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Table 27. Nonimmigrant Admissions (I-94 Only) by Region and Country of Residence: Fiscal Years 2016 to 2018

By Region of Residence

Region³ of Residence	2016	2017	2018
Total	77,112,073	77,643,267	81,279,692
Africa	752,677	596,239	623,170
Asia	14,079,010	13,656,227	13,830,304
Europe	15,617,439	16,337,418	17,195,903
North America	32,826,605	37,086,441	41,884,587
Oceania	1,739,937	1,862,111	1,943,760
South America	6,080,707	5,523,338	5,693,726
Unknown	6,015,698	2,581,493	108,242

By Country of Residence

Country² of Residence	2016	2017	2018
Total	77,112,073	77,643,267	81,279,692
Afghanistan	4,934	3,375	3,216
Albania	13,897	12,736	15,952
Algeria	12,712	10,883	11,467
American Samoa	1,631	398	883
Andorra	1,835	1,796	2,363
Angola	10,327	8,381	7,674
Anguilla	1,188	861	1,140
Antigua and Barbuda	18,150	13,842	13,926
Argentina	1,027,495	883,432	854,089
Armenia	9,756	9,006	8,822
Aruba	12,515	8,843	20,068
Australia	1,386,233	1,492,322	1,550,053
Austria	213,795	222,096	226,141
Azerbaijan	8,046	6,385	6,690
Bahamas	285,471	273,020	264,989
Bahrain	11,375	9,082	9,796
Bangladesh	39,219	32,104	35,217
Barbados	68,943	52,797	47,644
Belarus	19,898	15,581	16,967
Belgium	294,175	314,493	334,657
Belize	31,507	25,744	25,759
Benin	2,971	2,461	2,323
Bermuda	88,899	85,695	102,162
Bhutan	1,004	973	959
Bolivia	74,441	68,700	65,072
Bonaire	347	342	670
Bosnia and Herzegovina	9,129	8,816	9,326
Botswana	2,931	2,488	2,512
Brazil	2,020,983	1,842,389	2,066,562
Brunei	1,748	1,479	1,589
Bulgaria	40,601	35,382	34,203
Burkina Faso	6,802	4,393	3,951
Burma	8,968	10,520	10,460
Burundi	1,820	2,479	1,830
Cabo Verde	5,831	5,388	4,890
Cambodia	5,679	4,731	5,521
Cameroon	12,563	12,301	10,640
Canada³	9,199,995	11,650,520	13,819,363
Cayman Islands	42,228	32,475	48,858
Central African Republic	653	526	449
Chad	1,105	1,039	841
Chile	396,844	402,820	438,319
China, People's Republic	3,003,717	2,797,474	2,829,872
Christmas Island	52	25	24
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	43	32	35
Colombia	932,973	896,087	894,320
Comoros	197	209	201
Congo, Democratic Republic	7,734	6,712	7,112
Congo, Republic	1,735	1,524	1,414
Cook Islands	65	78	66
Costa Rica	315,420	306,038	299,825
Cote d'Ivoire	8,935	7,346	7,858
Croatia	29,783	26,403	26,524
Cuba	63,908	89,794	101,502
Curacao	6,210	6,726	13,514
Cyprus	11,322	9,602	10,387
Czechia	112,042	127,704	137,367
Denmark	333,868	356,969	365,044
Djibouti	819	1,355	414
Dominica	7,948	7,127	6,798
Dominican Republic	388,119	368,561	390,659
Ecuador	437,997	448,642	469,185
Egypt	95,669	66,525	69,864
El Salvador	212,016	189,626	198,390
Equatorial Guinea	1,560	1,461	1,571
Eritrea	3,032	2,898	1,095
Estonia	24,294	25,976	26,220
Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)	1,932	758	1,044
Ethiopia	21,318	18,366	19,075
Falkland Islands	92	58	123
Faroe Islands	421	306	395
Fiji	11,563	9,319	9,282
Finland	157,761	162,544	161,097
France	1,744,716	1,935,156	2,108,150
French Guiana	1,058	943	1,632
French Polynesia	4,084	2,107	5,552
Gabon	3,216	2,508	2,338
Gambia	2,037	1,667	1,816
Georgia	9,359	5,449	9,046
Germany	2,116,152	2,255,447	2,318,139
Ghana	26,467	21,148	26,253
Gibraltar	1,450	975	1,577
Greece	82,617	89,572	94,907
Greenland	196	151	217
Grenada	12,074	10,655	9,811
Guadeloupe	6,282	4,127	8,199
Guam	2,793	3,212	4,577
Guatemala	290,151	279,114	272,923
Guernsey	58	58	61
Guinea	3,304	2,844	2,351
Guinea-Bissau	254	303	283
Guyana	65,697	42,079	40,021
Haiti	153,411	126,002	95,157
Holy See	245	223	260
Honduras	216,870	210,580	206,411
Hong Kong	144,509	118,821	136,870
Hungary	85,744	97,709	102,992
Iceland	56,061	66,917	75,119
India	1,804,541	1,707,616	1,779,540
Indonesia	127,358	118,813	119,070
Iran	26,665	16,842	7,280
Iraq	17,603	15,792	13,374
Ireland	457,146	525,432	585,639
Isle of Man	106	109	149
Israel	459,894	370,568	402,424
Italy	1,078,607	1,205,769	1,271,286
Jamaica	336,565	257,643	256,376
Japan	3,796,038	3,795,307	3,756,648
Jersey	59	77	79
Jordan	46,135	40,210	39,155
