2005 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics - Homeland Security

Table 26.
NONIMMIGRANT ADMISSIONS (I-94 ONLY) BY CLASS OF ADMISSION: FISCAL YEARS 1996 TO 2005 – Continued
Class of admission 2002 2003 2004 2005
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 of students and exchange visitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86,086 79,171 74,965 74,084
Spouses and children of academic students (F-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,433 37,112 35,771 33,756
Spouses and children of vocational students (M-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,057 937 392 607
Spouses and children of 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 of 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) professional workers (TN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,699 59,446 66,219 65,010
Spouses and children of temporary workers and trainees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155,495 148,360 155,497 157,171
Spouses and children of H-1, H-2, and H-3 workers (H-4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129,188 124,487 130,847 130,145
Spouses and children of O-1 and O-2 workers (O-3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,023 3,665 3,719 4,154
Spouses and children of P-1, P-2, and P-3 workers (P-4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,605 1,667 1,853 1,938
Spouses and children of R-1 workers (R-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,348 6,105 6,443 6,712
Spouses and children of 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 of intracompany transferees (L-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,446 136,227 142,099 143,206
Representatives of foreign information media and families (I-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,414 32,030 37,108 41,732
Foreign government officials and families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,898 138,496 152,649 156,945
Ambassadors, public ministers, career diplomats, or consular officers (A-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,489 26,903 28,046 28,488
Other foreign government officials or employees (A-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110,131 109,699 122,809 126,827
Attendants, servants, or personal employees of 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 of recognized foreign governments (G-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,987 12,231 13,189 13,606
Other representatives of recognized foreign governments (G-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,052 9,813 13,685 16,608
Representatives of nonrecognized or nonmember foreign governments (G-3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 392 593 740
International organization officers or employees (G-4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,096 74,343 80,515 82,826
Attendants, servants, or personal employees of representatives (G-5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,496 1,610 1,373 1,336
NATO officials and families (N-1 to N-7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919 829 623 641
See footnotes at end of table.
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