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Table 11. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Broad Class of Admission and Region and Country of Last Residence: Fiscal Year 2022

Region of Last Residence

Region of last residence	Total	Immediate relatives of U.S. citizens	Family-sponsored preferences	Employment-based preferences	Diversity	Refugees and asylees	Other
Total	1,018,349	428,268	166,041	270,284	43,233	83,082	27,441
Africa	82,117	31,404	10,986	11,395	11,916	16,264	152
Asia	377,942	92,388	51,084	181,598	17,460	22,989	12,423
Europe	69,145	22,730	8,674	23,767	8,879	4,613	482
North America	288,168	153,643	69,772	27,295	1,089	26,242	10,127
Oceania	4,982	1,652	691	1,638	962	16	23
South America	81,396	34,822	14,464	20,017	1,591	9,704	798
Unknown	114,599	91,629	10,370	4,574	1,336	3,254	3,436

Country of Last Residence

Country of last residence	Total	Immediate relatives of U.S. citizens	Family-sponsored preferences	Employment-based preferences	Diversity	Refugees and asylees	Other
Total	1,018,349	428,268	166,041	270,284	43,233	83,082	27,441
Afghanistan	10,128	484	268	29	344	605	8,398
Albania	5,144	1,728	1,478	275	1,347	280	36
Algeria	2,922	474	311	118	1,984	D	D
Angola	420	81	D	36	188	91	D
Anguilla	23	10	8	5	0	0	0
Antigua and Barbuda	328	153	141	28	D	D	D
Argentina	3,392	1,389	288	1,425	206	65	19
Armenia	2,754	994	391	253	950	161	5
Aruba	50	25	15	7	D	D	0
Australia	2,930	1,022	338	1,301	253	7	9
Austria	395	144	54	144	42	7	4
Azerbaijan	890	149	43	132	419	144	3
Bahamas	615	419	58	115	20	3	0
Bahrain	283	83	48	111	26	D	D
Bangladesh	10,142	5,295	2,161	1,950	D	706	D
Barbados	310	160	118	26	D	0	D
Belarus	1,953	357	D	482	769	184	D
Belgium	548	182	32	265	63	D	D
Belize	493	308	120	46	0	4	15
Benin	693	270	175	32	195	D	D
Bermuda	99	33	D	49	D	0	0
Bhutan	158	33	0	D	53	60	D
Bolivia	1,337	669	437	154	21	37	19
Bosnia and Herzegovina	390	160	86	61	46	D	D
Botswana	52	30	D	18	D	0	0
Brazil	20,806	7,695	1,359	11,286	28	310	128
Brunei	17	D	0	D	0	0	0
Bulgaria	1,024	478	180	193	153	15	5
Burkina Faso	723	305	83	33	39	260	3
Burma	2,553	467	222	114	284	1,466	0
Burundi	688	84	8	12	40	544	0
Cabo Verde	929	630	274	21	0	D	D
Cambodia	3,049	1,414	1,188	248	172	20	7
Cameroon	5,169	1,478	1,236	144	1,163	1,145	3
Canada	13,916	5,396	1,658	6,366	295	57	144
Cayman Islands	73	44	11	13	D	D	0
Central African Republic	125	11	4	6	D	100	D
Chad	138	30	6	4	35	63	0
Chile	1,615	671	183	630	69	51	11
China, People's Republic	62,022	12,983	10,983	29,549	90	8,321	96
Colombia	16,763	9,805	4,153	1,777	41	935	52
Congo, Democratic Republic	4,200	424	486	D	820	2,386	D
Congo, Republic	491	75	8	67	134	207	0
Costa Rica	1,882	1,121	340	328	29	41	23
Cote d'Ivoire	1,276	573	282	54	167	194	6
