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Table 3. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2022

By Region of Birth

Region of birth	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Total	990,553	1,016,518	1,051,031	1,183,505	1,127,167	1,096,611	1,031,765	707,362	740,002	1,018,349
Africa	98,304	98,413	101,415	113,426	118,824	115,736	111,194	76,649	66,211	89,571
Asia	400,548	430,508	419,297	462,299	424,743	397,187	364,761	272,597	295,306	414,951
Europe	86,556	83,266	85,803	93,567	84,335	80,024	87,597	68,994	61,521	75,606
North America	315,660	324,354	366,126	427,293	413,650	418,991	370,860	222,272	240,435	332,672
Oceania	5,277	5,112	5,404	5,588	5,071	4,653	5,359	3,998	4,147	5,132
South America	80,945	73,715	72,309	79,608	79,076	78,869	90,850	62,219	71,371	99,025
Unknown	3,263	1,150	677	1,724	1,468	1,151	1,144	633	1,011	1,392

By Country of Birth

Country of birth	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Total	990,553	1,016,518	1,051,031	1,183,505	1,127,167	1,096,611	1,031,765	707,362	740,002	1,018,349
Afghanistan	2,196	10,527	8,328	12,513	19,538	12,935	10,136	11,407	9,488	14,193
Albania	3,186	3,828	4,653	5,773	5,722	5,049	5,366	3,508	2,612	5,945
Algeria	1,241	1,669	1,775	2,180	2,139	2,123	2,299	1,581	1,898	3,125
Angola	143	148	154	198	209	176	226	181	208	453
Anguilla	22	20	22	20	23	23	14	11	11	19
Antigua and Barbuda	344	369	290	324	322	325	323	190	201	280
Argentina	4,372	3,874	3,730	4,091	3,482	3,080	3,925	2,970	3,248	4,128
Armenia	2,722	2,913	2,962	3,543	3,437	3,217	3,101	2,145	1,833	3,037
Aruba	45	40	38	23	47	45	52	22	28	46
Australia	2,759	2,809	3,034	3,239	2,906	2,693	3,205	2,523	2,682	2,859
Austria	415	438	474	432	387	401	437	311	359	344
Azerbaijan	637	672	676	784	881	1,015	1,169	814	545	1,129
Bahamas	630	654	725	656	725	759	922	614	997	767
Bahrain	115	122	145	138	130	143	183	127	151	163
Bangladesh	12,099	14,645	13,570	18,723	14,693	15,717	15,176	9,272	6,405	10,858
Barbados	428	384	376	371	373	318	338	226	269	306
Belarus	1,970	2,015	1,994	2,127	1,919	1,951	2,263	1,723	1,435	2,172
Belgium	675	632	662	691	625	537	714	629	601	552
Belize	946	789	772	851	746	632	806	475	670	591
Benin	342	517	466	577	648	573	619	450	467	721
Bermuda	88	106	112	99	68	65	84	67	71	65
Bhutan	8,954	7,298	6,325	4,217	2,940	2,350	1,441	1,091	137	209
Bolivia	2,071	1,719	1,626	1,595	1,510	1,523	1,525	976	1,121	1,621
Bosnia and Herzegovina	697	693	859	971	846	682	637	477	478	506
Botswana	53	58	61	78	112	72	61	43	58	58
Brazil	11,033	10,429	11,424	13,812	14,989	15,394	19,825	16,746	18,351	24,169
Brunei	21	25	21	31	24	29	23	11	24	23
Bulgaria	2,844	2,981	2,688	2,670	2,184	1,798	1,759	1,118	1,000	1,151
