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Table 28. Nonimmigrant Admissions (I-94 Only) by Selected Category of Admission and Region and Country of Citizenship: Fiscal Year 2014

By Region of Citizenship

Region of Citizenship	Total	Tourists and Business Travelers (Visa Waiver)¹	Tourists and Business Travelers (Other)²	Students and Exchange Visitors³	Temporary Workers and Families⁴	Diplomats and Other Representatives⁵	All Other Classes	Unknown
Total	74,930,606	22,305,757	45,213,356	2,395,424	3,398,961	421,144	1,158,874	37,090
Africa	757,181	X	622,472	53,778	26,863	42,063	11,202	803
Asia	13,307,053	5,732,953	5,248,549	1,202,959	817,079	108,634	183,669	13,210
Europe	17,376,441	14,870,210	1,262,039	402,705	590,749	142,915	105,350	2,473
North America	35,589,531	X	32,352,300	562,430	1,778,826	69,295	818,382	8,298
Oceania	1,822,058	1,652,353	57,291	22,712	67,370	15,077	6,979	276
South America	6,052,610	50,241	5,656,202	147,805	117,109	42,571	32,632	6,050
Unknown	25,732	X	14,503	3,035	965	589	660	5,980

By Country of Citizenship

Country of Citizenship	Total	Tourists and Business Travelers (Visa Waiver)¹	Tourists and Business Travelers (Other)²	Students and Exchange Visitors³	Temporary Workers and Families⁴	Diplomats and Other Representatives⁵	All Other Classes	Unknown
Total	74,930,606	22,305,757	45,213,356	2,395,424	3,398,961	421,144	1,158,874	37,090
Afghanistan	4,150	X	2,380	675	30	665	374	26
Albania	8,746	X	6,839	972	306	465	139	25
Algeria	12,465	X	10,762	551	283	725	97	47
Andorra	1,611	1,383	49	32	100	40	4	3
Angola	14,715	X	11,042	2,016	757	858	26	16
Antigua and Barbuda	14,834	X	13,918	369	111	310	118	8
Argentina	768,469	X	730,089	9,343	20,410	6,056	1,950	621
Armenia	8,232	X	6,260	550	557	593	256	16
Australia⁶	1,480,170	1,361,886	27,472	17,065	59,997	10,477	3,212	61
Austria	247,122	226,493	4,921	6,086	7,027	2,098	485	12
Azerbaijan	7,347	X	5,281	1,000	367	645	48	6
Bahamas	240,451	X	229,777	6,848	695	1,356	1,642	133
Bahrain	8,849	X	7,259	1,151	64	360	11	4
Bangladesh	43,560	X	34,342	5,421	1,476	1,728	560	33
Barbados	61,052	X	58,803	659	476	716	351	47
Belarus	16,166	X	13,328	878	1,072	272	612	4
Belgium	334,279	309,125	4,755	5,515	10,980	3,404	487	13
Belize	26,577	X	24,108	588	260	592	1,018	11
Benin	3,266	X	2,269	355	48	569	18	7
Bhutan	1,034	X	581	197	22	215	D	D
Bolivia	55,100	X	49,867	2,225	1,160	1,258	558	32
Bosnia and Herzegovina	9,380	X	6,966	942	266	416	777	13
Botswana	2,623	X	1,883	306	66	308	57	3
Brazil	2,390,245	X	2,275,588	60,046	36,658	9,454	7,486	1,013
Brunei	2,106	1,251	159	133	D	491	48	D
Bulgaria	43,059	X	27,899	8,183	2,394	1,075	3,459	49
Burkina Faso	5,267	X	3,672	791	115	587	D	D
Burma	6,554	X	4,013	1,310	147	417	658	9
Burundi	1,732	X	927	267	58	451	D	D
Cambodia	4,752	X	3,395	638	82	335	292	10
Cameroon	11,673	X	8,668	1,036	443	1,361	151	14
Canada⁷	13,254,972	X	11,289,743	259,568	1,030,104	16,690	657,221	1,646
Cape Verde	4,544	X	4,115	118	15	145	121	30
Central African Republic	374	X	202	31	10	106	7	18
Chad	1,190	X	717	84	23	358	8	-
Chile	279,754	50,241	204,458	9,383	7,356	3,752	2,073	2,491
China^8,9	2,555,896	3,065	1,998,237	460,476	63,636	7,927	12,533	10,022
Colombia	985,073	X	924,916	24,292	18,301	10,459	6,601	504
Comoros	247	X	123	14	D	105	D	-
Congo (Brazzaville)¹⁰	2,324	X	1,449	299	94	465	7	10
Congo (Kinshasa)¹¹	6,973	X	5,152	756	76	929	48	12
Costa Rica	228,996	X	219,600	3,173	3,337	1,462	1,386	38
Cote d'Ivoire	7,742	X	5,558	1,063	151	857	99	14
Croatia	29,808	X	21,376	1,884	1,297	576	4,665	10
Cuba	43,737	X	41,998	123	447	535	415	219
