 107 318 955 D 502 112 1,764 Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 770 174 1,212 D 918 D 2,590 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 79 27 287 – 15 – 287Africa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 47,686 12,703 35,852 82 5,458 1,974 78,901 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 241 287 726 D 103 D 953 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 243 1,868 195 D 7 D 357 Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 85 23 349 – 13 3 330 Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 559 10 268 – 8 14 287 Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . – 91 37 360 – 9 – 230 Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 15 8 123 – D – 152 Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 560 312 2,238 7 91 5 1,631 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . – 18 D 10 – – D 1,261 Central African Republic . . – D 4 55 – D – 13 Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 41 56 52 – 3 – 36 Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 22 – – – 3 Congo, Democratic Republic – 11 D 19 – 3 – 16 Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . – 230 40 490 – 27 D 502 Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . – 186 59 401 D 19 11 513 Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 70 10 35 – D – 36 Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 1,971 1,060 3,052 – 348 128 5,561 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . – D 34 48 – D – 6 Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 446 12 238 D 40 D 395 Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 346 77 876 D 175 6 1,055 French Southern and Antarctic Lands . . . D D – – – – – 1 Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 93 71 398 3 7 D 274 Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . – 109 10 220 – 13 D 933 Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1,197 312 2,836 D 271 75 7,734 Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 130 93 514 6 12 D 742 Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . . – D – D – 3 – 13

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Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 963 647 2,085 16 546 168 7,025 Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 120 D 36 – D – 48 Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 56 19 229 D 13 D 332 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 14 10 60 – 10 – 84 Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . D 93 30 341 – 10 – 143 Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 372 15 229 – 16 D 314 Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 114 35 457 – D D 325 Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . . D 85 13 199 – D 10 258 Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 114 19 156 – 17 22 507 Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 685 312 1,709 6 142 48 3,435 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . – 263 14 119 – 4 – 55 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 348 20 108 – 9 8 126 Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 306 367 625 D 67 D 643 Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 4,286 4,671 7,236 9 1,351 336 11,931 Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 4 – – – – 5 Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 125 7 263 – 7 D 370 St. Helena . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – D – 9 Sao Tome and Principe . . . – D 6 D – – – 11 Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 183 96 771 D 20 D 869 Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . . – 16 6 37 – D 10 87 Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . – 120 32 564 D 44 D 655 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 10 D 18 – – – 126 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 57 29,433 1,465 2,379 17 1,240 831 20,950 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 36 20 315 – 29 D 233 Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . . – 116 D 52 – – – 24 Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 170 126 753 D 67 55 1,649 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 184 16 361 – 51 D 490 Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 383 123 967 – 71 14 952 Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 267 83 1,099 D 79 28 1,555 Western Sahara . . . . . . . . – – – – – D – – Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 712 D 482 D 108 37 769 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . D 1,457 122 672 D 378 94 1,887Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,402 3,529 5,566 10,371 121 8,343 1,416 104,859 American Samoa . . . . . . . – – – – – – – 5 Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,713 2,701 4,099 8,171 77 7,271 1,007 82,586 Christmas Island . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – Cocos Islands . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – 1 Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – – 1 Fiji. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 D 9 16 D 15 D 2,263 French Polynesia . . . . . . . – 3 D D – D – 11 Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 – – – – – – 3 Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 D 6 39 – D – 25 Marshall Islands . . . . . . . 1,648 7 10 D 12 6 D 82 Micronesia, Federated States . . . . . . 17,494 11 74 D – 13 – 191 Nauru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – – – – – – 5 New Caledonia . . . . . . . . . 12 – – 3 – D – 6 New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . 1,149 760 1,089 2,092 25 1,016 360 19,174 Northern Mariana Islands . – D D – – – – 2 Palau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,678 19 243 8 D – – 178 Papua New Guinea . . . . . . 146 D D 5 – 4 – 32 Pitcairn Island . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – 1 Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 D – 3 – D – 15 Solomon Islands . . . . . . . 44 13 22 19 – D D 183 Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 D 4 3 – D – 70 Tuvalu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 D – 3 – – – 13 Vanuatu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 – 5 4 4 D – 12 Wallis and Futuna Islands . D – – – – – – –North America . . . . . . . . . . 726 148,149 398,470 63,564 670,406 221,829 65,231 3,047,866 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 1,958 4,670 3,223 736 2,623 D 189,996 Greenland . . . . . . . . . . . . – – D 5 – D – 12 Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 86,428 296,598 18,374 668,034 185,476 35,574 2,329,636

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St. Pierre and Miquelon . . – – – – – – – 5 United States . . . . . . . . . D – D 4 – D D 12 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 15,434 4,401 7,376 147 D 17,530 479,937 Anguilla . . . . . . . . . . . . – 5 – D 4 – D 2,597 Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . . 4 99 15 19 – 7 26 17,294 Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 137 46 3 – 8 D 3,544 Bahamas, The . . . . . . . 14 4,933 197 911 33 312 10,332 223,065 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . D 296 78 583 D 57 59 13,887 Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . D 483 24 63 D 15 25 2,069 British Virgin Islands . . – 6 D D – 4 17 6,224 Cayman Islands . . . . . . D 465 570 11 D 12 489 7,697 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 35 80 23 7 18 14 1,226 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . – 4 7 6 D 31 6 4,582 Dominican Republic . . . 26 176 175 143 34 347 31 57,585 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . – 76 44 72 D 16 20 4,037 Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . – 48 24 4 D 12 7 440 Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 61 43 116 31 46 44 14,071 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 7,954 1,402 273 18 231 6,200 63,501 Martinique . . . . . . . . . . – 8 – D – 3 – 180 Montserrat . . . . . . . . . – 6 D D – – D 650 Netherlands Antilles . . . D 40 10 9 – 12 13 4,253 Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . – 13 9 D – 8 – 80 St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . – 14 9 7 D 15 18 13,549 St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . 7 239 102 33 – 16 67 8,857 St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . . – 28 24 82 D 9 24 5,359 Trinidad and Tobago . . . 8 268 1,510 4,956 5 151 119 24,022 Turks and Caicos Islands D 40 26 53 – D 15 990 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . – – – – – – – 178 Central America . . . . . . . . 109 44,329 92,795 34,582 1,489 32,384 11,750 48,268 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 49 7,406 40 31 1,929 11 2,554 Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . 35 4,638 12,436 4,053 141 10,667 3,623 10,520 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . 28 13,409 25,761 23,615 169 6,284 137 8,980 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . 13 15,139 19,576 4,810 866 11,903 4,392 12,586 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . 10 268 13,985 1,298 136 951 55 5,477 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . D 167 4,930 640 71 342 53 1,723 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . 17 10,659 8,701 126 75 308 3,479 6,428South America . . . . . . . . . . 575 116,533 81,769 53,961 1,891 92,569 6,623 168,102 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 5,533 2,319 17,824 331 13,594 179 13,981 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 255 431 1,109 67 471 18 1,181 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 29,241 18,192 25,002 281 27,603 261 24,403 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 12,835 924 1,583 154 12,682 998 9,091 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 27,600 22,013 1,065 357 1,885 2,936 45,738 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 397 10,094 272 88 674 642 6,683 Falkland Islands . . . . . . . . – – – D – D – 1 French Guiana . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – 3 Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 105 38 278 D 27 116 6,611 Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 79 194 305 5 1,009 4 465 Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 24,538 13,288 1,163 268 18,642 889 12,810 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . – 21 23 D – D 3 518 Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 335 252 4,621 37 1,227 17 1,945 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 15,594 14,001 652 299 14,750 560 44,672Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,304 10,128 8,012 12,720 2,645 3,557 2,383 61,092

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.1 Yugoslavia (unknown republic) prior to February 7, 2003.2 Includes People’s Republic of China and Taiwan.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Region/country Under 15 15 to 19 20 to 24 25 to 34 35 to 44 45 to 64 65 years of citizenship All ages years years years years years years and over Unknown

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,781,330 2,699,113 1,380,589 2,210,716 7,136,142 6,528,049 8,568,674 2,177,561 80,486Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,487,585 961,067 564,296 838,797 2,723,502 2,794,358 3,715,847 861,395 28,323 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,811 347 277 635 1,509 1,211 2,207 605 20 Andorra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720 68 D 38 210 199 146 31 D Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,238 273 272 505 1,200 937 1,538 486 27 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152,285 7,324 6,425 11,667 36,269 37,515 44,759 8,039 287 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,523 151 215 310 757 442 545 97 6 Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,690 1,402 865 2,788 1,486 927 1,786 422 14 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208,754 12,182 8,366 12,688 46,645 50,482 65,434 12,396 561 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . 7,048 312 284 601 1,622 847 2,491 876 15 Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,688 711 1,146 9,978 9,081 3,993 6,862 1,838 79 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,096 783 787 2,258 6,748 4,736 5,668 1,057 59 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . 43,455 1,629 1,756 5,706 13,669 6,935 11,721 1,949 90 Czechoslovakia (former) . . 10,345 410 545 1,233 2,927 1,790 2,975 448 17 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186,821 13,569 8,320 11,896 41,311 43,025 57,262 10,923 515 Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,230 348 430 1,416 2,653 1,641 1,509 224 9 Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101,983 6,577 4,189 5,869 25,958 25,619 29,690 3,892 189 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,241,511 92,370 71,634 90,408 289,724 247,872 372,020 74,628 2,855 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,064 239 315 490 1,499 1,012 1,222 268 19 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,630,247 82,252 75,963 97,439 328,294 430,078 493,015 120,561 2,645 Gibraltar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 26 22 31 41 41 57 D D Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,809 2,167 1,380 3,949 16,654 12,952 17,633 5,935 139 Holy See . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 – – – D 35 58 49 D Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,162 1,953 1,611 3,166 14,188 7,153 13,304 2,700 87 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,787 3,205 1,384 2,038 6,354 6,947 9,887 1,867 105 Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428,209 32,878 17,515 42,017 112,744 86,629 108,972 26,217 1,237 Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759,895 35,360 23,688 40,184 237,142 182,650 194,539 44,406 1,926 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . 6,275 344 593 1,238 1,637 1,101 1,188 155 19 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,532 64 163 163 396 311 369 59 7 Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,140 367 532 1,610 2,790 1,809 2,540 466 26 Liechtenstein . . . . . . . . . . 1,457 94 59 159 418 319 343 62 3 Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,928 437 551 3,326 3,127 1,949 2,803 687 48 Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . 8,581 589 390 497 1,831 1,873 2,787 600 14 Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . 5,420 226 212 783 1,663 785 1,351 383 17 Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,756 574 236 517 1,794 1,150 1,974 493 18 Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,313 150 236 590 900 521 756 152 8 Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721 70 55 44 94 145 251 59 3 Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . 607,110 37,888 20,863 33,632 135,274 145,129 194,262 38,415 1,647 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162,016 12,409 8,026 12,827 36,651 33,441 50,257 8,001 404 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170,531 6,863 9,374 38,457 37,583 22,722 43,435 11,688 409 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,887 5,748 3,441 6,350 26,167 21,648 27,742 7,408 383 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,483 1,535 1,412 7,206 17,418 8,912 13,563 5,295 142 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121,774 6,174 7,211 15,682 27,040 23,660 33,796 7,939 272 San Marino . . . . . . . . . . . 408 17 18 30 123 74 108 38 – Serbia and Montenegro1 . . 8,088 324 377 795 2,110 1,341 2,344 782 15 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . 24,365 773 1,273 7,544 6,993 2,735 4,305 699 43 Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,769 611 542 1,397 4,209 2,917 3,529 525 39 Soviet Union (former) . . . . 277 19 15 D D 37 124 54 – Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542,733 29,229 20,062 28,070 179,419 122,082 134,894 26,647 2,330 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307,827 22,400 13,753 23,145 71,425 62,970 96,442 16,762 930 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . 276,433 17,513 10,676 20,825 61,713 62,736 83,001 19,261 708 Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636 16 89 86 156 132 141 11 5 Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . 488 18 80 69 129 94 83 D D Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,638 1,493 1,734 4,081 9,397 6,913 9,703 2,236 81 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . 4,996,211 518,295 234,552 281,788 892,952 1,109,969 1,556,549 392,281 9,825 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . 6,038 291 355 569 1,385 1,215 1,907 296 20Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,828,316 572,476 263,105 667,349 2,180,315 1,536,341 2,054,372 534,124 20,234 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . 1,526 145 155 201 359 241 361 57 7 Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,667 328 255 447 546 472 579 34 6 Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . 14,710 1,230 640 1,428 2,998 2,594 4,929 841 50 Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 33 26 57 124 110 65 D D Brunei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686 40 D 67 177 168 181 26 D Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,029 68 87 172 453 479 594 173 3 Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,903 291 234 712 895 842 1,617 304 8

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Region/country Under 15 15 to 19 20 to 24 25 to 34 35 to 44 45 to 64 65 years of citizenship All ages years years years years years years and over Unknown

China2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687,148 33,944 20,190 42,818 193,663 163,403 180,637 50,406 2,087 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,406 449 460 1,656 2,815 1,440 2,028 532 26 Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . 81,237 2,704 3,085 7,141 20,707 21,508 20,393 5,487 212 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611,327 31,375 10,431 53,100 229,859 84,573 153,582 46,382 2,025 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,859 3,989 3,832 8,149 18,295 12,126 22,495 3,827 146 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,808 433 217 470 1,413 1,244 2,678 1,314 39 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,041 150 99 129 456 354 653 193 7 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337,513 26,464 13,617 23,771 72,429 58,177 113,500 28,723 832 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,335,975 330,364 141,802 404,383 1,220,390 816,039 1,117,345 295,319 10,333 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,068 1,910 1,188 1,931 5,107 4,132 6,108 1,603 89 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829,031 83,587 34,997 53,050 199,562 190,649 212,242 52,982 1,962 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,404 1,589 1,149 1,828 2,476 2,291 2,717 320 34 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,856 68 56 203 328 278 638 281 4 Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,610 1,277 769 1,752 6,229 4,139 6,209 2,136 99 Macau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,076 51 124 186 228 185 242 57 3 Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,712 3,433 1,925 5,732 19,697 16,818 18,152 2,838 117 Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 13 D 27 60 58 40 D – Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,801 664 487 561 1,573 1,246 1,128 130 12 Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,327 450 565 1,269 2,626 2,374 2,644 362 37 Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,996 164 85 289 684 431 310 24 9 Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,566 5,793 3,253 6,131 12,544 8,736 17,294 4,601 214 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . 266,840 20,233 8,719 13,756 65,356 66,288 73,408 18,231 849 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,845 206 103 256 465 468 316 23 8 Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . 16,091 2,659 1,175 1,860 3,397 3,025 3,513 427 35 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,849 6,624 2,498 6,769 26,801 27,164 25,627 3,112 254 Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,617 792 375 915 3,426 2,809 3,910 1,316 74 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,357 376 195 399 1,392 954 2,105 903 33 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,205 3,940 3,842 8,669 22,737 15,933 23,164 3,624 296 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106,338 4,519 4,235 12,778 32,595 19,937 26,445 5,605 224 United Arab Emirates . . . . 5,645 746 377 1,103 1,580 1,021 735 70 13 Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,244 1,218 1,699 3,030 5,549 3,374 5,479 1,818 77 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,370 157 126 154 324 261 309 34 5Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384,477 26,630 15,907 29,119 86,986 88,921 113,460 21,786 1,668 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,968 204 99 123 913 862 1,376 371 20 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,432 329 168 549 1,269 1,175 858 57 27 Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,569 97 58 143 271 389 566 36 9 Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,980 112 77 262 591 441 448 43 6 Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . 1,760 95 54 187 405 479 513 21 6 Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678 38 30 70 115 146 266 8 5 Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,971 516 347 584 1,933 1,741 2,416 359 75 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . 1,509 138 82 79 280 391 425 98 16 Central African Republic . . 145 7 D 17 31 32 55 D – Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 22 14 47 95 90 81 D D Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 3 – D 17 35 20 – D Congo, Democratic Republic 117 D – D 13 26 59 10 – Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . 2,838 190 123 177 519 712 1,030 73 14 Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . 2,433 177 142 242 559 608 649 46 10 Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 17 D 16 62 70 54 6 D Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,164 2,019 1,083 2,098 6,958 6,361 10,608 2,929 108 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . 158 4 D 18 40 45 46 D – Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,605 89 28 44 185 192 627 426 14 Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,189 630 382 444 1,694 1,645 2,836 492 66 French Southern and Antarctic Lands . . . . . . 5 – – D D D D – – Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,427 86 63 149 358 378 369 13 11 Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . 2,853 226 177 234 657 601 837 107 14 Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,027 1,642 1,286 2,836 6,528 7,393 8,077 1,122 143 Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,919 490 294 390 1,256 1,535 1,806 120 28 Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . . 102 D D 5 31 22 38 D D Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,636 1,125 774 2,113 4,868 3,581 6,058 984 133 Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372 19 17 24 64 90 147 D D Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,684 139 64 74 276 464 555 106 6 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402 43 D 15 74 76 132 46 D Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . 939 38 33 54 182 252 353 23 4

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Region/country Under 15 15 to 19 20 to 24 25 to 34 35 to 44 45 to 64 65 years of citizenship All ages years years years years years years and over Unknown

Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,472 92 58 96 353 345 478 40 10 Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,608 204 133 295 555 598 744 59 20 Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,194 83 43 116 245 268 385 45 9 Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,510 88 40 141 347 300 475 111 8 Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,617 1,288 778 1,841 4,022 3,100 6,057 1,429 102 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . 980 56 30 71 209 287 302 22 3 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,265 85 79 114 255 344 353 31 4 Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,955 429 211 262 665 1,055 1,151 165 17 Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,550 5,845 2,628 2,766 11,385 17,052 18,314 3,275 285 Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 6 – D 4 7 13 D – Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,461 101 70 98 347 445 363 15 22 St. Helena . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – D – 3 5 D – – Sao Tome and Principe . . . 67 D – D 7 30 24 D D Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,350 450 395 600 1,913 2,302 3,336 323 31 Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 12 D 21 68 88 75 9 D Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . 2,594 158 107 151 475 568 931 188 16 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 65 34 69 82 38 74 D D South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 111,563 7,140 4,556 8,855 28,727 25,188 29,628 7,175 294 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,562 132 50 63 250 301 641 118 7 Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 18 11 42 81 78 93 11 3 Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,762 198 194 423 1,001 896 1,851 179 20 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,201 119 79 267 511 533 601 79 12 Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,906 216 171 302 1,348 996 1,551 304 18 Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,587 414 182 370 1,238 1,549 1,621 179 34 Western Sahara . . . . . . . . 6 – – – D D D D – Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,646 290 174 354 770 1,034 943 77 4 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,026 641 455 795 1,878 1,678 2,146 411 22Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 936,470 64,655 35,502 68,945 215,508 186,564 302,327 59,797 3,172 American Samoa . . . . . . . 322 20 D 18 53 71 120 33 D Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645,234 44,032 23,874 49,544 149,561 126,605 207,594 41,923 2,101 Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . . 33 D D D 10 6 5 D – Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,595 431 223 848 2,349 1,852 3,231 618 43 French Polynesia . . . . . . . 1,203 172 74 95 258 206 343 D D Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 9 5 8 21 10 15 3 – Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,152 40 18 47 276 356 384 27 4 Marshall Islands . . . . . . . 7,914 909 626 886 1,606 1,478 2,122 271 16 Micronesia, Federated States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,922 1,980 1,709 2,655 4,391 5,051 7,229 857 50 Nauru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 D 6 9 6 11 20 D – New Caledonia . . . . . . . . . 394 46 32 33 70 77 111 18 7 New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . 226,132 15,603 7,834 13,423 53,399 44,735 75,282 14,944 912 Northern Mariana Islands . 21 – – D D D 8 6 D Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,689 1,024 915 848 2,242 4,473 3,668 509 10 Papua New Guinea . . . . . . 588 43 12 35 132 190 167 6 3 Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,599 103 41 124 303 300 569 155 4 Solomon Islands . . . . . . . 684 68 29 56 139 186 173 30 3 Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,405 149 76 286 575 798 1,174 333 14 Tuvalu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 6 D 17 74 78 63 D – Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 11 12 8 37 71 44 3 – Wallis and Futuna Islands . 19 D 4 – D 6 5 – – Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – – D D – – D –North America . . . . . . . . . . 6,736,812 869,657 385,411 461,623 1,435,857 1,388,472 1,679,900 497,218 18,674 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238,897 14,550 10,214 22,821 72,286 62,407 52,490 D D Greenland . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 D 11 10 D 7 22 D – Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,454,061 660,757 273,782 310,485 949,450 862,863 1,063,613 321,976 11,135 St. Pierre and Miquelon . . 8 D – – D 4 – D – United States . . . . . . . . . 59 8 4 6 12 7 19 D D Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,210,672 124,774 62,348 79,320 250,050 288,465 322,679 79,011 4,025 Anguilla . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,817 267 132 294 657 610 735 111 11 Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . . 21,205 2,097 896 1,066 4,594 5,464 6,124 895 69 Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,244 984 461 414 1,183 1,616 2,123 439 24 Bahamas, The . . . . . . . 321,046 41,344 18,425 23,278 68,420 77,573 76,679 14,490 837 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . 55,198 5,406 2,304 2,848 10,037 13,342 17,504 3,607 150 Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . 4,189 250 346 485 709 924 1,143 318 14

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Region/country Under 15 15 to 19 20 to 24 25 to 34 35 to 44 45 to 64 65 years of citizenship All ages years years years years years years and over Unknown

