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Table 10. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Broad Class of Admission and Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Year 2017

By Region of Birth

Region of Birth	Total	Immediate Relatives of U.S. Citizens	Family-Sponsored Preferences	Employment-Based Preferences	Diversity	Refugees and Asylees	Other
Total	1,127,167	516,508	232,238	137,855	51,592	146,003	42,971
Africa	118,824	51,138	13,899	5,014	21,927	26,615	231
Asia	424,743	156,133	95,788	83,962	15,722	52,003	21,135
Europe	84,335	42,202	6,400	20,059	11,367	4,103	204
North America	413,650	215,631	100,479	16,405	571	60,617	19,947
Oceania	5,071	2,714	463	1,210	632	36	16
South America	79,076	47,783	14,801	11,162	1,347	2,582	1,401
Unknown	1,468	907	408	43	26	47	37

By Country of Birth

Country of Birth	Total	Immediate Relatives of U.S. Citizens	Family-Sponsored Preferences	Employment-Based Preferences	Diversity	Refugees and Asylees	Other
Total	1,127,167	516,508	232,238	137,855	51,592	146,003	42,971
Afghanistan	19,538	1,112	345	39	159	1,013	16,870
Albania	5,722	2,154	1,083	70	2,330	78	7
Algeria	2,139	589	137	63	1,333	15	2
Angola	209	103	20	24	19	38	5
Anguilla	23	14	9	-	-	-	-
Antigua and Barbuda	322	194	114	D	D	-	-
Argentina	3,482	2,029	139	1,134	33	87	60
Armenia	3,437	1,301	352	119	1,488	171	6
Aruba	47	31	D	8	-	D	-
Australia	2,906	1,569	79	926	325	3	4
Austria	387	205	13	136	27	5	1
Azerbaijan	881	341	62	52	359	66	1
Bahamas	725	559	74	80	3	5	4
Bahrain	130	38	25	50	5	9	3
Bangladesh	14,693	6,089	7,711	752	-	114	27
Barbados	373	249	85	32	D	D	D
Belarus	1,919	685	114	294	677	145	4
Belgium	625	274	11	281	48	9	2
Belize	746	541	165	15	D	D	16
Benin	648	279	27	27	298	14	3
Bermuda	68	49	8	10	-	-	1
Bhutan	2,940	46	3	6	10	2,873	2
Bolivia	1,510	1,032	281	108	18	29	42
Bosnia and Herzegovina	846	552	117	61	68	48	-
Botswana	112	40	5	18	3	46	-
Brazil	14,989	10,102	683	3,841	9	140	214
Brunei	24	D	D	11	-	D	1
Bulgaria	2,184	1,237	167	265	491	20	4
Burkina Faso	541	246	33	39	142	78	3
Burma	12,897	864	576	59	154	11,243	1
Burundi	1,094	92	13	7	80	902	-
Cabo Verde	2,618	1,203	1,405	4	D	3	D
Cambodia	4,056	2,938	731	139	231	10	7
Cameroon	4,668	2,088	507	78	1,559	432	4
Canada	11,484	5,687	644	4,793	54	65	241
Cayman Islands	67	25	D	15	D	17	-
Central African Republic	178	46	D	D	7	117	-
Chad	205	35	-	D	D	150	-
Chile	1,625	1,067	80	382	5	72	19
China, People's Republic	71,565	27,683	15,773	19,221	19	8,700	169
Colombia	17,956	12,324	3,417	1,275	9	821	110
Congo, Democratic Republic	8,709	527	279	41	2,989	4,872	1
Congo, Republic	632	88	10	6	58	466	4
Costa Rica	2,184	1,703	151	236	18	49	27
Cote d'Ivoire	1,810	762	204	21	623	193	7
Croatia	375	209	33	92	21	20	-
Cuba	65,028	4,752	4,743	12	396	55,117	8
Curacao	34	15	10	D	D	D	-
Cyprus	117	68	D	35	D	D	-
Czechia	582	419	12	111	30	5	5
