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Table 3. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2014

By Region of Birth

Region of Birth	2012	2013	2014
Total	1,031,631	990,553	1,016,518
Africa	107,241	98,304	98,413
Asia	429,599	400,548	430,508
Europe	81,671	86,556	83,266
North America	327,771	315,660	324,354
Oceania	4,742	5,277	5,112
South America	79,401	80,945	73,715
Unknown	1,206	3,263	1,150

By Country of Birth

Country of Birth	2012	2013	2014
Total	1,031,631	990,553	1,016,518
Afghanistan	1,617	2,196	10,527
Albania	3,364	3,186	3,828
Algeria	1,369	1,241	1,669
American Samoa	-	D	-
Angola	187	143	148
Anguilla	23	22	20
Antigua-Barbuda	337	344	369
Argentina	4,359	4,372	3,874
Armenia	2,681	2,722	2,913
Aruba	54	45	40
Australia	2,414	2,759	2,809
Austria	407	415	438
Azerbaijan	663	637	672
Bahamas	619	630	654
Bahrain	104	115	122
Bangladesh	14,705	12,099	14,645
Barbados	460	428	384
Belarus	1,659	1,970	2,015
Belgium	574	675	632
Belize	847	946	789
Benin	415	342	517
Bermuda	85	88	106
Bhutan	10,198	8,954	7,298
Bolivia	1,948	2,071	1,719
Bosnia-Herzegovina	815	697	693
Botswana	80	53	58
Brazil	11,441	11,033	10,429
British Virgin Islands	39	45	56
Brunei	19	21	25
Bulgaria	2,440	2,844	2,981
Burkina Faso	558	585	583
Burma	17,383	12,565	11,144
Burundi	535	260	273
Cambodia	2,473	2,624	2,536
Cameroon	3,815	3,908	3,943
Canada	12,932	13,181	11,586
Cape Verde	1,684	1,673	1,154
Cayman Islands	44	44	48
Central African Republic	116	213	155
Chad	155	111	119
Chile	1,673	1,736	1,581
China, People's Republic	81,784	71,798	76,089
Colombia	20,931	21,131	18,175
Comoros	10	D	9
Congo, Democratic Republic	3,731	2,792	4,347
Congo, Republic	1,461	1,059	552
Costa Rica	2,020	2,114	1,966
Cote d'Ivoire	1,760	1,486	1,477
Croatia	336	353	297
Cuba	32,820	32,219	46,679
Curacao	-	-	27
Cyprus	107	126	129
Czech Republic	677	676	606
Czechoslovakia (former)	159	74	74
Denmark	459	506	514
Djibouti	106	90	190
Dominica	125	244	345
Dominican Republic	41,566	41,311	44,577
Ecuador	9,342	10,591	10,960
Egypt	8,988	10,294	11,477
El Salvador	16,256	18,260	19,273
Equatorial Guinea	20	18	15
Eritrea	2,643	2,138	2,002
Estonia	227	211	220
Ethiopia	14,544	13,097	12,300
Fiji	853	895	802
Finland	348	331	350
France	3,862	4,425	4,284
French Polynesia	30	-	24
Gabon	197	127	167
Gambia	1,159	1,018	1,111
Georgia	1,341	1,368	1,240
Germany	5,812	6,032	5,584
Ghana	10,592	10,265	7,115
Greece	1,054	1,361	1,235
Grenada	671	687	633
Guatemala	10,341	10,224	10,238
Guinea	1,656	1,518	1,375
Guinea-Bissau	47	43	30
Guyana	5,683	5,897	6,267
Haiti	22,818	20,351	15,274
Honduras	6,884	8,898	8,156
Hong Kong	2,104	2,226	2,278
Hungary	1,054	1,052	996
Iceland	103	139	86
India	66,434	68,458	77,908
Indonesia	2,603	2,731	2,139
Iran	12,916	12,863	11,615
Iraq	20,369	9,552	19,153
Ireland	1,514	1,626	1,605
Israel	4,153	3,996	3,805
Italy	2,673	2,960	3,298
Jamaica	20,705	19,400	19,026
Japan	6,061	5,925	5,545
Jordan	4,099	4,188	5,187
Kazakhstan	1,202	1,241	1,221