British Virgin Islands . . 6,413 712 324 747 1,434 1,372 1,556 233 35 Cayman Islands . . . . . . 29,464 5,341 2,001 2,181 5,677 5,948 6,834 1,403 79 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,520 514 239 374 1,255 1,208 2,840 6,062 28 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . 8,809 853 500 618 1,750 2,054 2,363 631 40 Dominican Republic . . . 205,903 18,989 11,436 14,567 40,940 48,337 55,337 15,428 869 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . 11,254 986 644 897 2,486 2,688 2,840 662 51 Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . 887 111 70 47 166 164 263 61 5 Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,100 6,461 2,954 3,100 15,085 22,188 25,444 6,532 336 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . 223,896 21,654 10,554 13,662 49,300 55,435 58,202 14,323 766 Martinique . . . . . . . . . . 532 67 D 32 68 121 173 39 D Montserrat . . . . . . . . . 749 38 D 23 127 195 301 43 D Netherlands Antilles . . . 10,232 1,395 613 599 1,807 2,291 2,967 503 57 Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . 244 18 12 22 64 53 60 15 – St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . 14,313 1,102 491 1,022 3,487 3,612 4,089 451 59 St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . 17,206 1,432 752 1,232 4,443 4,576 4,097 621 53 St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . . 13,521 815 421 875 4,428 3,680 2,876 377 49 Trinidad and Tobago . . . 149,476 12,840 8,074 9,884 28,991 32,261 45,601 11,379 446 Turks and Caicos Islands 11,257 1,087 640 1,036 2,905 2,708 2,461 378 42 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . 197 11 D 17 37 45 67 10 D Central America . . . . . . . . 833,058 69,565 39,052 48,981 164,055 174,719 241,077 92,620 2,989 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,855 2,714 1,315 2,291 5,988 6,183 6,001 1,285 78 Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . 156,609 13,484 8,141 9,446 35,730 36,891 42,559 9,768 590 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . 205,045 13,647 7,328 8,435 30,786 36,532 67,780 39,849 688 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . 190,044 18,365 9,923 12,076 38,079 38,992 51,757 20,196 656 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . 107,858 9,707 5,032 6,972 22,206 24,491 30,958 8,097 395 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . 52,152 2,992 2,213 3,869 10,791 11,701 15,457 4,935 194 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,495 8,656 5,100 5,892 20,475 19,929 26,565 8,490 388South America . . . . . . . . . . 2,167,668 186,477 105,090 127,590 447,109 487,871 629,472 177,563 6,496 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242,102 16,926 9,232 10,011 53,920 53,946 75,670 21,870 527 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,652 2,927 2,005 2,267 6,493 7,456 9,688 2,681 135 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534,163 40,189 29,201 39,429 124,336 122,708 147,148 29,867 1,285 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139,261 12,326 6,259 6,791 27,667 33,034 43,434 9,346 404 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394,152 37,610 18,098 22,169 74,981 89,970 111,580 38,079 1,665 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152,958 17,101 10,049 11,117 29,128 31,091 42,229 11,567 676 Falkland Islands . . . . . . . . 24 D – – 7 6 6 D – French Guiana . . . . . . . . . 50 D 6 3 7 8 15 3 D Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,679 1,744 1,117 1,394 4,962 6,553 9,369 1,470 70 Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,983 1,070 1,378 967 2,767 3,136 3,699 926 40 Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219,764 17,909 9,953 12,996 44,582 44,830 62,773 26,061 660 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,252 577 D 284 1,018 1,459 2,070 551 D Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,666 2,632 1,489 1,763 7,566 8,812 13,850 4,463 91 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . 363,962 35,458 16,033 18,399 69,675 84,862 107,941 30,675 919Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240,002 18,151 11,278 17,293 46,865 45,522 73,296 25,678 1,919

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.1 Yugoslavia prior to February 7, 2003.2 Includes People’s Republic of China and Taiwan.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Foreign Temporary Temporary Treaty All government visitors for visitors for Transit traders and Destination classes officials1 business pleasure aliens2 investors1

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,781,330 152,649 4,593,124 22,802,907 338,175 182,934Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,514 1,281 18,935 27,100 1,067 3,785Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,929 444 4,543 85,439 1,248 448Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492,257 1,703 51,191 405,731 157 1,661Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,509 142 7,243 13,463 34 232California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,048,410 12,477 738,307 2,880,932 16,638 34,226Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302,882 1,145 47,435 220,599 128 928Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199,654 475 36,395 112,501 554 2,807Delaware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,650 191 9,716 13,200 247 200District of Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297,086 28,629 95,065 116,245 453 541Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,925,404 11,955 518,032 4,039,359 87,554 20,754Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384,766 4,032 111,472 203,723 1,591 5,470Hawaii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,755,788 3,560 50,101 1,666,490 4,718 2,261Idaho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,659 240 4,949 10,913 11 77Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690,173 2,932 184,758 404,486 767 7,439Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120,629 188 34,671 52,997 102 2,496Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,239 130 9,838 18,258 27 202Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,868 679 9,932 28,427 38 327Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,525 295 19,797 25,092 74 2,838Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182,496 1,119 62,139 93,951 5,808 439Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,422 83 5,082 24,057 536 153Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281,090 8,702 48,873 152,233 1,611 1,212Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649,429 2,113 138,897 385,489 1,682 2,189Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337,698 597 104,807 144,240 537 9,665Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138,142 259 37,709 72,050 145 455Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,435 369 4,716 9,985 323 421Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,046 765 23,419 43,411 55 589Montana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,313 14 1,782 15,908 16 62Nebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,372 117 4,514 12,303 11 169Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870,381 775 132,724 720,979 375 786New Hampshire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,381 134 9,834 31,131 42 266New Jersey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661,027 1,821 118,472 417,010 3,342 10,271New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149,569 1,239 11,092 127,757 20 180New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,732,586 18,762 523,266 2,803,031 8,643 23,183North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218,470 888 62,420 101,371 541 3,510North Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,868 22 1,619 5,114 D 28Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226,162 932 68,886 97,282 285 6,098Oklahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,564 369 10,171 31,002 38 236Oregon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,522 233 28,510 64,687 807 1,294Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353,852 1,119 91,135 177,620 2,511 2,587Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,536 762 8,534 24,771 190 224South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91,769 276 22,707 47,863 684 3,245South Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,837 D 1,076 5,516 8 60Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119,412 207 31,031 63,800 129 2,593Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,994,085 10,859 305,261 1,454,996 14,412 13,646Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91,801 423 18,492 60,292 54 233Vermont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,865 34 3,268 27,829 10 136Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340,932 12,308 64,785 181,159 905 2,223Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399,070 1,642 73,366 265,286 5,941 3,109West Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,757 74 2,474 6,012 8 132Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110,406 165 28,252 55,173 119 666Wyoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,857 15 1,088 9,739 D 75U.S. territories and possessions: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,173,136 1,836 60,088 1,065,573 6,032 2,003 American Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725 D 47 563 29 D Federated States of Micronesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D – – Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 981,055 1,198 9,447 943,316 1,865 1,600 Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 – 26 D D D Northern Mariana Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 – D 155 D – Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163,294 564 46,079 100,137 3,814 368 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,634 D 4,474 21,304 317 31Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,484,100 13,106 530,255 3,679,332 166,943 4,104

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Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620,210 36,163 618,162 142,873 109,355 37,108Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,813 354 2,628 670 118 53Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485 25 493 92 25 117Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,532 640 5,922 1,731 62 302Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,320 144 5,921 369 18 19California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101,287 5,138 86,719 25,294 887 6,533Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,195 530 10,078 1,547 61 239Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,718 412 9,352 2,985 540 135Delaware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,371 71 1,825 443 21 17District of Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,135 214 4,995 382 25,468 3,354Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,848 2,247 66,104 18,329 1,186 3,279Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,161 845 16,605 3,885 249 717Hawaii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,901 430 1,767 499 91 558Idaho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,541 113 2,415 239 D 14Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,064 1,848 18,765 4,742 190 554Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,339 845 3,988 1,336 31 207Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,085 355 1,468 492 12 34Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,958 290 2,667 590 12 27Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,692 303 4,802 700 15 88Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,360 327 5,921 688 45 203Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,105 38 1,489 145 16 46Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,888 673 12,338 3,025 19,182 833Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,138 1,977 22,786 4,811 467 656Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,322 1,378 13,415 4,346 75 625Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,436 409 5,406 1,426 56 112Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,638 171 3,759 239 17 24Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,935 528 5,890 1,099 128 80Montana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791 42 642 90 D 32Nebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,736 149 934 301 6 DNevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,857 96 3,554 610 60 831New Hampshire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,977 183 3,334 574 32 34New Jersey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,650 1,142 30,925 10,201 2,554 571New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,794 170 1,448 362 63 99New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,956 3,057 97,613 12,602 36,806 10,146North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,687 773 15,760 2,269 65 120North Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,161 69 713 153 27 11Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,628 1,018 9,520 2,753 74 245Oklahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,994 381 2,669 582 D 55Oregon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,263 337 2,949 897 58 134Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,930 1,376 14,677 3,511 154 270Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,130 105 1,335 243 22 32South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,637 205 3,685 650 27 68South Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526 49 627 78 D 29Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,670 419 5,417 1,079 35 156Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,716 2,610 46,276 12,615 711 1,038Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,739 395 2,945 309 69 118Vermont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,700 40 1,421 155 14 25Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,973 1,222 17,649 3,958 15,396 871Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,977 671 10,425 3,597 221 442West Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,973 91 399 136 10 14Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,251 374 4,178 1,314 23 109Wyoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421 27 886 46 5 36U.S. territories and possessions: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,253 97 4,901 916 186 352 American Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 14 7 – D Federated States of Micronesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 31 1,418 179 28 210 Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 D 14 D – – Northern Mariana Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 5 D – – Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,407 55 3,102 654 129 123 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578 D 348 71 29 DUnknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,553 760 15,762 2,768 3,749 2,433

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Spouses and Spouses and children of children of Exchange exchange Fiances(ees) of Intracompany intracompany NATO Destination visitors visitors U.S. citizens3 transferees transferees officials1

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321,975 38,802 33,061 314,484 142,099 14,813Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,529 244 215 1,653 773 509Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,036 14 146 390 178 45Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,342 427 483 2,984 1,548 268Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 934 97 135 439 266 10California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,297 5,971 5,500 37,366 17,427 945Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,299 697 548 2,627 1,200 341Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,153 762 440 8,215 4,364 45Delaware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,788 147 80 682 256 DDistrict of Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,300 317 136 1,115 281 485Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,925 1,416 2,734 43,735 20,139 1,014Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,879 875 856 8,833 3,876 262Hawaii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,327 300 404 601 360 31Idaho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855 47 110 439 220 DIllinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,734 1,489 1,027 12,198 5,368 78Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,869 655 319 3,305 1,921 24Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,227 354 187 620 338 DKansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,530 140 213 649 341 113Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,859 256 193 2,408 1,324 59Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,292 274 233 1,638 815 43Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,166 57 117 331 97 5Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,015 2,171 756 2,673 1,364 274Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,484 3,388 1,085 8,510 3,631 128Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,387 1,320 809 13,252 7,040 44Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,401 575 601 2,915 1,285 19Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949 92 117 189 88 32Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,657 490 353 1,530 777 79Montana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,411 42 65 161 27 DNebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941 133 160 250 55 32Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,191 62 368 718 293 175New Hampshire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,793 98 146 719 321 58New Jersey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,711 994 1,263 19,627 9,156 107New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,320 215 158 226 135 1,759New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,349 3,569 2,887 39,941 13,650 319North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,173 1,437 527 5,579 2,737 115North Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475 61 56 90 35 8Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,299 1,094 622 7,499 4,082 159Oklahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,498 201 255 624 389 143Oregon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,833 381 460 2,563 1,292 28Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,103 1,689 1,034 8,715 3,447 146Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,641 160 171 485 171 101South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,698 255 195 2,320 1,272 28South Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644 25 48 23 15 –Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,473 444 338 2,125 1,135 20Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,539 2,005 2,506 35,952 17,942 2,383Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,520 192 235 575 273 107Vermont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,315 45 70 265 83 DVirginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,417 1,016 1,014 5,234 2,290 3,407Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,701 774 1,159 4,658 2,310 216West Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 942 49 68 134 101 –Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,954 443 364 2,415 1,174 10Wyoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993 19 37 249 44 DU.S. territories and possessions: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459 34 190 5,003 1,996 31 American Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 – 4 D D – Federated States of Micronesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 3 46 1,035 353 D Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 D – D D – Northern Mariana Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – – – – – Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 28 124 3,858 1,607 22 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 D 16 105 31 DUnknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,348 790 868 9,037 2,397 594

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Spouses and Spouse Spouse of legal Child of legal Dependent children of and/or child permanent permanent child of spouse Free-Trade Free-Trade of US citizen, resident, resident, or accompanying Agreement Agreement immigrant immigrant immigrant child, immigrant Destination workers workers visa pending visa pending visa pending visa pending

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,219 12,635 22,117 17,866 15,239 15,556Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 69 137 51 47 52Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415 19 82 19 17 DArizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,175 395 343 614 479 623Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 37 86 58 65 85California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,179 1,960 3,861 4,324 3,591 4,792Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 844 120 256 242 173 320Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,484 351 175 166 142 83Delaware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 43 25 44 26 44District of Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413 17 46 126 55 17Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,907 956 2,845 1,082 919 543Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,203 303 874 319 356 374Hawaii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 73 139 148 59 54Idaho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 44 52 50 83 56Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,204 316 928 835 704 595Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474 113 228 81 66 64Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 64 81 36 30 51Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 61 138 73 69 101Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 55 146 19 15 19Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 46 199 66 52 69Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676 87 34 10 9 DMaryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,069 249 359 264 266 109Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,268 507 313 289 284 100Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,143 739 590 206 140 163Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798 152 261 99 85 57Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 18 60 20 24 29Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367 84 195 54 44 51Montana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 19 30 4 – 6Nebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 32 61 41 38 72Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475 95 227 140 125 105New Hampshire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386 140 33 15 18 DNew Jersey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,001 502 657 677 665 308New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 82 97 176 143 217New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,102 875 1,812 2,358 2,000 952North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,438 327 364 205 147 268North Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 20 22 4 8 DOhio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,233 307 392 107 83 53Oklahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 44 157 88 95 131Oregon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513 136 212 101 78 146Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,746 353 318 273 181 205Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 37 40 52 55 12South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 104 143 57 54 41South Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 D 22 3 6 –Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409 88 228 95 94 99Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,348 1,178 2,646 2,662 2,241 3,448Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 60 111 40 47 39Vermont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 56 11 7 D –Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,437 278 445 220 214 132Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,652 582 582 174 152 124West Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 11 15 3 D –Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537 126 172 107 72 72Wyoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 18 15 7 7 4U.S. territories and possessions: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 27 211 166 140 50 American Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Federated States of Micronesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 54 29 13 15 Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – – – Northern Mariana Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 D 148 128 119 31 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – D 9 8 4Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,962 249 641 789 773 613

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Spouses, Spouses, children, and children, Victims of parents of victims and parents severe form of severe form Victim of of victim of Other and Destination of trafficking of trafficking criminal activity criminal activity unknown

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612 467 140 158 131,427Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – 162Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 205Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 14 – 3 2,914Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – 263California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 75 22 38 8,535Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 D – D 1,305Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 14 D D 370Delaware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – 44District of Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 11 3 – 1,273Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 27 19 18 24,432Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 13 D D 970Hawaii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – 12,608Idaho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 66Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 9 13 8 2,104Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D D 299Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – D – 145Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 3 – D 245Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D – 191Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 14 D – 463Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 78Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 10 D D 926Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 8 D D 1,191Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 D D D 831Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D 5 D 412Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 3 – – 58Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 5 D D 451Montana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D 38Nebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 3 – – 90Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D – D 1,753New Hampshire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 4 D – 103New Jersey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 17 5 7 1,358New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D D 481New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 30 24 16 5,582North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 19 4 4 703North Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – – – 19Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 D 3 D 491Oklahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 13 D D 261Oregon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – 602Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 18 D D 700Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D D 90South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 D – D 234South Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 11Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D D 317Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 58 3 13 7,999Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – D D 314Vermont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – D – 46Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 D D 7 1,345Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 9 D D 1,277West Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – 34Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – 325Wyoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 31U.S. territories and possessions: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – D D 20,455 American Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 6 Federated States of Micronesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 19,879 Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – D Northern Mariana Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – 46 Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – D Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D 427 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – 94Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 20 9 3 26,227

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D Disclosure standards not met.– Represents zero.1 Includes spouses and unmarried minor (or dependent) children.2 Includes foreign government officials and their spouses and unmarried minor (or dependent) children in transit.3 Includes minor children of fiances(ees).Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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All United Destination countries Kingdom Mexico Japan Germany France Korea Italy

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,781,330 4,996,211 4,454,061 4,335,975 1,630,247 1,241,511 829,031 759,895Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,514 7,498 5,701 6,307 12,198 1,404 4,417 1,394Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,929 19,551 5,584 16,907 10,774 1,700 2,097 1,524Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492,257 46,871 293,708 18,730 22,174 11,816 6,091 5,182Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,509 3,238 11,509 1,324 1,863 796 844 357California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,048,410 527,148 721,395 463,150 228,685 163,024 218,687 86,762Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302,882 57,344 93,834 12,388 23,371 7,528 5,147 4,287Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199,654 40,715 5,630 7,160 14,400 8,189 4,688 6,337Delaware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,650 5,843 1,860 1,050 2,738 1,077 901 677District of Columbia . . . . . . . . 297,086 47,985 10,509 16,893 18,292 15,928 6,959 8,567Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,925,404 1,455,074 304,547 83,888 270,796 118,188 17,419 110,501Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384,766 63,709 41,411 22,228 31,102 14,145 12,752 8,389Hawaii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,755,788 34,365 4,215 1,471,350 16,265 10,937 38,596 3,088Idaho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,659 2,552 3,774 2,104 1,965 649 725 381Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690,173 95,464 100,307 45,963 51,037 25,120 24,632 20,082Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120,629 15,202 13,725 13,571 10,226 3,993 5,799 2,485Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,239 3,851 4,216 2,731 3,527 1,684 2,094 850Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,868 4,249 16,482 2,439 3,178 1,004 2,003 924Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,525 7,564 8,171 12,160 5,979 2,265 1,782 1,085Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182,496 30,018 18,789 10,401 12,835 12,217 3,097 4,696Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,422 10,758 576 1,204 3,971 2,364 725 795Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281,090 39,101 9,315 10,770 16,452 13,335 10,718 5,845Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . 649,429 145,680 17,810 35,159 47,128 32,475 18,083 20,290Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337,698 39,602 33,086 38,730 45,676 11,551 14,796 6,798Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138,142 18,054 10,015 9,737 11,408 5,023 4,214 2,967Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,435 2,988 4,463 1,663 1,754 624 562 361Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,046 12,208 13,680 5,056 7,376 2,621 3,519 1,778Montana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,313 5,033 846 1,779 2,700 908 442 358Nebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,372 2,156 4,166 2,291 1,957 501 719 306Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870,381 230,506 200,766 159,736 39,628 21,559 16,406 11,823New Hampshire . . . . . . . . . . . 54,381 15,335 1,152 1,626 4,936 2,631 1,653 855New Jersey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661,027 92,924 16,716 31,191 40,278 25,124 34,664 18,604New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149,569 5,366 113,859 2,770 7,039 2,130 703 923New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,732,586 871,490 97,755 258,208 223,704 214,720 70,115 175,300North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . 218,470 39,554 25,485 10,973 23,379 7,218 5,716 5,406North Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,868 1,234 416 319 1,006 258 268 152Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226,162 30,096 15,645 25,990 20,958 8,322 7,292 5,083Oklahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,564 4,956 17,214 3,353 3,661 1,136 1,795 779Oregon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,522 12,319 8,390 20,522 11,456 3,525 7,412 1,782Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353,852 64,730 14,305 16,310 32,994 19,007 13,264 11,558Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,536 7,041 1,730 1,330 2,982 1,893 1,590 1,457South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . 91,769 21,510 6,833 4,390 14,882 4,909 1,391 1,481South Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,837 1,970 442 613 1,021 178 192 122Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119,412 26,566 13,808 13,585 8,674 3,330 3,323 2,109Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,994,085 139,119 1,195,596 49,431 52,589 34,574 26,351 16,891Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91,801 12,225 13,659 13,154 6,657 3,585 3,586 1,600Vermont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,865 13,841 553 1,634 3,060 3,047 651 609Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340,932 55,406 15,039 14,345 24,277 13,742 17,213 5,920Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399,070 58,443 16,404 64,812 26,796 9,968 29,157 6,065West Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,757 2,132 327 1,355 1,142 526 281 356Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110,406 13,141 11,289 6,011 12,413 4,520 3,753 2,543Wyoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,857 3,077 1,576 1,061 1,348 718 131 352U.S. territories and possessions: . . . . . . . . . . . 1,173,136 20,717 16,807 817,327 6,416 8,088 96,038 4,499 American Samoa . . . . . . . . . 725 64 186 49 14 D 27 5 Federated States of Micronesia . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – – – Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 981,055 2,170 144 816,070 516 460 95,777 203 Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . . 185 11 10 8 13 5 D D Northern Mariana Islands . . 236 10 – 93 D D D D Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – – D – – – Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163,294 13,450 15,968 1,044 5,272 6,914 D 3,834 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . 27,634 5,012 499 63 598 705 49 454Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,484,100 508,692 888,971 498,796 179,124 375,737 73,578 176,560

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Destination China1 Australia India Netherlands Spain Brazil Ireland Colombia