Czechoslovakia (former)	52	27	D	18	-	4	D
Denmark	461	215	D	216	22	D	1
Djibouti	222	27	D	D	36	142	-
Dominica	510	302	184	19	3	-	2
Dominican Republic	58,520	27,844	30,147	314	3	105	107
Ecuador	10,594	5,957	3,215	569	D	D	602
Egypt	9,834	3,524	1,133	952	2,918	1,298	9
El Salvador	25,109	13,063	7,764	1,349	D	D	1,614
Equatorial Guinea	20	15	-	-	-	5	-
Eritrea	2,449	757	266	22	106	1,298	-
Estonia	176	117	7	42	9	-	1
Ethiopia	14,637	6,256	2,301	209	2,608	3,247	16
Fiji	805	279	278	17	191	32	8
Finland	439	166	6	245	22	-	-
France	4,782	2,007	153	2,334	253	29	6
French Polynesia	20	14	D	D	-	-	-
Gabon	150	93	16	8	13	19	1
Gambia	1,134	759	141	17	14	192	11
Georgia	1,629	824	132	89	534	48	2
Germany	4,662	2,622	173	1,546	267	34	20
Ghana	8,455	5,782	1,654	244	677	84	14
Greece	1,314	748	74	348	135	7	2
Grenada	544	394	106	36	3	-	5
Guatemala	13,198	6,294	2,700	1,184	7	1,513	1,500
Guinea	1,348	721	125	11	286	192	13
Guinea-Bissau	48	38	7	D	D	D	-
Guyana	5,468	2,175	3,213	47	D	D	16
Haiti	21,824	11,923	9,139	254	-	454	54
Honduras	11,387	6,636	1,920	1,137	36	737	921
Hong Kong	2,415	700	993	677	36	8	1
Hungary	972	585	37	242	86	19	3
Iceland	86	34	3	42	6	-	1
India	60,394	20,549	14,962	23,569	40	795	479
Indonesia	1,914	1,177	203	334	42	137	21
Iran	13,791	3,128	2,366	2,049	2,583	3,656	9
Iraq	14,203	1,594	325	58	173	9,536	2,517
Ireland	1,485	849	38	565	29	3	1
Israel	3,802	1,915	126	1,642	70	35	14
Italy	3,655	1,786	177	1,284	221	182	5
Jamaica	21,905	14,694	6,150	957	D	D	54
Japan	4,635	2,733	187	1,541	158	7	9
Jordan	5,264	2,945	1,554	296	114	333	22
Kazakhstan	1,377	562	83	183	402	142	5
Kenya	6,957	3,119	527	361	1,290	1,637	23
Korea, North	32	14	D	D	-	D	1
Korea, South	19,194	6,439	1,374	11,315	7	5	54
Kosovo	1,014	497	147	15	303	48	4
Kuwait	1,177	433	251	242	45	201	5
Kyrgyzstan	715	254	43	54	194	168	2
Laos	685	526	111	32	-	16	-
Latvia	359	259	17	57	19	4	3
Lebanon	2,818	1,462	850	363	65	76	2
Lesotho	24	17	-	D	D	-	-
Liberia	4,155	1,856	577	39	1,394	287	2
Libya	780	434	26	106	148	62	4
Lithuania	645	453	44	55	83	6	4
Luxembourg	33	14	D	16	D	-	-
Macau	109	D	53	30	D	-	-
Macedonia	1,027	544	210	35	229	9	-
Madagascar	60	28	D	17	11	D	-
Malawi	228	91	5	20	7	104	1
Malaysia	4,109	698	183	478	54	2,693	3
Mali	544	338	42	16	33	105	10
Malta	75	18	D	8	-	48	-
Marshall Islands	23	D	D	D	-	-	-
Mauritania	287	122	19	5	14	127	-
Mauritius	96	51	14	26	5	-	-
Mexico	170,581	114,431	34,413	5,493	6	1,056	15,182
Moldova	2,480	773	87	122	1,206	286	6
Monaco	14	5	-	9	-	-	-
Mongolia	661	311	30	125	120	49	26
Montenegro	323	209	82	7	15	8	2
Montserrat	12	12	-	-	-	-	-
Morocco	4,229	2,371	354	131	1,346	19	8
Mozambique	96	35	4	13	4	38	2
Namibia	130	43	3	7	7	69	1
Nepal	11,610	2,684	1,064	1,355	3,205	3,287	15
Netherlands	1,056	612	31	376	22	13	2
New Zealand	798	420	D	249	98	D	-
Nicaragua	3,072	2,028	756	80	3	81	124
Niger	116	86	10	11	9	-	-
