2005 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics - Homeland Security
2005 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics - Homeland Security
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Table 27.<br />
NONIMMIGRANT ADMISSIONS (I-94 ONLY) BY REGION AND COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP:<br />
FISCAL YEARS 1996 TO <strong>2005</strong> – Continued<br />
Region and country<br />
<strong>of</strong> citizenship 1996 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 <strong>2005</strong><br />
REGION<br />
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,842,501 30,174,627 31,491,819 33,660,320 32,824,088 27,907,139 27,849,443 30,781,330 32,003,435<br />
Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284,356 363,582 407,332 447,235 465,738 387,456 371,849 384,476 395,760<br />
Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,685,183 8,299,330 8,372,905 9,178,691 9,088,162 7,013,142 6,799,607 7,828,250 8,128,129<br />
Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,419,084 12,009,777 12,748,055 13,427,977 12,448,338 10,631,696 11,029,032 12,487,567 12,909,602<br />
North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,983,002 5,523,773 6,018,802 6,518,286 6,758,389 6,427,860 6,495,391 6,736,588 7,067,133<br />
Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667,507 729,841 745,881 828,260 794,887 778,023 809,401 936,469 999,166<br />
South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,616,157 3,103,030 3,036,445 3,096,872 3,110,186 2,441,388 2,120,389 2,167,659 2,333,690<br />
Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187,212 145,294 162,399 162,999 158,388 227,574 223,774 240,321 169,955<br />
COUNTRY<br />
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,842,501 30,174,627 31,491,819 33,660,320 32,824,088 27,907,139 27,849,443 30,781,330 32,003,435<br />
Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,686 1,656 1,874 1,816 1,983 1,183 1,382 1,526 1,784<br />
Albania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,946 3,849 4,794 7,565 8,671 7,033 7,237 6,810 8,842<br />
Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,425 6,436 6,818 7,526 7,524 5,104 3,466 3,968 4,406<br />
Andorra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636 684 774 824 624 449 560 720 825<br />
Angola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,723 2,761 3,361 4,284 4,267 4,137 4,091 4,432 4,807<br />
Antigua and Barbuda . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,199 22,763 23,024 22,919 21,190 18,777 19,045 21,205 22,401<br />
Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427,995 544,158 539,304 546,795 541,493 252,333 241,351 242,101 256,675<br />
Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,098 4,802 10,133 10,924 10,539 6,679 5,178 5,238 5,244<br />
Australia 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458,121 508,218 525,152 590,556 548,842 514,311 550,315 645,235 702,097<br />
Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207,845 212,220 222,954 212,733 172,561 123,702 130,872 152,285 156,511<br />
Azerbaijan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,289 1,559 2,179 2,638 2,698 2,126 2,613 2,523 2,570<br />
Bahamas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296,088 310,164 346,402 363,069 351,467 318,745 306,316 321,046 284,824<br />
Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,793 4,721 4,706 4,734 4,671 2,281 2,405 2,667 3,593<br />
Bangladesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,546 14,173 17,855 20,266 21,120 15,593 13,914 14,709 14,909<br />
Barbados . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,348 58,521 58,229 55,929 51,918 45,288 47,811 55,198 58,825<br />
Belarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,368 5,720 8,021 8,555 8,391 7,482 11,146 9,690 9,252<br />
Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222,754 233,049 248,540 257,961 220,167 188,702 178,904 208,753 220,042<br />
Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,177 23,323 26,672 30,621 30,996 26,904 26,337 25,855 24,730<br />
Benin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,146 1,260 1,629 1,551 1,558 1,394 1,391 1,569 1,932<br />
Bhutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 238 325 356 395 361 368 425 451<br />
Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,341 35,373 40,800 52,989 44,520 37,506 34,222 33,652 31,604<br />
Bosnia and Herzegovina . . . . . . . . . . 1,626 3,261 5,622 8,384 8,846 6,315 6,372 7,048 7,278<br />
Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,248 1,790 2,097 2,381 2,448 2,112 1,931 1,980 2,102<br />
Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882,957 934,679 802,133 761,903 733,953 576,466 497,039 534,162 636,111<br />
Brunei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,274 1,143 1,032 1,044 934 645 586 686 773<br />
Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,923 16,329 19,798 21,061 23,329 26,595 30,523 33,688 36,406<br />
Burkina Faso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 33 1,364 1,508 1,657 1,915 1,708 1,760 2,169<br />
Burma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915 534 2,382 2,965 3,044 2,263 2,219 2,029 1,816<br />
Burundi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459 420 596 742 906 824 570 678 861<br />
Cambodia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,914 1,142 1,352 2,610 4,278 3,402 3,736 4,903 4,829<br />
Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,036 3,861 5,620 6,325 7,787 8,360 8,194 7,971 7,982<br />
Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97,129 175,424 195,528 235,962 248,069 224,691 221,477 238,682 230,905<br />
Cape Verde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,695 3,288 4,117 4,386 5,575 2,373 1,546 1,509 2,000<br />
Central African Republic . . . . . . . . . . 224 137 222 311 356 379 185 145 370<br />
Chad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 580 560 515 539 486 398 355 478<br />
Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171,905 196,167 195,164 208,367 190,048 154,783 139,392 139,261 134,593<br />
China 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485,950 517,208 458,663 520,403 542,435 479,895 390,453 446,818 505,462<br />
Colombia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273,398 399,410 450,285 472,163 470,242 418,053 379,519 394,148 412,256<br />
Comoros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 55 55 66 63 82 67 78 106<br />
Congo (Brazzaville) 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951 2,222 2,691 3,668 4,372 3,257 2,731 2,838 3,223<br />
Congo (Kinshasa) 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,527 932 526 293 133 151 157 117 192<br />
Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119,053 152,411 162,480 171,867 166,676 153,325 148,780 156,609 160,270<br />
Cote d’Ivoire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,357 5,540 5,933 5,273 5,457 3,207 2,231 2,433 2,380<br />
Croatia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,069 18,508 20,075 21,388 21,882 18,233 19,196 22,096 22,413<br />
Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,102 9,881 8,869 35,892 30,864 24,548 8,529 12,520 13,443<br />
Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,776 11,412 12,235 13,242 12,066 9,320 9,439 9,406 9,655<br />
Czech Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,613 46,167 49,090 52,304 53,047 35,455 43,894 43,455 45,671<br />
Denmark 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142,993 162,451 169,524 177,709 167,819 146,200 162,796 186,878 212,499<br />
Djibouti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 647 453 493 377 189 308 232 213<br />
See footnotes at end <strong>of</strong> table.<br />
68 Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Immigration</strong> <strong>Statistics</strong>