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687,148 645,234 611,327 607,110 542,733 534,163 428,209 394,152Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,598 892 2,394 1,271 629 926 476 807Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,241 5,464 1,310 2,677 1,159 718 925 244Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,100 5,369 7,834 5,828 2,223 2,849 3,272 1,087Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883 392 1,187 448 190 642 162 236California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215,919 155,143 100,182 72,971 41,902 39,467 46,536 16,733Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,741 11,354 5,184 7,031 2,774 5,187 2,629 1,314Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,490 3,641 11,854 4,920 2,808 4,624 5,212 2,562Delaware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819 407 2,222 811 437 644 633 326District of Columbia . . . . . . . . 6,966 7,030 4,691 7,890 5,923 5,542 4,212 3,739Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,148 29,306 31,173 107,520 84,046 159,680 63,925 202,689Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,441 5,440 14,851 9,600 4,327 7,507 4,648 8,990Hawaii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,197 61,129 1,602 3,088 1,234 2,507 2,167 324Idaho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678 670 920 680 374 348 262 89Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,003 13,155 31,632 15,014 12,042 11,556 18,358 4,563Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,599 2,212 6,765 2,671 2,046 2,112 1,252 1,112Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,021 998 2,061 990 462 797 347 262Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,569 682 3,103 717 510 830 326 566Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,916 1,145 2,680 1,186 781 903 1,298 298Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,607 4,429 3,783 6,440 3,897 3,033 1,921 1,705Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455 771 544 1,201 559 385 831 135Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,474 3,801 12,438 5,363 4,278 5,122 4,377 3,524Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . 16,921 10,629 21,475 14,977 10,379 13,068 41,356 5,533Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,206 4,949 21,533 7,925 3,889 5,990 2,612 1,332Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,513 2,867 7,315 4,087 1,969 1,920 1,971 1,075Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540 321 899 503 224 315 253 215Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,920 2,150 4,491 1,754 1,490 1,619 1,047 701Montana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696 1,001 218 1,059 207 146 233 112Nebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796 435 1,255 406 270 418 266 273Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,444 20,810 4,001 11,523 6,688 8,794 8,374 2,762New Hampshire . . . . . . . . . . . 1,214 796 2,373 1,334 748 625 1,979 366New Jersey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,245 8,135 58,999 12,693 9,113 11,303 13,274 12,607New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746 883 919 1,012 802 451 510 320New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,788 80,816 64,926 93,762 108,508 67,153 121,578 35,031North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,691 3,251 8,247 4,466 2,620 3,459 2,326 2,826North Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 265 448 224 76 112 91 34Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,771 3,639 15,662 6,068 2,462 4,216 2,051 1,673Oklahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,772 948 1,992 830 428 838 219 649Oregon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,580 3,499 3,705 2,722 984 1,034 1,880 381Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,272 6,537 19,456 9,391 5,819 5,114 8,077 2,618Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866 823 1,237 1,060 693 606 1,458 609South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,880 1,082 2,692 1,882 1,135 1,205 1,793 1,294South Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465 186 278 272 36 135 125 42Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,866 2,367 3,816 3,063 1,374 2,005 2,048 814Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,533 17,150 40,583 22,744 15,594 18,227 6,808 16,640Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,092 3,037 1,455 2,260 1,071 1,895 602 621Vermont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618 692 457 867 386 505 893 180Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,171 6,201 18,177 7,707 4,170 4,801 3,947 3,872Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,741 14,820 14,304 11,877 3,301 2,965 4,232 1,374West Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471 240 684 294 202 226 222 78Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,983 2,173 6,166 3,149 1,617 1,741 1,356 845Wyoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 551 138 345 188 138 107 67U.S. territories and possessions: . . . . . . . . . . . 24,587 4,272 1,235 9,228 12,590 2,610 1,066 6,613 American Samoa . . . . . . . . . 84 35 23 9 – 18 D 4 Federated States of Micronesia . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – D – – Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,214 3,301 345 120 D 113 100 33 Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . . 11 7 D 6 D D D – Northern Mariana Islands . . . 4 4 D 7 – – – – Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 633 636 8,273 12,313 2,315 809 6,473 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . 40 292 212 813 191 161 152 103Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,395 126,279 33,781 109,309 171,099 115,150 31,686 41,290

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Destination Venezuela Israel Bahamas Sweden Switzerland Philippines Argentina Canada

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363,962 337,513 321,046 307,827 276,433 266,840 242,102 238,897Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 486 686 507 407 828 263 1,037Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 908 66 501 3,363 984 124 915Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,014 2,235 191 3,522 2,653 1,654 925 3,554Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 81 113 216 109 249 321 428California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,660 47,062 1,192 46,624 36,338 89,985 16,611 30,841Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,854 2,288 191 3,850 3,384 734 2,357 2,872Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,165 2,451 422 3,793 2,589 1,222 2,334 4,480Delaware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 190 123 1,165 262 382 178 494District of Columbia . . . . . . . . 2,034 3,825 857 5,277 2,768 1,563 4,101 2,311Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230,886 31,022 244,191 46,673 42,842 25,581 93,908 13,717Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,751 4,691 5,847 4,443 3,120 1,783 2,573 4,328Hawaii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 575 53 3,232 3,533 5,979 614 1,247Idaho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 494 15 271 249 180 97 600Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,805 7,178 1,043 10,672 7,309 7,273 4,578 7,187Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786 642 221 1,605 1,046 727 706 1,962Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 333 57 531 327 256 396 970Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 468 129 470 244 241 370 750Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 242 590 615 441 467 425 1,003Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,809 1,261 863 2,919 1,814 3,121 1,420 1,129Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 444 42 628 581 308 109 3,232Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,950 5,180 1,096 3,680 2,062 3,059 2,973 3,797Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . 4,355 11,679 720 8,689 8,276 2,636 4,146 10,539Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,227 2,533 595 4,625 1,864 2,372 1,290 15,913Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883 1,297 323 4,144 1,621 1,356 1,014 2,752Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 163 185 271 147 310 137 396Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551 1,721 366 1,318 740 759 891 1,477Montana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 130 14 286 466 75 67 683Nebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 134 63 424 126 141 196 574Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,206 6,990 869 5,048 6,168 5,331 2,613 2,443New Hampshire . . . . . . . . . . . 177 683 106 819 763 249 237 1,621New Jersey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,462 16,424 1,133 7,519 6,892 11,254 4,115 7,290New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 529 57 543 553 187 314 780New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,415 123,191 4,986 57,482 48,539 18,441 26,995 31,374North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,690 1,772 2,484 5,419 2,037 1,206 1,496 4,393North Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 44 29 179 89 199 70 963Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,383 2,644 708 2,650 1,830 1,638 1,165 4,588Oklahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,406 229 250 420 338 240 376 861Oregon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 1,395 30 1,498 1,001 1,315 465 1,987Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,997 5,684 1,195 6,059 3,163 2,500 2,094 6,591Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 387 145 853 430 266 160 694South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . 493 783 650 1,241 1,021 630 479 1,437South Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 41 13 104 150 81 39 187Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760 657 1,174 1,734 923 614 527 1,691Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,711 7,776 1,950 9,337 5,660 10,346 9,619 14,355Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659 591 35 1,144 1,160 356 754 1,375Vermont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 378 71 412 685 129 187 1,158Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,461 2,593 1,089 5,033 2,206 4,320 3,096 5,012Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766 3,546 174 5,881 3,837 7,524 1,156 8,885West Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 76 53 147 46 133 45 341Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607 1,027 151 1,938 1,227 614 786 1,898Wyoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 100 6 206 271 53 68 394U.S. territories and possessions: . . . . . . . . . . . 7,385 510 469 1,299 1,649 7,763 4,141 436 American Samoa . . . . . . . . 5 9 – D D 20 5 11 Federated States of Micronesia . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 47 D 95 137 6,661 20 60 Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . . – 3 D D – 3 3 D Northern Mariana Islands . . . – 4 – – D 19 – D Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,181 396 321 993 1,345 918 3,907 264 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . 188 51 139 205 159 142 206 98Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,079 29,750 42,965 29,911 57,114 37,226 37,981 18,955

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Dominican Destination New Zealand Jamaica Peru Belgium Republic El Salvador Guatemala Denmark

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226,132 223,896 219,764 208,754 205,903 205,045 190,044 186,821Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 250 243 411 146 215 484 343Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816 96 82 1,079 73 99 77 473Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,446 429 1,059 2,494 517 560 874 2,067Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 52 147 179 41 697 343 137California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,430 3,652 19,157 24,917 1,722 57,142 32,837 29,002Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,074 631 1,560 2,369 288 1,088 1,066 2,067Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 799 4,310 1,854 1,769 1,233 490 1,402 2,036Delaware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 392 116 329 116 85 99 132District of Columbia . . . . . . . . 1,623 1,130 2,740 3,667 1,030 3,631 2,098 4,046Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,437 84,755 80,815 25,739 47,490 27,091 54,938 22,500Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,455 6,470 3,062 4,688 1,030 3,737 4,405 3,235Hawaii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,523 142 551 1,015 69 71 168 1,509Idaho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 D 279 387 D 23 103 199Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,106 1,633 2,243 5,847 906 1,566 4,752 6,078Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625 328 519 926 169 479 752 802Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 70 180 332 113 247 178 521Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 91 245 306 50 240 235 433Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 168 292 496 85 226 223 440Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,152 562 697 2,659 289 1,351 2,036 1,983Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 280 138 428 85 30 69 397Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,024 4,068 3,490 2,264 752 10,487 3,215 2,688Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . 2,363 3,996 2,176 5,937 5,482 4,901 3,540 4,965Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957 2,005 794 2,801 377 364 532 1,658Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800 386 647 1,308 144 646 636 1,804Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 537 262 124 66 120 473 105Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679 540 427 890 163 435 401 802Montana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 20 85 227 19 9 37 368Nebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 49 133 131 56 227 204 242Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,927 484 1,966 4,721 757 1,771 1,976 3,461New Hampshire . . . . . . . . . . . 261 1,546 303 416 201 77 77 616New Jersey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,703 8,076 9,135 6,153 12,994 4,640 4,849 5,824New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 42 255 400 37 114 238 320New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,840 53,651 17,035 35,105 62,622 17,978 10,840 31,904North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . 987 1,197 1,434 2,206 589 2,306 1,543 2,366North Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 28 17 49 9 19 20 297Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856 723 1,120 2,632 540 393 696 1,365Oklahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 95 366 246 51 159 446 313Oregon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,281 65 397 656 77 225 351 1,242Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,573 3,147 1,322 3,881 1,901 595 1,120 2,855Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 449 159 347 1,366 280 1,533 468South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 911 288 903 130 169 329 586South Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 43 19 63 D 31 39 122Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529 567 494 1,271 165 726 785 828Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,535 2,563 7,971 6,788 1,642 21,684 13,178 6,132Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,335 77 1,093 920 129 440 642 852Vermont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 578 261 320 57 38 34 290Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,346 1,393 5,429 2,783 774 12,862 4,014 3,103Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,976 230 1,144 2,609 221 1,131 817 6,132West Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 39 142 127 13 27 20 93Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646 338 535 1,022 249 214 361 1,721Wyoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 27 122 178 14 21 28 127U.S. territories and possessions: . . . . . . . . . . . 1,136 1,969 2,112 1,114 28,417 713 1,144 2,489 American Samoa . . . . . . . . D D D D D D D D Federated States of Micronesia . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – – – – – Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768 6 63 64 3 14 D D Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . – 7 – D D D – – Northern Mariana Islands . . . – – D – – 7 D – Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – – – – – Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 945 1,975 924 26,541 653 1,103 530 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . 222 1,007 66 123 1,869 31 36 1,871Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77,843 28,606 42,652 40,125 30,426 22,175 28,787 22,283

See footnotes at end of table.

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Other Trinidad (including Destination Poland Norway Costa Rica Ecuador Austria and Tobago Chile unknown)

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170,531 162,016 156,609 152,958 152,285 149,476 139,261 2,980,208Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529 647 365 144 466 183 186 9,242Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398 569 168 70 1,430 117 78 9,415Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,097 1,426 1,083 339 1,720 191 1,044 22,029Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 97 154 68 121 49 105 4,288California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,963 18,493 13,200 7,806 22,782 2,353 11,999 356,938Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,478 1,745 1,039 352 1,809 188 1,244 22,241Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,389 1,861 819 1,397 1,077 880 946 26,706Delaware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451 122 194 124 109 174 122 4,569District of Columbia . . . . . . . . 1,374 2,976 2,082 1,511 2,402 1,557 2,668 68,689Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,633 26,170 56,709 71,224 25,434 38,925 49,227 510,597Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,615 1,495 2,450 1,355 2,296 1,574 2,350 54,473Hawaii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631 1,479 273 156 1,914 89 435 40,183Idaho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 186 65 62 148 10 140 2,548Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,457 3,620 2,334 2,176 4,444 849 2,112 80,077Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 991 591 489 355 729 175 294 16,940Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 493 129 120 324 46 272 6,738Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 176 234 123 211 69 191 7,343Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 260 132 259 301 127 199 7,433Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,449 2,817 1,563 689 1,653 805 791 26,796Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814 372 83 84 342 40 98 5,141Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,439 1,984 1,164 1,188 1,471 3,794 1,770 62,582Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . 4,399 3,843 1,591 1,326 3,645 1,547 2,424 95,291Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,119 1,441 487 353 2,763 443 569 38,941Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873 3,294 725 604 847 225 567 24,111Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 164 122 72 90 79 49 3,423Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704 523 294 342 449 211 332 13,621Montana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 247 25 44 162 11 50 1,967Nebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 114 83 57 126 13 89 3,595Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,018 2,362 1,857 813 3,323 588 2,190 41,679New Hampshire . . . . . . . . . . . 727 333 70 117 335 59 162 6,803New Jersey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,744 3,656 7,252 9,391 2,772 6,044 2,240 95,595New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 222 185 120 291 47 185 5,058New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,171 27,517 7,522 22,812 28,070 53,032 12,735 425,475North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,493 1,084 2,070 1,073 1,401 536 1,157 25,914North Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 651 25 14 50 32 31 1,739Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,430 1,034 1,370 570 1,608 390 781 34,120Oklahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 420 187 161 326 132 91 8,502Oregon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376 901 508 224 722 61 534 13,785Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,862 2,607 1,426 944 2,258 1,705 1,323 52,598Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629 231 110 118 287 105 167 8,460South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . 740 428 520 254 643 370 237 9,851South Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 252 14 10 82 8 21 1,272Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771 813 532 236 660 233 468 12,506Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,176 13,915 5,936 4,460 3,547 4,032 4,231 133,711Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348 923 258 251 670 26 676 8,588Vermont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 291 79 36 318 57 159 3,575Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,702 2,702 1,453 1,589 1,762 1,214 1,502 67,506Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,384 4,477 784 450 2,278 251 1,016 49,142West Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 187 32 14 84 61 41 2,167Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,423 1,183 400 315 868 130 542 16,511Wyoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 105 32 25 111 32 66 1,366U.S. territories and possessions: . . . . . . . . . . . 325 797 2,374 1,008 811 2,599 1,798 68,585 American Samoa . . . . . . . . 3 4 D D D D – 107 Federated States of Micronesia . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – D Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 41 D 12 D 4 13 29,178 Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . 4 D – D – D – D Northern Mariana Islands . . . – D – D D – – 65 Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – D Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 605 2,337 979 615 1,412 1,714 28,919 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . 65 144 26 12 119 1,180 71 10,260Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,854 17,720 33,557 15,553 19,743 23,008 26,557 359,783

See footnotes at end of table.

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D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.1 Includes People’s Republic of China and Taiwan.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Foreign Temporary Temporary Treaty All government visitors for visitors for Transit traders and Age and gender classes officials1 business pleasure aliens2 investors1

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,781,330 152,649 4,593,124 22,802,907 338,175 182,934Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632,986 2,794 19,846 544,270 5,388 4,2895 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939,232 2,984 15,693 838,742 4,244 7,72210 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,126,895 3,034 21,024 1,029,464 3,492 7,49515 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,380,589 2,941 40,893 1,148,700 6,927 5,42120 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,210,716 6,840 121,308 1,569,413 33,049 2,74725 to 29 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,339,555 14,174 431,839 2,297,706 68,661 10,02930 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,796,587 20,064 722,479 2,500,733 62,399 24,48435 to 39 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,416,976 22,331 809,938 2,192,716 46,773 31,51540 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,111,073 22,649 777,785 2,023,502 37,506 29,86845 to 49 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,624,425 20,327 617,753 1,790,828 28,780 22,78650 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,320,325 15,883 445,803 1,730,284 19,414 15,88255 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,061,750 10,758 303,514 1,663,850 11,670 12,30460 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,562,174 4,750 146,970 1,373,789 4,900 5,07265 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,177,561 2,668 106,266 2,037,558 4,079 3,071Unknown age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80,486 452 12,013 61,352 893 249Unknown gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437,571 2,422 65,244 332,397 4,681 2,277

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,781,330 152,649 4,593,124 22,802,907 338,175 182,934Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,225,125 111,503 3,517,971 10,658,620 246,022 126,153 Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317,242 1,569 12,413 268,858 2,977 2,278 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467,506 1,523 8,390 416,316 2,173 3,886 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560,882 1,533 11,003 510,547 1,828 3,823 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641,591 1,514 21,242 526,864 3,726 2,665 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 973,286 4,585 69,336 646,763 19,662 1,625 25 to 29 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,622,011 9,500 284,997 993,998 46,453 5,967 30 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,102,470 14,614 532,314 1,212,250 46,923 16,059 35 to 39 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,033,069 17,180 639,057 1,113,237 37,232 22,608 40 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,869,979 17,577 629,483 1,020,708 30,775 22,129 45 to 49 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,521,674 15,545 502,493 864,414 23,585 17,317 50 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,247,967 12,116 361,112 784,737 15,493 12,005 55 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,053,372 8,324 247,869 737,804 8,954 9,439 60 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756,386 3,659 115,853 611,255 3,369 3,887 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,022,837 1,998 74,934 927,091 2,324 2,329 Unknown age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,853 266 7,475 23,778 548 136Female . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,118,634 38,724 1,009,909 11,811,890 87,472 54,504 Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307,239 1,186 7,094 268,080 2,341 1,964 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460,085 1,425 7,078 411,973 2,024 3,753 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552,342 1,477 9,743 506,382 1,630 3,598 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723,925 1,397 19,240 609,173 3,142 2,705 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,213,284 2,178 50,499 904,849 13,091 1,095 25 to 29 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,680,694 4,514 141,865 1,277,749 21,475 3,974 30 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,650,915 5,186 181,285 1,260,078 14,752 8,192 35 to 39 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,342,486 4,841 160,481 1,053,083 8,920 8,593 40 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,199,661 4,684 137,703 975,974 6,128 7,396 45 to 49 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,062,704 4,420 106,188 898,763 4,655 5,178 50 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,033,825 3,472 77,710 916,446 3,493 3,598 55 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971,832 2,227 50,676 896,152 2,482 2,628 60 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775,547 1,003 28,444 735,713 1,445 1,082 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,109,805 614 29,072 1,068,456 1,674 681 Unknown age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,290 100 2,831 29,019 220 67Unknown gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437,571 2,422 65,244 332,397 4,681 2,277

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Spouses and children Representatives Spouses Temporary of temporary of foreign and children workers workers International information Age and gender Students of students and trainees3 and trainees3 representatives1 media1

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620,210 36,163 618,162 142,873 109,355 37,108Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,115 4,594 1,774 11,240 1,289 2945 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,697 4,299 971 17,043 1,849 38810 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,217 2,676 1,047 12,389 2,067 30615 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,984 1,159 7,248 7,923 2,167 28720 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251,896 2,318 45,826 9,730 2,388 1,09025 to 29 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169,250 8,037 149,823 26,357 6,264 4,56530 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,625 7,308 167,923 22,863 12,571 7,88935 to 39 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,074 2,730 102,380 14,122 14,157 7,38540 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,633 1,290 62,290 8,869 15,244 5,73845 to 49 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,342 658 35,718 5,255 16,207 3,84850 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,369 343 20,290 3,145 15,178 2,44455 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,160 288 11,624 2,060 12,605 1,62860 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573 162 5,666 778 4,939 74765 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,126 235 4,389 806 2,199 432Unknown age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,149 66 1,193 293 231 67Unknown gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,990 490 7,061 1,420 1,477 570

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620,210 36,163 618,162 142,873 109,355 37,108Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325,081 10,620 460,240 35,519 63,580 25,874 Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,164 2,269 1,235 5,663 647 162 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874 2,175 576 8,496 924 218 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,544 1,350 622 6,268 980 158 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,467 513 5,125 3,826 1,026 147 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125,518 334 32,359 880 960 566 25 to 29 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91,711 781 104,695 1,164 2,486 2,631 30 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,091 1,083 122,502 2,491 6,218 5,090 35 to 39 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,037 692 79,242 2,126 8,091 5,339 40 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,681 529 50,107 1,760 9,125 4,415 45 to 49 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,191 335 29,097 1,217 9,764 2,943 50 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,198 173 16,402 624 9,499 1,877 55 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605 180 9,472 454 8,520 1,326 60 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 93 4,664 211 3,714 617 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,148 101 3,375 263 1,522 342 Unknown age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495 12 767 76 104 43Female . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288,139 25,053 150,861 105,934 44,298 10,664 Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913 2,257 504 5,437 629 127 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805 2,053 387 8,339 908 164 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,572 1,280 408 5,997 1,071 144 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,542 627 2,045 4,018 1,122 137 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123,766 1,968 12,957 8,787 1,412 511 25 to 29 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,804 7,178 43,732 24,979 3,725 1,880 30 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,788 6,144 43,764 20,182 6,195 2,699 35 to 39 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,793 2,001 21,995 11,871 5,926 1,946 40 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,835 744 11,396 7,029 5,923 1,223 45 to 49 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,055 305 6,076 3,973 6,209 835 50 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,127 159 3,584 2,468 5,435 517 55 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528 102 1,936 1,579 3,861 267 60 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 60 901 551 1,152 117 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933 133 928 539 641 80 Unknown age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478 42 248 185 89 17Unknown gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,990 490 7,061 1,420 1,477 570

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Spouses and Spouses and children of children of Exchange exchange Fiances(ees) Intracompany intracompany NATO Age and gender visitors visitors of U.S. citizens4 transferees transferees officials1

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321,975 38,802 33,061 314,484 142,099 14,813Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,253 5,649 653 840 16,508 5995 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390 5,338 1,276 409 21,668 74610 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453 3,678 1,349 345 15,581 56415 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,734 1,651 1,666 344 9,200 45920 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127,728 952 6,773 3,580 3,446 81125 to 29 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,350 4,615 8,382 37,625 11,165 1,50130 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,287 7,078 5,636 70,088 18,530 1,81735 to 39 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,100 4,325 3,145 70,987 17,007 2,14640 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,266 2,549 1,969 56,180 12,846 1,98545 to 49 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,335 1,237 1,050 36,452 7,466 1,76850 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,943 621 508 20,484 4,555 1,24355 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,880 443 258 11,547 2,568 76360 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,387 279 114 3,621 767 24665 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,022 295 176 1,531 548 127Unknown age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847 92 106 451 244 38Unknown gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,979 442 505 3,614 1,146 165

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321,975 38,802 33,061 314,484 142,099 14,813Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166,163 12,733 8,220 266,507 40,332 10,001 Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591 2,919 305 628 8,419 302 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 2,665 602 238 10,940 375 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 1,904 633 222 8,032 288 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,365 798 529 203 4,538 236 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,905 194 1,128 2,410 762 495 25 to 29 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,719 564 1,851 28,053 596 968 30 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,201 1,286 1,347 55,982 1,701 1,180 35 to 39 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,994 984 760 60,979 1,695 1,522 40 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,039 673 444 50,344 1,440 1,490 45 to 49 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,651 305 251 32,896 922 1,333 50 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,344 150 146 18,785 568 951 55 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,077 127 95 10,752 326 575 60 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,060 63 49 3,334 142 196 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,397 74 62 1,360 176 66 Unknown age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378 27 18 321 75 24Female . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152,833 25,627 24,336 44,363 100,621 4,647 Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643 2,664 340 195 7,962 292 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 2,610 656 163 10,543 364 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 1,713 694 120 7,419 273 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,011 837 1,109 137 4,602 220 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,959 756 5,551 1,146 2,660 309 25 to 29 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,145 4,014 6,424 9,238 10,496 521 30 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,708 5,732 4,210 13,427 16,706 621 35 to 39 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,849 3,293 2,334 9,268 15,207 599 40 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,046 1,845 1,486 5,192 11,309 479 45 to 49 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,542 910 775 3,029 6,471 411 50 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,502 457 353 1,397 3,926 271 55 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766 307 159 620 2,205 174 60 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 212 62 222 614 48 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597 220 111 145 363 59 Unknown age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372 57 72 64 138 6Unknown gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,979 442 505 3,614 1,146 165

See footnotes at end of table.