Kazakhstan	25,399	23,489	24,596
Kenya	29,807	27,724	30,156
Kiribati	936	954	853
Korea, North	720	266	542
Korea, South	2,092,969	2,428,027	2,477,591
Kosovo	5,171	5,031	5,157
Kuwait	79,500	57,346	57,126
Kyrgyzstan	3,164	1,819	3,394
Laos	2,233	2,398	2,125
Latvia	21,836	24,648	24,636
Lebanon	44,590	38,523	35,076
Lesotho	685	562	597
Liberia	4,296	3,645	3,508
Libya	1,783	1,242	774
Liechtenstein	2,260	2,209	2,350
Lithuania	26,694	20,173	38,265
Luxembourg	20,670	18,447	23,200
Macau	4,727	4,485	4,568
Macedonia	9,479	9,560	9,244
Madagascar	1,870	1,523	1,561
Malawi	2,698	2,539	2,259
Malaysia	90,784	81,337	83,069
Maldives	459	559	437
Mali	4,171	3,510	3,561
Malta	6,605	7,042	8,053
Marshall Islands	268	265	303
Martinique	7,173	3,920	6,467
Mauritania	1,619	1,116	846
Mauritius	6,217	5,643	5,993
Mayotte	83	40	48
Mexico	19,547,504	19,140,031	20,990,914
Micronesia, Federated States	1,535	830	1,503
Moldova	11,986	10,777	10,132
Monaco	4,165	2,974	3,942
Mongolia	14,731	13,578	13,561
Montserrat	323	210	261
Morocco	33,764	27,740	25,738
Mozambique	2,874	2,157	2,495
Namibia	2,728	2,271	2,331
Nauru	254	168	182
Nepal	32,669	30,462	25,977
Netherlands	694,214	782,564	832,087
Netherlands Antilles (former)	2,498	1,609	2,325
New Caledonia	718	596	907
New Zealand	319,768	344,022	361,814
Nicaragua	78,486	70,525	67,418
Niger	1,917	1,674	1,688
Nigeria	197,749	148,116	158,712
Niue	16	25	31
Norfolk Island	74	37	40
Northern Mariana Islands	286	601	787
Norway	289,543	309,685	308,273
Oman	12,573	10,458	11,642
Pakistan	116,952	95,740	96,566
Palau	388	312	343
Panama	197,607	165,034	168,069
Papua New Guinea	1,513	962	882
Paraguay	35,720	29,826	32,907
Peru	343,668	299,504	292,551
Philippines	408,344	392,876	374,584
Pitcairn Islands	50	25	75
Poland	210,431	182,497	194,991
Portugal	135,000	163,851	172,850
Puerto Rico	1,058	1,098	990
Qatar	38,650	29,072	34,202
Reunion	3,015	1,201	1,565
Romania	93,415	84,721	87,628
Russia	289,947	222,767	182,450
Rwanda	5,627	4,871	5,620
Saint Barthelemy	46	80	57
Saint Helena	54	38	60
Saint Kitts and Nevis	12,672	10,959	10,427
Saint Lucia	18,513	14,897	14,124
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	127	103	151
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	11,425	9,630	8,995
Samoa	2,335	1,862	2,143
San Marino	708	724	787
Sao Tome and Principe	132	114	120
Saudi Arabia	271,553	177,409	171,933
Senegal	10,412	8,208	7,729
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	39,174	25,729	9,047
Seychelles	521	322	416
Sierra Leone	2,800	2,916	2,530
Singapore	167,602	167,012	182,389
Sint Maarten	2,067	2,082	3,029
Slovakia	50,943	55,499	58,300
Slovenia	24,566	26,365	28,604
Solomon Islands	528	284	267
Somalia	398	281	258
South Africa	146,553	116,332	127,809
South Sudan	406	397	461
Spain	938,339	1,011,449	1,051,944
Sri Lanka	25,221	23,556	21,504
Sudan	4,997	3,206	3,091
Suriname	13,255	10,580	10,382
Sweden	576,269	573,366	571,898
Switzerland	494,424	478,490	508,707
Syria	7,921	6,199	3,591
Taiwan	490,629	501,448	522,519
Tajikistan	2,164	1,901	1,730
Tanzania	8,289	6,196	6,463
Thailand	119,812	100,680	98,770
Timor-Leste	266	252	229
Togo	2,699	2,537	2,556
Tokelau	96	50	46
Tonga	4,006	3,146	2,334
Trinidad and Tobago	194,915	154,947	131,990
Tunisia	13,196	11,367	10,860
Turkey	231,463	178,174	155,838
Turkmenistan	1,472	1,401	1,222
Turks and Caicos Islands	12,144	10,059	14,830
Tuvalu	202	169	174
Uganda	10,807	10,030	11,250
Ukraine	118,569	98,838	94,817
United Arab Emirates	125,141	90,245	114,630
United Kingdom	4,678,571	4,731,766	5,053,927
United States⁴	949,336	3,471,882	4,234,510
Uruguay	94,648	76,009	79,529
Uzbekistan	11,316	8,450	8,327
Vanuatu	452	275	302
Venezuela	635,836	522,269	449,034
Vietnam	114,560	112,524	115,592
Virgin Islands, British	31,861	28,775	25,249
Virgin Islands, U.S.	437	317	420
Wallis and Futuna	48	35	302
Western Sahara	144	178	150
Yemen	3,556	2,392	1,038
Zambia	5,045	4,619	4,592
Zimbabwe	9,397	7,961	8,107
Unknown	6,015,698	2,581,493	108,242

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