Table 26. NONIMMIGRANT ADMISSIONS (I-94 ONLY) BY CLASS OF ADMISSION: FISCAL YEARS 1996 TO <strong>2005</strong> – Continued Class <strong>of</strong> admission 1996 1998 1999 2000 2001 Legal <strong>Immigration</strong> Family Equity (LIFE) Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,023 13,748 18,233 23,671 34,678 Fiances(ees) <strong>of</strong> U.S. citizens (K-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,011 12,306 15,962 20,558 23,634 Children <strong>of</strong> fiances(ees) <strong>of</strong> U.S. citizens (K-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,012 1,442 2,271 3,113 3,487 Spouses <strong>of</strong> U.S. citizens, visa pending (K-3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X D Children <strong>of</strong> U.S. citizens, visa pending (K-4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X D Spouses <strong>of</strong> permanent residents, visa pending (V-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X 2,691 Children <strong>of</strong> permanent residents, visa pending (V-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X 4,540 Dependents <strong>of</strong> V-1 or V-2, visa pending (V-3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X 318 Transit aliens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325,538 365,607 386,202 437,671 456,174 Aliens in transit (C-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170,219 200,593 205,770 215,084 214,814 Aliens in transit to the United Nations (C-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,368 2,137 2,401 3,009 2,785 Foreign government <strong>of</strong>ficials and families in transit (C-3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,285 12,239 12,356 10,713 8,960 Transit without visa (C-4) 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142,666 150,638 165,675 208,865 229,615 All other classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,190 786 11,066 12,604 13,408 Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,342 25,721 20,273 20,676 32,114 See footnotes at end <strong>of</strong> table. Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Immigration</strong> <strong>Statistics</strong> 65
Table 26. NONIMMIGRANT ADMISSIONS (I-94 ONLY) BY CLASS OF ADMISSION: FISCAL YEARS 1996 TO <strong>2005</strong> – Continued Class <strong>of</strong> admission 2002 2003 2004 <strong>2005</strong> Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,907,139 27,849,443 30,781,330 32,003,435 Temporary visitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,333,016 24,358,500 27,395,921 28,510,374 For business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,376,935 4,215,714 4,593,124 4,695,809 For business (B-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,329,708 2,245,350 2,352,404 2,432,587 Visa waiver (WB) 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,045,776 1,969,180 2,239,595 2,261,354 Visa waiver, Guam (GB) 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,451 1,184 1,125 1,868 For pleasure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,956,081 20,142,786 22,802,797 23,814,565 For pleasure (B-2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,773,307 8,532,461 9,185,492 9,758,617 Visa waiver (WT) 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,067,165 11,520,679 13,521,963 13,568,455 Visa waiver, Guam (GT) 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,609 89,646 95,342 487,493 Students, exchange visitors, and families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,057,682 1,025,748 1,017,150 1,046,421 Students and exchange visitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971,596 946,577 942,185 972,337 Academic students (F-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637,954 617,556 613,221 621,178 Canadian or Mexican national academic commuter students (F-3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X - - 39 Vocational students (M-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,062 7,361 6,989 8,378 Exchange visitors (J-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325,580 321,660 321,975 342,742 Spouses and children <strong>of</strong> students and exchange visitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86,086 79,171 74,965 74,084 Spouses and children <strong>of</strong> academic students (F-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,433 37,112 35,771 33,756 Spouses and children <strong>of</strong> vocational students (M-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,057 937 392 607 Spouses and children <strong>of</strong> exchange visitors (J-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,596 41,122 38,802 39,721 Temporary workers and families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,468,760 1,431,717 1,508,340 1,573,631 Temporary workers and trainees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654,338 648,538 676,218 726,535 Specialty occupations (H-1B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370,490 360,498 386,821 407,418 Chile and Singapore Free Trade Agreement (H-1B1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X 326 499 Registered nurses participating in the Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas (H-1C) . . . . . . . . 111 48 70 31 Seasonal workers 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102,615 116,927 109,099 129,327 Seasonal agricultural workers (H-2A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,628 14,094 22,141 NA Seasonal nonagricultural workers (H-2B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86,987 102,833 86,958 NA Industrial trainees (H-3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,695 2,370 2,226 2,938 Workers with extraordinary ability or achievement (O-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,008 25,541 27,127 29,715 Workers accompanying and assisting in performance <strong>of</strong> O-1 workers (O-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,156 5,321 6,332 7,635 Internationally recognized athletes or entertainers (P-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,453 43,274 40,466 43,766 Artists or entertainers in reciprocal exchange programs (P-2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,754 3,898 3,810 4,423 Artists or entertainers in culturally unique programs (P-3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,487 8,869 10,038 10,836 Workers in international cultural exchange programs (Q-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,755 2,074 2,113 2,575 Workers in religious occupations (R-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,115 20,272 21,571 22,362 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) pr<strong>of</strong>essional workers (TN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,699 59,446 66,219 65,010 Spouses and children <strong>of</strong> temporary workers and trainees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155,495 148,360 155,497 157,171 Spouses and children <strong>of</strong> H-1, H-2, and H-3 workers (H-4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129,188 124,487 130,847 130,145 Spouses and children <strong>of</strong> O-1 and O-2 workers (O-3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,023 3,665 3,719 4,154 Spouses and children <strong>of</strong> P-1, P-2, and P-3 workers (P-4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,605 1,667 1,853 1,938 Spouses and children <strong>of</strong> R-1 workers (R-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,348 6,105 6,443 6,712 Spouses and children <strong>of</strong> TN workers (TD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,331 12,436 12,635 14,222 Treaty traders and investors and families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171,368 168,508 182,934 192,843 Treaty traders (E-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,440 44,090 47,083 49,037 Treaty investors (E-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124,928 124,418 135,851 143,786 Australian Free Trade Agreement (E-3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X 20 Intracompany transferees and families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454,145 434,281 456,583 455,350 Intracompany transferees (L-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313,699 298,054 314,484 312,144 Spouses and children <strong>of</strong> intracompany transferees (L-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,446 136,227 142,099 143,206 Representatives <strong>of</strong> foreign information media and families (I-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,414 32,030 37,108 41,732 Foreign government <strong>of</strong>ficials and families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,898 138,496 152,649 156,945 Ambassadors, public ministers, career diplomats, or consular <strong>of</strong>ficers (A-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,489 26,903 28,046 28,488 Other foreign government <strong>of</strong>ficials or employees (A-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110,131 109,699 122,809 126,827 Attendants, servants, or personal employees <strong>of</strong> A-1 and A-2 classes (A-3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,278 1,894 1,794 1,630 Representatives to international organizations and families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99,012 98,389 109,355 115,116 Principals <strong>of</strong> recognized foreign governments (G-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,987 12,231 13,189 13,606 Other representatives <strong>of</strong> recognized foreign governments (G-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,052 9,813 13,685 16,608 Representatives <strong>of</strong> nonrecognized or nonmember foreign governments (G-3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 392 593 740 International organization <strong>of</strong>ficers or employees (G-4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,096 74,343 80,515 82,826 Attendants, servants, or personal employees <strong>of</strong> representatives (G-5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,496 1,610 1,373 1,336 NATO <strong>of</strong>ficials and families (N-1 to N-7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919 829 623 641 See footnotes at end <strong>of</strong> table. 66 Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Immigration</strong> <strong>Statistics</strong>
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