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Table 26. Nonimmigrant Admissions (I-94 Only) by Region and Country of Citizenship: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2021

By Region of Citizenship

Region of citizenship	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total	53,887,286	61,052,260	74,930,606	76,638,236	77,112,073	77,643,267	81,279,692	81,563,139	37,176,105	13,623,118
Africa	573,184	645,919	757,181	792,026	816,541	809,114	838,490	815,177	341,446	206,493
Asia	11,062,760	12,230,911	13,307,053	14,025,173	14,751,353	15,154,164	15,279,660	15,100,864	6,341,545	1,763,975
Europe	15,710,015	16,167,460	17,376,449	17,340,542	17,742,391	17,889,171	18,297,426	18,517,513	7,595,214	1,311,941
North America	19,996,738	24,561,055	35,589,531	36,312,759	35,693,733	35,375,881	37,987,067	38,575,567	19,278,195	7,787,320
Oceania	1,618,337	1,770,569	1,822,066	1,859,507	1,906,888	1,970,630	1,962,796	1,917,903	754,194	62,105
South America	4,651,162	5,511,558	6,052,610	6,256,760	6,039,711	6,349,041	6,828,559	6,550,198	2,822,773	2,462,888
Unknown	275,090	164,788	25,716	51,469	161,456	95,266	85,694	85,917	42,738	28,396

By Country of Citizenship

Country of citizenship	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total	53,887,286	61,052,260	74,930,606	76,638,236	77,112,073	77,643,267	81,279,692	81,563,139	37,176,105	13,623,118
Afghanistan	2,772	2,837	4,150	4,334	4,519	3,581	3,379	3,200	1,755	1,288
Albania	7,942	7,889	8,746	9,992	12,883	17,056	20,713	21,457	11,192	8,204
Algeria	8,402	9,558	12,465	13,623	14,427	15,242	15,224	16,063	6,140	1,106
Andorra	1,176	1,271	1,611	1,344	1,638	1,720	1,949	1,765	659	172
Angola	10,592	12,617	14,715	13,787	10,281	9,603	8,864	7,730	2,737	1,397
Antigua and Barbuda	16,958	15,151	14,834	15,022	17,540	15,893	16,873	17,806	7,762	5,605
Argentina	646,929	744,864	768,469	806,698	986,574	1,129,997	1,146,405	926,594	369,659	241,215
Armenia	6,135	7,431	8,232	8,654	10,701	13,774	14,272	16,956	9,999	9,674
Australia ^[1]	1,331,669	1,453,814	1,480,176	1,499,354	1,529,052	1,576,901	1,563,991	1,524,305	607,868	47,627
Austria	232,276	237,429	247,122	235,601	240,182	237,611	233,473	235,194	92,756	18,331
Azerbaijan	6,464	7,162	7,347	8,419	8,577	9,104	9,007	9,418	3,965	2,354
Bahamas	251,759	244,650	240,451	249,276	276,734	304,752	295,093	310,405	143,531	120,316
Bahrain	6,181	7,341	8,849	9,313	9,663	8,767	8,614	7,506	2,884	2,199
Bangladesh	22,629	30,314	43,560	43,938	44,211	40,120	45,351	45,080	18,986	20,445
Barbados	59,032	58,558	61,052	62,214	68,630	69,318	69,433	69,585	28,150	9,790
Belarus	13,715	14,211	16,166	17,486	21,673	22,589	24,229	25,270	11,650	2,720
Belgium	310,111	315,611	334,279	327,654	319,549	325,897	335,312	330,226	123,859	19,865