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Spouses and Spouse Spouse of legal Child of legal Dependent children of and/or child permanent permanent child of spouse Free-Trade Free-Trade of US citizen, resident, resident, or accompanying Agreement Agreement immigrant immigrant immigrant child, immigrant Age and gender workers workers visa pending visa pending visa pending visa pending

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,219 12,635 22,117 17,866 15,239 15,556Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 1,277 989 121 757 2,7305 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 1,969 1,158 130 2,396 3,54910 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 1,864 1,116 108 3,237 3,89415 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 1,111 1,292 232 5,526 3,89320 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,239 279 3,419 765 2,481 1,04125 to 29 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,215 807 5,053 2,301 104 6630 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,944 1,415 3,802 3,462 124 7335 to 39 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,752 1,297 2,155 3,335 122 6740 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,309 995 1,349 2,692 97 5145 to 49 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,304 583 782 1,960 80 3950 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,167 430 431 1,290 75 2655 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,883 323 220 764 59 2560 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,341 170 117 366 44 2065 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596 100 153 292 85 47Unknown age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 15 81 48 52 35Unknown gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635 145 354 266 209 203

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,219 12,635 22,117 17,866 15,239 15,556Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,960 4,403 6,524 3,856 8,000 8,025 Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 641 517 47 394 1,381 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 991 560 55 1,222 1,814 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 969 549 61 1,685 2,022 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 596 485 97 3,016 2,091 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,196 62 556 187 1,397 575 25 to 29 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,800 75 1,248 488 31 20 30 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,235 213 1,061 831 38 26 35 to 39 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,870 199 585 734 41 14 40 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,469 213 368 548 23 16 45 to 49 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,447 133 233 323 24 9 50 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,964 124 121 172 33 9 55 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,152 86 95 139 19 8 60 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,073 54 59 87 19 3 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490 43 69 75 31 21 Unknown age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 4 18 12 27 16Female . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,624 8,087 15,239 13,744 7,030 7,328 Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 622 454 70 356 1,318 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 954 586 72 1,144 1,690 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 874 555 45 1,513 1,829 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 499 791 135 2,444 1,751 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,026 216 2,819 569 1,046 453 25 to 29 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,324 722 3,732 1,785 73 45 30 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,585 1,191 2,689 2,579 84 46 35 to 39 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,785 1,087 1,537 2,554 79 50 40 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,732 771 956 2,105 70 33 45 to 49 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,796 445 527 1,609 55 30 50 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,165 302 297 1,095 41 16 55 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700 234 121 616 37 17 60 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 110 55 273 22 16 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 54 79 215 52 26 Unknown age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 6 41 22 14 8Unknown gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635 145 354 266 209 203

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Spouses, Spouses, children, and children, Victims of parents of victims and parents severe form of severe form Victim of of victim of Other and Age and gender of trafficking of trafficking criminal activity criminal activity unknown

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612 467 140 158 131,427Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 33 – D 3,5125 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 59 D D 4,40210 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 68 D 23 5,32215 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 35 D D 7,65120 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 32 22 27 10,36325 to 29 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 28 23 12 12,47830 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 59 17 11 14,81635 to 39 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 49 D D 15,27940 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 45 D D 14,31445 to 49 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 22 10 3 11,79750 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 13 D D 10,47655 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 9 6 3 7,52560 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 6 D D 5,33665 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 6 4 – 7,744Unknown age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3 – – 412Unknown gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4 6 6 1,856

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612 467 140 158 131,427Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 232 64 83 65,499 Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 19 – D 1,738 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 27 – D 2,215 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 26 – 15 2,532 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 16 – 17 3,421 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 17 11 12 4,730 25 to 29 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 D 9 D 6,127 30 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 27 D D 7,642 35 to 39 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 29 D D 7,767 40 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 32 D D 7,559 45 to 49 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 13 D D 6,204 50 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 9 D D 5,342 55 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 6 D D 3,952 60 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D D 2,558 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 D D – 3,535 Unknown age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 – – 177Female . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 231 70 69 64,072 Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 14 – D 1,717 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 32 D D 2,125 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 40 D 8 2,719 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 18 3 10 4,164 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 15 10 14 5,530 25 to 29 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 24 13 8 6,203 30 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 32 6 8 6,991 35 to 39 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 19 12 – 7,344 40 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 13 D D 6,571 45 to 49 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 9 D D 5,419 50 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4 6 – 4,976 55 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D D 3,429 60 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 5 D – 2,681 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D D – 4,029 Unknown age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 1 – – 174Unknown gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4 6 6 1,856

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.1 Includes spouses and unmarried minor (or dependent) children.2 Includes foreign government officials and their spouses and unmarried minor (or dependent) children in transit. 3 Free-trade agreement workers (and their spouses and children) are shown separately.4 Includes minor children of fiances(ees).

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Naturalizations

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Table 31. PETITIONS FOR NATURALIZATIONS FILED, PERSONS NATURALIZED, AND PETITIONS FOR NATURALIZATIONS DENIED: FISCAL YEARS 1907 TO 2004

Persons naturalized Petitions Petitions Year filed1 Total Civilian Military Not reported denied

Total, 1907 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,122,719 20,310,793 19,093,232 682,499 535,062 2,521,5931907 to 1910 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164,036 111,738 111,738 – – 17,7021911 to 1920 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,381,384 1,128,972 884,672 244,300 – 118,7251921 to 1930 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,884,277 1,773,185 1,716,979 56,206 – 165,4931931 to 1940 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,637,113 1,518,464 1,498,573 19,891 – 45,7921941 to 1950 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,938,066 1,987,028 1,837,229 149,799 – 64,8141951 to 1960 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,230,483 1,189,946 1,148,241 41,705 – 27,5691961 to 1970 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,142,985 1,120,263 1,084,195 36,068 – 23,557 1961 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138,718 132,450 130,731 1,719 – 3,175 1962 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129,682 127,307 124,972 2,335 – 3,557 1963 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121,170 124,178 121,618 2,560 – 2,436 1964 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113,218 112,234 109,629 2,605 – 2,309 1965 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106,813 104,299 101,214 3,085 – 2,059 1966 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104,853 103,059 100,498 2,561 – 2,029 1967 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108,369 104,902 102,211 2,691 – 2,008 1968 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103,085 102,726 100,288 2,438 – 1,962 1969 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102,317 98,709 93,251 5,458 – 2,043 1970 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114,760 110,399 99,783 10,616 – 1,9791971 to 1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,556,307 1,464,772 1,397,846 66,926 – 27,978 1971 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109,897 108,407 98,858 9,549 – 2,028 1972 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121,883 116,215 107,740 8,475 – 1,837 1973 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126,929 120,740 112,944 7,796 – 1,708 1974 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136,175 131,655 124,807 6,848 – 2,210 1975 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149,399 141,537 135,323 6,214 – 2,300 1976 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157,932 142,504 136,873 5,631 – 2,231 1976,TQ2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,220 48,218 46,705 1,513 – 568 1977 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186,354 159,873 154,568 5,305 – 2,845 1978 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168,854 173,535 168,409 5,126 – 3,894 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165,434 164,150 158,276 5,874 – 3,987 1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192,230 157,938 153,343 4,595 – 4,3701981 to 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,375,727 2,214,265 2,155,519 28,317 30,429 47,224 1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171,073 166,317 162,227 4,090 – 4,316 1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201,507 173,688 170,071 3,617 – 3,994 1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187,719 178,948 175,678 3,196 74 3,160 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286,440 197,023 192,113 2,965 1,945 3,373 1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305,981 244,717 238,394 3,266 3,057 3,610 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290,732 280,623 275,352 2,901 2,370 5,980 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232,988 227,008 224,100 2,402 506 6,771 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237,752 242,063 239,541 2,296 226 4,304 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227,692 233,777 231,198 1,954 625 5,200 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233,843 270,101 246,845 1,630 21,626 6,5161991 to 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,423,885 5,619,892 5,159,520 28,945 431,427 1,429,696 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206,668 308,058 299,373 1,804 6,881 6,268 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342,238 240,252 222,519 5,702 12,031 19,293 1993 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521,866 314,681 303,211 7,069 4,401 39,931 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543,353 434,107 402,050 6,194 25,863 40,561 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 959,963 488,088 474,169 3,862 10,057 46,067 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,277,403 1,044,689 926,481 1,261 116,947 229,842 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,412,712 598,225 534,756 538 62,931 130,676 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932,957 463,060 439,416 964 22,680 137,395 1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765,346 839,944 742,749 712 96,483 379,993 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460,916 888,788 814,796 839 73,153 399,6702001 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,388,456 2,182,268 2,098,720 10,342 73,206 553,043 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501,643 608,205 576,671 749 30,785 218,326 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700,649 573,708 551,628 1,055 21,025 139,779 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523,370 463,204 449,650 3,870 9,684 91,599 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662,794 537,151 520,771 4,668 11,712 103,339

– Represents zero.1 Fee receipted or application entered into automated processing system.2 Transition quarter, July 1 through September 30, 1976.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 32. PERSONS NATURALIZED BY REGION AND COUNTRY OF BIRTH: FISCAL YEARS 1995 TO 2004

Region and country of birth 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488,088 1,044,689 598,225 463,060 839,944 888,788 608,205 573,708 463,204 537,151Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,602 109,607 67,783 58,836 101,318 121,273 89,431 93,627 74,186 89,014 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 348 419 351 599 826 1,032 2,451 2,284 3,324 Andorra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D – D 3 D D D – – Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,215 2,957 3,037 2,530 3,190 2,569 1,972 1,817 1,676 1,793 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 382 181 153 232 290 271 276 240 277 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 160 263 350 878 1,318 946 1,188 887 793 Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 393 727 833 1,869 3,063 2,008 2,142 1,224 1,464 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 343 179 166 294 363 299 265 251 232 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . 29 44 50 33 300 1,745 2,759 4,095 4,994 8,013 Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 627 356 263 498 847 1,170 1,311 1,600 2,487 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 470 212 184 358 501 519 621 616 1,084 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . 5 4 10 D 27 58 47 64 50 69 Czechoslovakia (former) . . 692 733 434 315 548 658 492 454 333 434 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 341 165 165 239 286 227 195 197 175 Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 91 52 52 82 108 105 110 102 126 Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 186 94 110 159 201 115 141 119 352 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,413 2,340 1,261 1,125 1,903 2,285 1,745 1,724 1,476 1,802 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 70 101 76 147 407 415 444 416 382 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,658 4,664 2,946 2,517 4,169 4,522 3,212 3,431 3,201 3,836 Gibraltar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 5 D D 5 D D – D D Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,135 3,162 1,885 1,553 2,355 2,270 1,676 1,290 934 1,100 Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 868 1,159 568 531 884 1,074 877 829 620 738 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 43 38 32 50 52 44 32 41 79 Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,959 3,284 1,835 1,444 3,414 5,454 4,441 3,443 2,585 2,421 Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,065 5,117 2,445 2,522 4,393 4,436 2,987 2,621 1,849 2,295 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . 21 32 46 58 226 437 429 562 455 572 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D 18 32 87 81 128 131 159 Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 336 202 194 383 484 360 376 224 335 Liechtenstein . . . . . . . . . . 3 D – D – – D – – – Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 271 180 155 313 355 405 489 457 738 Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . 8 21 9 4 15 11 9 8 9 9 Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . 89 298 204 137 212 310 394 560 378 601 Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 123 51 39 93 116 63 86 61 80 Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 390 621 574 1,155 1,573 959 919 713 711 Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3 D D 8 – D D D D Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . 657 976 475 397 700 813 549 515 502 722 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 265 112 92 161 192 126 109 93 137 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,092 14,047 8,037 5,911 13,127 16,405 11,661 12,823 9,140 10,335 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,809 6,525 4,278 4,663 5,843 4,756 2,780 2,198 2,037 2,173 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,408 5,242 3,043 2,244 3,275 3,586 3,521 4,016 3,271 4,388 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,367 8,245 8,200 5,981 10,351 12,919 9,413 9,846 6,671 7,586 San Marino . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D 7 6 D D D 3 Serbia and Montenegro1 . . 2,479 3,276 1,297 1,004 1,761 2,196 2,082 2,307 2,014 3,159 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . 16 20 26 35 81 200 243 301 287 318 Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 19 13 17 36 43 42 58 43 60 Soviet Union (former) . . . . 10,338 20,137 9,286 6,987 11,300 9,195 4,576 4,305 3,441 3,772 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837 2,079 756 905 1,241 1,073 724 634 555 1,120 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 404 218 203 354 373 321 819 951 1,016 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . 453 605 329 301 506 655 517 462 430 487 Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 7 15 35 167 406 369 234 127 117 Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . D 6 5 5 27 73 60 65 43 58 Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,715 6,959 5,971 6,952 12,190 16,849 11,828 12,110 8,239 8,069 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . 8,479 12,185 6,900 6,375 10,016 11,739 8,059 8,207 6,733 7,785 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . 46 208 243 236 1,142 3,084 2,493 2,541 1,480 1,224Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190,205 307,451 193,591 153,951 273,924 331,136 247,185 232,412 192,050 218,974 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . 2,031 4,141 1,839 1,736 2,752 2,843 1,947 1,429 1,237 1,323 Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 27 10 19 32 41 47 47 31 54 Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . 1,323 5,407 3,577 1,211 2,280 3,323 4,419 5,628 4,345 5,148 Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D D D D D 3 D Brunei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 D 5 9 13 15 8 12 9 10 Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872 1,335 578 443 889 1,131 1,079 1,069 905 1,177 Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,619 5,202 5,180 5,348 7,140 5,292 3,489 3,126 3,150 3,975

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Region and country of birth 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

China, People’s Republic . . 21,564 34,320 20,947 16,145 38,409 54,534 34,423 32,018 24,014 27,309 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 250 113 129 190 205 185 150 100 104 Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . 5,690 8,660 4,752 2,927 6,624 8,101 5,274 4,852 3,753 3,713 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,558 33,113 21,206 17,060 30,710 42,198 34,311 33,774 29,790 37,975 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . 624 1,106 575 609 1,464 2,487 1,247 1,006 964 1,131 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,761 19,278 11,434 10,739 18,268 19,251 13,881 11,796 10,807 11,781 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,609 2,309 1,621 2,033 3,230 5,217 3,451 3,318 2,211 3,646 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,645 3,537 2,034 1,444 2,917 3,581 2,974 2,562 2,038 2,373 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,462 2,188 1,283 1,847 3,178 3,757 2,369 1,858 1,796 1,955 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,385 3,236 1,820 1,510 2,467 3,252 2,883 2,824 1,917 2,324 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,709 27,969 16,056 10,305 17,738 23,858 18,053 17,307 15,968 17,184 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465 705 404 308 597 905 766 791 606 796 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,315 10,621 8,630 7,734 9,188 7,163 6,507 8,418 5,857 5,678 Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,171 5,441 3,041 2,391 4,226 4,939 3,556 3,408 2,503 3,314 Macau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 225 117 87 197 255 200 196 115 146 Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443 690 428 370 885 1,374 1,034 1,095 985 1,019 Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – D D D – – D Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – – D 7 15 9 13 17 21 Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 119 78 82 143 204 205 248 319 408 Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D 5 D D 7 8 D 16 13 Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,912 11,251 7,266 3,572 6,572 8,726 8,375 8,658 7,431 8,744 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . 37,870 51,346 30,898 24,872 38,944 46,563 35,431 30,487 29,081 31,448 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 34 16 12 27 35 37 48 34 48 Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . 126 193 147 80 152 310 247 309 251 354 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 292 171 143 294 405 306 322 273 332 Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522 917 547 460 883 1,001 836 963 827 980 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,825 2,510 1,638 1,466 2,344 2,802 2,158 2,280 1,882 2,385 Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,565 12,114 6,455 4,862 11,215 13,200 9,076 8,611 6,746 7,889 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,707 3,912 2,287 1,986 4,046 5,225 4,104 4,026 3,648 3,779 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,591 2,181 1,575 1,547 2,025 2,072 1,795 1,926 1,724 1,964 United Arab Emirates . . . . 17 26 45 13 44 79 84 109 112 168 Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,728 51,910 36,178 30,185 53,316 55,934 41,596 36,835 25,995 27,480 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504 876 631 259 512 832 810 882 590 822Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,495 26,970 15,996 12,467 20,401 25,850 24,312 31,527 28,568 34,531 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 275 173 143 277 427 469 615 494 616 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 122 91 73 99 113 86 69 65 87 Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 14 24 24 35 23 19 25 27 42 Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . D 8 5 – 4 8 7 4 12 5 Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . 168 8 4 3 8 16 10 7 12 19 Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 7 3 D 6 13 15 28 21 59 Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 264 164 149 181 286 299 463 534 575 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . 529 634 573 542 849 736 581 684 431 635 Central African Republic . . 6 4 D D 4 4 D 10 6 5 Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 3 3 4 6 9 12 3 24 27 Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D D – 3 – D D 3 D Congo, Democratic Republic 91 187 81 68 127 138 115 116 101 88 Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . 5 5 3 11 42 58 90 139 123 163 Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . 76 164 107 84 121 184 171 272 264 317 Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5 5 5 9 10 9 18 16 12 Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,671 3,877 2,238 1,498 2,687 3,492 3,786 3,701 2,925 3,726 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . 5 10 D D 5 3 – 3 D 3 Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 518 393 443 567 824 756 812 821 829 Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,626 3,397 1,994 1,844 2,611 2,774 2,765 3,902 3,828 4,255 French Southern and Antarctic Lands . . . . . . – – – – D – – – – – Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 7 3 D 5 8 5 12 11 12 Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . 53 98 50 40 69 81 71 135 113 136 Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,578 2,905 1,588 1,073 1,548 2,035 1,832 3,328 2,836 3,577 Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 9 24 31 42 71 67 111 81 124 Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . . 154 3 74 206 168 20 6 14 15 10 Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429 695 496 399 699 933 734 865 823 997 Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 5 4 5 D 5 3 5 6 8 Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745 1,104 719 557 848 1,027 782 1,048 918 1,218

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Region and country of birth 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 211 130 95 153 181 171 164 112 130 Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . 13 27 16 12 16 30 25 29 22 30 Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 40 22 35 37 50 39 44 25 52 Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 30 29 19 32 48 51 72 64 66 Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 9 3 D 12 13 19 23 29 53 Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 37 29 23 41 60 38 37 42 43 Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689 1,174 555 415 854 1,198 1,248 1,274 1,284 1,841 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . 37 53 40 30 59 68 29 57 32 40 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 8 9 5 10 13 15 13 13 13 Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 489 218 321 608 556 183 110 47 46 Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,645 6,248 3,537 1,963 3,125 4,135 4,355 6,419 5,697 6,470 Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – D – – – – Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 10 5 4 9 31 62 86 77 116 St. Helena . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D D D D D D D D Sao Tome and Principe . . . – D D D 3 D D D 4 D Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 260 223 107 188 218 251 346 274 371 Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 12 16 7 13 27 18 12 16 13 Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . 578 782 492 420 487 600 518 763 778 945 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 306 171 306 816 1,247 1,168 1,791 2,237 2,714 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . 884 1,217 661 676 1,418 1,967 1,472 1,528 1,262 1,453 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 308 218 140 281 515 741 1,013 841 1,104 Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3 – 5 5 11 3 8 7 5 Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 447 220 189 354 420 334 345 295 348 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 32 20 18 35 58 57 113 153 204 Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 164 87 90 129 168 157 165 120 192 Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 409 264 206 348 430 297 322 279 327 Western Sahara . . . . . . . . D – D – D D – – – – Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 183 105 90 168 228 158 168 134 180 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 178 99 79 174 274 207 231 211 225Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,817 3,312 1,812 1,613 2,385 2,685 2,594 2,356 2,891 3,551 American Samoa . . . . . . . 122 148 38 63 75 80 97 102 117 137 Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 438 261 203 342 436 392 427 884 1,295 Christmas Island . . . . . . . D D D – D – – – – – Cocos Islands . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – D – – – Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . . 5 30 9 3 8 3 4 5 5 – Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704 1,392 711 493 775 924 1,180 1,022 1,206 1,267 French Polynesia . . . . . . . 23 113 47 103 142 128 – 16 9 10 Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D – D D 41 – D – Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4 4 D 3 3 3 – – D Marshall Islands . . . . . . . 4 6 5 D D D 3 D 4 9 Micronesia, Federated States 5 6 D 7 D 3 4 6 6 14 Nauru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – D – 3 5 D D D D New Caledonia . . . . . . . . . D 4 D D 4 3 4 D D 4 New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . 245 342 222 196 317 421 347 356 340 420 Niue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 8 D – D D – – – – Northern Mariana Islands . D D – – D – 3 – – – Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 10 17 19 17 7 9 11 19 Papua New Guinea . . . . . . 8 13 D – 3 8 7 7 3 3 Pitcairn Island . . . . . . . . . D – – – – – – – – – Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 319 155 219 257 282 195 151 117 157 Solomon Islands . . . . . . . 4 D D 3 D D D D D 3 Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 453 336 299 423 366 301 248 183 207 Tuvalu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 D – D – – – Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . – D D – D D D D – 3 Wallis and Futuna Islands . – 27 – – – – – – – –North America . . . . . . . . . . 175,216 506,767 273,954 208,192 385,605 347,193 200,939 169,950 130,848 151,047 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,597 11,663 6,639 5,545 9,353 11,365 7,551 7,591 6,408 7,682 Greenland . . . . . . . . . . . . D 4 4 – D – D – D D Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,655 254,988 142,569 112,442 207,750 189,705 103,234 76,531 56,093 63,840 St. Pierre and Miquelon . . – – D D D – – – – – United States . . . . . . . . . 16 42 22 20 28 44 38 42 37 36 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,480 163,709 84,834 62,678 115,245 93,291 59,602 58,943 46,154 54,811 Anguilla . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 41 64 86 165 67 38 30 24 18