Nigeria	13,539	9,741	2,631	979	15	150	23
Norway	290	202	4	69	10	4	1
Oman	104	34	12	33	11	12	2
Pakistan	17,408	7,483	6,858	2,250	8	763	46
Palau	13	13	-	-	-	-	-
Panama	889	658	156	49	D	16	D
Papua New Guinea	18	11	-	D	D	-	-
Paraguay	391	306	32	28	3	17	5
Peru	10,115	6,445	2,875	411	4	115	265
Philippines	49,147	25,684	13,495	9,341	5	22	600
Poland	4,845	2,939	828	787	249	12	30
Portugal	939	617	69	228	14	5	6
Qatar	224	87	24	64	36	13	-
Romania	2,953	1,809	251	538	286	57	12
Russia	8,918	4,284	520	1,944	1,556	603	11
Rwanda	1,394	99	32	19	219	1,024	1
Saint Kitts and Nevis	238	161	70	D	-	D	-
Saint Lucia	777	572	163	30	6	D	D
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	361	265	78	14	-	-	4
Samoa	194	184	7	D	-	-	D
Sao Tome and Principe	10	D	D	-	-	-	1
Saudi Arabia	2,135	878	334	404	327	189	3
Senegal	1,470	1,069	164	53	112	61	11
Serbia	1,410	851	112	148	279	20	-
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	144	78	D	27	-	34	D
Seychelles	10	10	-	-	-	-	-
Sierra Leone	2,058	1,235	265	20	465	70	3
Singapore	818	312	66	427	D	D	-
Sint Maarten	35	31	-	4	-	-	-
Slovakia	388	254	10	98	21	D	D
Slovenia	108	63	D	29	12	D	-
Somalia	7,404	1,706	256	10	85	5,344	3
South Africa	2,912	1,277	120	860	288	361	6
South Sudan	160	108	17	3	8	24	-
Soviet Union (former)	939	554	11	170	4	196	4
Spain	3,045	1,290	106	1,076	117	450	6
Sri Lanka	1,627	541	249	460	213	146	18
Sudan	3,515	597	85	23	1,609	1,200	1
Suriname	136	79	47	D	-	D	-
Swaziland	19	6	D	7	D	D	2
Sweden	950	514	32	345	53	4	2
Switzerland	565	270	18	235	34	6	2
Syria	5,877	1,808	1,253	264	151	2,390	11
Taiwan	4,858	1,712	796	2,170	175	D	D
Tajikistan	652	158	28	30	362	70	4
Tanzania	1,415	383	68	84	45	825	10
Thailand	6,311	3,283	295	348	20	2,304	61
Togo	1,572	622	153	7	697	83	10
Tonga	262	180	65	-	15	-	2
Trinidad and Tobago	3,100	2,149	690	211	D	D	29
Tunisia	535	346	17	61	94	16	1
Turkey	4,844	1,965	177	1,260	1,254	172	16
Turkmenistan	251	96	21	19	94	21	-
Turks and Caicos Islands	35	26	D	5	-	-	D
Uganda	1,898	589	131	112	147	910	9
Ukraine	10,135	4,249	1,029	1,151	2,030	1,656	20
United Arab Emirates	1,314	389	238	412	121	128	26
United Kingdom	10,948	5,948	560	4,319	81	22	18
United States	409	298	D	39	D	23	34
Uruguay	1,001	760	46	122	12	33	28
Uzbekistan	4,095	787	610	152	2,379	157	10
Venezuela	11,809	5,507	773	3,237	1,251	1,001	40
Vietnam	38,231	17,515	19,218	1,364	4	73	57
Virgin Islands, British	25	17	7	-	-	-	1
Yemen	6,029	3,936	1,637	46	275	132	3
Zambia	537	271	27	58	19	160	2
Zimbabwe	810	409	54	150	62	133	2
All other countries¹	68	47	5	12	4	-	-
Unknown	1,468	907	408	43	26	47	37

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Table 10. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Broad Class of Admission and Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Year 2017

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