Cyprus	10,582	X	9,030	919	358	213	D	D
Czech Republic	115,080	88,700	16,111	5,598	3,101	1,195	370	5
Denmark¹²	351,910	323,271	6,081	7,559	10,225	4,072	667	35
Djibouti	608	X	393	16	D	190	5	D
Dominica	7,060	X	6,180	261	93	178	345	3
Dominican Republic	304,683	X	285,299	5,626	7,354	1,758	4,346	300
East Timor	226	X	31	47	D	143	D	D
Ecuador	337,494	X	322,274	7,969	3,042	2,127	1,753	329
Egypt	99,716	X	84,499	7,035	3,569	3,993	580	40
El Salvador	138,329	X	129,651	2,513	2,175	1,594	1,897	499
Equatorial Guinea	2,057	X	1,225	378	D	406	-	D
Eritrea	2,583	X	2,269	167	13	57	70	7
Estonia	24,733	19,110	2,866	1,110	762	687	D	D
Ethiopia	18,276	X	14,783	1,390	537	1,096	441	29
Fiji	14,977	X	13,138	130	112	368	1,205	24
Finland	173,365	159,338	1,967	3,740	5,893	2,207	209	11
France¹³	2,115,350	1,940,779	25,556	47,839	83,125	12,934	4,853	264
Gabon	2,971	X	1,953	441	41	526	D	D
Gambia	2,695	X	1,979	187	31	452	42	4
Georgia	9,102	X	6,060	1,291	274	925	527	25
Germany	2,448,591	2,242,202	40,884	56,428	83,032	19,152	6,747	146
Ghana	29,460	X	23,850	2,768	931	1,398	494	19
Greece	89,425	55,446	20,173	5,781	3,935	1,455	2,610	25
Grenada	10,872	X	9,487	265	126	276	715	3
Guatemala	252,586	X	238,794	3,448	6,827	1,767	1,287	463
Guinea	3,250	X	2,636	133	120	296	47	18
Guinea-Bissau	285	X	134	14	D	110	D	21
Guyana	43,549	X	40,601	357	116	540	1,923	12
Haiti	124,841	X	119,293	1,281	773	995	2,363	136
Holy See	136	X	26	-	-	107	D	D
Honduras	176,636	X	162,316	3,813	3,969	1,095	5,117	326
Hungary	91,102	70,386	10,403	4,355	3,831	1,048	1,068	11
Iceland	56,250	51,044	2,313	1,220	1,059	354	D	D
India	1,720,729	X	1,111,738	136,078	426,015	8,070	37,878	950
Indonesia	133,013	X	92,795	12,332	2,461	3,978	21,389	58
Iran	33,303	X	24,416	7,443	479	340	563	62
Iraq	23,858	X	20,281	2,559	94	804	95	25
Ireland	518,282	466,584	8,945	17,903	22,077	1,883	855	35
Israel	400,169	X	360,684	12,150	19,179	7,140	834	182
Italy	1,366,572	1,255,976	26,509	26,707	42,589	8,972	5,739	80
Jamaica	265,740	X	231,558	8,386	14,770	1,316	9,580	130
Japan	4,199,152	3,917,113	16,828	67,292	177,893	15,614	4,234	178
Jordan	44,886	X	33,528	4,885	839	5,088	517	29
Kazakhstan	26,066	X	17,809	6,463	786	868	130	10
Kenya	27,425	X	19,415	2,796	1,321	3,388	489	16
Kiribati	760	X	200	29	D	156	361	D
Korea, North¹⁴	84	X	29	7	D	28	D	15
Korea, South¹⁵	1,780,662	1,366,599	209,729	142,015	51,354	6,961	3,657	347
Kosovo	5,204	X	3,872	775	D	377	111	D
Kuwait	64,754	X	45,112	18,394	112	1,098	34	4
Kyrgyzstan	4,128	X	2,735	858	135	343	49	8
Laos	2,578	X	1,575	142	37	264	556	4
Latvia	23,871	17,195	3,107	849	770	565	1,375	10
Lebanon	50,632	X	43,597	3,319	2,080	1,314	273	49
Lesotho	639	X	314	89	29	195	D	D
Liberia	5,152	X	4,147	257	D	530	184	D
Libya	4,120	X	1,608	2,007	74	417	D	D
Liechtenstein	2,330	2,125	65	69	D	48	D	-
Lithuania	31,612	23,813	3,931	1,936	818	653	454	7
Luxembourg	16,260	15,039	240	337	203	415	26	-
Macedonia	9,855	X	6,215	1,883	331	417	1,001	8
Madagascar	1,699	X	1,057	145	84	358	52	3
Malawi	2,547	X	1,639	306	52	501	45	4
Malaysia	108,926	264	91,180	9,267	5,419	1,816	894	86
Maldives	559	X	237	161	7	105	49	-
Mali	4,331	X	3,281	444	142	428	29	7
Malta	6,751	5,589	768	69	175	126	D	D
Marshall Islands	261	X	78	8	-	125	46	4
Mauritania	1,953	X	1,281	180	65	419	D	D
Mauritius	7,095	X	5,381	370	184	295	856	9
Mexico	20,002,936	X	18,889,281	256,082	701,077	34,338	118,036	4,122
Micronesia, Federated States	130	X	48	D	D	74	-	4
Moldova	12,939	X	9,065	2,901	457	359	151	6
Monaco	1,210	1,019	59	46	D	62	-	D
Mongolia	14,013	X	10,347	2,717	232	621	88	8
Morocco¹⁶	34,910	X	28,180	2,926	767	2,592	371	74