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Table 32. PERSONS NATURALIZED BY REGION AND COUNTRY OF BIRTH: FISCAL YEARS 1995 TO 2004 – Continued

Region and country of birth 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . . 668 1,415 886 932 1,103 946 478 451 326 357 Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 107 66 38 86 85 41 50 28 30 Bahamas, The . . . . . . . 223 671 337 265 796 591 394 401 342 378 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . 1,304 2,488 1,960 1,173 2,558 1,891 914 874 664 650 Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . 80 75 39 54 84 90 58 47 38 47 British Virgin Islands . . 62 43 102 136 205 134 48 40 22 41 Cayman Islands . . . . . . 55 36 288 152 137 23 15 17 7 9 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,511 63,234 13,155 15,331 25,467 15,661 11,393 10,889 7,727 11,236 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . 434 1,040 621 677 977 717 372 456 361 441 Dominican Republic . . . 9,999 29,459 21,092 11,916 23,089 25,176 15,010 15,591 12,627 15,464 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . 736 1,681 1,223 663 1,532 1,172 610 609 524 530 Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . 137 383 21 19 61 32 14 25 18 21 Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,884 25,012 16,477 10,416 19,550 14,428 10,408 9,280 7,263 8,215 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,156 25,458 20,253 15,040 28,604 22,567 13,978 13,973 11,232 12,271 Martinique . . . . . . . . . . 7 23 14 11 22 23 21 16 10 18 Montserrat . . . . . . . . . 91 181 141 124 190 130 86 84 64 54 Netherlands Antilles . . . 29 61 62 51 89 79 34 28 19 23 Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . 5 6 5 4 D 4 D 3 – – St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . 575 983 714 771 995 713 331 352 321 282 St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . 418 824 638 531 708 610 392 418 367 359 St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . 492 1,112 827 475 999 832 440 462 374 388 Trinidad and Tobago . . . 4,487 9,288 5,803 3,784 7,732 7,265 4,484 4,822 3,777 3,958 Turks and Caicos Islands . 19 70 41 19 83 43 40 18 15 16 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . 9 18 5 10 D 12 D 7 4 5 Central America . . . . . . . . 29,467 76,361 39,885 27,505 53,227 52,788 30,513 26,843 22,155 24,677 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874 1,831 1,353 988 2,079 1,802 1,015 774 666 664 Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . 1,138 2,759 1,574 1,103 2,087 1,895 1,146 1,002 869 970 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . 13,702 35,478 18,273 12,267 22,991 24,073 13,663 10,716 8,738 9,602 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . 5,093 13,933 7,914 5,534 11,031 11,488 6,281 5,455 4,564 5,080 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . 2,954 7,881 4,318 2,752 5,294 5,188 3,257 3,505 3,011 3,455 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . 3,950 11,135 4,409 3,359 6,651 5,426 3,564 3,794 3,054 3,444 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,756 3,344 2,044 1,502 3,094 2,916 1,587 1,597 1,253 1,462South America . . . . . . . . . . 38,072 84,520 42,282 27,550 54,363 58,009 42,288 42,888 33,701 38,676 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,714 5,457 2,247 1,651 3,366 3,432 2,211 2,131 1,880 1,965 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,186 2,367 1,093 845 1,461 1,375 908 1,100 933 1,125 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,254 2,961 2,360 1,947 4,114 4,524 3,935 3,889 3,096 4,074 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,315 3,068 1,427 1,002 1,892 1,888 1,205 1,154 1,074 1,142 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,823 27,483 11,645 7,024 13,168 14,018 10,872 10,634 7,962 9,819 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,381 14,547 7,463 4,674 8,411 9,487 6,571 6,402 5,075 5,616 Falkland Islands . . . . . . . . D – D – – D – – – – French Guiana . . . . . . . . . D – D – D D D 6 D 6 Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,499 11,223 7,544 4,575 10,366 10,820 7,052 7,224 4,934 4,877 Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 491 248 112 193 214 166 198 175 178 Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,921 12,884 6,352 4,353 8,308 8,958 6,675 7,385 6,139 6,980 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . D 134 D 45 D 163 D 120 D 97 Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679 1,372 622 397 689 693 472 486 352 412 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,009 2,533 1,205 925 2,263 2,426 2,107 2,159 1,959 2,385Born on ship . . . . . . . . . . . – D – – – – D – – –Stateless . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – 44 28 67 42 23 15 6 –Unknown or not reported . . 681 6,061 2,763 423 1,881 2,600 1,432 933 954 1,358

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.1 Yugoslavia prior to February 7, 2003.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 33. PERSONS NATURALIZED BY STATE OF RESIDENCE: FISCAL YEARS 1995 TO 2004

State of residence 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488,088 1,044,689 598,225 463,060 839,944 888,788 608,205 573,708 463,204 537,151Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860 1,002 644 658 1,132 1,553 409 1,276 1,182 734Alaska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675 4 757 995 633 668 710 929 745 777Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,059 6,838 3,767 4,105 8,737 10,755 8,245 6,067 7,225 6,500Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 6 809 244 442 241 132 583 717 823California . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171,285 378,014 187,432 154,793 284,071 300,662 203,415 149,554 135,815 145,593Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,753 5,168 3,560 3,230 8,552 6,138 4,233 5,878 4,834 6,007Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,409 8,122 8,452 7,351 8,064 7,100 5,009 6,076 4,285 5,957Delaware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600 650 464 648 844 1,281 697 570 707 982District of Columbia . . . . . . 1,496 1,920 1,098 1,024 1,621 1,394 956 926 853 882Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,372 123,368 28,768 30,926 67,567 68,882 48,752 44,792 35,170 43,795Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,418 6,603 5,958 6,274 9,717 12,423 3,229 11,081 11,075 6,880Hawaii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,174 6,090 3,994 4,493 3,600 4,372 2,885 2,884 2,291 2,050Idaho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336 D 769 853 1,028 437 357 58 56 864Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,694 48,746 28,096 16,804 36,742 39,327 32,390 32,636 23,425 29,432Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,430 678 2,388 2,404 1,747 2,750 2,581 2,779 2,727 2,455Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 970 5 244 191 73 622 1,058 1,465 1,123 1,314Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,131 7 1,733 2,208 3,461 2,194 2,343 1,371 1,898 2,093Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677 10 1,074 586 1,041 667 402 1,987 1,544 1,307Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,714 3,247 2,415 2,478 2,701 1,882 686 2,109 1,705 1,458Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639 41 343 544 340 390 367 515 427 548Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,251 1,259 3,691 9,615 9,699 4,918 5,414 13,232 13,857 12,295Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . 11,803 14,762 8,158 10,568 21,672 23,062 17,632 18,040 11,472 16,263Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,170 12,658 5,766 7,100 7,966 14,829 6,116 11,126 5,195 14,615Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760 6 3,296 4,331 6,507 4,277 5,709 5,446 6,232 7,713Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . 393 410 442 378 624 475 270 506 445 557Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,440 14 2,226 2,156 2,376 3,228 2,633 2,313 3,259 3,999Montana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 D 165 165 214 62 D 7 81 285Nebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,999 4 259 717 407 990 1,548 1,644 791 1,537Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,894 24 7,963 4,414 3,427 960 3,333 3,789 4,100 4,622New Hampshire . . . . . . . . . 559 489 430 645 1,078 485 819 448 1,028 958New Jersey . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,770 44,351 32,406 21,301 8,294 29,955 26,776 26,783 22,987 30,291New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . 643 5 511 649 1,507 104 786 1,086 995 1,449New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,611 169,428 95,595 47,456 104,048 138,504 99,022 94,276 63,945 66,234North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . 2,073 11 2,873 3,463 3,427 9,036 3,876 8,356 3,581 5,084North Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . 192 – 188 166 80 146 200 210 146 267Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,263 5,106 4,447 5,859 5,509 5,834 3,647 6,056 2,766 8,590Oklahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,806 8 1,168 613 3,198 210 1,920 1,831 1,574 1,765Oregon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,810 23 1,464 2,307 5,165 4,247 4,191 4,445 4,301 3,612Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . 9,665 9,652 7,327 9,997 14,094 13,269 8,396 9,630 9,448 10,205Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . 1,535 D 2,951 2,642 2,884 719 1,066 1,160 1,624 2,185South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . 1,032 713 1,086 1,334 1,093 1,683 696 505 1,020 1,748South Dakota . . . . . . . . . . 103 D 173 159 14 170 203 209 177 257Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634 14 1,275 1,255 2,617 2,022 1,260 2,444 2,011 2,613Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,209 57,970 39,172 30,862 58,849 55,800 43,396 42,828 28,671 35,417Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,417 22 2,850 1,421 2,296 793 1,836 1,791 1,684 3,110Vermont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523 9 321 360 126 348 332 428 426 419Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,542 13,724 6,803 8,589 11,808 12,507 7,426 10,612 9,593 13,478Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,063 12,228 14,668 12,991 11,174 14,499 8,793 9,339 11,790 12,667West Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . 318 3 218 265 307 47 285 302 261 237Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874 5 1,371 1,894 3,132 4,236 2,960 3,632 2,777 3,570Wyoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 127 145 121 151 191 135 102 111 146U.S. territories and possessions and armed services posts: . . . 2,725 6 2,786 4,634 4,602 959 1,387 2,035 1,624 1,851 American Samoa . . . . . . . – – – – – – 91 – – – Guam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,464 D 1,458 1,117 780 76 283 607 599 1,052 Northern Mariana Islands . 53 – 46 33 27 – – 26 D D Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3 368 1,650 2,202 539 708 1,066 559 512 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . . . 1,204 D 914 1,834 1,593 344 304 336 439 281 Armed Services Posts . . . – – – – – – D – D DUnknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,912 111,133 63,266 23,824 99,486 76,485 27,211 15,561 7,428 8,661

– Represents zero

D Disclosure standards not met.

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Table 34. PERSONS NATURALIZED BY GENDER, AGE, MARITAL STATUS, AND OCCUPATION: FISCAL YEAR 2004

Gender

Characteristic Total Male Female Unknown

AGE Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537,151 244,335 290,267 2,549 18 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,104 2,562 3,511 31 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,618 24,946 29,424 248 25 to 29 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,901 29,943 37,613 345 30 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,820 31,966 41,572 282 35 to 39 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,953 38,886 42,749 318 40 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,709 32,613 34,792 304 45 to 49 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,864 23,445 26,204 215 50 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,149 17,399 20,535 215 55 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,224 14,111 16,921 192 60 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,501 10,077 12,296 128 65 to 74 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,923 13,317 17,419 187 75 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,384 5,069 7,231 84 Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 – –

Median age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 39 38 40

BROAD AGE GROUPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537,151 244,335 290,267 2,549 18 to 20 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,467 6,240 8,165 62 21 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522,683 238,094 282,102 2,487 Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 – –

MARITAL STATUS Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537,151 244,335 290,267 2,549Single . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118,209 61,536 56,673 – Married . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349,252 159,283 189,969 – Widowed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,556 11,787 21,769 – Divorced/separated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,028 7,711 18,317 – Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,106 4,018 3,539 2,549

OCCUPATION Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537,151 244,335 290,267 2,549Executive and managerial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,873 14,858 11,015 – Professional and technical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,359 20,422 20,937 – Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,699 8,688 12,011 – Administrative support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,072 3,487 10,585 – Farming, forestry, and fisheries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815 680 135 – Operators, fabricators, and laborers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,288 23,740 9,548 – Precision production craft and repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,907 8,854 1,053 – Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,868 12,748 20,120 – Military . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,627 6,088 1,539 – No occupation/not working outside home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84,716 26,926 57,790 – Homemakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,360 171 20,189 – Students or children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,470 13,348 19,122 – Retirees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,026 5,033 4,993 – Unemployed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,860 8,374 13,486 – Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265,927 117,844 145,534 2,549

– Represents zero.

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Table 35. DEPORTABLE ALIENS LOCATED: FISCAL YEARS 1925 TO 2004

Deportable Deportable Year aliens located1 Year aliens located1

Total, 1925 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,470,157 1981 to 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,883,3281925 to 1930 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128,484 1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 975,7801931 to 1940 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147,457 1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 970,2461941 to 1950 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,377,210 1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,251,3571951 to 1960 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,598,949 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,246,9811961 to 1970 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,608,356 1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,348,749 1961 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88,823 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,767,400 1962 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,758 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,190,488 1963 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88,712 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,008,145 1964 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86,597 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 954,243 1965 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110,371 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,169,939 1966 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138,520 1991 to 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,667,599 1967 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161,608 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,197,875 1968 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212,057 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,258,481 1969 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283,557 1993 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,327,261 1970 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345,353 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,094,7191971 to 1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,321,498 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,394,554 1971 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420,126 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,649,986 1972 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505,949 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,536,520 1973 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655,968 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,679,439 1974 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788,145 1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,714,035 1975 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766,600 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,814,729 1976 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875,915 2001 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,737,276 1976,TQ2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221,824 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,387,486 1977 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,042,215 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,062,279 1978 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,057,977 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,046,422 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,076,418 20043 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,241,089 1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 910,361

1 The number of aliens apprehended were first recorded in 1925. Until 1960 those statistics did not include crewmen who violated the conditions of their stay in the United States because their vessel did not leave the United States within 29 days. Beginning in 1960 the statistics for apprehensions include the counts of those crewmen. For purposes of statistical reporting there is no difference between the terms “apprehension” and “deportable alien located”.2 The three-month period — July 1 through September 30, 1976 — between fiscal year 1976 and fiscal year 1977.3 Includes all Border Patrol Apprehensions and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Investigations administrative apprehensions along with criminal arrests for fiscal years 1925 through 2003. For fiscal year 2004, includes Border Patrol apprehensions and ICE investigations administrative apprehensions only. Excludes ICE criminal arrests in fiscal year 2004.

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Table 36. DEPORTABLE ALIENS LOCATED BY REGION AND COUNTRY OF NATIONALITY: FISCAL YEAR 2004

Region and country Region and country of nationality All located of nationality All located

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,241,089 Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,027 Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 China, People’s Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,560 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Czechoslovakia (former) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503 Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440 United Arab Emirates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,092 Serbia and Montenegro1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326 Central African Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Yugoslavia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,025 Congo, Democratic Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Arabian Peninsula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

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Region and country Region and country of nationality All located of nationality All located

Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,207 Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Anguilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Bahamas, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 British Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Cayman Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,831 Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Dominican Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,635 Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367 Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 976 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Montserrat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Netherlands Antilles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 St. Kitts-Nevia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Trinidad and Tobago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Central America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,506 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,180 Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,288 Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,555 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,664 Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,093 Western Sahara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,082Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919 Cocos Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,173 Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Marshall Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Micronesia, Federated States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714 New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Stateless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,144,613 Unknown or not reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,806 Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,142,807

D Disclosure standards not met.1 Yugoslavia (unknown republic) prior to February 7, 2003.

Note: Includes Border Patrol apprehensions from the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Performance Analysis System (PAS) and DHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Investigations administrative apprehensions from ENFORCE (Enforcement Case Tracking System).

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 37. DEPORTABLE ALIENS LOCATED BY BORDER PATROL SECTOR: FISCAL YEARS 1995 TO 2004

Border patrol sector 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Total, all sectors . . . . 1,324,202 1,549,876 1,412,953 1,555,776 1,579,010 1,676,438 1,266,214 955,310 931,557 1,160,395All southwest sectors . . . 1,271,390 1,507,020 1,368,707 1,516,680 1,537,000 1,643,679 1,235,718 929,809 905,065 1,139,282 San Diego, CA . . . . . . 524,231 483,815 283,889 248,092 182,267 151,681 110,075 100,681 111,515 138,608 EL Centro, CA . . . . . . . 37,317 66,873 146,210 226,695 225,279 238,126 172,852 108,273 92,099 74,467 Yuma, AZ . . . . . . . . . . 20,894 28,310 30,177 76,195 93,388 108,747 78,385 42,654 56,638 98,060 Tucson, AZ . . . . . . . . . 227,529 305,348 272,397 387,406 470,449 616,346 449,675 333,648 347,263 491,771 EL Paso, TX . . . . . . . . 110,971 145,929 124,376 125,035 110,857 115,696 112,857 94,154 88,816 104,399 Marfa, TX . . . . . . . . . . 11,552 13,214 12,692 14,509 14,952 13,689 12,087 11,392 10,319 10,530 Del Rio, TX . . . . . . . . . 76,490 121,137 113,280 131,058 156,653 157,178 104,875 66,985 50,145 53,794 Laredo, TX . . . . . . . . . 93,305 131,841 141,893 103,433 114,004 108,973 87,068 82,095 70,521 74,706 McAllen, TX . . . . . . . . 169,101 210,553 243,793 204,257 169,151 133,243 107,844 89,927 77,749 92,947All other sectors . . . . . . 52,812 42,856 44,246 39,096 42,010 32,759 30,496 25,501 26,492 21,113 Blaine, WA . . . . . . . . . 4,067 2,224 2,684 2,403 2,421 2,581 2,089 1,732 1,380 1,354 Buffalo, NY . . . . . . . . . 1,634 2,090 2,065 1,640 1,666 1,570 1,434 1,102 564 671 Detroit, MI . . . . . . . . . 1,424 1,304 1,500 1,768 1,838 2,057 2,106 1,511 2,345 1,912 Grand Forks, ND . . . . . 1,451 1,334 1,978 905 656 562 921 1,369 1,223 1,225 Havre, MT . . . . . . . . . . 1,456 1,483 2,813 1,145 1,448 1,568 1,305 1,463 1,406 986 Houlton, ME . . . . . . . . 293 247 309 307 461 489 685 432 292 263 Livermore, CA1 . . . . . . 17,956 12,756 10,607 11,633 11,198 6,205 5,211 4,371 3,565 1,850 Miami, FL . . . . . . . . . . 11,981 8,258 8,305 6,065 6,961 6,237 5,962 5,143 5,931 4,602 New Orleans, LA . . . . . 5,389 8,642 9,094 8,008 10,777 6,478 5,033 4,665 5,151 2,889 Ramey, PR . . . . . . . . . 3,218 1,454 896 1,244 1,405 1,731 1,952 835 1,688 1,813 Spokane, WA . . . . . . . 1,992 1,352 2,331 2,176 1,308 1,324 1,335 1,142 992 847 Swanton, VT . . . . . . . . 1,951 1,712 1,664 1,802 1,871 1,957 2,463 1,736 1,955 2,701

1 Livermore sector closed July 30, 2004.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Activities and accomplishments 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Persons processed by the Border Patrol1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,689,195 1,277,577 967,044 946,684 1,179,296

Deportable aliens located by the Border Patrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,676,438 1,266,214 955,310 931,557 1,160,395 Mexican aliens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,636,883 1,224,046 917,994 882,012 1,085,006 Working in agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,330 1,248 1,821 1,908 1,647 Working in trades, crafts, industry, and service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,167 2,678 2,897 3,856 3,634 Seeking employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,525,422 1,107,550 822,161 810,671 997,986 Canadian aliens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,211 2,539 1,836 1,611 1,497 All others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,344 39,629 35,480 47,934 73,892

Smugglers of aliens located . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,406 8,720 8,701 11,128 16,074

Aliens located who were smuggled into the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236,782 112,927 68,192 110,575 193,122

Seizures (conveyances) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,269 5,892 7,250 9,355 18,024

Value of seizures (millions of dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,945 1,581 1,564 1,680 1,696 Narcotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,848 1,519 1,499 1,608 1,620 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 62 65 72 75

1 Includes deportable aliens located and the non-deportable (e.g., U.S. citizens).

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Table 38. PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE BORDER PATROL: FISCAL YEARS 1995 TO 2004

Activities and accomplishments 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

Persons processed by the Border Patrol1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,336,518 1,561,234 1,422,829 1,566,984 1,591,969

Deportable aliens located by the Border Patrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,324,202 1,549,876 1,412,953 1,555,776 1,579,010 Mexican aliens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,293,508 1,523,141 1,387,650 1,522,918 1,534,515 Working in agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,487 2,684 3,521 3,270 1,599 Working in trades, crafts, industry, and service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,552 9,413 10,146 6,616 2,383 Seeking employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,185,761 1,405,314 1,279,923 1,398,892 1,422,970 Canadian aliens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,463 2,746 2,935 2,329 2,724 All others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,231 23,989 22,368 30,529 41,771

Smugglers of aliens located . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,796 13,458 12,523 13,908 15,755

Aliens located who were smuggled into the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102,591 122,233 124,605 174,514 221,522

Seizures (conveyances) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,327 11,129 11,792 14,401 16,803

Value of seizures (millions of dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,012 1,256 1,095 1,405 2,004 Narcotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,965 1,209 1,046 1,340 1,919 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 47 49 64 86

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 39. PRINCIPAL IMMIGRATION RELATED ACTIVITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOM ENFORCEMENT (ICE) OFFICE OF INVESTIGATIONS: FISCAL YEAR 2004

Cases Cases Criminal Criminal Criminal Number Dollar value Activities and accomplishments initiated closed arrests indictments convictions seizures seizures

Total, all immigration related categories . . . . . . 58,727 46,656 9,455 5,363 4,007 1,782 10,105,566Human trafficking investigations1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,017 2,860 250 89 70 102 312,259Criminal alien investigations2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,908 6,262 4,851 2,902 2,308 188 2,277,995Employers of unauthorized alien investigations3 . . . 3,258 3,064 159 66 46 54 486,313Identity and benefit fraud (IBF) investigations4 . . . . 5,351 3,872 1,310 709 533 660 1,497,285Alien smuggling organizations investigations5 . . . . . 3,984 3,141 1,121 689 408 498 4,123,440Alien smuggling individuals/groups investigations5 . . . 3,958 3,281 1,295 759 491 234 1,053,737Alien absconder investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,911 2,866 19 D D D 103Compliance enforcement investigations . . . . . . . . . 9,622 6,458 40 D D D 0Alien (PWA) EWI status violation investigations6 . . . 3,521 3,332 260 93 102 11 139,154Non I&A Act related activities requiring investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,811 2,809 NA NA NA NA NAAlien investigative support functions-limited inquiry investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,835 2,815 10 4 3 D 0Alien asset forfeiture investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,840 2,826 10 9 8 6 98,200Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF)7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,711 3,070 130 40 36 25 117,079

NA Not available.