Burkina Faso	585	583	575	642	541	525	646	465	551	814
Burma	12,565	11,144	12,808	13,065	12,897	8,182	5,024	4,000	2,143	2,879
Burundi	260	273	351	415	1,094	762	781	1,099	730	788
Cabo Verde	1,673	1,154	1,253	2,242	2,618	1,929	1,852	995	941	1,119
Cambodia	2,624	2,536	1,868	3,173	4,056	3,187	2,748	1,593	1,762	3,400
Cameroon	3,908	3,943	4,374	4,899	4,668	4,236	4,369	2,842	3,578	5,879
Canada	13,181	11,586	12,673	12,793	11,484	9,898	11,388	9,526	9,978	11,317
Cayman Islands	44	48	53	55	67	47	53	50	58	40
Central African Republic	213	155	234	202	178	304	231	148	151	135
Chad	111	119	175	136	205	251	224	111	100	174
Chile	1,736	1,581	1,596	1,698	1,625	1,519	1,762	1,520	1,632	1,747
China, People's Republic	71,798	76,089	74,558	81,772	71,565	65,214	62,248	41,483	49,847	67,950
Colombia	21,131	18,175	17,316	18,610	17,956	17,545	19,841	11,989	15,293	21,723
Comoros	3	9	5	4	4	8	10	4	4	D
Congo, Democratic Republic	2,792	4,347	5,345	6,791	8,709	9,941	8,999	7,522	3,906	4,688
Congo, Republic	1,059	552	496	625	632	580	476	308	219	527
Costa Rica	2,114	1,966	2,029	2,224	2,184	2,171	2,348	1,658	1,991	2,167
Cote d'Ivoire	1,486	1,477	1,497	1,617	1,810	1,375	1,589	1,049	1,207	1,559
Croatia	353	297	348	388	375	286	360	241	294	259
Cuba	32,219	46,679	54,396	66,516	65,028	76,486	41,641	16,367	23,077	36,642
Curacao	0	27	22	35	34	56	53	31	29	35
Cyprus	126	129	113	131	117	120	111	105	102	90
Czechia	676	606	637	650	582	534	714	454	496	474
Czechoslovakia (former)	74	74	58	62	52	51	0	69	48	63
Denmark	506	514	609	521	461	353	416	405	322	374
Djibouti	90	190	370	281	222	281	151	84	111	154
Dominica	244	345	229	298	510	492	511	287	279	455
Dominican Republic	41,311	44,577	50,610	61,161	58,520	57,413	49,911	30,005	24,553	40,152
Ecuador	10,591	10,960	10,187	10,757	10,594	11,472	11,083	6,157	7,532	11,910
Egypt	10,294	11,477	12,085	12,045	9,834	9,826	9,479	6,164	4,396	8,348
El Salvador	18,260	19,273	19,487	23,449	25,109	28,326	27,656	17,907	18,668	30,876
Equatorial Guinea	18	15	25	18	20	17	30	27	29	52
Eritrea	2,138	2,002	2,220	2,267	2,449	2,428	2,385	1,881	1,304	1,760
Estonia	211	220	189	211	176	151	193	126	140	118
Eswatini	15	23	19	20	19	18	32	25	28	22
Ethiopia	13,097	12,300	11,394	13,232	14,637	12,403	9,060	6,280	3,706	5,720
Fiji	895	802	875	866	805	730	734	425	419	1,124
Finland	331	350	407	489	439	442	497	317	324	288
France	4,425	4,284	4,693	5,159	4,782	4,276	4,787	4,053	4,107	4,351
French Polynesia	0	24	14	27	20	10	25	15	12	51
Gabon	127	167	146	165	150	112	148	86	123	125
Gambia	1,018	1,111	1,142	1,247	1,134	1,023	1,378	664	778	1,010
Georgia	1,368	1,240	1,410	1,635	1,629	1,643	1,691	1,179	1,239	2,303
Germany	6,032	5,584	5,436	5,306	4,662	4,443	4,848	3,913	3,900	4,088