Belize	24,184	25,327	26,577	28,160	31,564	31,340	32,649	33,515	13,736	13,331
Benin	3,056	2,821	3,266	3,473	3,420	3,330	3,243	3,092	1,426	775
Bhutan	662	633	1,034	1,215	1,069	1,156	1,229	1,244	501	175
Bolivia	44,658	50,838	55,100	65,089	74,813	76,933	77,165	81,073	34,008	49,219
Bosnia and Herzegovina	6,843	7,465	9,380	9,699	10,355	11,020	11,315	10,995	5,154	2,696
Botswana	2,580	2,381	2,623	2,914	2,904	3,105	3,185	3,237	1,294	490
Brazil	1,792,425	2,143,154	2,390,245	2,505,525	1,991,441	2,147,412	2,529,813	2,417,221	1,079,508	122,941
Brunei	1,747	2,022	2,106	1,880	1,675	1,479	1,589	1,523	599	146
Bulgaria	39,100	40,029	43,059	43,247	44,935	43,815	45,327	47,275	21,219	9,455
Burkina Faso	3,682	3,928	5,267	6,432	7,473	6,002	5,227	5,356	1,898	1,619
Burma	3,983	4,967	6,554	7,583	9,541	11,502	11,549	12,679	5,279	1,705
Burundi	1,424	1,740	1,732	1,772	1,678	2,106	1,475	1,608	613	349
Cabo Verde	1,520	3,140	4,544	4,451	5,636	5,317	4,913	4,663	1,388	740
Cambodia	3,628	4,898	4,752	3,756	5,710	5,947	6,838	7,787	3,193	1,249
Cameroon	9,495	9,639	11,673	13,070	15,009	15,676	14,405	11,992	4,791	1,858
Canada ^[2]	1,466,120	4,445,881	13,254,972	13,408,292	13,019,782	13,028,998	13,704,855	13,926,155	6,737,778	1,512,473
Central African Republic	202	189	374	342	355	385	438	440	419	422
Chad	436	550	1,190	1,176	1,142	1,195	918	1,085	384	323
Chile	209,144	245,792	279,754	354,366	403,463	423,098	454,757	471,793	207,111	171,357
China, People's Republic ^[3]	1,756,747	2,098,801	2,555,896	2,935,175	3,280,179	3,383,133	3,420,805	3,256,187	1,051,690	186,177
Colombia	669,392	830,891	985,073	990,683	953,931	994,978	1,055,609	1,108,458	466,993	915,230
Comoros	123	158	247	197	187	206	180	168	54	49
Congo, Democratic Republic	1,430	3,861	6,973	7,321	8,402	8,343	9,620	9,724	3,466	2,251
Congo, Republic	4,198	2,859	2,324	1,969	1,813	1,785	1,761	1,617	543	255
Costa Rica	197,136	207,840	228,996	241,739	306,551	319,831	335,957	363,877	190,017	208,073
Cote d'Ivoire	2,661	5,219	7,742	8,276	9,367	9,223	9,549	9,968	4,075	1,664
Croatia	26,452	26,905	29,808	32,189	34,022	35,078	37,646	39,935	19,261	8,726
Cuba	21,197	34,615	43,737	52,215	52,784	72,363	77,715	64,510	22,151	8,448
Cyprus	9,789	8,699	10,582	10,282	11,491	12,465	12,809	13,396	5,116	1,853
Czechia	95,229	100,056	115,080	116,177	122,423	136,282	141,599	147,310	58,407	9,740
Denmark ^[4]	327,854	324,608	351,910	364,769	365,671	377,327	371,310	349,665	138,917	14,744
Djibouti	416	338	608	546	875	1,486	442	391	171	112
Dominica	5,528	6,783	7,060	7,087	7,313	6,696	6,293	6,652	2,427	1,404
Dominican Republic	276,562	280,563	304,683	338,009	397,784	458,203	486,495	516,384	266,300	362,857
Ecuador	230,644	268,332	337,494	384,373	433,038	445,969	466,436	480,255	222,479	347,530