D Disclosure standards not met.1 Human trafficking cases include investigations into alleged violations of severe forms of human trafficking which is defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 as, “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provisions or obtaining of a person: (1) for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery, or (2) for the purpose of a commercial sex act in which such act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age.”2 Criminal alien cases include large-scale organizations engaged in ongoing criminal activity and individual aliens convicted of crimes such as terrorism or drug trafficking. 3 Employer investigations target employers of unauthorized aliens and include criminal investigations, administrative investigations, auxiliary investigations, ICE Headquarters Investigation Project, and Department of Labor ESA–91. Starting in FY 2003, also includes statistics pertaining to Work Site Enforcement National Interest Investigations.4 Fraud investigations seek to penetrate fraud schemes of all sizes and degrees of complexity which are used to violate immigration and related laws or to shield the true status of illegal aliens in order to obtain entitlement benefits. The fraud schemes may be related to marriage fraud, immigration benefit fraud, employer sanctions document fraud, other document fraud, and entitlement fraud.5 Smuggling cases involve those which target persons or entities who bring, transport, harbor or smuggle illegal aliens into or within the United States.6 Includes Entry Without Inspection (EWI), such as stowaways, or landed crewmen who were ordered detained on board, and status violators. The latter category pertains to alien apprehensions for violating the terms of admission, e.g., staying longer in the United States than permitted. Frequently, such aliens are not themselves investigative targets, but are located during other investigations.7 FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF) include ICE Special Agents who perform counter-terrorism investigations and provide actionable proactive counter-terrorism lead information, in efforts to prevent and disrupt alien terrorist cells domestically and abroad.

NOTE: Data refer to criminal cases only; administrative cases are not included due to changes in reporting. Data in this table are not comparable with data reported in this table for previous years.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 40. ALIENS EXPELLED: FISCAL YEARS 1892 TO 2004

Formal Voluntary Year removals1 departures2

Total, 1892 to 2004 . . . . . . . 3,345,365 41,761,9931892 to 1900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,642 NA1901 to 1910 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119,769 NA1911 to 1920 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206,021 NA1921 to 1930 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281,464 72,2331931 to 1940 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185,303 93,3301941 to 1950 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141,112 1,470,9251951 to 1960 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150,472 3,883,6601961 to 1970 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101,205 1,334,528 1961 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,181 52,383 1962 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,025 54,164 1963 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,763 69,392 1964 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,167 73,042 1965 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,572 95,263 1966 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,680 123,683 1967 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,728 142,343 1968 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,590 179,952 1969 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,030 240,958 1970 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,469 303,3481971 to 1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240,217 7,246,812 1971 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,294 370,074 1972 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,883 450,927 1973 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,346 568,005 1974 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,413 718,740 1975 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,432 655,814 1976 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,226 765,094 1976,TQ3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,245 190,280 1977 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,263 867,015 1978 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,277 975,515 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,825 966,137 1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,013 719,211

Formal Voluntary Year removals1 departures2

1981 to 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232,830 9,961,912 1981 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,379 823,875 1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,216 812,572 1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,211 931,600 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,696 909,833 1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,105 1,041,296 1986 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,592 1,586,320 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,336 1,091,203 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,829 911,790 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,427 830,890 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,039 1,022,5331991 to 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 940,552 13,587,847 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,189 1,061,105 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,671 1,105,829 1993 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,542 1,243,410 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,674 1,029,107 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,924 1,313,764 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,680 1,573,428 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114,432 1,440,684 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173,146 1,570,127 1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181,072 1,574,682 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186,222 1,675,7112001 to 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720,778 4,110,746 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178,026 1,254,035 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150,542 934,119 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189,368 887,115 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202,842 1,035,477

NA Not available.1 Formal removals include deportations, exclusions, and removals. 2 Voluntary departures verified includes aliens under docket control required to depart and voluntary departures not under docket control; first recorded in 1927. Beginning FY 2004, voluntary departures verified include both Deportable Alien Control System (DACS) cases under docket control and Performance Analysis System (PAS) Border Patrol voluntary departures verified-cases not under docket or aliens processed for removal under safeguard. The latter is used as a measure of border patrol voluntary departures verified-cases not under docket. In FY 2004, complete Detention and Removal Office district level figures for voluntary departures-cases not under docket are unavailable in PAS and as a result are excluded for that year. Prior to FY 2004, the reporting of voluntary departures verifed included all locations, Border Patrol Sectors and districts.3 Transition quarter, July 1 through September 30, 1976.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 41. ALIENS EXPELLED BY FIELD OFFICE: FISCAL YEAR 2004

Voluntary Formal departures Field office removals1 verified2

Total, all field offices . . . . . . . 202,842 1,035,477 Atlanta, GA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,120 526 Baltimore, MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666 115 Boston, MA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,364 2,011 Buffalo, NY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,583 182 Chicago, IL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,588 619 Dallas, TX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,629 460 Denver, CO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,943 982 Detroit, MI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,833 1,211 El Paso, TX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,660 105,617 Houston, TX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,734 311 Los Angeles, CA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,205 797

Voluntary Formal departures Field office removals1 verified2

Miami, FL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,889 984 New Orleans, LA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,297 124 New York, NY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,575 272 Newark, NJ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,902 210 Philadelphia, PA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,534 311 Phoenix, AZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,929 563,989 San Antonio, TX . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,689 159,214 San Diego, CA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,494 194,113 San Francisco, CA . . . . . . . . . . . 7,991 1,385 Seattle, WA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,088 1,498 St. Paul, MN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,338 298 Washington, DC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,791 248

1 Formal removals include deportations, exclusions, and removals.2 Total voluntary departures verified include aliens under docket control required to depart and only Border Patrol voluntary departures verified-cases not under docket which are equivalent to aliens processed for removal under safeguard. Excludes detention and removal district level figures for voluntary departures verified-cases under docket as these data are unavailable in the Performance Analysis System (PAS) for fiscal year 2004.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 42. ALIENS REMOVED BY ADMINISTRATIVE REASON FOR REMOVAL: FISCAL YEARS 1995 TO 2004 – Continued

Administrative reason for removal 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186,222 178,026 150,542 189,368 202,842Attempted entry without proper documents or through fraud or misrepresentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,912 76,254 41,347 52,670 50,420Criminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,127 40,170 37,785 40,266 42,510Failed to maintain status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740 720 1,248 1,309 1,104Previously removed, ineligible for reentry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,659 10,677 12,838 17,950 19,773Present without authorization1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,396 48,053 55,603 75,052 85,659Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 12 11 14 11Smuggling or aiding illegal entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492 509 579 619 722Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,877 1,625 1,106 1,482 2,636Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 6 25 6 7

1 Includes those aliens charged under the statutes previous to April 1, 1997 as “entered without inspection” (EWI).

NOTE: The administrative reason for formal removal is the legal basis for removal. Some aliens who are criminals may be removed under a different administrative reason (or charge) for the convenience of the government. Removals include those actions known as deportation and exclusion prior to the revision of law that was effective April 1, 1997.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Table 42. ALIENS REMOVED BY ADMINISTRATIVE REASON FOR REMOVAL: FISCAL YEARS 1995 TO 2004

Administrative reason for removal 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,924 69,680 114,432 173,146 181,072Attempted entry without proper documents or through fraud or misrepresentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,822 15,412 35,737 79,290 91,876Criminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,684 27,655 34,113 35,946 42,014Failed to maintain status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611 708 1,031 986 802Previously removed, ineligible for reentry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,432 2,005 3,302 7,103 9,290Present without authorization1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,069 23,522 39,297 48,477 35,007Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 36 30 15 10Smuggling or aiding illegal entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 275 385 497 407Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 49 522 816 1,653Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 18 15 16 13

See footnotes at end of table.

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Table 43. ALIENS REMOVED BY CRIMINAL STATUS AND REGION AND COUNTRY OF NATIONALITY: FISCAL YEARS 1998 TO 2004

1998 1999 2000

Region and country Non- Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173,146 60,965 112,181 181,072 70,590 110,482 186,222 72,297 113,925Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,956 715 1,241 2,041 881 1,160 2,451 935 1,516 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 6 68 79 13 66 95 8 87 Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 4 32 26 14 12 13 9 4 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4 5 18 10 8 8 4 4 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – D D – Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3 9 12 D D 19 13 6 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . 4 D D D – D 3 3 – Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 9 72 49 10 39 50 11 39 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5 3 8 4 4 10 5 5 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . 4 D D 5 D D 5 D D Czechoslovakia (former) . 155 16 139 122 19 103 136 26 110 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 D D 12 8 4 12 4 8 Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D 10 D D 14 D D Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D 8 3 5 5 D D France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 24 54 78 37 41 103 33 70 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 7 D D 24 8 16 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 62 88 130 65 65 183 87 96 Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 13 16 33 25 8 45 31 14 Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 16 22 44 7 37 42 12 30 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D 3 – 3 D – D Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 17 28 31 14 17 39 16 23 Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 47 52 117 71 46 136 84 52 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . – – – 12 D D 8 – 8 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . D D D 3 – 3 4 D D Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D 11 4 7 11 – 11 Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 4 10 22 3 19 33 4 29 Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – D – D Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D 15 D D 14 3 11 Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D – D – D Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – 3 3 – Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – – – – – Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . 39 22 17 43 26 17 71 42 29 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4 6 4 D D 15 6 9 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 43 124 242 51 191 335 70 265 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 79 17 126 106 20 128 107 21 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 18 77 78 26 52 72 13 59 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 29 66 93 33 60 117 21 96 Serbia and Montenegro3 . 47 20 27 37 16 21 41 17 24 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . 10 D D 17 3 14 20 10 10 Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 7 D D 5 – 5 Soviet Union (former) . . . 17 9 8 16 11 5 15 9 6 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 22 39 49 30 19 58 19 39 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3 15 16 3 13 28 6 22 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . 13 6 7 11 4 7 16 5 11 Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D – – – Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 3 32 58 12 46 74 10 64 United Kingdom . . . . . . . 372 209 163 382 224 158 421 229 192 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 3 – 3 16 – 16Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,887 760 2,127 3,015 1,019 1,996 3,387 1,016 2,371 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . 17 5 12 28 20 8 6 3 3 Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D D D – – – Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . 82 12 70 56 15 41 78 8 70 Brunei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D D – 8 – 8 Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 D D 17 – 17 10 – 10 China, People’s Republic . 571 79 492 427 107 320 548 100 448 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 D D 3 D D

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1998 1999 2000

Region and country Non- Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . 20 13 7 18 13 5 23 7 16 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 52 319 343 72 271 467 81 386 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 D D 77 9 68 192 8 184 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 26 32 77 47 30 49 20 29 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5 8 5 D D 11 6 5 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 35 52 126 43 83 163 58 105 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 13 40 87 28 59 103 39 64 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 33 55 84 38 46 104 49 55 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 56 128 239 125 114 262 91 171 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5 5 10 6 4 5 D D Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D D – D 10 D D Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 25 26 71 25 46 68 33 35 Macau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D – D D – Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 10 24 56 10 46 68 15 53 Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – D D D Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D – – – 4 D D Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3 5 5 D D 8 3 5 Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 3 D D – – – Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390 74 316 407 60 347 293 80 213 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . 508 227 281 553 297 256 496 282 214 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – – – – Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D 5 D D 9 3 6 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D 11 4 7 18 7 11 Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 5 57 76 10 66 136 12 124 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 12 21 23 3 20 24 10 14 Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 8 17 39 14 25 35 20 15 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 22 39 64 31 33 80 34 46 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 14 39 71 18 53 65 25 40 United Arab Emirates . . . 3 D D 3 D D 3 D D Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 7 5 13 8 5 7 4 3 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D D 12 D D 28 8 20Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,442 591 851 1,508 620 888 1,525 622 903 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 7 24 24 6 18 33 10 23 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 D – D 10 D D Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D 5 5 – 5 D D Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – D D – Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . 12 D D 3 – 3 D – D Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D D – D 3 – 3 Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . 23 5 18 31 11 20 25 5 20 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . 33 27 6 49 44 5 32 28 4 Central African Republic. . D D – – – – D D – Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 – 3 D D – Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Congo, Democratic Republic 14 D D 17 D D 20 7 13 Congo, Republic . . . . . . . 5 D D 12 D D 12 – 12 Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . 49 10 39 44 13 31 27 8 19 Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D – – – Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 22 43 83 16 67 96 25 71 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . D D – – – – – – – Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – – D D D Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 16 21 45 19 26 17 9 8 Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D D – D Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . 34 11 23 34 11 23 35 12 23 Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 57 142 201 49 152 235 49 186 Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 9 48 66 8 58 59 11 48 Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 5 17 42 15 27 45 17 28 Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 35 14 39 22 17 46 34 12 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D D – D D D – Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – –

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1998 1999 2000

Region and country Non- Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D 3 – 3 Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 4 24 23 5 18 56 6 50 Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D 4 D D 4 – 4 Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – – – – – Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 14 22 44 21 23 48 25 23 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D – D D – Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – – – – Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 17 20 33 24 9 24 17 7 Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491 284 207 466 277 189 457 276 181 Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 5 – 5 5 – 5 Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 12 43 46 14 32 46 14 32 Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . 22 8 14 38 11 27 22 7 15 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 D D 31 4 27 47 10 37 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . 36 16 20 48 21 27 37 17 20 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3 7 12 3 9 6 3 3 Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D 7 D D 13 4 9 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3 4 12 6 6 9 3 6 Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 D D 13 D D 8 D D Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 11 4 7 15 7 8 Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D 4 D D 6 D D Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . 10 D D 6 D D 8 D DOceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 78 82 186 104 82 240 128 112 Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 11 26 40 13 27 44 12 32 Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 14 15 43 21 22 32 D D French Polynesia . . . . . . . 5 D D D D D – – – Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D D D – Marshall Islands . . . . . . . – – – – – – D D – Micronesia, Federated States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 D D 18 18 – 28 28 – New Caledonia . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – New Zealand . . . . . . . . . 28 5 23 20 5 15 49 10 39 Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 D D D D – 9 9 – Papua New Guinea . . . . . D D – – – – – – – Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D 16 D D 13 D D Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 24 10 44 32 12 61 41 20 Tuvalu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – – – – Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – –North America . . . . . . . . . . 162,356 56,682 105,674 150,814 56,011 94,803 151,696 57,537 94,159 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . 910 524 386 1,039 547 492 1,052 522 530 Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139,392 47,945 91,447 149,775 55,464 94,311 150,644 57,015 93,629 United States . . . . . . . . . D D D – – – – – – Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . 5,509 3,705 1,804 6,469 4,607 1,862 6,634 4,574 2,060 Anguilla . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D – – – D D – Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . . 38 27 11 41 33 8 33 27 6 Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 – D D D 5 D D Bahamas, The . . . . . . . 82 68 14 88 64 24 124 108 16 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . 51 45 6 70 65 5 58 48 10 Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3 3 7 7 – 5 D D British Virgin Islands . . D D D 3 D D 3 3 – Cayman Islands . . . . . . D D D D – D D – D Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 26 7 85 75 10 87 71 16 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . 27 18 9 18 14 4 13 9 4 Dominican Republic . . . 2,518 1,705 813 3,228 2,356 872 3,441 2,281 1,160 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . 25 17 8 28 21 7 31 22 9 Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . D – D D D D D – D Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514 313 201 466 303 163 467 377 90 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,854 1,224 630 2,032 1,385 647 1,930 1,352 578

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1998 1999 2000

Region and country Non- Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Martinique . . . . . . . . . . D D – D D – D D – Montserrat . . . . . . . . . D D – 8 D D 3 3 – Netherlands Antilles . . . 6 D D D D – 6 D D Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . 20 15 5 – – – – – – St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . 27 22 5 15 D D 19 D D St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . 22 13 9 27 20 7 30 20 10 St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . 265 190 75 29 19 10 21 13 8 Trinidad and Tobago . . . 6 D D 310 214 96 350 207 143 Turks and Caicos Islands – – – 5 D D 3 3 – Central America . . . . . . . 16,543 4,507 12,036 11,785 4,969 6,816 14,542 5,235 9,307 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 114 67 186 138 48 169 125 44 Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . 162 42 120 212 69 143 314 56 258 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . 5,348 1,772 3,576 4,028 2,080 1,948 4,590 2,093 2,497 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . 5,152 1,018 4,134 3,407 1,073 2,334 4,205 1,168 3,037 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . 5,145 1,236 3,909 3,385 1,224 2,161 4,656 1,422 3,234 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . 411 215 196 402 256 146 456 261 195 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 110 34 165 129 36 152 110 42South America . . . . . . . . . . 4,326 2,135 2,191 5,233 2,373 2,860 5,706 2,242 3,464 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 43 28 98 56 42 139 40 99 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 25 164 197 28 169 90 25 65 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 48 301 628 51 577 1,094 71 1,023 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 52 61 128 66 62 155 51 104 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,812 1,367 445 2,086 1,537 549 2,080 1,416 664 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658 150 508 789 174 615 868 189 679 Falkland Islands . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – French Guiana . . . . . . . . D D – – – – – – – Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 147 105 288 132 156 242 88 154 Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D 21 – 21 14 D D Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595 178 417 738 198 540 728 217 511 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D 8 5 3 D D – Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 11 19 35 15 20 47 14 33 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . 244 110 134 217 111 106 244 125 119Stateless . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 D D 9 D 8Unknown or not reported . . 18 4 14 18 5 13 32 7 25

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2001 2002

Region and country Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178,026 72,679 105,347 150,542 71,940 78,602Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,529 886 1,643 3,186 943 2,243 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 14 94 97 10 87 Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 10 18 32 4 28 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4 12 22 4 18 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 D D Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 6 D D Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 5 7 22 6 16 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . 8 D D 8 D D Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 14 30 53 15 38 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D D 10 3 7 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . 17 D D 24 4 20 Czechoslovakia (former) . 129 25 104 221 25 196 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3 7 16 D D Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 D D 28 D D Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 D D 8 4 4 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 35 63 173 50 123 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 8 19 29 7 22 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 59 81 156 67 89 Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 20 16 44 18 26 Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 17 68 122 13 109 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D D Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 17 40 67 15 52 Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 73 57 128 58 70 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . D D – 15 3 12 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . D D – 3 – 3 Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3 13 15 D D Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 6 31 63 10 53 Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . D D D – – – Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . 23 D D 22 6 16 Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – D – D Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 6 D D Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . 74 39 35 93 48 45 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5 6 6 – 6 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 81 276 365 88 277 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 82 25 119 68 51 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 24 66 102 39 63 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 49 46 144 38 106 Serbia and Montenegro3 . 74 30 44 58 16 42 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . 20 3 17 38 9 29 Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D D D D D Soviet Union (former) . . . 6 3 3 12 9 3 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 24 37 78 30 48 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 6 21 34 D D Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . 12 3 9 23 6 17 Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 15 108 171 15 156 United Kingdom . . . . . . . 364 186 178 498 233 265 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . 32 4 28 46 4 42Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,264 1,014 2,250 4,481 1,221 3,260 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . 10 3 7 12 5 7 Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 – 3 Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . 71 15 56 93 9 84 Brunei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D 3 D D Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 D D 23 19 4 China, People’s Republic . 503 115 388 494 126 368 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D 3 D D

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Region and country Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . 20 13 7 18 10 8 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386 72 314 457 90 367 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 14 212 182 18 164 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 21 20 54 22 32 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 D D 9 D D Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 34 98 173 40 133 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 56 57 100 30 70 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 46 37 204 79 125 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 110 155 310 126 184 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 5 7 12 5 7 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5 3 6 – 6 Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 18 33 122 42 80 Macau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D D Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 15 72 97 16 81 Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D 18 3 15 Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 D D 21 D D Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D 4 D D Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 58 291 817 131 686 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . 467 287 180 726 310 416 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . 16 8 8 37 10 27 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 9 18 30 3 27 Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 7 82 64 7 57 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 7 23 57 19 38 Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 27 16 57 19 38 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 32 42 73 26 47 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 10 65 128 27 101 United Arab Emirates . . . 3 D D 5 D D Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D D 15 6 9 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 7 12 52 14 38Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,453 574 879 2,041 690 1,351 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 7 12 39 8 31 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4 6 15 D D Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – D D – Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . 3 D D 7 – 7 Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . 14 5 9 27 7 20 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . 46 36 10 47 37 10 Central African Republic . D D D D – D Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D 3 D D Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D Congo, Democratic Republic 6 3 3 23 7 16 Congo, Republic . . . . . . . 13 – 13 21 D D Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . 24 10 14 35 8 27 Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 D – D Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 15 78 283 69 214 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . – – – – – – Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 12 D D Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 12 9 28 12 16 Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D – – – Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . 40 15 25 41 17 24 Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 47 168 210 40 170 Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 11 47 55 13 42 Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . – – – D D – Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 19 28 88 34 54 Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 30 12 36 27 9 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – 4 D D Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . D D D D – D