Ghana	10,265	7,115	6,186	6,949	8,455	8,394	8,526	4,627	3,939	5,451
Greece	1,361	1,235	1,211	1,451	1,314	1,214	1,350	945	842	918
Grenada	687	633	525	585	544	501	554	307	370	449
Guatemala	10,224	10,238	11,773	13,002	13,198	15,638	13,453	7,815	8,904	16,990
Guinea	1,518	1,375	1,389	1,501	1,348	1,282	1,579	858	745	1,365
Guinea-Bissau	43	30	39	37	48	27	51	27	23	40
Guyana	5,897	6,267	5,543	5,771	5,468	5,165	5,385	3,027	3,435	3,455
Haiti	20,351	15,274	16,967	23,584	21,824	21,360	17,253	9,338	11,456	10,432
Honduras	8,898	8,156	9,274	13,302	11,387	13,794	15,901	8,277	10,116	17,099
Hong Kong	2,226	2,278	2,085	2,510	2,415	2,075	2,021	1,783	1,334	2,301
Hungary	1,052	996	1,095	1,048	972	917	1,070	761	730	840
Iceland	139	86	104	97	86	89	70	81	83	68
India	68,458	77,908	64,116	64,687	60,394	59,821	54,495	46,363	93,450	127,012
Indonesia	2,731	2,139	2,084	2,129	1,914	1,756	1,899	1,428	1,588	1,752
Iran	12,863	11,615	13,114	13,298	13,791	10,116	6,640	8,805	5,734	9,407
Iraq	9,552	19,153	21,107	18,904	14,203	14,351	6,514	2,266	1,726	2,797
Ireland	1,626	1,605	1,607	1,759	1,485	1,401	1,760	1,466	1,364	1,366
Israel	3,996	3,805	3,965	4,142	3,802	3,706	4,304	3,687	3,103	3,439
Italy	2,960	3,298	3,544	4,078	3,655	3,329	3,822	3,184	3,069	3,477
Jamaica	19,400	19,026	17,642	23,350	21,905	20,347	21,689	12,826	13,357	16,482
Japan	5,925	5,545	5,395	5,207	4,635	4,317	4,503	3,905	3,960	4,184
Jordan	4,188	5,187	4,664	5,269	5,264	5,322	4,998	3,063	3,416	4,779
Kazakhstan	1,241	1,221	1,201	1,310	1,377	1,378	1,533	1,307	1,330	1,787
Kenya	6,123	5,884	5,602	6,274	6,957	7,190	7,052	4,026	3,088	5,014
Korea, North	48	142	55	47	32	41	29	28	20	22
Korea, South	23,166	20,423	17,138	21,801	19,194	17,676	18,479	16,244	12,351	16,172
Kosovo	839	758	814	1,020	1,014	886	1,020	678	562	853
Kuwait	937	1,057	1,055	1,186	1,177	1,090	1,201	768	916	1,116
Kyrgyzstan	652	707	790	847	715	908	881	594	710	1,637
Laos	923	806	917	856	685	863	850	486	349	621
Latvia	424	384	480	391	359	356	319	224	258	253
Lebanon	2,783	3,245	2,813	2,971	2,818	2,581	2,605	2,120	2,253	3,434
Lesotho	20	13	23	19	24	12	22	14	14	13
Liberia	3,334	3,874	3,795	3,619	4,155	3,101	3,495	1,674	2,504	2,412
Libya	376	524	734	642	780	499	511	514	409	709
Lithuania	854	747	750	735	645	658	750	475	487	506
Luxembourg	40	26	27	34	33	30	42	20	32	30
Macau	106	105	99	109	109	91	99	64	46	62
Madagascar	95	86	72	88	60	79	75	84	84	97
Malawi	159	172	160	205	228	257	213	197	167	179
Malaysia	2,477	2,622	2,749	3,382	4,109	3,051	2,303	1,898	1,605	1,573
Maldives	5	13	8	11	5	4	8	4	4	D
Mali	667	604	587	598	544	488	586	389	378	481
Malta	43	39	58	65	75	58	47	44	23	30
Marshall Islands	46	56	32	32	23	23	22	12	12	15
