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Table 11. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Broad Class of Admission and Region and Country of Last Residence: Fiscal Year 2014

By Region of Last Residence

Region of Last Residence	Total	Family-Sponsored Preferences	Employment-Based Preferences	Immediate Relatives of U.S. Citizens	Diversity	Refugees and Asylees	Other
Total	1,016,518	229,104	151,596	416,456	53,490	134,242	31,630
Africa	94,834	9,426	3,908	37,772	22,435	20,782	511
Asia	419,382	99,236	95,320	134,962	16,362	59,670	13,832
Europe	87,790	6,569	19,643	44,039	12,136	4,921	482
North America	327,967	94,497	20,840	154,084	763	43,658	14,125
Oceania	5,980	768	1,371	2,971	813	32	25
South America	72,135	18,050	8,801	40,351	801	2,845	1,287
Unknown	8,430	558	1,713	2,277	180	2,334	1,368

By Country of Last Residence

Country of Last Residence	Total	Family-Sponsored Preferences	Employment-Based Preferences	Immediate Relatives of U.S. Citizens	Diversity	Refugees and Asylees	Other
Total	1,016,518	229,104	151,596	416,456	53,490	134,242	31,630
Afghanistan	9,849	283	48	859	77	171	8,411
Albania	3,625	424	67	1,644	1,341	135	14
Algeria	1,580	143	15	432	971	16	3
Angola	151	21	14	73	16	27	-
Anguilla	24	D	D	15	-	-	-
Antigua-Barbuda	398	139	15	232	6	D	D
Argentina	3,757	194	1,000	2,251	61	139	112
Armenia	2,917	307	96	1,050	1,217	240	7
Aruba	43	D	4	34	-	D	-
Australia	3,582	261	1,103	1,709	489	4	16
Austria	1,088	45	170	204	D	632	D
Azerbaijan	514	D	53	195	130	96	D
Bahamas	710	56	114	527	5	5	3
Bahrain	173	22	37	71	15	28	-
Bangladesh	14,340	8,607	429	5,129	7	106	62
Barbados	416	136	42	231	D	-	D
Belarus	2,024	110	143	612	794	354	11
Belgium	775	40	367	312	31	15	10
Belize	823	235	52	509	D	D	18
Benin	510	43	8	198	228	29	4
Bermuda	144	D	47	79	-	-	D
Bhutan	118	D	-	22	7	82	D
Bolivia	1,663	333	237	966	23	49	55
Bosnia-Herzegovina	588	36	31	453	31	37	-
Botswana	110	D	15	39	15	36	D
Brazil	10,246	621	2,273	6,996	9	176	171
British Virgin Islands	87	42	D	37	D	D	D
Brunei	23	D	13	D	D	-	-
Bulgaria	2,886	175	251	1,416	1,001	34	9
Burkina Faso	643	21	12	232	213	158	7
Burma	1,772	396	50	532	226	564	4
Burundi	181	3	15	32	29	102	-
Cambodia	2,473	418	57	1,591	381	21	5
Cameroon	3,826	336	90	1,175	1,294	919	12
Canada	17,670	1,531	9,075	6,553	212	99	200
Cape Verde	1,119	527	D	583	4	D	D
Cayman Islands	73	20	17	36	-	-	-
Central African Republic	84	D	4	18	D	57	D
Chad	130	7	D	19	9	92	D
Chile	1,591	168	329	1,009	14	40	31
China, People's Republic	72,492	15,867	20,783	23,959	30	11,681	172
Colombia	17,614	4,181	1,370	11,181	9	710	163
Congo, Democratic Republic	3,064	139	25	379	2,139	372	10
Congo, Republic	398	10	12	88	117	167	4
Costa Rica	2,018	196	196	1,514	24	67	21
Cote d'Ivoire	1,359	122	31	499	343	336	28
Croatia	271	D	44	158	25	29	D
Cuba	46,505	3,676	4	2,524	279	40,008	14