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Region and country Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – 5 – 5 Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 D D 46 3 43 Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D 13 D D Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – D – D Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 17 17 114 33 81 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . D D – D D – Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D – Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 11 12 28 16 12 Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414 242 172 463 235 228 Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 3 D D Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 15 51 93 19 74 Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – – Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . 35 10 25 43 19 24 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 7 27 38 23 15 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . 34 15 19 51 15 36 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D D 22 D D Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5 6 14 D D Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4 5 12 D D Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3 10 53 8 45 Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 8 10 21 10 11 Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 D D 12 4 8 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3 14 24 8 16Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 142 162 412 139 273 Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 19 71 160 19 141 Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 16 21 33 19 14 French Polynesia . . . . . . . 3 D D D – D Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – – Marshall Islands . . . . . . . 4 4 – 4 4 – Micronesia, Federated States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 D D 32 D D New Caledonia . . . . . . . . – – – – – – New Zealand . . . . . . . . . 61 12 49 111 19 92 Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D D 6 6 – Papua New Guinea . . . . . – – – – – – Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 D D 24 15 9 Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 36 15 38 26 12 Tuvalu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – – Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – –North America . . . . . . . . . . 142,698 58,642 84,056 110,652 57,090 53,562 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,133 657 476 1,004 566 438 Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141,565 57,985 83,580 109,648 56,524 53,124 United States . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . 7,257 4,342 2,915 7,045 4,426 2,619 Anguilla . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – 3 D D Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . 34 26 8 40 35 5 Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3 – 4 D D Bahamas, The . . . . . . . 108 92 16 132 100 32 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . 48 34 14 55 48 7 Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . 12 D D 11 D D British Virgin Islands . . 8 D D 4 D D Cayman Islands . . . . . . 4 D D – – – Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 77 7 67 57 10 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . 18 11 7 29 24 5 Dominican Republic . . . 3,965 2,152 1,813 3,525 2,012 1,513 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . 23 12 11 26 20 6 Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . D – D D D D Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470 364 106 481 299 182 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . 2,026 1,307 719 2,156 1,543 613

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Region and country Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Martinique . . . . . . . . . 7 D D 4 D D Montserrat . . . . . . . . . D D – 4 4 – Netherlands Antilles . . . 4 4 – 4 D D Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . 20 20 – 27 24 3 St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . 23 13 10 30 19 11 St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . 35 18 17 39 26 13 Trinidad and Tobago . . 357 184 173 400 192 208 Turks and Caicos Islands 4 4 – D D D Central America . . . . . . . 13,752 4,868 8,884 14,743 4,915 9,828 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 108 73 177 115 62 Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . 385 64 321 362 56 306 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . 3,785 1,852 1,933 3,887 1,738 2,149 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . 4,322 1,118 3,204 4,900 1,200 3,700 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . 4,425 1,362 3,063 4,817 1,449 3,368 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . 498 255 243 441 248 193 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . 156 109 47 159 109 50South America . . . . . . . . . . 6,749 2,206 4,543 7,948 2,511 5,437 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 54 197 498 68 430 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 16 222 237 24 213 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,662 81 1,581 2,567 131 2,436 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 60 139 163 42 121 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,202 1,462 740 2,218 1,483 735 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . 922 166 756 696 161 535 Falkland Islands . . . . . . . D D – – – – French Guiana . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 41 89 316 241 75 Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 D D D – D Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790 176 614 870 206 664 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D 6 D D Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 D D 83 15 68 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . 291 136 155 275 136 139Stateless . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 6 D 5Unknown or not reported . . 16 5 11 28 4 24

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Region and country Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189,368 81,108 108,260 202,842 88,897 113,945Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,196 1,076 2,120 2,966 1,191 1,775 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 17 149 143 24 119 Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 19 54 74 37 37 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3 14 12 9 3 Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . D D – 7 D D Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 D D 11 D D Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 15 11 28 10 18 Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . 21 17 4 21 D D Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 11 41 64 12 52 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 7 5 14 8 6 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . 14 D D 19 7 12 Czechoslovakia (former) . 158 23 135 145 18 127 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 4 14 15 3 12 Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 D D 11 4 7 Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D 4 D D France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 42 113 109 35 74 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 16 45 50 18 32 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 72 104 152 96 56 Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 23 22 32 23 9 Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 20 75 71 9 62 Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D D D D Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 17 58 67 24 43 Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 65 68 144 94 50 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . 13 3 10 13 – 13 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D D D D Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 D D 14 4 10 Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 11 61 46 8 38 Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . 25 D D 24 6 18 Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D 10 4 6 Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . 105 69 36 71 48 23 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 6 8 15 5 10 Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 68 206 318 103 215 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 71 26 109 75 34 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 36 74 103 32 71 Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 56 111 161 63 98 Serbia and Montenegro3 . 78 25 53 84 23 61 Slovak Republic . . . . . . . 39 D D 33 5 28 Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D 9 – 9 Soviet Union (former) . . . 9 6 3 15 9 6 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 47 45 91 52 39 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 9 30 23 7 16 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . 17 6 11 10 3 7 Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – 5 – 5 Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 25 149 169 51 118 United Kingdom . . . . . . . 464 246 218 392 219 173 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . 42 D D 54 9 45Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,172 1,435 3,737 4,469 1,430 3,039 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . 72 32 40 27 12 15 Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 3 D D Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . 91 23 68 77 21 56 Brunei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D 4 D D Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 49 9 48 36 12 China, People’s Republic . 713 141 572 700 142 558 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D 3 3 –

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Region and country Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . 21 8 13 19 7 12 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563 113 450 554 136 418 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 14 212 201 23 178 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 20 40 43 25 18 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 D D 12 3 9 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 43 113 183 66 117 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 31 75 78 39 39 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 105 153 168 73 95 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 90 241 341 153 188 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 12 10 11 4 7 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D 7 D D Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 52 87 123 33 90 Macau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D – Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 19 54 83 14 69 Maldives . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D – Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 D D 31 D D Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 3 31 35 4 31 Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779 156 623 463 114 349 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . 809 371 438 746 356 390 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 3 D D Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . 44 11 33 17 D D Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 11 11 24 10 14 Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 10 71 67 7 60 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 13 44 50 23 27 Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 22 50 71 31 40 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 30 59 80 30 50 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 25 109 132 22 110 United Arab Emirates . . . 6 D D 4 D D Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 6 14 20 14 6 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 16 38 39 14 25Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,354 856 1,498 2,121 837 1,284 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 15 34 46 12 34 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 D D 8 3 5 Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D D – D Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 4 D D Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . 9 D D 9 D D Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D 4 D D Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . 40 4 36 58 15 43 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . 36 33 3 38 31 7 Central African Republic . D – D 3 D D Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D 5 – 5 Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Congo, Democratic Republic 10 5 5 17 D D Congo, Republic . . . . . . . 27 D D 18 7 11 Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . 44 14 30 28 9 19 Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D D – Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 51 222 209 57 152 Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . D D – – – – Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 4 10 9 – 9 Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 26 37 53 17 36 Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 – 3 Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . 76 25 51 50 17 33 Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 63 217 239 55 184 Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 19 46 72 21 51 Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . D – D D – D Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 44 60 95 48 47 Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 20 7 59 41 18 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D 3 3 – Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – –

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Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 7 3 4 Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 D D 34 6 28 Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 13 23 5 18 Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 3 – 3 Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 55 60 111 43 68 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D D Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 11 24 35 13 22 Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603 333 270 480 275 205 Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 3 – 3 Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 13 74 97 23 74 Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D D – Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . 55 30 25 52 21 31 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 4 13 13 3 10 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . 61 27 34 55 32 23 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 8 21 21 10 11 Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D – Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 12 19 22 8 14 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 D D 28 11 17 Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 10 41 35 12 23 Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 6 19 25 8 17 Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 5 12 20 7 13 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4 12 19 11 8Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 138 205 246 143 103 Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 16 95 51 11 40 Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 19 25 46 26 20 French Polynesia . . . . . . . D – D – – – Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Marshall Islands . . . . . . . D D – 8 8 – Micronesia, Federated States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 D D 35 D D New Caledonia . . . . . . . . D D – – – – New Zealand . . . . . . . . . 81 16 65 31 10 21 Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 7 – 7 D D Papua New Guinea . . . . . – – – – – – Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 D D 23 D D Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 32 12 45 35 10 Tuvalu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – –North America . . . . . . . . . . 140,466 64,238 76,228 149,544 69,276 80,268 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869 453 416 993 505 488 Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139,597 63,785 75,812 148,551 68,771 79,780 United States . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . 7,328 4,799 2,529 7,458 5,018 2,440 Anguilla . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D D Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . 42 33 9 36 27 9 Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – 4 D D Bahamas, The . . . . . . . 158 126 32 120 97 23 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . 60 50 10 71 D D Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . 13 D D 14 11 3 British Virgin Islands . . 4 4 – 5 D D Cayman Islands . . . . . . D D D D D – Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 37 19 67 57 10 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . 20 17 3 43 16 27 Dominican Republic . . . 3,349 2,174 1,175 3,506 2,514 992 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . 25 17 8 23 19 4 Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . 3 3 – D – D Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,048 526 522 787 220 567 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . 2,030 1,505 525 2,243 1,635 608

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2003 2004

Region and country Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Martinique . . . . . . . . . D D – D D – Montserrat . . . . . . . . . D D – 6 D D Netherlands Antilles . . . 4 4 – 4 D D Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . 25 D D 25 15 10 St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . 34 24 10 43 18 25 St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . 23 16 7 40 32 8 Trinidad and Tobago . . 419 220 199 409 267 142 Turks and Caicos Islands 7 3 4 7 D D Central America . . . . . . . 21,187 6,061 15,126 24,285 7,634 16,651 Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 116 57 170 118 52 Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . 485 63 422 477 71 406 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . 5,072 2,023 3,049 6,342 2,698 3,644 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . 6,817 1,528 5,289 8,235 1,868 6,367 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . 7,847 1,916 5,931 8,125 2,366 5,759 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . 649 316 333 779 394 385 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . 144 99 45 157 119 38South America . . . . . . . . . . 9,301 2,496 6,805 11,733 3,360 8,373 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . 533 87 446 500 70 430 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 38 221 269 51 218 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,868 214 3,654 5,859 748 5,111 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 64 152 179 73 106 Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,149 1,355 794 2,197 1,465 732 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643 183 460 939 280 659 Falkland Islands . . . . . . . – – – – – – French Guiana . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 184 161 356 227 129 Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 4 29 51 D D Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807 204 603 921 298 623 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 6 3 13 D D Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 25 129 120 16 104 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . 285 132 153 329 122 207Stateless . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D 6 D 5Unknown or not reported . . 17 7 10 14 7 7

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero1 Country is defined as nationality for sovereign states and country of birth for dependencies.2 Criminal status includes those cases in which the Department of Homeland Security has evidence of a conviction.3 Yugoslavia (unknown republic) prior to February 7, 2003.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 44. ALIENS UNDER DOCKET CONTROL REQUIRED TO DEPART BY CRIMINAL STATUS AND REGION AND COUNTRY OF NATIONALITY: FISCAL YEARS 1995 TO 2004

1995 1996 1997

Region and country Non- Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,730 494 4,236 4,631 481 4,150 7,378 733 6,645Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375 12 363 337 9 328 513 24 489 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 – 3 D – D Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 15 – 15 32 3 29 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 D D D – D Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – D – D Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 – – – 3 – 3 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 – 3 3 D D Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . – – – D – D D – D Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 – 39 29 – 29 44 D D Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D 3 – 3 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . – – – D – D D – D Czechoslovakia (former) . 5 – 5 6 – 6 16 – 16 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – D – D Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – D – D Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – – – – France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 D D 17 – 17 14 – 14 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D 4 D D Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 D D 19 – 19 33 – 33 Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 10 5 – 5 4 D D Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 10 6 – 6 13 D D Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D – – – Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 5 – 5 4 D D Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 8 14 D D 10 D D Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – 5 – 5 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – D – D Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 D – D D – D Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 D – D 11 – 11 Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D D – D Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – 3 – 3 Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – – – – Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . 6 D D 7 – 7 8 – 8 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 3 – 3 D – D Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 D D 38 – 38 49 D D Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 D D D 11 D D Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 D D 37 – 37 67 D D Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 D D 30 D D 36 D D Serbia and Montenegro3 . 15 D D 12 – 12 33 D D Slovak Republic . . . . . . . D – D 4 – 4 10 – 10 Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Soviet Union (former) . . . 6 – 6 4 – 4 3 – 3 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D 6 – 6 13 D D Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 5 D D D – D Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 D – D D – D Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – – – – Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 14 – 14 23 D D United Kingdom . . . . . . . 54 D D 36 D D 40 6 34 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D – – –Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463 13 450 514 15 499 791 27 764 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 D D D 8 D D Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 15 – 15 19 – 19 Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D – – – Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – China, People’s Republic . 32 4 28 35 3 32 66 D D Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D D – D

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1995 1996 1997

Region and country Non- Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 8 – 8 8 – 8 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 – 53 41 D D 78 – 78 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 4 – 4 10 – 10 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 11 – 11 32 D D Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 D – D D – D Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 13 17 D D 28 D D Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 16 18 D D 19 D D Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 D D 15 – 15 32 D D Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 – 35 25 D D 42 3 39 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D D D D D – Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 D D 4 – 4 6 3 3 Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D D 16 D D 20 D D Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 7 – 7 6 – 6 Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 D – D D – D Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 17 18 – 18 71 D D Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . 173 4 169 185 D D 180 4 176 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D D – D Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D D – – – – Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 14 45 – 45 118 3 115 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 8 D – D 11 – 11 Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 9 – 9 6 – 6 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 13 16 – 16 12 – 12 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 9 – 9 5 D D United Arab Emirates . . . D – D – – – – – – Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D 3 D D 4 – 4 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D 3 – 3Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 4 92 109 D 106 274 14 260 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D D – D Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 6 – 6 D – D Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Central African Republic . – – – – – – D – D Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – 14 – 14 Congo, Democratic Republic D – D 10 – 10 30 D D Congo, Republic . . . . . . . – – – – – – 4 – 4 Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 – 3 6 – 6 Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 16 7 D D 17 – 17 Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – 5 – 5 Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 8 7 – 7 25 – 25 Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 D – D 4 – 4 Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 5 – 5 10 D D Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 D – D D – D Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 5 – 5 4 – 4 Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 – 3 3 – 3 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D – – – Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – D – D Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – –

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1995 1996 1997

Region and country Non- Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – – – – Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 D D 5 – 5 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – D – D Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 9 D – D D – D Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 D D 7 – 7 23 3 20 Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D 7 – 7 Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 5 – 5 12 – 12 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 23 – 23 52 3 49 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . 11 D D 10 D D 16 D D Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D 20 D D Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – – – D – D Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – D D D Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – – – – Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D 3 D D Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – D – D Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 3 – 3 D – DOceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 D 37 41 3 38 47 D 45 American Samoa . . . . . . D – D – – – – – – Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 11 4 – 4 D – D Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D – – – Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 13 10 D D 16 – 16 French Polynesia . . . . . . . 4 – 4 9 – 9 11 D D Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D – – – Micronesia, Federated States . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D D D D – New Zealand . . . . . . . . . 6 D D 4 – 4 6 – 6 Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – D – D Papua New Guinea . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 5 – 5 6 – 6 Solomon Islands . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 – 3 D – D Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D – – –North America . . . . . . . . . . 3,467 428 3,039 3,415 436 2,979 5,336 627 4,709 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 10 46 64 3 61 81 8 73 Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,456 320 2,136 2,487 350 2,137 3,820 494 3,326 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . 394 74 320 297 56 241 459 90 369 Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . D – D D – D 4 D D Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Bahamas, The . . . . . . . D D D D D D 4 D D Barbados . . . . . . . . . . D – D D D – 3 – 3 Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – D – D British Virgin Islands . . – – – – – – D – D Cayman Islands . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 20 12 21 12 9 25 15 10 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 9 – 9 22 D D Dominican Republic . . . 256 39 217 179 21 158 287 42 245 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D – – – Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 D D 13 D D 13 D D Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . 36 8 28 32 17 15 51 20 31 Montserrat . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – D D D Netherlands Antilles . . . – – – D – D D – D St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . 3 D D 4 – 4 6 – 6 St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 4 – 4 7 – 7 St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . D – D D – D D – D Trinidad and Tobago . . . 14 D D 25 D D 30 6 24 Central America . . . . . . . 561 24 537 567 27 540 976 35 941

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1995 1996 1997

Region and country Non- Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 D D 7 – 7 6 D D Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . 12 – 12 7 D D 16 – 16 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . 202 8 194 186 6 180 399 13 386 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . 141 7 134 145 6 139 270 9 261 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . 92 3 89 153 9 144 187 7 180 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . 85 D D 54 D D 86 D D Panama . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3 9 15 D D 12 D DSouth America . . . . . . . . . . 283 34 249 208 14 194 406 38 368 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 9 8 – 8 10 D D Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 9 8 – 8 30 D D Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 D D 27 – 27 72 D D Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 D D 9 D D 15 D D Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 20 84 43 6 37 84 19 65 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 D D 28 3 25 61 D D Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D D 7 D D 9 D D Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D D – D – – – Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 3 54 52 D D 103 3 100 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D – – – Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D D – – – – Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3 19 22 – 22 22 D DStateless . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D – D D DUnknown or not reported . . 7 1 6 6 – 6 9 – 9

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1998 1999 2000

Region and country Non- Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,515 1,200 8,315 8,518 1,211 7,307 7,516 1,404 6,112Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460 24 436 436 40 396 398 44 354 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 9 – 9 27 D D Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 D D 14 D D 8 3 5 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D D – D Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – D – D Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 D – D 3 – 3 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 4 D D D – D Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . D – D – – – – – – Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 D D 26 – 26 14 D D Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D D – D 3 – 3 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 D – D 14 – 14 Czechoslovakia (former) . 42 – 42 45 D D 24 D D Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D D D D D – Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 7 4 3 D – D Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 3 D D – – – France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 D D 14 – 14 8 D D Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 3 – 3 11 D D Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 D D 24 5 19 17 D D Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 4 D D 8 5 3 Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 9 7 D D 10 D D Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D – – – Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 5 D D 3 D D Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D 14 D D 4 – 4 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . D – D 7 D D 9 – 9 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – 4 – 4 Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – D D – Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 8 3 – 3 D – D Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 4 – 4 4 – 4 Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – D – D Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 4 D D D D D Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – – – – Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 3 44 42 3 39 41 3 38 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 D D 11 D D 6 3 3 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 – 50 32 D D 25 D D Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 D D 61 6 55 51 5 46 Serbia and Montenegro3 . 17 D D 9 D D 16 D D Slovak Republic . . . . . . . 9 – 9 D – D D – D Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D – – – Soviet Union (former) . . . 7 – 7 5 D D 3 – 3 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 3 – 3 4 D D Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 D D D – D 3 – 3 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 4 – 4 5 – 5 Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – D – D Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – – – – Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 – 20 22 – 22 18 – 18 United Kingdom . . . . . . . 36 7 29 33 4 29 38 7 31 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 – 3 3 D DAsia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860 54 806 732 58 674 638 62 576 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . 52 D D 24 – 24 7 – 7 Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – D – D Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . 37 3 34 39 D D 21 – 21 Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D D – D Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D 3 – 3 D D D China, People’s Republic . 58 7 51 59 3 56 52 3 49 Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – – – –

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1998 1999 2000

Region and country Non- Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 – 3 4 – 4 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 3 71 101 8 93 64 5 59 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 15 10 – 10 24 D D Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 5 19 19 D D 17 5 12 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 6 D D D D D Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 D D 17 4 13 34 4 30 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 D D 8 D D 19 – 19 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 D D 27 D D 24 3 21 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 4 41 57 7 50 59 5 54 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 – 3 4 – 4 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D 6 D D 6 D D Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 D D 12 D D 14 3 11 Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 D D 15 3 12 15 – 15 Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – D – D Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D 3 D D 4 D D Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 3 61 70 4 66 63 8 55 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . 152 8 144 115 8 107 88 9 79 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . 8 3 5 5 – 5 4 – 4 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 7 D – D – – – Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 3 139 67 D D 46 3 43 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 10 – 10 9 D D Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D 11 D D 13 – 13 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 D D 17 D D 17 D D Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 D D 17 D D 13 D D United Arab Emirates . . . – – – – – – D – D Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – 4 D D 6 D D Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 21 D D D D – DAfrica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 16 375 261 23 238 125 22 103 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 7 – 7 D – D Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 3 – 3 4 – 4 Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – D – D Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D – – – Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D – – – Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D D – D 5 D D Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D D – D – – – Central African Republic . – – – – – – – – – Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 19 5 – 5 – – – Congo, Democratic Republic 36 – 36 6 – 6 D – D Congo, Republic . . . . . . . 4 – 4 5 – 5 D – D Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 3 – 3 – – – Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 D – D D – D Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 D D 27 4 23 18 3 15 Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 18 9 – 9 D – D Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 D D 25 D D 5 – 5 Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D – – – Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D D – D Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 D D 15 4 11 13 – 13 Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 4 D D D – D Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 18 9 D D D – D Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 D – D 3 D D Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – D – D Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – D D – Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – D – D Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – D – D

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1998 1999 2000

Region and country Non- Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D D – D 3 D D Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D – – – Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 6 – 6 – – – Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 6 26 43 9 34 24 9 15 Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D – – – Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 7 – 7 7 3 4 Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . D – D 7 – 7 – – – Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 – 78 27 – 27 – – – South Africa . . . . . . . . . . 10 D D 10 – 10 12 – 12 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 – 32 13 – 13 D – D Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 – 3 D – D Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – – – – – – Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 3 D D D – D Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 5 – 5 3 D D Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D – – – Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D D D 6 – 6Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 D 39 48 D 46 34 5 29 American Samoa . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 16 12 – 12 9 D D Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D D 18 – 18 9 – 9 French Polynesia . . . . . . . 4 – 4 – – – D – D Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D – – – Micronesia, Federated States . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D – D D – New Zealand . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 10 – 10 8 – 8 Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Papua New Guinea . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 6 D D D D D Solomon Islands . . . . . . . D – D – – – – – – Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 – – – 3 D D Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – –North America . . . . . . . . . . 7,289 1,057 6,232 5,009 789 4,220 4,444 967 3,477 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 21 67 107 27 80 97 22 75 Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,261 864 4,397 4,902 762 4,140 4,347 945 3,402 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . 561 83 478 554 137 417 580 139 441 Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . 3 D D 3 – 3 3 D D Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D – – – – Bahamas, The . . . . . . . 6 – 6 7 D D 3 D D Barbados . . . . . . . . . . D D D 4 D D D – D Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – – – – British Virgin Islands . . 4 – 4 D – D – – – Cayman Islands . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 21 9 34 19 15 28 23 5 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . 8 D D 7 D D D – D Dominican Republic . . . 373 32 341 353 67 286 427 64 363 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 – – – D – D Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – – – – Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 D D 24 D D 18 D D Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . 63 18 45 81 39 42 66 28 38 Montserrat . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – – – – Netherlands Antilles . . . – – – – – – – – – St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . D – D D – D D – D St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 4 D D D – D St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . . – – – – – – 3 D D Trinidad and Tobago . . . 32 6 26 33 – 33 26 11 15 Central America . . . . . . . 1,379 89 1,290 937 94 843 928 105 823