Egypt	84,287	89,578	99,716	104,049	111,226	96,715	101,379	105,571	50,734	38,032
El Salvador	114,001	119,572	138,329	173,145	214,681	209,730	225,133	245,090	109,574	166,615
Equatorial Guinea	641	1,197	2,057	1,687	1,620	1,617	1,817	1,854	740	509
Eritrea	854	1,528	2,583	3,094	3,681	3,755	1,634	1,193	571	283
Estonia	18,868	20,942	24,733	24,103	27,323	28,544	28,019	29,673	14,641	2,306
Eswatini	664	863	1,129	1,145	1,080	562	1,329	1,483	508	286
Ethiopia	15,336	16,884	18,276	18,967	23,881	25,110	25,986	25,594	10,879	14,668
Fiji	13,084	13,996	14,977	13,442	13,043	12,343	12,345	11,943	4,929	595
Finland	154,994	161,020	173,365	171,655	178,710	175,076	168,023	167,146	79,197	5,675
France ^[5]	1,913,551	1,959,424	2,115,351	2,075,668	2,068,940	2,099,450	2,236,217	2,336,381	966,849	127,069
Gabon	2,546	2,792	2,971	3,079	3,111	2,862	2,548	2,476	1,050	723
Gambia	2,468	2,551	2,695	2,310	2,230	2,108	2,311	2,384	1,040	874
Georgia	6,128	6,628	9,102	11,110	9,617	5,617	12,191	13,272	5,972	5,033
Germany	2,308,207	2,359,681	2,448,591	2,381,765	2,367,813	2,409,465	2,381,702	2,328,365	941,831	144,766
Ghana	27,405	27,822	29,460	27,965	28,995	28,824	34,295	38,328	14,225	12,531
Greece	79,010	81,400	89,425	88,012	96,967	101,625	108,897	111,782	53,121	11,921
Grenada	11,163	10,674	10,872	12,484	12,824	13,012	13,253	14,451	5,690	3,913
Guatemala	216,670	224,006	252,586	256,875	290,019	302,128	307,313	321,061	162,755	231,488
Guinea	2,780	2,777	3,250	3,223	3,791	3,939	3,522	3,578	1,389	884
Guinea-Bissau	64	126	285	295	252	328	273	273	104	102
Guyana	34,970	39,412	43,549	56,719	71,203	73,818	65,299	62,224	22,735	34,731
Haiti	98,865	108,382	124,841	136,804	161,877	154,981	146,325	140,909	68,221	76,040
Holy See	118	130	136	144	128	162	150	129	67	62
Honduras	152,168	157,751	176,636	183,851	220,021	231,029	236,927	242,057	119,460	212,104
Hungary	75,947	81,213	91,102	92,587	99,880	108,588	113,979	127,016	54,851	6,880
Iceland	56,114	55,202	56,250	56,149	60,879	70,124	76,784	71,403	29,004	2,129
India	1,296,276	1,491,712	1,720,729	1,898,327	1,988,420	2,055,480	2,223,163	2,316,025	1,059,774	540,303
Indonesia	111,496	123,583	133,013	137,940	134,536	144,790	153,099	154,598	69,960	32,203
Iran	24,290	26,144	33,303	35,266	31,805	21,892	9,582	5,843	2,671	3,412
Iraq	12,215	17,077	23,858	21,381	21,116	19,123	16,991	17,668	8,201	1,587
Ireland	452,312	487,428	518,282	524,500	543,054	575,551	630,939	644,352	270,763	17,770
Israel	366,779	381,206	400,169	458,225	465,738	481,255	503,918	466,595	210,114	165,454
Italy	1,192,251	1,205,816	1,366,572	1,319,429	1,357,516	1,384,255	1,456,866	1,479,146	563,266	145,088
Jamaica	223,785	233,430	265,740	304,611	351,792	352,461	370,408	376,270	165,277	164,754