Curacao	31	8	6	10	4	3	-
Cyprus	147	D	38	78	19	D	-
Czech Republic	581	26	115	388	38	11	3
Czechoslovakia (former)	74	D	25	40	-	5	D
Denmark	533	34	217	230	41	6	5
Djibouti	405	9	-	54	21	321	-
Dominica	334	218	D	110	D	-	-
Dominican Republic	44,550	25,001	298	18,988	6	117	140
Ecuador	10,871	4,577	875	4,761	D	D	395
Egypt	12,043	1,031	652	2,783	3,347	4,200	30
El Salvador	18,964	8,155	952	7,892	-	362	1,603
Equatorial Guinea	24	D	D	8	3	10	-
Eritrea	785	42	D	309	70	358	D
Estonia	207	8	21	154	18	6	-
Ethiopia	12,926	1,342	136	4,568	2,530	4,327	23
Fiji	762	252	14	264	205	24	3
Finland	368	D	138	178	40	D	D
France	4,544	224	1,906	2,034	328	36	16
French Polynesia	25	D	D	21	-	-	D
Gabon	185	5	7	79	14	77	3
Gambia	1,093	111	12	623	20	279	48
Georgia	1,146	76	46	610	343	58	13
Germany	6,387	313	1,846	3,530	588	75	35
Ghana	7,191	930	251	4,221	1,525	242	22
Greece	1,388	80	251	851	177	20	9
Grenada	623	153	26	430	D	D	7
Guatemala	9,871	2,979	872	4,049	37	570	1,364
Guinea	1,395	98	14	417	228	600	38
Guinea-Bissau	25	D	-	21	-	D	-
Guyana	6,031	4,036	64	1,892	12	8	19
Haiti	15,107	6,961	D	6,506	D	1,337	198
Honduras	8,025	2,196	701	4,395	30	238	465
Hong Kong	2,515	1,168	510	743	48	38	8
Hungary	970	33	180	629	102	22	4
Iceland	79	3	29	40	7	-	-
India	74,451	15,740	38,593	18,480	84	909	645
Indonesia	1,997	166	426	1,105	53	225	22
Iran	8,894	1,993	867	2,547	2,721	728	38
Iraq	8,760	152	39	499	42	4,669	3,359
Ireland	1,721	36	666	929	79	4	7
Israel	4,251	330	1,421	2,206	209	61	24
Italy	3,647	227	970	1,970	342	127	11
Jamaica	18,804	6,281	599	11,826	-	48	50
Japan	5,980	201	2,341	3,119	260	27	32
Jordan	9,028	1,870	247	2,957	147	3,719	88
Kazakhstan	1,006	64	65	487	215	166	9
Kenya	8,299	557	335	3,588	1,293	2,495	31
Korea, North	200	D	62	107	-	D	-
Korea, South	20,113	1,544	11,458	6,988	20	11	92
Kosovo	783	119	14	421	96	130	3
Kuwait	804	128	125	323	D	127	D
Kyrgyzstan	710	39	15	216	183	253	4
Laos	771	44	25	665	D	33	D
Latvia	372	31	21	263	42	12	3
Lebanon	5,165	1,114	302	1,555	46	2,137	11
Lesotho	13	D	D	6	D	D	-
Liberia	3,681	391	13	1,283	1,666	322	6
Libya	313	D	10	178	71	43	D
Lithuania	708	52	53	484	107	7	5
Luxembourg	32	D	13	14	D	-	-
Macau	155	71	28	52	4	-	-
Macedonia	947	167	D	528	172	40	D
Madagascar	80	D	22	39	13	D	-
Malawi	198	11	23	99	22	35	8
Malaysia	9,009	212	516	707	90	7,473	11
Maldives	22	D	5	D	11	D	-
Mali	626	39	23	303	27	198	36
Malta	234	D	D	18	-	209	-
Marshall Islands	56	-	D	51	D	-	-
Mauritania	259	11	12	83	D	148	D
Mauritius	52	10	11	23	D	D	4
Mexico	133,107	33,976	7,292	81,347	19	646	9,827
Moldova	2,242	95	48	676	995	402	26
Monaco	11	-	D	D	-	-	-
Mongolia	607	35	93	263	71	133	12
Montenegro	283	63	7	175	10	28	-
Montserrat	31	D	D	16	-	-	-
Morocco	3,495	471	87	2,003	887	33	14
Mozambique	119	D	D	21	-	88	7
Namibia	48	D	6	30	D	7	-
Nepal	19,320	793	896	1,614	3,327	12,655	35
Netherlands	1,373	61	583	601	82	31	15