Mozambique	2,729	X	1,816	169	D	532	111	D
Namibia	2,447	X	1,738	145	59	445	51	9
Nauru	110	18	D	3	-	73	D	D
Nepal	23,387	X	15,617	4,362	1,744	822	823	19
Netherlands¹⁷	814,560	755,094	11,842	10,872	24,545	8,811	3,184	212
New Zealand¹⁸	318,692	290,241	11,424	5,122	7,044	2,998	1,702	161
Nicaragua	65,866	X	58,663	912	1,217	664	4,334	76
Niger	1,566	X	901	184	24	441	13	3
Nigeria	197,750	X	179,292	10,283	3,904	3,159	1,032	80
Norway	345,154	313,382	7,355	10,761	7,879	4,917	853	7
Oman	10,717	X	4,999	4,315	183	1,216	D	D
Pakistan	102,953	X	85,853	8,532	5,059	2,572	849	88
Palau	90	X	33	D	D	43	D	D
Panama	153,115	X	142,981	4,412	1,392	1,374	2,907	49
Papua New Guinea	1,438	208	756	181	D	197	85	D
Paraguay	31,410	X	28,380	1,414	311	1,029	250	26
Peru	292,752	X	265,194	9,423	5,610	3,925	8,195	405
Philippines	404,566	X	292,865	8,011	15,782	4,842	82,559	507
Poland	207,179	X	180,635	9,097	7,495	2,595	7,212	145
Portugal	194,054	177,873	3,951	3,635	5,509	1,248	1,809	29
Qatar	18,740	X	13,753	3,623	49	1,302	9	4
Romania	94,041	X	71,923	7,443	4,240	1,528	8,838	69
Russia	413,011	X	356,492	23,565	15,664	5,611	11,523	156
Rwanda	5,039	X	2,808	1,160	100	864	93	14
Saint Kitts and Nevis	12,449	X	11,487	416	95	350	80	21
Saint Lucia	16,922	X	14,543	359	107	395	1,501	17
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	12,371	X	10,162	163	D	183	1,776	D
Samoa	2,137	X	1,747	47	45	129	165	4
San Marino	787	723	D	13	D	47	-	-
Sao Tome and Principe	120	X	44	6	-	70	-	-
Saudi Arabia	291,715	X	146,433	132,781	1,501	10,916	50	34
Senegal	11,390	X	8,891	811	297	1,284	82	25
Serbia and Montenegro	7,336	X	4,787	1,055	296	311	862	25
Seychelles	480	X	281	28	D	151	17	D
Sierra Leone	3,547	X	2,759	194	75	403	108	8
Singapore	168,686	144,351	1,676	10,977	6,290	4,318	1,046	28
Slovakia	54,303	40,914	6,144	4,687	1,662	612	281	3
Slovenia	26,152	22,940	993	886	824	379	130	-
Solomon Islands	342	X	190	21	-	70	61	-
Somalia	343	X	222	41	D	36	36	D
South Africa	148,243	X	126,935	4,960	9,831	2,601	3,791	125
South Sudan	528	X	220	77	D	179	42	D
Spain	1,044,430	935,775	19,962	32,730	45,580	7,975	2,323	85
Sri Lanka	26,816	X	20,246	2,956	1,476	776	1,328	34
Sudan	4,474	X	3,525	377	32	483	53	4
Suriname	13,316	X	12,327	191	71	457	256	14
Swaziland	1,129	X	635	197	47	190	23	37
Sweden	614,592	568,765	7,268	15,031	17,559	4,895	1,033	41
Switzerland	494,892	456,711	13,904	10,466	9,786	3,144	854	27
Syria	17,187	X	15,323	1,271	235	89	260	9
Taiwan	484,849	300,310	123,814	42,191	16,957	47	1,481	49
Tajikistan	1,836	X	941	462	39	364	D	D
Tanzania	8,665	X	5,843	1,016	300	1,338	165	3
Thailand	120,540	X	88,255	23,567	2,743	2,317	3,577	81
Togo	2,560	X	1,916	182	60	346	D	D
Tonga	2,561	X	2,069	82	128	218	D	D
Trinidad and Tobago	174,506	X	164,658	3,165	3,336	1,351	1,947	49
Tunisia	13,467	X	10,250	1,536	361	976	314	30
Turkey	214,958	X	168,066	30,469	8,565	5,197	2,604	57
Turkmenistan	1,777	X	1,072	482	46	158	19	-
Tuvalu	182	X	39	6	3	76	58	-
Uganda	10,308	X	6,888	889	762	1,613	152	4
Ukraine	100,877	X	74,974	8,040	4,650	1,044	12,077	92
United Arab Emirates	38,542	X	29,630	6,600	108	2,167	20	17
United Kingdom¹⁹	4,814,074	4,323,416	226,518	52,827	159,122	34,364	17,025	802
Uruguay	80,666	X	75,545	1,188	1,509	1,945	357	122
Uzbekistan	10,000	X	7,951	1,129	275	467	170	8
Vanuatu	208	X	84	D	17	73	19	D
Venezuela	774,782	X	726,963	21,974	22,565	1,569	1,230	481
Vietnam	93,986	X	68,655	19,775	1,837	1,464	2,161	94
Yemen	5,896	X	3,752	1,566	27	491	51	9
Zambia	5,441	X	3,730	555	166	870	120	-
Zimbabwe	10,048	X	7,215	1,232	551	611	433	6
Unknown	25,732	X	14,503	3,035	965	589	660	5,980

