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Table 3.<br />

PERSONS OBTAINING LEGAL PERMANENT RESIDENT STATUS BY REGION AND COUNTRY OF BIRTH:<br />

FISCAL YEARS 1996 TO <strong>2005</strong> – Continued<br />

Region and country <strong>of</strong> birth 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 <strong>2005</strong><br />

REGION<br />

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915,560 797,847 653,206 644,787 841,002 1,058,902 1,059,356 703,542 957,883 1,122,373<br />

Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,875 47,732 40,585 36,578 44,534 53,731 60,101 48,642 66,422 85,102<br />

Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307,722 265,674 219,371 198,918 264,413 348,256 340,494 243,918 334,540 400,135<br />

Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147,479 119,764 90,572 92,314 130,996 174,411 173,524 100,434 133,181 176,569<br />

North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340,428 307,313 252,503 270,719 338,959 405,638 402,949 249,968 342,468 345,575<br />

Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,307 4,340 3,922 3,658 5,105 6,071 5,515 4,351 5,985 6,546<br />

South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,744 52,832 45,281 41,444 55,823 68,484 74,151 55,028 72,060 103,143<br />

Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 192 972 1,156 1,172 2,311 2,622 1,201 3,227 5,303<br />

COUNTRY<br />

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915,560 797,847 653,206 644,787 841,002 1,058,902 1,059,356 703,542 957,883 1,122,373<br />

Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,263 1,127 830 877 1,011 1,202 1,759 1,252 2,137 4,749<br />

Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,007 4,374 4,220 3,695 4,755 4,358 3,765 3,362 3,840 5,947<br />

Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,059 717 804 789 906 875 1,030 759 805 1,115<br />

American Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D - 4 11 7 28 26 16 12 15<br />

Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 75 66 57 87 94 92 59 107 188<br />

Anguilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 19 26 20 25 55 20 26 22 35<br />

Antigua-Barbuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 393 297 454 429 461 380 301 414 440<br />

Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,450 1,961 1,503 1,387 2,317 3,297 3,661 3,129 4,805 7,081<br />

Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,441 2,093 1,144 1,250 1,253 1,762 1,800 1,287 1,833 2,591<br />

Aruba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 26 23 14 25 29 32 27 31 42<br />

Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,949 1,626 1,139 1,103 2,044 2,811 2,557 1,836 2,604 3,193<br />

Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553 485 290 230 405 522 483 295 402 532<br />

Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,990 1,450 504 738 1,036 1,152 1,164 746 969 1,523<br />

Bahamas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767 641 602 398 766 924 808 423 586 698<br />

Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 80 52 70 106 118 85 59 116 140<br />

Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,221 8,680 8,616 6,038 7,204 7,152 5,483 4,616 8,061 11,487<br />

Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,041 828 725 715 777 895 813 516 630 846<br />

Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,267 3,061 978 1,320 2,170 2,901 2,923 1,858 2,255 3,503<br />

Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651 553 419 426 670 814 769 455 638 859<br />

Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785 664 494 572 757 936 966 588 871 876<br />

Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 48 47 59 62 75 137 76 185 193<br />

Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 75 62 63 71 98 108 92 100 116<br />

Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 6 6 4 D 5 14 15 17 30<br />

Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,913 1,732 1,509 1,444 1,761 1,819 1,664 1,376 1,768 2,197<br />

Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,495 6,391 4,209 5,412 11,525 23,594 25,329 6,155 10,552 14,074<br />

Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 18 12 5 13 24 30 27 34 54<br />

Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,888 4,574 4,380 3,887 6,943 9,448 9,439 6,331 10,556 16,664<br />

British Virgin Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 93 55 76 67 70 43 43 35 41<br />

Brunei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 6 19 16 16 27 28 20 22 49<br />

Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,066 2,774 3,731 4,171 4,917 4,400 3,608 3,825 4,253 5,635<br />

Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 13 14 17 48 68 64 60 103 128<br />

Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,320 1,084 1,370 1,200 1,201 1,373 1,356 1,193 1,379 2,095<br />

Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 59 51 16 28 79 120 74 100 186<br />

Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,566 1,638 1,436 1,394 2,138 2,462 2,800 2,263 3,553 4,022<br />

Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803 895 690 824 860 791 984 927 1,309 1,458<br />

Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,800 11,583 10,130 8,782 16,057 21,752 19,352 11,350 15,569 21,878<br />

Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,012 920 812 902 1,079 868 871 745 1,015 1,225<br />

Cayman Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 35 28 18 31 23 24 35 38 37<br />

Central African Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 10 6 3 4 11 13 6 17 24<br />

Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 18 8 24 23 44 47 8 23 31<br />

Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,706 1,442 1,228 1,085 1,700 1,921 1,839 1,310 1,810 2,404<br />

China, People’s Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,720 41,128 36,854 32,159 45,585 56,267 61,082 40,568 55,494 69,967<br />

Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,275 12,993 11,801 9,928 14,427 16,627 18,758 14,720 18,846 25,571<br />

Congo, Democratic Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433 414 155 87 123 145 178 110 155 260<br />

Congo, Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 31 118 190 189 311 677 513 670 1,064<br />

Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,502 1,330 1,199 883 1,310 1,733 1,591 1,246 1,755 2,278<br />

Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432 430 364 303 439 596 629 483 666 930<br />

Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810 717 547 580 1,058 2,853 3,798 1,153 1,511 1,780<br />

Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,438 33,524 17,304 14,019 18,960 27,453 28,182 9,262 20,488 36,261<br />

Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 147 119 106 160 216 158 123 143 196<br />

See footnotes at end <strong>of</strong> table.<br />

12 Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Immigration</strong> <strong>Statistics</strong>

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