Table 28. NONIMMIGRANT ADMISSIONS (I-94 ONLY) BY REGION AND COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE: FISCAL YEARS 1996 TO <strong>2005</strong> – Continued Region and country <strong>of</strong> residence 1996 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 <strong>2005</strong> Saint Kitts and Nevis . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,069 10,980 12,159 12,659 12,324 10,888 11,025 12,545 14,726 Saint Lucia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,648 16,224 18,599 19,334 17,638 14,912 14,501 16,155 16,479 Saint Pierre and Miquelon . . . . . . . . . 93 195 94 93 105 24 32 26 49 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines . . . 5,998 7,493 9,065 9,940 8,662 7,977 8,384 9,330 9,601 Samoa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,510 890 949 1,173 1,316 1,158 1,590 1,394 1,473 San Marino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686 907 1,015 880 687 404 375 450 546 Sao Tome and Principe . . . . . . . . . . . 69 87 97 96 85 75 59 77 79 Saudi Arabia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,331 75,278 81,397 84,418 83,761 30,065 23,254 22,235 26,217 Senegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,917 7,640 8,927 12,485 12,739 9,181 8,252 7,337 6,227 Serbia and Montenegro 7 . . . . . . . . . . 11,046 12,359 8,318 9,474 12,486 13,719 8,810 4,392 3,842 Seychelles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336 393 449 469 463 343 300 219 237 Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,751 685 675 875 909 977 1,062 1,277 1,070 Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113,517 123,443 120,014 145,438 134,948 97,680 97,993 118,345 126,714 Slovakia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,361 16,120 16,386 18,591 22,047 23,390 22,030 21,833 22,687 Slovenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,460 12,621 15,547 16,551 13,968 7,754 10,766 12,819 14,173 Solomon Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 228 557 209 201 282 217 236 221 Somalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 74 98 119 108 48 29 44 89 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99,063 123,522 122,822 129,280 125,474 96,865 94,428 99,035 108,742 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324,404 344,189 373,579 396,411 372,452 349,245 373,565 481,026 447,603 Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,101 8,240 9,893 11,715 11,488 8,056 9,503 9,513 10,785 Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,171 1,044 1,189 1,695 2,073 1,224 807 851 853 Suriname . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,332 7,311 7,159 7,677 6,897 5,982 6,418 7,196 6,815 Swaziland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507 454 434 615 462 373 303 365 521 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247,801 309,373 330,864 343,118 294,442 212,062 232,301 282,555 319,711 Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405,257 425,490 416,964 418,536 374,845 293,073 284,211 306,946 300,497 Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,850 7,598 8,247 9,514 10,075 6,218 4,587 4,690 4,704 Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409,001 412,437 475,996 492,298 422,271 314,538 271,708 333,528 348,405 Tajikistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457 312 433 428 447 514 664 613 727 Tanzania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,832 3,773 5,032 5,413 6,220 4,330 4,409 4,313 4,606 Thailand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,746 64,925 83,781 96,875 95,296 76,895 71,691 80,807 83,686 Togo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,358 1,295 1,332 1,825 2,413 2,155 2,027 1,866 1,390 Tonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,042 2,371 3,060 2,979 3,315 2,594 2,193 2,394 2,705 Trinidad and Tobago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90,087 108,855 121,590 141,613 144,446 131,741 129,920 144,512 148,013 Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,106 8,429 9,416 10,602 6,794 2,655 2,790 3,979 4,634 Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,359 85,063 99,782 116,692 107,440 86,567 88,551 90,867 100,129 Turkmenistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463 305 267 345 516 278 312 459 572 Turks and Caicos Islands . . . . . . . . . 11,659 14,341 17,135 17,433 16,544 13,317 12,464 14,583 15,770 Tuvalu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 202 293 340 301 275 206 193 184 Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,710 3,324 4,548 5,279 4,790 4,130 4,110 4,765 4,630 Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,802 22,843 20,414 25,043 27,398 22,599 24,788 30,719 37,124 United Arab Emirates . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,938 36,768 40,669 44,167 43,712 20,800 20,287 24,512 28,644 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,041,476 4,042,544 4,337,743 4,803,746 4,717,751 4,133,487 4,357,843 4,781,015 4,815,801 United States 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404,226 649,556 769,399 910,521 1,004,390 950,898 920,778 948,221 934,668 Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,661 64,027 61,734 68,641 70,669 57,504 52,575 39,546 39,281 Uzbekistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,938 3,669 4,970 8,124 8,708 7,103 6,483 5,688 6,019 Vanuatu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 574 776 569 597 377 292 305 313 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462,414 559,764 593,325 596,215 625,654 497,073 346,931 362,702 402,591 Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,534 6,346 6,972 10,404 17,542 19,685 16,270 19,854 24,666 Virgin Islands, British . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,660 25,803 28,934 31,496 32,123 27,961 30,043 33,328 36,957 Virgin Islands, U.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653 781 1,180 1,250 1,176 973 855 782 750 Wallis and Futuna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 165 174 137 144 141 61 288 243 Western Sahara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D - - D D D D - 6 Yemen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,002 2,106 2,079 2,678 1,722 953 877 1,131 1,468 Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,345 2,932 3,540 4,251 5,330 4,591 3,444 3,665 3,576 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,111 7,255 8,629 9,710 8,781 6,858 6,468 6,323 5,675 All other countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,780 14,300 13,579 13,149 12,507 20,314 11,878 10,074 9,547 Unknown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,502,804 470,966 472,714 456,556 426,252 620,321 554,938 622,516 602,489 See footnotes at end <strong>of</strong> table. Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Immigration</strong> <strong>Statistics</strong> 75
Table 28. NONIMMIGRANT ADMISSIONS (I-94 ONLY) BY REGION AND COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE: FISCAL YEARS 1996 TO <strong>2005</strong> – Continued NA Not available. X Not applicable. D Data withheld to limit disclosure. - Represents zero. 1 Includes countries and their territories and dependencies. 2 Congo (Brazzaville) refers to the Republic <strong>of</strong> the Congo. 3 Congo (Kinshasa) refers to the Democratic Republic <strong>of</strong> the Congo. 4 Korea includes North and South Korea prior to 2004. 5 North Korea refers to the Democratic People’s Republic <strong>of</strong> Korea. 6 South Korea refers to the Republic <strong>of</strong> Korea. 7 Serbia and Montenegro was Yugoslavia prior to February 7, 2003. 8 United States includes nonimmigrants who self-report that they reside in the United States. Note: Admissions refer to counts <strong>of</strong> arrivals rather than individuals since nonimmigrants may enter the United States multiple times during a year. Also, the majority <strong>of</strong> shortterm admissions from Canada and Mexico are excluded, and data for 1997 are not available. Source: U.S. Department <strong>of</strong> <strong>Homeland</strong> <strong>Security</strong> 76 Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Immigration</strong> <strong>Statistics</strong>
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