Mauritania	354	320	298	317	287	212	230	134	144	326
Mauritius	83	81	96	110	96	67	95	68	65	85
Mexico	135,028	134,052	158,619	174,534	170,581	161,858	156,052	100,325	107,230	138,772
Micronesia, Federated States	4	5	6	11	6	19	21	15	10	21
Moldova	2,485	2,341	2,496	2,929	2,480	2,206	1,935	1,367	1,052	1,499
Monaco	8	8	10	11	14	13	7	8	7	7
Mongolia	729	651	644	750	661	636	765	543	762	1,005
Montenegro	265	289	251	387	323	299	376	303	266	324
Montserrat	0	38	14	14	12	20	24	12	13	10
Morocco	3,336	3,605	3,710	4,586	4,229	3,077	3,721	2,866	3,819	4,756
Mozambique	73	71	107	101	96	100	77	60	48	66
Namibia	57	44	86	87	130	75	98	90	75	50
Nepal	13,046	12,357	12,926	12,851	11,610	11,953	10,201	7,847	7,309	12,010
Netherlands	1,142	1,195	1,309	1,319	1,056	998	1,274	962	1,009	972
Netherlands Antilles (former)	128	45	22	18	9	7	21	7	14	14
New Zealand	921	796	855	846	798	719	844	607	665	650
Nicaragua	3,048	2,886	3,324	3,486	3,072	3,061	3,818	2,570	4,220	3,754
Niger	37	71	55	119	116	93	201	139	182	199
Nigeria	13,840	12,828	11,542	14,380	13,539	13,952	15,888	12,398	13,100	12,385
North Macedonia	895	960	1,060	1,262	1,027	1,082	1,079	590	745	979
Norway	335	271	310	362	290	284	329	248	226	279
Oman	73	90	85	116	104	110	148	118	154	210
Pakistan	13,251	18,612	18,057	19,313	17,408	15,802	13,921	10,474	9,691	11,777
Palau	16	12	15	14	13	7	14	8	10	7
Panama	1,234	1,095	1,052	1,029	889	897	1,059	601	844	952
Papua New Guinea	27	18	11	23	18	27	24	19	20	26
Paraguay	448	391	382	434	391	389	452	256	356	375
Peru	12,564	10,606	10,148	10,940	10,115	9,878	10,049	5,626	5,044	8,035
Philippines	54,446	49,996	56,478	53,287	49,147	47,258	45,920	25,491	27,511	35,998
Poland	6,430	5,689	5,275	5,603	4,845	4,357	4,700	3,341	2,970	3,192
Portugal	918	892	857	1,006	939	889	940	679	750	746
Qatar	191	202	229	272	224	236	287	215	323	430
Romania	3,773	3,246	3,376	3,554	2,953	2,448	2,616	1,994	1,846	1,827
Russia	9,753	9,079	8,799	9,297	8,918	8,621	9,822	7,967	5,525	8,906
Rwanda	540	555	732	1,357	1,394	1,620	1,509	1,084	784	1,540
Saint Kitts and Nevis	259	263	222	250	238	250	238	106	113	143
Saint Lucia	853	844	739	777	777	696	726	463	457	628
Saint Martin (French)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	15
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	529	448	415	422	361	333	403	196	228	317
Samoa	237	239	207	219	194	179	195	154	130	139
Sao Tome and Principe	6	5	6	12	10	9	12	4	D	15
Saudi Arabia	1,463	1,696	1,744	2,117	2,135	2,100	2,514	1,854	1,780	2,764
Senegal	1,340	1,273	1,244	1,533	1,470	1,420	1,665	999	962	1,253
Serbia	866	1,143	1,278	1,351	1,410	1,217	1,532	1,077	810	636
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	653	267	232	202	144	132	139	149	403	544
