2005 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics - Homeland Security
2005 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics - Homeland Security
2005 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics - Homeland Security
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Table 4.<br />
PERSONS OBTAINING LEGAL PERMANENT RESIDENT STATUS BY STATE OF RESIDENCE: FISCAL YEARS 1996 TO <strong>2005</strong><br />
State <strong>of</strong> residence 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 <strong>2005</strong><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 />
Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,782 1,611 1,604 1,271 1,894 2,246 2,562 1,689 2,247 4,200<br />
Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,279 1,060 1,007 1,055 1,364 1,389 1,557 1,188 1,261 1,525<br />
Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,898 8,628 6,177 8,651 11,935 16,197 17,588 10,955 19,507 18,988<br />
Arkansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,494 1,427 913 937 1,594 2,561 2,531 1,903 2,288 2,698<br />
California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201,499 203,265 169,923 160,924 216,447 281,469 289,422 175,579 253,858 232,023<br />
Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,892 7,504 6,497 6,965 8,167 12,451 12,027 10,661 11,255 11,977<br />
Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,862 9,525 7,760 7,861 11,263 12,089 11,213 8,274 12,335 15,335<br />
Delaware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,376 1,148 1,060 1,024 1,563 1,847 1,856 1,487 1,705 2,992<br />
District <strong>of</strong> Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,783 3,370 2,372 2,130 2,528 3,034 2,719 2,491 2,148 2,457<br />
Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,401 82,232 59,756 57,216 94,474 104,148 90,460 52,770 76,178 122,918<br />
Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,601 12,623 10,424 9,377 14,707 19,370 20,496 10,794 16,681 31,535<br />
Hawaii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,436 6,867 5,458 4,292 6,047 6,282 5,478 4,899 6,405 6,480<br />
Idaho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,825 1,446 1,500 1,904 1,914 2,285 2,229 1,686 2,299 2,768<br />
Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,501 38,122 33,122 36,895 36,052 48,087 47,095 32,413 46,896 52,419<br />
Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,687 3,891 3,970 3,546 4,105 5,980 6,838 5,241 6,262 6,915<br />
Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,034 2,766 1,655 1,771 3,035 5,014 5,570 3,419 4,067 4,536<br />
Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,301 2,829 3,179 3,251 4,554 4,018 4,500 3,804 4,139 4,514<br />
Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,018 1,937 2,012 1,528 2,902 4,525 4,667 3,038 3,820 5,267<br />
Louisiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,089 3,318 2,179 2,034 2,981 3,751 3,176 2,214 3,095 3,777<br />
Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,026 815 708 558 1,123 1,185 1,265 992 1,322 1,908<br />
Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,722 18,914 15,523 15,543 17,565 21,919 23,677 17,770 20,549 22,870<br />
Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,074 17,304 15,844 15,125 23,302 28,847 31,498 20,127 28,067 34,236<br />
Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,247 14,720 13,914 13,614 16,655 21,386 21,724 13,515 18,851 23,597<br />
Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,971 8,193 6,959 5,932 8,554 11,091 13,477 8,406 12,097 15,456<br />
Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,073 1,116 695 696 1,074 1,338 1,145 729 1,312 1,831<br />
Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,687 4,187 3,576 4,157 5,988 7,574 8,585 6,160 7,050 8,744<br />
Montana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449 375 298 306 488 484 419 453 452 589<br />
Nebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,149 2,270 1,267 1,437 2,201 3,839 3,655 2,827 3,002 2,997<br />
Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,870 6,541 6,093 8,268 7,757 9,459 9,447 6,336 8,798 9,823<br />
New Hampshire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,511 1,142 1,009 999 1,992 2,578 2,995 1,868 2,280 3,298<br />
New Jersey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,279 41,168 35,044 34,008 39,778 59,587 57,478 40,699 50,699 56,180<br />
New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,778 2,610 2,193 2,439 3,951 5,186 3,374 2,336 3,076 3,513<br />
New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154,046 123,677 96,452 96,764 105,521 113,698 114,531 89,538 103,151 136,828<br />
North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,009 5,926 6,403 5,774 9,193 13,861 12,868 9,451 11,036 16,715<br />
North Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606 535 472 312 414 556 770 331 591 864<br />
Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,231 8,184 7,684 6,832 9,201 14,653 13,827 9,787 12,072 16,897<br />
Oklahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,509 3,156 2,272 2,367 4,550 3,471 4,215 2,385 3,578 4,702<br />
Oregon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,553 7,697 5,895 5,217 8,479 9,560 12,083 6,946 8,540 9,623<br />
Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,930 14,543 11,912 13,465 17,970 21,328 19,428 14,606 18,813 28,908<br />
Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,094 2,543 1,973 2,043 2,513 2,802 3,048 2,492 3,740 3,852<br />
South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,149 2,444 2,119 1,770 2,253 2,862 2,952 1,942 2,672 5,029<br />
South Dakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519 488 354 351 445 668 899 487 747 881<br />
Tennessee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,340 4,355 2,796 2,575 4,837 6,234 5,674 3,367 5,844 8,962<br />
Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83,364 57,881 44,285 49,294 63,391 85,905 88,142 53,412 92,440 95,958<br />
Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,247 2,838 3,352 3,547 3,667 5,218 4,871 3,159 4,346 5,082<br />
Vermont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654 624 511 494 802 950 1,003 550 814 1,042<br />
Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,369 19,263 15,650 15,111 19,985 26,767 25,319 19,726 22,104 27,100<br />
Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,824 18,649 16,886 13,003 18,245 22,977 25,631 17,935 19,758 26,482<br />
West Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583 418 375 392 569 736 635 483 634 847<br />
Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,604 3,170 3,718 3,038 5,034 8,442 6,486 4,357 5,580 7,909<br />
Wyoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 252 159 251 247 306 278 253 304 321<br />
Other 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,045 8,275 6,243 6,470 5,732 6,677 5,965 5,605 7,112 5,996<br />
Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5 4 3 - 15 8 7 6 9<br />
- Represents zero.<br />
1<br />
Includes U.S. dependencies and armed forces posts.<br />
Source: U.S. Department <strong>of</strong> <strong>Homeland</strong> <strong>Security</strong><br />
16 Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Immigration</strong> <strong>Statistics</strong>
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