Japan	4,141,299	4,298,081	4,199,152	4,021,857	3,987,687	3,975,012	3,809,830	3,916,108	1,731,801	130,528
Jordan	35,620	38,867	44,886	53,559	54,551	52,240	53,203	52,060	20,864	19,180
Kazakhstan	21,249	22,422	26,066	29,519	27,057	31,769	32,853	33,346	14,553	12,290
Kenya	20,331	22,105	27,425	29,008	31,400	35,876	39,708	43,509	18,136	13,170
Kiribati	694	654	762	953	944	1,007	886	768	250	34
Korea, North	24	59	84	99	120	69	77	87	31	14
Korea, South	1,527,085	1,656,795	1,780,662	1,946,887	2,197,905	2,510,988	2,541,826	2,352,342	1,120,013	168,257
Kosovo	NA	NA	5,204	5,663	5,595	5,403	5,085	5,253	2,602	2,089
Kuwait	40,912	48,784	64,754	73,943	77,167	61,578	60,044	56,461	21,513	16,642
Kyrgyzstan	3,740	4,584	4,128	3,609	3,482	1,943	4,955	5,016	2,579	2,177
Laos	1,315	2,556	2,578	2,294	2,138	2,760	2,463	2,532	951	68
Latvia	20,748	22,330	23,871	23,963	24,768	27,205	27,227	28,278	13,637	3,299
Lebanon	36,527	42,775	50,632	51,894	51,830	48,860	48,455	48,458	20,367	15,239
Lesotho	532	524	639	593	716	680	723	718	227	122
Liberia	3,290	4,152	5,152	5,360	4,559	4,580	4,368	4,341	1,403	739
Libya	2,933	4,016	4,120	2,879	2,138	1,481	915	842	400	416
Liechtenstein	2,255	2,234	2,330	2,350	2,254	2,183	2,108	2,035	785	136
Lithuania	27,337	27,854	31,612	32,932	33,528	28,461	45,709	48,848	21,326	4,124
Luxembourg	15,519	15,785	16,260	15,748	15,519	14,395	15,694	16,351	5,852	861
Madagascar	1,145	1,265	1,699	1,750	1,993	1,975	2,131	2,387	952	292
Malawi	2,280	2,359	2,547	3,219	3,198	3,356	3,377	3,262	1,218	614
Malaysia	97,410	102,605	108,926	105,570	102,778	101,047	108,370	108,764	43,914	8,096
Maldives	368	420	559	564	453	659	490	521	282	179
Mali	3,370	3,806	4,331	4,219	4,664	4,653	4,787	4,665	1,986	1,587
Malta	6,301	6,379	6,751	6,434	6,936	7,319	8,136	9,339	3,694	817
Marshall Islands	148	176	261	200	180	201	194	261	90	23
Mauritania	1,086	1,303	1,953	2,083	1,922	1,403	1,120	1,725	657	343
Mauritius	5,632	5,892	7,095	6,825	6,967	7,026	7,637	8,484	3,614	1,111
Mexico	16,462,118	17,980,784	20,002,936	20,378,001	19,767,022	19,326,562	21,182,686	21,412,174	11,004,919	4,551,988
Micronesia, Federated States	258	209	130	159	175	181	370	398	139	24
Moldova	11,293	12,604	12,939	12,600	12,954	11,561	10,340	10,088	5,330	4,626
Monaco	1,270	1,194	1,210	1,311	1,373	1,249	1,157	1,234	537	147
Mongolia	10,399	11,819	14,013	14,808	15,447	15,380	16,202	18,769	8,316	3,278
Morocco ^[6]	27,765	30,618	34,910	37,058	38,333	36,968	35,248	39,723	17,261	10,827
Mozambique	1,764	2,278	2,729	2,807	2,728	2,546	2,803	2,676	1,164	444
Namibia	2,249	2,165	2,447	2,565	2,524	2,739	2,749	2,690	1,196	680
Nauru	120	85	110	115	187	128	153	162	54	8
Nepal	18,475	19,419	23,387	30,019	36,526	39,062	36,733	39,690	17,455	16,141
Netherlands ^[7]	785,029	781,198	814,560	801,610	820,312	853,332	890,570	893,210	355,983	71,434