Seychelles	6	7	11	16	10	6	6	4	D	14
Sierra Leone	1,651	1,740	1,599	1,535	2,058	1,527	1,443	713	1,227	2,323
Singapore	835	779	781	812	818	801	818	807	799	971
Sint Maarten	0	45	45	42	35	27	37	21	24	44
Slovakia	507	460	424	483	388	370	422	343	311	324
Slovenia	62	78	107	119	108	95	119	76	87	90
Somalia	3,764	5,190	6,796	6,958	7,404	7,557	3,752	2,024	961	1,042
South Africa	2,629	2,676	2,907	3,023	2,912	3,010	3,174	2,733	2,716	3,535
South Sudan	59	74	127	124	160	185	191	117	69	100
Soviet Union (former)	1,264	1,136	1,022	1,042	939	1,022	1,227	1,070	1,082	1,236
Spain	2,480	2,928	3,303	3,519	3,045	2,841	3,115	2,620	2,644	2,865
Sri Lanka	1,847	1,767	1,763	1,913	1,627	1,594	1,689	1,463	1,232	2,572
Sudan	1,945	2,442	3,580	3,159	3,515	3,658	2,949	1,867	871	1,371
Suriname	178	158	134	156	136	182	172	117	117	106
Sweden	1,106	954	1,066	1,144	950	889	1,018	835	788	751
Switzerland	697	656	640	743	565	570	595	592	614	614
Syria	3,366	3,540	3,840	4,800	5,877	14,686	5,967	3,176	1,748	3,248
Taiwan	5,385	4,697	4,888	5,120	4,858	5,079	5,801	4,759	4,246	5,091
Tajikistan	550	516	595	593	652	893	1,158	523	538	951
Tanzania	837	774	799	788	1,415	3,186	3,142	2,312	1,438	1,643
Thailand	7,583	6,197	7,502	7,039	6,311	5,556	5,551	4,177	4,037	4,632
Togo	1,257	1,612	1,547	1,938	1,572	1,534	1,546	1,276	1,143	1,887
Tonga	348	320	327	283	262	225	256	202	171	213
Trinidad and Tobago	4,724	3,988	3,212	3,469	3,100	2,758	3,150	1,718	1,852	2,435
Tunisia	445	429	518	518	535	517	510	463	514	569
Turkey	4,144	3,834	4,201	4,469	4,844	5,585	5,713	4,359	4,465	7,001
Turkmenistan	210	254	226	235	251	286	330	250	161	942
Turks and Caicos Islands	50	40	38	39	35	41	56	33	53	45
Uganda	1,350	1,409	1,664	1,649	1,898	2,412	2,560	1,802	1,146	1,620
Ukraine	8,193	7,752	7,987	10,422	10,135	11,879	11,762	9,886	7,578	11,621
United Arab Emirates	910	1,039	1,193	1,370	1,314	1,379	1,586	1,251	1,332	1,960
United Kingdom	12,984	12,225	12,592	12,673	10,948	9,908	11,337	9,655	9,229	9,143
United States	319	358	370	468	409	306	262	187	256	288
Uruguay	1,352	1,128	1,078	972	1,001	960	1,109	699	830	731
Uzbekistan	4,382	5,194	3,977	4,359	4,095	4,612	2,550	1,347	990	4,979
Venezuela	9,572	8,427	9,144	10,772	11,809	11,762	15,720	12,136	14,412	21,025
Vietnam	27,101	30,283	30,832	41,451	38,231	33,834	39,712	29,995	16,312	24,425
Virgin Islands, British	45	56	38	40	25	37	58	29	39	45
Yemen	3,532	3,492	3,194	13,040	6,029	1,885	3,717	5,908	4,345	5,648
Zambia	505	441	460	487	537	477	511	401	361	365
Zimbabwe	924	797	779	815	810	749	758	674	737	1,433
All other countries ^[1]	40	48	48	48	44	41	40	35	29	53
Unknown	3,263	1,150	677	1,724	1,468	1,151	1,144	633	1,011	1,392

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