Footnotes

X Not applicable.

D Data withheld to limit disclosure.

- Represents zero.

¹Includes GB, GMB, GT, GMT, WB, and WT admissions.

²Includes B1, B2 and a limited number of Border Crossing Card (BCC) admissions.

³Includes principals, spouses, and children (F1, F2, J1, J2, M1, and M2 admissions).

⁴Includes principals, spouses, and children (CW1, CW2, E1 to E3, H1B, H1B1, H1C, H2A, H2B, H2R, H3, H4, I1, L1, L2, O1 to O3, P1 to P4, Q1, R1, R2, TD and TN admissions).

⁵Includes principals, spouses, and children (A1 to A3, G1 to G5, and N1 to N7 admissions).

⁶Australia includes Australia, Norfolk Island, Christmas Island, and Cocos (Keeling) Island.

⁷The number of I-94 nonimmigrant admissions in 2014 greatly exceeds totals reported in previous years due to a more complete count of Canadian air and sea admissions.

⁸China includes the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, and Macau.

⁹Admissions in the Visa Waiver category include only residents of Hong Kong admitted under the Guam and Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Visa Waiver Program.

¹⁰Congo (Brazzaville) refers to the Republic of the Congo.

¹¹Congo (Kinshasa) refers to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

¹²Denmark includes Denmark, Faroe Islands, and Greenland.

¹³France includes France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Reunion, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and Wallis and Futuna.

¹⁴North Korea refers to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

¹⁵South Korea refers to the Republic of Korea.

¹⁶Morocco includes Morocco and Western Sahara.

¹⁷Netherlands includes the Netherlands, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten.

¹⁸New Zealand includes New Zealand, Cook Islands, Tokelau, and Niue.

¹⁹United Kingdom includes the United Kingdom, Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, and Turks and Caicos Islands.

Notes:
Admissions represent counts of events, i.e., arrivals, not unique individuals; multiple entries of an individual on the same day are counted as one admission.
The majority of short-term admissions from Canada and Mexico are excluded.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

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