New Zealand ^[8]	266,494	295,210	318,692	336,645	353,615	371,173	376,671	371,055	137,102	12,987
Nicaragua	56,380	59,296	65,866	69,935	79,704	77,049	80,186	78,385	37,769	34,943
Niger	1,312	1,583	1,566	1,759	1,953	2,054	1,909	1,822	724	415
Nigeria	121,177	157,509	197,750	214,519	216,111	215,801	221,819	181,000	64,728	41,325
North Macedonia	9,520	9,436	9,855	10,321	10,818	11,979	12,307	12,236	5,058	3,073
Norway	300,258	320,842	345,156	336,555	303,526	319,594	306,062	291,979	110,891	11,261
Oman	5,729	7,794	10,717	11,419	11,430	10,331	10,866	10,738	5,570	3,532
Pakistan	69,222	78,246	102,953	119,644	137,567	124,800	129,736	124,207	56,729	48,462
Palau	282	136	90	160	137	91	171	164	47	3
Panama	132,615	143,365	153,115	162,027	173,906	162,076	163,848	177,548	85,466	75,465
Papua New Guinea	1,020	1,301	1,438	1,939	1,507	1,122	1,022	1,393	465	142
Paraguay	20,825	27,498	31,410	32,942	33,663	32,283	36,127	34,900	14,155	29,016
Peru	231,103	261,827	292,752	320,007	344,978	342,442	347,186	371,948	182,868	322,114
Philippines	327,757	358,961	404,566	420,917	451,332	485,524	498,980	514,858	235,866	113,585
Poland	149,046	168,854	207,179	217,453	230,781	242,920	265,052	276,937	128,063	24,492
Portugal	164,200	174,757	194,054	190,056	193,066	204,627	226,500	229,025	97,082	18,375
Qatar	12,210	15,894	18,740	20,194	19,961	16,352	16,779	16,722	6,649	8,682
Romania	76,255	82,238	94,041	96,349	103,562	108,786	117,798	126,038	55,284	24,788
Russia	299,911	364,116	413,011	323,435	317,538	344,368	290,901	301,321	145,050	80,961
Rwanda	4,168	4,074	5,039	5,065	6,174	5,883	6,963	7,908	3,067	2,733
Saint Kitts and Nevis	11,734	11,559	12,449	12,950	13,011	13,101	12,936	14,366	5,679	2,111
Saint Lucia	16,767	15,959	16,922	17,859	19,565	18,635	18,814	20,787	8,121	5,771
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	12,745	12,204	12,371	12,562	12,639	12,368	12,374	13,529	5,741	3,421
Samoa	1,812	2,021	2,137	2,413	2,576	2,459	2,800	3,006	1,360	514
San Marino	765	745	787	912	768	751	807	775	311	47
Sao Tome and Principe	45	77	120	106	89	99	94	75	22	11
Saudi Arabia	193,462	232,782	291,715	306,182	264,698	190,983	182,445	167,228	52,729	42,012
Senegal	9,824	10,518	11,390	10,796	11,320	11,287	10,438	11,708	5,096	4,706
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	173	3,376	7,336	40,528	41,320	35,279	20,031	18,541	6,474	X
Seychelles	365	429	480	508	529	465	498	472	178	73
Sierra Leone	3,059	3,188	3,547	3,288	3,303	3,878	3,527	3,603	1,334	1,235
Singapore	161,576	162,922	168,686	163,668	160,186	161,433	166,194	178,159	77,300	11,164
Slovakia	46,597	49,173	54,303	55,113	58,577	61,425	63,839	69,661	26,035	4,090
Slovenia	24,803	22,977	26,152	27,977	28,326	29,360	30,969	34,132	15,586	2,736