Kenya	7,043	6,123	5,884
Kiribati	6	3	6
Korea, North	49	48	142
Korea, South¹	20,846	23,166	20,423
Kosovo	782	839	758
Kuwait	1,044	937	1,057
Kyrgyzstan	648	652	707
Laos	949	923	806
Latvia	436	424	384
Lebanon	2,879	2,783	3,245
Lesotho	17	20	13
Liberia	4,109	3,334	3,874
Libya	315	376	524
Lithuania	924	854	747
Luxembourg	19	40	26
Macau	120	106	105
Macedonia	906	895	960
Madagascar	79	95	86
Malawi	192	159	172
Malaysia	2,605	2,477	2,622
Maldives	D	5	13
Mali	734	667	604
Malta	62	43	39
Marshall Islands	50	46	56
Mauritania	410	354	320
Mauritius	77	83	81
Mexico	146,406	135,028	134,052
Micronesia, Federated States	13	4	5
Moldova	2,021	2,485	2,341
Monaco	5	8	8
Mongolia	691	729	651
Montenegro	265	265	289
Montserrat	27	-	38
Morocco	3,656	3,336	3,605
Mozambique	94	73	71
Namibia	59	57	44
Nepal	11,312	13,046	12,357
Netherlands	1,091	1,142	1,195
Netherlands Antilles (former)	106	128	45
New Caledonia	3	6	6
New Zealand	814	921	796
Nicaragua	3,046	3,048	2,886
Niger	48	37	71
Nigeria	13,575	13,840	12,828
Norway	276	335	271
Oman	74	73	90
Pakistan	14,740	13,251	18,612
Palau	10	16	12
Panama	1,281	1,234	1,095
Papua New Guinea	21	27	18
Paraguay	467	448	391
Peru	12,609	12,564	10,606
Philippines	57,327	54,446	49,996
Poland	6,300	6,430	5,689
Portugal	811	918	892
Qatar	141	191	202
Romania	3,748	3,773	3,246
Russia	9,969	9,753	9,079
Rwanda	592	540	555
Saint Kitts-Nevis	311	259	263
Saint Lucia	919	853	844
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	503	529	448
Samoa	238	237	239
Sao Tome and Principe	12	6	5
Saudi Arabia	1,343	1,463	1,696
Senegal	1,615	1,340	1,273
Serbia	704	866	1,143
Serbia and Montenegro	801	653	267
Seychelles	7	6	7
Sierra Leone	1,688	1,651	1,740
Singapore	712	835	779
Sint Maarten	-	-	45
Slovakia	528	507	460
Slovenia	86	62	78
Solomon Islands	D	3	5
Somalia	5,204	3,764	5,190
South Africa	2,781	2,629	2,676
South Sudan	17	59	74
Soviet Union (former)	1,296	1,264	1,136
Spain	1,842	2,480	2,928
Sri Lanka	1,994	1,847	1,767
Sudan	2,471	1,945	2,442
Suriname	187	178	158
Swaziland	24	15	23
Sweden	968	1,106	954
Switzerland	635	697	656
Syria	3,014	3,366	3,540
Taiwan	5,331	5,385	4,697
Tajikistan	411	550	516
Tanzania	1,516	837	774
Thailand	9,459	7,583	6,197
Togo	1,756	1,257	1,612
Tonga	276	348	320
Trinidad and Tobago	5,214	4,724	3,988
Tunisia	422	445	429
Turkey	4,162	4,144	3,834
Turkmenistan	223	210	254
Turks and Caicos Islands	30	50	40
Uganda	1,340	1,350	1,409
Ukraine	7,642	8,193	7,752
United Arab Emirates	854	910	1,039
United Kingdom	12,014	12,984	12,225
United States	279	319	358
Uruguay	1,374	1,352	1,128
Uzbekistan	4,726	4,382	5,194
Venezuela	9,387	9,572	8,427
Vietnam	28,304	27,101	30,283
Yemen	2,620	3,532	3,492
Zambia	643	505	441
Zimbabwe	914	924	797
All other countries	24	27	31
Unknown	1,206	3,263	1,150

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Table 3. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2014

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