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1998 1999 2000

Region and country Non- Non– Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 4 10 13 3 10 4 D D Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . 23 D D 21 – 21 21 D D El Salvador . . . . . . . . . 575 38 537 430 49 381 362 49 313 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . 435 20 415 323 22 301 338 23 315 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . 292 21 271 110 13 97 173 20 153 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . 31 3 28 29 4 25 16 6 10 Panama . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D D 11 3 8 14 4 10South America . . . . . . . . . . 470 47 423 525 68 457 366 60 306 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 D D 22 6 16 9 3 6 Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 24 12 3 9 10 – 10 Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 D D 56 4 52 47 6 41 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 4 16 19 D D 11 D D Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 18 101 102 27 75 75 23 52 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 4 82 98 10 88 49 3 46 Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 D D 13 5 8 8 D D Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D D – D D – D Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 11 78 150 9 141 111 11 100 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D D – D Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 6 – 6 4 – 4 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . 35 5 30 43 D D 37 11 26Stateless . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 14 – 14 – – –Unknown or not reported . . 2 1 1 2 – 2 3 – 3

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2001 2002

Region and country Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,998 1,518 5,480 8,377 1,413 6,964Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318 43 275 400 46 354 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 16 – 16 Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D 13 – 13 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D – – – Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 D – D Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . – – – D D D Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 D D 19 – 19 Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D D – Czech Republic . . . . . . . . 9 – 9 6 D D Czechoslovakia (former) . 21 3 18 53 D D Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 D D Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 4 – 4 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D 4 – 4 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 D D 13 D D Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 5 D D Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 – 25 20 D D Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 4 D D Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3 6 4 D D Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . D – D 5 – 5 Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 4 – 4 Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 6 – 6 Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 17 4 13 Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D – Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D – Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 8 D D Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D – Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 6 33 38 6 32 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D 8 D D Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 D D 18 D D Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 4 22 37 D D Serbia and Montenegro3 . 17 D D 6 D D Slovak Republic . . . . . . . 8 D D 5 D D Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Soviet Union (former) . . . D – D D – D Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D 7 – 7 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – 4 – 4 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 D D 23 3 20 United Kingdom . . . . . . . 35 7 28 28 9 19 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D 6 – 6Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503 62 441 1,176 147 1,029 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . – – – 5 – 5 Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 3 – 3 Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 28 6 22 Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – D D – China, People’s Republic . 43 D D 65 4 61

Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D –

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2001 2002

Region and country Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . 6 D D D – D India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 4 49 94 6 88 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 23 30 – 30 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 D D 14 D D Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 5 D D Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 3 48 125 3 122 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3 12 12 3 9 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 D D 82 10 72 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 6 42 109 10 99 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D 8 – 8 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D 7 D D Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 9 51 8 43 Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 D D 16 3 13 Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 10 – 10 Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 4 D D Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D D – D Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 4 36 203 34 169 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . 64 15 49 103 16 87 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 48 5 43 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D D – D Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 D D 17 D D Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D 22 3 19 Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D 11 4 7 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4 8 11 D D Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 D D 55 13 42 United Arab Emirates . . . – – – 3 – 3 Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3 3 4 D D Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 20 4 16Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 30 108 304 44 260 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 9 D D Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 D – D Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 4 – 4 Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 D D Central African Republic . – – – – – – Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Congo, Democratic Republic D – D D – D Congo, Republic . . . . . . . 3 – 3 3 – 3 Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . D – D 4 D D Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 D – D Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D D 86 13 73 Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D 5 – 5 Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D 3 D D Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D 14 D D Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – – Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D 17 3 14 Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D D – Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 – 3 Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 7 3 4

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2001 2002

Region and country Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 D D 29 4 25 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 – 3 Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 15 13 16 6 10 Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3 3 7 D D Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 6 D D South Africa . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 7 20 D D Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D 4 D D Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 6 – 6 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – – – Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 7 37 3 34 Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D D – D Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D 3 – 3Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 7 36 42 7 35 American Samoa . . . . . . – – – – – – Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 8 – 8 Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 9 11 D D French Polynesia . . . . . . . – – – – – – Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Micronesia, Federated States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D D D – New Zealand . . . . . . . . . 7 D D 6 – 6 Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D – D D – Papua New Guinea . . . . . D – D – – – Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 D D 11 D D Solomon Islands . . . . . . . – – – – – – Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 – 3 Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – –North America . . . . . . . . . . 4,343 1,108 3,235 4,724 951 3,773 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 13 55 91 29 62 Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,275 1,095 3,180 4,633 922 3,711 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . 597 111 486 465 98 367 Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . – – – 3 – 3 Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Bahamas, The . . . . . . . 6 D D 9 3 6 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D – – – Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – British Virgin Islands . . – – – D – D Cayman Islands . . . . . . – – – – – – Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 21 7 29 26 3 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . D D D 6 D D Dominican Republic . . . 448 41 407 321 37 284 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . D D – – – – Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4 9 19 5 14 Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . 63 29 34 55 20 35 Montserrat . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Netherlands Antilles . . . – – – – – – St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . 5 – 5 3 D D St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D D D – St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . 4 D D D – D Trinidad and Tobago . . . 20 4 16 14 3 11 Central America . . . . . . . 702 102 600 744 63 681

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2001 2002

Region and country Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3 4 9 3 6 Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . 17 4 13 28 D D El Salvador . . . . . . . . . 167 42 125 179 26 153 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . 289 24 265 306 13 293 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . 195 16 179 189 18 171 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . 17 7 10 25 D D Panama . . . . . . . . . . . 10 6 4 8 – 8South America . . . . . . . . . . 352 55 297 520 57 463 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 D D 12 D D Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 D D 19 D D Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 D D 158 10 148 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 3 20 18 D D Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 19 78 111 18 93 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 7 51 54 8 46 Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 6 3 11 3 8 Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 12 49 88 8 80 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 4 D D Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3 12 43 5 38Stateless . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – –Unknown or not reported . . 1 – 1 2 – 2

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2003 2004

Region and country Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,288 1,254 9,034 9,396 1,087 8,309Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511 43 468 429 39 390 Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 3 25 33 D D Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 D D 14 D D Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D D – D Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 8 5 – 5 Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 3 D D Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . 3 – 3 D D – Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 22 14 D D Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 – 3 Czech Republic . . . . . . . . 9 – 9 5 – 5 Czechoslovakia (former) . 49 D D 38 3 35 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D 3 D D Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 9 – 9 Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 8 6 – 6 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3 12 9 D D Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D D D – D Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 D D 17 D D Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 D D D – D Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4 7 7 3 4 Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 – – – Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D 4 – 4 Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 13 D D Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 D – D Malta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Moldova . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 D – D Monaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . 6 D D 6 – 6 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 4 65 57 5 52 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 11 3 8 Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 D D 10 D D Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 D D 55 4 51 Serbia and Montenegro3 . 18 – 18 23 D D Slovak Republic . . . . . . . 15 – 15 6 D D Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Soviet Union (former) . . . D – D 4 D D Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D D D – D Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 D – D Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 – 3 Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 D D 19 D D United Kingdom . . . . . . . 24 6 18 27 5 22 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . 11 D D 7 – 7Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,469 96 1,373 1,212 93 1,119 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 3 D D Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . 35 D D 48 D D Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D 3 D D China, People’s Republic . 57 4 53 51 D D Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – –

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Region and country Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 4 – 4 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 12 97 135 14 121 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 – 92 118 3 115 Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 3 34 21 4 17 Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 6 – 6 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 4 72 67 8 59 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 D D 19 3 16 Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 6 98 64 6 58 Korea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 3 115 93 3 90 Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 D D 8 – 8 Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3 4 6 D D Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 3 35 42 5 37 Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 D D 12 D D Mongolia . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 D D 9 – 9 Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 9 – 9 Oman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 15 315 229 9 220 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . 113 8 105 94 12 82 Qatar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . 25 3 22 26 3 23 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 5 D D Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 11 5 D D Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 D D 21 D D Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 8 15 3 12 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 15 88 22 – 22 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 5 44 50 5 45 United Arab Emirates . . . 5 – 5 D – D Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 D D 7 D D Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 D D 18 – 18Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430 45 385 443 41 402 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 D D 12 – 12 Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D 8 D D Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 D – D Central African Republic . – – – – – – Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D Congo, Democratic Republic – – – – – – Congo, Republic . . . . . . . D – D 7 – 7 Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . D – D 4 – 4 Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D D – Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 11 107 95 4 91 Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 D – D Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 D D 16 – 16 Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D Gambia, The . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 10 D D Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 D D 22 D D Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D 6 D D Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 3 26 40 D D Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D – – – Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 D D 7 3 4 Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 4 – 4 Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . – – – D – D Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 3 – 3 Mali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 4 D D Mauritania . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 4 – 4

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2003 2004

Region and country Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Mauritius . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 5 57 70 6 64 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Niger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 4 D D Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 8 24 37 9 28 Rwanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 9 D D Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 D – D Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D D D South Africa . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 18 17 D D Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 D D 6 D D Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D D 6 – 6 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 3 – 3 Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 5 23 21 D D Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 7 – 7 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . 6 D D 5 – 5Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 10 40 32 11 21 American Samoa . . . . . . – – – – – – Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 D D 4 D D Cook Islands . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 9 9 D D French Polynesia . . . . . . . D – D – – – Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Micronesia, Federated States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 6 – 5 5 – New Zealand . . . . . . . . . 7 – 7 4 D D Palau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Papua New Guinea . . . . . D – D – – – Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 3 D D Solomon Islands . . . . . . . – – – – – – Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 D D 7 D D Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – –North America . . . . . . . . . . 5,084 823 4,261 4,768 668 4,100 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 29 108 88 14 74 Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,947 794 4,153 4,680 654 4,026 Caribbean . . . . . . . . . . . 548 85 463 474 95 379 Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . D D – 4 – 4 Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Bahamas, The . . . . . . . 5 D D 8 4 4 Barbados . . . . . . . . . . 4 D D D D – Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . D D – – – – British Virgin Islands . . – – – – – – Cayman Islands . . . . . . D – D D – D Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 14 7 25 21 4 Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 9 4 D D Dominican Republic . . . 375 29 346 295 28 267 Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 5 D D Guadeloupe . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 8 13 26 D D Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . 65 20 45 66 26 40 Montserrat . . . . . . . . . – – – – – – Netherlands Antilles . . . – – – – – – St. Kitts-Nevis . . . . . . . 4 D D D – D St. Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . 5 D D 5 D D St. Vincent and the Grenadines . . . . . . . 5 – 5 3 D D Trinidad and Tobago . . . 28 4 24 29 8 21 Central America . . . . . . . 1,423 87 1,336 1,256 91 1,165

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2003 2004

Region and country Non- Non- of nationality1 Total Criminal2 criminal Total Criminal2 criminal

Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 D D 7 D D Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . 56 6 50 31 7 24 El Salvador . . . . . . . . . 371 21 350 318 29 289 Guatemala . . . . . . . . . 583 25 558 572 31 541 Honduras . . . . . . . . . . 356 28 328 293 17 276 Nicaragua . . . . . . . . . . 41 D D 25 D D Panama . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 10 3 7South America . . . . . . . . . . 764 65 699 779 49 730 Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 D D 25 D D Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 6 16 18 D D Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 11 269 309 11 298 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 D D 19 D D Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 16 115 157 9 148 Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 9 77 78 10 68 Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 6 10 10 6 4 Paraguay . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D 4 – 4 Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 6 115 106 5 101 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . D – D D – D Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 D D D – D Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . 48 6 42 48 D DStateless . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 D – DUnknown or not reported . . 3 – 3 1 – 1

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.1 Country is defined as nationality for sovereign states and country of birth for dependencies. 2 Criminal status includes those cases in which the Department of Homeland Security has evidence of a conviction. 3 Yugoslavia (unknown republic) prior to February 7, 2003.

NOTE: Aliens under docket control required to depart are a type of voluntary departure.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 45. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTROL OF MARIJUANA, NARCOTICS, AND DANGEROUS DRUG TRAFFIC: FISCAL YEARS 1995 TO 2004

Type of contraband

Dangerous Marijuana/ Heroin/ Cocaine drug pills Year and seizure hashish (lbs.) opium (oz.) (oz.) (units) Other Total

1995: Number of seizures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,713 271 924 134 371 8,413 Amount seized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724,523.7 13,205.5 1,362,257.8 250,970 X X Estimated value of seizures (millions of dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623 41 2,215 Z 37 2,9151996: Number of seizures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,844 230 768 173 286 8,301 Amount seized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752,822.2 8,629.6 574,556.0 331,165 X X Estimated value of seizures (millions of dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621 96 834 1 23 1,5751997: Number of seizures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,715 178 649 142 338 9,022 Amount seized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873,193.4 3,182.5 421,113.8 1,982,769 X X Estimated value of seizures (millions of dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720 15 637 1 31 1,4051998: Number of seizures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,524 256 1,228 136 402 10,546 Amount seized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,121,452.0 3,120.4 559,036.4 335,439 X X Estimated value of seizures (millions of dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 903 16 940 1 29 1,8891999: Number of seizures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,049 271 1,130 303 440 12,193 Amount seized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,429,358.0 3,794.2 785,549.7 553,734 X X Estimated value of seizures (millions of dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,146 22 1,321 2 37 2,5272000 Number of seizures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,914 225 1,020 470 514 12,143 Amount seized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,597,395.0 5,487.1 567,341.3 1,426,547 X X Estimated value of seizures (millions of dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,289 32 946 5 41 2,3142001 Number of seizures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,201 190 1,074 380 542 11,387 Amount seized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,449,946.7 6,563.8 446,330.7 736,157 X X Estimated value of seizures (millions of dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,144 40 744 3 28 1,9592002 Number of seizures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,289 160 991 250 541 10,231 Amount seized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,440,488.2 6,887.0 489,490.9 619,004 X X Estimated value of seizures (millions of dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,177 32 736 2 32 1,9802003 Number of seizures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,528 119 742 362 533 10,284 Amount seized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,562,368.1 6,623.9 336,493.4 395,714 X X Estimated value of seizures (millions of dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,434 42 598 9 24 2,10720041

Number of seizures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,289 71 727 331 479 10,897 Amount seized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,552,906.0 3,068.6 350,584.2 345,776 X X Estimated value of seizures (millions of dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,278 14 670 3 42 2,008

X Not applicable.

Z Rounds to less than $500,000.1 Includes inspections, Border Patrol and investigations data for fiscal years 1995 through 2003. For fiscal year 2004, includes narcotic seizure data reported by Customs and Border Protection inspections and Border Patrol only. Excludes Immigration and Customs Enformcement (ICE) investigations data. During fiscal year 2004, the collection and reporting of Performance and Analysis System (PAS) G–623 investigations seizure data was transitioned to ICE, Office of Investigations, and entered into the Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS) and the Seized Assets Control and Tracking System (SEACATS).

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Table 46. PROSECUTIONS, FINES, AND IMPRISONMENT FOR IMMIGRATION, NATURALIZATION AND OTHER VIOLATIONS: FISCAL YEARS 1995 TO 2004

Action taken 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

PROSECUTIONS Total disposed of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,035 16,115 19,180 23,826 22,491Convictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,075 12,121 16,184 21,480 20,471Acquittals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 108 24 65 58Dismissals1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,836 3,886 2,972 2,281 1,962

PROSECUTIONS FOR IMMIGRATION VIOLATIONS Total disposed of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,337 14,223 17,807 22,857 21,588Convictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,110 11,014 15,219 20,768 19,753Acquittals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 107 22 60 52Dismissals1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,133 3,102 2,566 2,029 1,783

PROSECUTIONS FOR NATURALIZATION VIOLATIONS Total disposed of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328 176 212 171 206Convictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 133 164 129 173Acquittals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – D – –Dismissals1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 43 47 42 33

PROSECUTIONS FOR OTHER VIOLATIONS Total disposed of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,370 1,716 1,161 798 697Convictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852 974 801 583 545Acquittals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 D D 5 6Dismissals1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493 741 359 210 146

FINES Total fines (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955,054 1,131,709 760,209 776,622 1,275,604Immigration violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609,480 959,214 310,893 437,547 692,477Naturalization violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,695 3,195 11,579 7,870 10,575Other violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331,879 169,300 437,737 331,205 572,552

IMPRISONMENT Total imprisonment (years) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,161 6,947 11,353 12,030 14,843Immigration violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,234 5,436 8,059 10,455 12,922Naturalization violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 64 77 116 180Other violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,875 1,447 3,217 1,459 1,741

See footnotes at end of table.

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Action taken 2000 2001 2002 2003 20042

PROSECUTIONS Total disposed of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,926 24,316 23,850 24,918 19,541Convictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,751 21,055 21,042 22,479 17,100Acquittals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 92 114 57 11Dismissals1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,079 3,169 2,694 2,382 2,430

PROSECUTIONS FOR IMMIGRATION VIOLATIONS Total disposed of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,071 23,374 23,219 24,153 19,370Convictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,007 20,297 20,483 21,821 16,945Acquittals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 88 108 46 10Dismissals1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,983 2,989 2,628 2,286 2,415

PROSECUTIONS FOR NATURALIZATION VIOLATIONS Total disposed of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 196 171 155 95Convictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 168 146 137 86Acquittals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D – 3 D DDismissals1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 28 22 17 8

PROSECUTIONS FOR OTHER VIOLATIONS Total disposed of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644 746 460 610 76Convictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563 590 413 521 69Acquittals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 4 3 10 – Dismissals1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 152 44 79 7

FINES Total fines (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,795,872 12,498,608 2,171,518 1,066,176 87,896Immigration violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,677,297 468,718 707,224 941,950 83,004Naturalization violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,545 26,025 7,550 1,650 – Other violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,044,030 12,003,865 1,456,744 122,576 4,892

IMPRISONMENT Total imprisonment (years) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,003 17,863 16,803 19,646 10,568Immigration violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,109 14,786 15,612 17,776 10,486Naturalization violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 121 104 118 57Other violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,793 2,956 1,087 1,752 25

D Disclosure standards are not met.

– Represents zero.1 Dismissed or otherwise closed. 2 For fiscal years 1995 through 2003, includes department wide Performance and Analysis System (PAS) Prosecution data reported by all applicable program activities: Inspections, Border Patrol and Investigations. For fiscal year 2004, includes only Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Inspections and Border Patrol prosecution data and excludes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Investigations data as a result of the discontinuance of Investigation office reporting to PAS, effective July 1, 2004

Note: Counts of violations reflect new/recategorized statutes and adjusted classification for various violation codes.

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Violations 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

Total, all violations1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,075 12,121 16,184 21,480 20,471Immigration violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,110 11,014 15,219 20,768 19,753 Entry of aliens illegally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,446 6,361 9,723 15,050 13,515 Reentry of deported aliens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,475 2,331 2,859 3,149 3,623 Bringing in, transporting, harboring illegal aliens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758 1,295 1,182 1,103 1,403 Fraud and false statements to obtain or confer immigration benefits . . . . . . . . . 39 28 63 41 36 Fraud, forgery, misuse of visas, alien registration, and other documents . . . . . . . 301 254 203 322 366 Fraud, forgery, misuse of identification documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,032 681 1,127 1,032 765 Conspiring to defraud the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 12 10 18 8 Employing unauthorized aliens, peonage, false attestations for employment . . . . . . . . 52 48 48 48 24 Other immigration violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 4 4 5 13Naturalization violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 133 164 129 173 False representation as citizens of United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 101 105 81 99 Fraud, misuse of citizen naturalization papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 14 22 16 31 Fraud, forgery, misuse of U.S. passports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 18 37 32 42 Other naturalization violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – DOther violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852 974 801 583 545 Racketeering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443 662 342 313 263 Terrorism, threat to national security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – D Money laundering and financial fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3 D 25 3 Weapons trafficking, unlawful possession by aliens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 16 29 27 39 Drug trafficking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 222 378 146 186 Obstructing justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 29 26 33 15 Alien prostitution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 13 4 7 3 Other violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 29 21 32 35

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Total, all violations1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,751 21,055 21,042 22,479 17,100Immigration violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,007 20,297 20,483 21,821 16,945 Entry of aliens illegally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,733 13,378 13,371 14,199 12,829 Reentry of deported aliens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,759 4,315 4,699 4,939 3,157 Bringing in, transporting, harboring illegal aliens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,700 1,680 1,691 1,612 523 Fraud and false statements to obtain or confer immigration benefits . . . . . . . . . 31 98 119 270 223 Fraud, forgery, misuse of visas, alien registration, and other documents . . . . . . . 362 327 196 253 53 Fraud, forgery, misuse of identification documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363 432 367 390 159 Conspiring to defraud the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D D 5 6 D Employing unauthorized aliens, peonage, false attestations for employment . . . . . 49 19 25 72 – Other immigration violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 47 10 80 86Naturalization violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 168 146 137 86 False representation as citizens of United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 129 98 101 80 Fraud, misuse of citizen naturalization papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4 7 6 – Fraud, forgery, misuse of U.S. passports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 35 41 30 6 Other naturalization violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – – –Other violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563 590 413 521 69 Racketeering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 185 122 173 38 Terrorism, threat to national security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – – – 10 – Money laundering and financial fraud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 10 17 23 – Weapons trafficking, unlawful possession by aliens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 84 105 67 13 Drug trafficking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 226 126 158 D Obstructing justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 57 37 35 12 Alien prostitution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6 D D – Other violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 22 5 53 4

D Disclosure standards not met.

– Represents zero.1 Counts of violations reflect new/recategorized statutes and adjusted classification for various violation codes.2 For fiscal years 1995 through 2003, includes department wide Performance Analysis System (PAS) Prosecution data reported by all applicable program activities: Inspections, Border Patrol and Investigations. For fiscal year 2004, includes only Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Inspections and Border Patrol prosecution data and excludes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Investigations data as a result of the discontinuance of Investigation office reporting to PAS, effective July 1, 2004.

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