Croatia	188	90	D	72	18	D	0
Cuba	31,019	8,072	7,889	21	572	14,462	3
Curacao	23	14	0	D	0	D	0
Cyprus	116	D	D	47	36	D	0
Czechia	477	211	25	185	52	D	D
Denmark	408	152	35	179	21	D	D
Djibouti	4,336	1,778	1,867	303	344	44	0
Dominica	376	178	174	20	0	D	D
Dominican Republic	36,007	25,023	10,478	299	10	111	86
Ecuador	10,615	3,766	4,762	1,072	175	414	426
Egypt	7,378	2,737	544	1,050	744	2,292	11
El Salvador	25,609	7,363	9,548	4,085	0	3,797	816
Equatorial Guinea	47	31	0	D	D	10	0
Eritrea	1,230	114	D	12	D	1,094	0
Estonia	126	58	8	31	26	D	D
Eswatini	24	5	0	14	D	D	0
Ethiopia	5,268	2,227	1,316	420	321	973	11
Fiji	1,041	136	273	25	603	D	D
Finland	287	92	18	151	26	0	0
France	4,353	1,154	375	2,519	252	26	27
French Polynesia	50	10	0	40	0	0	0
Gabon	96	62	D	10	7	10	D
Gambia	822	577	44	25	10	161	5
Georgia	2,088	667	221	200	879	121	0
Germany	4,295	1,675	354	1,825	287	43	111
Ghana	4,575	3,077	410	738	232	108	10
Greece	966	379	157	331	87	9	3
Grenada	398	228	147	20	0	D	D
Guatemala	15,328	5,186	3,485	2,947	0	2,797	913
Guinea	1,122	515	28	44	162	368	5
Guinea-Bissau	30	22	0	D	D	3	0
Guyana	2,685	1,236	1,360	60	D	23	D
Haiti	8,546	5,927	1,761	304	0	536	18
Honduras	14,762	5,756	3,352	2,608	37	2,438	571
Hong Kong	2,564	817	845	772	122	D	D
Hungary	745	293	56	288	93	10	5
Iceland	55	28	D	17	D	0	0
India	120,121	16,080	6,957	94,827	135	1,734	388
Indonesia	1,411	634	188	314	134	125	16
Iran	8,011	2,509	1,290	2,873	812	521	6
Iraq	2,121	688	165	88	178	763	239
Ireland	1,407	431	83	850	38	0	5
Israel	3,393	1,350	192	1,607	169	66	9
Italy	3,549	1,185	444	1,473	324	60	63
Jamaica	13,603	8,908	3,563	975	0	124	33
Japan	4,248	1,808	264	1,738	414	8	16
Jordan	3,830	1,668	752	560	611	228	11
Kazakhstan	1,502	409	83	266	485	255	4
Kenya	4,499	1,870	471	1,434	435	279	10
Korea, North	15	8	0	4	0	D	D
Korea, South	14,884	3,573	1,144	10,050	86	8	23
Kosovo	461	120	18	51	107	162	3
Kuwait	1,213	257	148	436	235	D	D
Kyrgyzstan	1,497	190	66	D	909	267	D
Laos	517	428	60	15	7	7	0
Latvia	245	104	22	50	65	D	D
Lebanon	2,820	1,318	682	574	179	D	D
Lesotho	11	8	0	D	0	D	0
Liberia	1,874	461	67	32	236	1,074	4
Libya	563	200	26	150	93	94	0
Lithuania	407	182	46	96	73	6	4
Luxembourg	38	13	D	18	D	0	0
Macau	73	23	33	D	D	0	0
Madagascar	74	20	9	26	14	5	0
Malawi	160	88	13	32	8	19	0
Malaysia	1,496	394	136	556	64	340	6
Maldives	11	6	D	D	D	0	0
Mali	403	234	14	29	18	99	9
Malta	61	11	8	19	15	8	0
Marshall Islands	13	D	0	D	0	0	0
Mauritania	269	89	D	6	22	149	D
Mauritius	73	33	5	32	3	0	0
Mexico	117,710	75,813	24,767	8,286	38	1,380	7,426
Micronesia, Federated States	15	D	0	7	0	0	D
Moldova	933	322	D	96	157	337	D
Mongolia	896	200	30	308	291	57	10
Montenegro	182	122	12	18	12	18	0
Montserrat	16	6	D	5	D	0	0
Morocco	4,307	1,248	698	163	2,171	23	4
