2005 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics - Homeland Security

Table 27.
NONIMMIGRANT ADMISSIONS (I-94 ONLY) BY REGION AND COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP:
FISCAL YEARS 1996 TO 2005 – Continued
Region and country
of citizenship 1996 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Dominica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,858 12,818 14,427 14,203 13,180 19,048 7,380 8,809 6,400
Dominican Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191,963 203,713 221,485 206,741 207,989 186,810 203,702 205,903 254,108
East Timor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X X X X - - - 18
Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105,706 151,966 133,871 135,834 166,961 176,920 161,390 152,958 161,230
Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,617 51,016 57,646 60,684 61,854 37,475 31,446 32,163 34,655
El Salvador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90,753 129,645 160,549 181,330 216,978 220,795 207,042 205,045 189,338
Equatorial Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 36 129 209 157 203 154 158 179
Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,103 1,074 1,707 1,536 1,590 1,581 1,443 1,605 1,518
Estonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,630 6,370 8,058 8,657 8,731 7,977 8,520 8,230 10,113
Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,937 6,520 8,341 9,121 9,369 8,433 9,044 8,189 7,656
Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,726 7,571 7,945 8,406 8,554 8,849 9,551 9,595 9,878
Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90,570 102,324 110,205 117,946 103,646 85,845 86,427 101,983 113,782
France 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,086,660 1,163,916 1,263,039 1,325,956 1,212,085 1,060,055 1,039,087 1,244,642 1,309,830
Gabon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,183 1,401 1,406 1,349 1,219 1,273 1,160 1,427 1,775
Gambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,498 1,971 2,319 3,823 3,178 3,840 3,509 2,853 2,749
Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,066 5,709 7,211 4,635 3,931 3,879 4,724 5,064 4,266
Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,034,764 2,119,075 2,224,504 2,139,191 1,750,089 1,405,858 1,439,131 1,630,243 1,711,425
Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,948 14,076 20,515 22,409 24,935 26,023 28,509 29,027 22,987
Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70,667 74,851 75,398 78,415 75,060 56,177 59,378 60,809 66,727
Grenada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,395 11,053 12,607 12,660 11,903 9,739 10,546 11,254 11,212
Guatemala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131,028 160,810 173,266 180,420 198,936 181,022 187,463 190,044 194,635
Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,543 6,050 5,293 5,937 6,621 5,781 5,866 5,919 5,190
Guinea-Bissau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 65 185 86 85 179 81 102 103
Guyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,594 24,016 25,626 24,787 25,524 28,096 27,846 26,679 27,731
Haiti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,397 70,290 85,517 86,304 83,162 81,566 78,815 82,100 85,453
Holy See . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 3 141 199 171 127 124 146 141
Honduras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,185 89,470 90,875 99,299 104,414 109,235 108,374 107,858 111,006
Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,952 56,300 61,145 68,352 62,764 45,232 44,241 44,162 47,438
Iceland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,336 28,114 32,238 31,651 28,068 23,171 25,158 31,787 41,878
India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234,609 378,141 442,095 542,765 567,992 501,890 537,992 611,293 665,202
Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,643 62,049 79,027 96,083 96,970 68,662 63,255 72,858 78,127
Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,468 19,753 20,140 21,759 20,286 12,329 6,452 7,808 9,574
Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,199 2,234 2,184 2,674 3,075 1,899 1,213 2,041 2,999
Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229,029 310,007 367,926 404,185 403,602 343,525 370,716 428,208 469,869
Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261,164 297,614 312,013 354,645 373,444 316,126 303,630 337,511 339,448
Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655,824 760,876 792,137 807,194 738,192 578,876 638,512 759,895 810,137
Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222,960 241,205 261,457 275,051 277,985 248,092 221,072 223,895 222,943
Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,521,162 5,288,807 5,039,429 5,253,750 5,070,501 3,651,862 3,589,589 4,335,972 4,400,386
Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,120 23,245 26,626 29,656 33,563 21,491 20,278 22,068 23,967
Kazakhstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,357 4,766 4,626 5,222 5,859 5,738 5,666 6,275 8,044
Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,033 14,742 15,768 18,209 23,755 22,769 18,526 19,636 19,243
Kiribati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870 1,227 1,149 1,142 1,003 1,049 1,073 1,152 820
Korea 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849,593 519,914 607,674 807,083 841,905 804,460 840,162 829,031 876,614
Korea, North 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 72 60
Korea, South 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 828,959 876,554
Kuwait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,999 20,781 21,136 20,162 19,757 11,271 11,051 12,404 15,112
Kyrgyzstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883 1,540 1,361 1,702 1,597 1,654 1,508 1,532 1,461
Laos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969 1,297 1,341 1,480 2,558 1,987 1,535 1,856 2,336
Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,584 7,900 9,358 11,339 12,484 10,774 10,142 10,140 11,888
Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,238 21,587 24,664 28,277 32,352 21,847 19,414 22,608 23,201
Lesotho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473 405 401 455 326 406 345 372 406
Liberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,345 3,060 2,734 4,796 3,449 2,312 1,651 1,684 1,409
Libya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414 360 382 384 452 347 270 402 757
Liechtenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,571 1,796 1,787 1,686 1,588 1,184 1,178 1,457 1,203
Lithuania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,717 8,374 8,236 13,416 18,353 17,717 15,210 12,928 12,831
Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,353 15,277 15,250 12,890 9,678 7,163 7,623 8,581 9,240
Macedonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,010 4,546 5,058 4,837 5,700 5,535 5,292 5,420 5,233
Madagascar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782 780 1,042 1,101 1,059 834 849 939 1,015
Malawi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 975 1,180 1,393 1,790 1,637 1,601 1,566 1,472 1,744
Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,789 71,056 79,270 94,854 96,219 59,345 52,327 68,710 73,535
See footnotes at end of table.
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