Netherlands Antilles (former)	41	D	5	33	-	D	-
New Zealand	941	110	242	475	106	3	5
Nicaragua	2,773	779	57	1,723	10	112	92
Niger	88	D	-	46	30	D	-
Nigeria	12,427	1,844	722	7,023	2,694	104	40
Norway	332	15	96	195	22	D	D
Oman	158	41	34	45	11	10	17
Pakistan	18,166	8,069	1,944	7,529	33	527	64
Palau	18	D	4	10	-	D	-
Panama	1,164	256	79	777	23	20	9
Papua New Guinea	12	-	-	D	D	-	-
Paraguay	363	31	29	282	D	D	13
Peru	10,450	3,060	636	6,356	-	189	209
Philippines	48,633	16,476	7,740	24,207	D	D	174
Poland	5,437	932	964	2,986	489	19	47
Portugal	920	105	169	594	31	13	8
Qatar	480	106	85	124	139	26	-
Romania	3,022	232	409	1,858	410	100	13
Russia	9,455	588	1,171	4,602	1,933	1,121	40
Rwanda	771	19	11	64	140	537	-
Saint Kitts-Nevis	268	118	11	136	-	-	3
Saint Lucia	826	248	13	539	13	D	D
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	437	126	11	288	4	-	8
Samoa	231	D	D	207	-	-	-
Saudi Arabia	1,981	297	281	828	375	189	11
Senegal	1,319	167	53	820	99	129	51
Serbia	1,183	83	112	731	223	34	-
Serbia and Montenegro	190	6	22	102	-	55	5
Sierra Leone	1,632	153	46	691	657	81	4
Singapore	1,506	83	965	389	48	16	5
Sint Maarten	58	29	D	25	D	-	-
Slovakia	513	31	101	272	24	85	-
Slovenia	76	D	14	52	D	4	-
Somalia	607	29	D	262	16	297	D
South Africa	2,871	150	883	1,160	329	334	15
South Sudan	41	D	-	25	D	11	-
Soviet Union (former)	584	15	10	517	D	34	D
Spain	3,341	246	1,036	1,417	216	413	13
Sri Lanka	1,628	224	405	464	262	266	7
Sudan	1,395	137	D	463	402	372	D
Suriname	160	56	9	89	-	3	3
Swaziland	51	D	12	18	15	D	D
Sweden	1,147	67	446	532	67	17	18
Switzerland	888	22	439	327	70	19	11
Syria	4,677	821	168	1,312	38	2,329	9
Taiwan	4,712	968	1,619	1,949	156	3	17
Tajikistan	476	D	28	176	179	74	D
Tanzania	910	53	55	387	36	369	10
Thailand	9,335	308	402	3,019	16	5,366	224
Togo	1,599	179	6	692	560	144	18
Tonga	302	103	-	192	7	-	-
Trinidad and Tobago	3,983	922	231	2,670	73	9	78
Tunisia	1,160	29	D	283	51	768	D
Turkey	7,248	227	857	1,660	899	3,581	24
Turkmenistan	221	15	14	75	97	20	-
Turks and Caicos Islands	57	16	6	31	-	4	-
Uganda	2,196	112	89	751	202	1,037	5
Ukraine	7,555	823	518	3,832	1,758	561	63
United Arab Emirates	2,209	433	502	559	373	235	107
United Kingdom	14,395	972	5,905	7,060	357	36	65
Uruguay	1,098	45	94	844	11	53	51
Uzbekistan	4,930	357	72	765	3,406	281	49
Vanuatu	11	5	-	6	-	-	-
Venezuela	8,289	748	1,884	3,723	660	1,209	65
Vietnam	29,825	18,407	454	10,799	D	113	D
Yemen	3,467	653	66	2,322	239	184	3
Zambia	509	24	32	265	30	155	3
Zimbabwe	825	52	79	304	38	338	14
All other countries	86	22	9	46	9	-	-
Unknown	8,430	558	1,713	2,277	180	2,334	1,368

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Table 11. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Broad Class of Admission and Region and Country of Last Residence: Fiscal Year 2014

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