Solomon Islands	344	411	342	307	506	335	318	318	136	21
Somalia	252	215	343	359	441	321	240	154	80	144
South Africa	127,973	135,400	148,243	153,290	150,967	155,696	168,289	167,393	80,683	29,047
South Sudan	NA	NA	528	541	487	495	641	668	217	178
Spain	882,313	934,322	1,044,430	1,052,251	1,116,186	1,143,548	1,213,431	1,256,743	507,711	185,244
Sri Lanka	21,072	23,015	26,816	27,954	29,591	31,478	30,584	28,436	10,748	4,994
Sudan	3,663	3,196	4,474	4,792	6,409	4,425	4,663	4,468	1,844	959
Suriname	10,642	12,618	13,316	14,971	13,259	13,624	13,178	14,487	5,207	3,235
Sweden	520,762	551,820	614,592	623,935	622,710	607,993	582,603	517,617	228,446	19,180
Switzerland	484,359	472,914	494,892	484,475	478,886	459,938	445,323	427,963	164,729	29,885
Syria	10,934	15,004	17,187	16,010	13,575	9,954	6,349	3,746	1,471	881
Taiwan	313,837	444,046	484,849	487,570	515,978	524,357	539,788	539,980	213,759	49,729
Tajikistan	1,975	1,709	1,836	1,999	2,307	2,394	2,196	2,100	860	599
Tanzania	7,731	7,635	8,665	9,677	8,683	8,074	8,535	8,405	3,251	1,695
Thailand	98,172	109,761	120,540	116,992	122,840	124,577	127,783	130,777	46,974	21,097
Timor-Leste	-	34	226	232	244	238	212	279	107	50
Togo	2,003	2,186	2,560	2,671	3,044	3,120	3,129	3,338	1,347	830
Tonga	2,016	2,202	2,561	3,417	4,497	4,276	3,453	3,717	1,585	108
Trinidad and Tobago	169,251	164,705	174,506	189,641	197,990	195,355	191,501	210,051	87,671	16,410
Tunisia	9,556	11,287	13,467	13,523	15,169	14,633	14,624	15,308	6,598	3,794
Turkey	175,933	192,113	214,958	226,665	243,688	220,195	205,199	202,923	95,838	63,489
Turkmenistan	1,171	1,345	1,777	1,691	1,614	1,791	1,575	1,355	574	105
Tuvalu	198	151	182	167	203	168	189	183	71	3
Uganda	8,926	9,398	10,308	11,222	11,536	12,914	14,693	15,022	5,785	2,758
Ukraine	82,565	87,913	100,877	118,352	127,667	130,093	129,239	129,987	68,249	49,873
United Arab Emirates	23,110	28,897	38,542	40,507	41,204	36,630	39,231	40,066	15,180	13,535
United Kingdom ^[9]	4,486,666	4,566,669	4,814,079	4,968,049	5,210,880	5,076,167	5,162,089	5,305,437	2,169,835	212,084
Uruguay	59,590	70,535	80,666	81,603	87,420	85,291	90,563	85,122	30,180	21,390
Uzbekistan	7,694	9,930	10,000	11,988	12,414	14,049	12,628	10,929	3,555	1,414
Vanuatu	198	203	208	236	266	245	233	230	98	16
Venezuela	700,840	815,797	774,782	643,784	645,928	583,196	546,021	496,123	187,870	204,910
Vietnam	63,383	73,913	93,986	114,572	121,336	134,687	137,360	143,700	53,565	12,490
Yemen	3,179	3,904	5,896	5,549	5,679	3,839	1,868	1,530	773	809
Zambia	4,585	4,887	5,441	5,627	5,430	6,071	5,928	5,597	2,312	1,243
Zimbabwe	8,906	8,738	10,048	10,754	10,918	11,791	12,396	13,346	5,327	2,700
Unknown	275,090	164,788	25,716	51,469	161,456	95,266	85,694	85,917	42,738	28,396

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