Mozambique	60	17	4	16	6	17	0
Namibia	79	24	4	37	9	5	0
Nepal	10,974	2,390	2,310	2,377	2,725	1,158	14
Netherlands	953	304	88	507	47	D	D
New Zealand	652	251	55	242	95	D	D
Nicaragua	2,907	1,331	820	231	28	452	45
Niger	172	70	D	53	12	23	D
Nigeria	10,601	6,179	696	2,934	19	764	9
North Macedonia	856	260	257	79	188	32	40
Norway	280	137	35	92	13	3	0
Oman	604	52	48	402	95	7	0
Pakistan	10,780	4,302	2,519	2,713	98	924	224
Panama	888	481	233	128	20	21	5
Papua New Guinea	26	5	0	11	D	5	D
Paraguay	261	181	28	40	D	7	D
Peru	6,653	4,280	981	520	618	146	108
Philippines	27,692	11,782	3,260	12,400	14	34	202
Poland	2,667	939	450	985	217	13	63
Portugal	720	287	113	284	25	4	7
Qatar	1,318	144	103	677	290	30	74
Romania	1,450	629	120	430	220	48	3
Russia	7,563	1,980	540	2,270	1,767	996	10
Rwanda	1,723	166	172	70	653	642	20
Saint Kitts and Nevis	142	89	45	5	0	0	3
Saint Lucia	522	288	189	41	0	D	D
Saint Martin (French)	21	7	14	0	0	0	0
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	254	165	69	D	0	0	D
Samoa	88	83	D	D	0	0	D
Saudi Arabia	4,191	1,037	427	1,702	761	261	3
Senegal	1,075	769	69	66	53	109	9
Serbia	482	330	D	118	6	21	D
Seychelles	12	D	D	D	6	0	0
Sierra Leone	2,081	1,201	510	D	211	100	D
Singapore	1,462	281	142	989	43	7	0
Sint Maarten	24	D	D	D	D	0	0
Slovakia	266	136	22	91	11	3	3
Slovenia	72	34	4	24	7	3	0
Somalia	336	86	8	4	D	235	D
South Africa	3,573	914	237	2,024	339	D	D
South Sudan	54	20	0	6	3	25	0
Spain	3,124	940	404	1,431	211	129	9
Sri Lanka	2,365	412	371	618	697	260	7
Sudan	865	252	50	50	144	369	0
Suriname	87	59	14	10	0	D	D
Sweden	883	344	106	354	66	5	8
Switzerland	680	255	38	318	53	3	13
Syria	2,161	532	439	161	66	960	3
Taiwan	4,714	941	755	2,714	292	7	5
Tajikistan	815	172	50	79	428	68	18
Tanzania	1,556	232	58	65	49	1,149	3
Thailand	3,847	2,016	413	745	117	535	21
Togo	1,786	553	547	D	568	88	D
Tonga	142	113	20	D	D	0	0
Trinidad and Tobago	2,093	1,057	706	284	26	3	17
Tunisia	447	190	36	112	92	D	D
Turkey	6,824	1,409	441	1,719	1,298	1,800	157
Turkmenistan	792	77	60	D	519	82	D
Turks and Caicos Islands	46	26	8	12	0	0	0
Uganda	1,439	491	79	155	60	649	5
Ukraine	10,152	3,000	1,616	1,725	1,689	2,107	15
United Arab Emirates	6,921	551	251	3,408	231	205	2,275
United Kingdom	10,331	3,471	1,192	5,359	273	28	8
Uruguay	578	349	33	147	11	30	8
Uzbekistan	4,475	782	1,627	197	1,634	229	6
Venezuela	16,604	4,722	866	2,896	417	7,683	20
Vietnam	22,604	10,227	9,263	2,882	8	90	134
Virgin Islands, British	84	34	37	13	0	0	0
Yemen	578	318	42	34	56	125	3
Zambia	312	163	30	60	27	32	0
Zimbabwe	952	209	47	496	67	126	7
All other countries ^[1]	64	33	4	21	3	3	0
Unknown	114,599	91,629	10,370	4,574	1,336	3,254	3,436

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