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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 2023

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	1,172,910	551,590	204,240	196,760	67,350	99,360	53,610
Africa	105,520	46,410	7,420	11,210	25,270	14,970	230
Asia	418,930	157,990	74,170	111,360	27,080	19,590	28,750
Europe	80,280	38,200	3,400	22,320	11,650	4,370	360
North America	450,310	240,090	106,940	25,740	1,020	53,750	22,760
Oceania	5,000	2,310	240	1,370	1,030	20	30
South America	112,130	66,150	11,940	24,730	1,250	6,620	1,450
Unknown	730	430	120	50	50	60	30

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	1,172,910	551,590	204,240	196,760	67,350	99,360	53,610
Afghanistan	30,300	1,930	520	70	750	860	26,170
Albania	5,160	2,350	450	190	1,990	180	20
Algeria	5,150	860	170	90	4,000	30	20
Angola	570	160	10	30	280	90	0
Anguilla	20	20	0	0	0	0	0
Antigua and Barbuda	250	170	60	10	0	0	0
Argentina	5,050	2,930	160	1,770	90	60	50
Armenia	4,720	1,650	540	200	2,110	210	10
Aruba	40	30	0	10	0	0	0
Australia	2,790	1,320	70	1,090	290	10	10
Austria	380	190	20	160	20	0	0
Azerbaijan	1,370	360	60	120	730	90	10
Bahamas	870	680	40	130	10	10	10
Bahrain	200	80	20	90	10	10	0
Bangladesh	18,910	6,970	8,880	2,560	0	470	20
Barbados	300	220	30	40	0	0	0
Belarus	2,600	840	110	340	1,180	130	0
Belgium	670	270	10	370	10	10	0
Belize	700	560	90	30	0	10	20
Benin	710	330	50	30	290	10	0
Bermuda	80	60	0	10	0	0	0
Bhutan	210	50	0	20	100	40	0
Bolivia	1,580	1,150	190	140	20	50	40
Bosnia and Herzegovina	460	300	30	80	40	10	0
Botswana	50	20	10	10	10	0	0
Brazil	28,880	13,700	600	14,030	20	320	210
Brunei	30	10	0	10	0	0	0
Bulgaria	960	640	60	120	120	20	10
Burkina Faso	810	460	70	30	80	170	0
Burma	3,970	1,100	470	140	760	1,490	0
Burundi	840	80	10	20	160	570	0
Cabo Verde	1,860	1,020	800	30	20	0	0
Cambodia	2,470	1,790	440	130	90	10	10
Cameroon	6,010	2,400	510	110	1,840	1,140	10
Canada	11,870	5,490	670	5,310	70	50	280
Cayman Islands	50	30	10	10	0	0	0
Central African Republic	110	10	0	0	10	100	0
Chad	270	40	10	10	170	40	0
Chile	2,200	1,230	90	720	10	120	20
China, People's Republic	59,260	22,100	4,630	26,270	30	5,940	280
Colombia	24,810	18,970	2,000	2,910	10	800	100
Congo, Democratic Republic	4,880	780	240	40	1,120	2,690	0
Congo, Republic	470	130	20	30	90	210	0
Costa Rica	2,490	1,920	100	380	30	40	20
Cote d'Ivoire	1,700	760	200	50	500	170	10
Croatia	250	160	10	70	10	10	0
Cuba	81,600	21,240	17,020	20	800	42,510	10
Curacao	40	30	0	0	0	0	0
Cyprus	110	50	0	40	10	10	0
Czechia	530	330	10	160	10	10	0
Czechoslovakia (former)	60	30	0	20	0	0	0
Denmark	430	170	10	250	10	0	10
Djibouti	160	30	10	0	50	60	0
Dominica	390	260	100	20	0	0	0
Dominican Republic	68,870	28,100	40,180	370	0	90	130
Ecuador	11,300	7,180	1,990	870	250	290	720
Egypt	10,190	3,710	820	1,170	2,940	1,550	10
El Salvador	26,210	12,650	4,620	3,740	0	3,390	1,810
Equatorial Guinea	60	40	0	0	0	10	0
Eritrea	1,520	390	90	30	50	960	0
Estonia	140	100	0	30	10	0	0
Eswatini	20	20	0	0	0	0	0
Ethiopia	6,510	3,210	1,240	300	790	960	10
Fiji	960	260	70	10	610	0	10
Finland	320	150	0	140	20	0	0
France	4,480	1,710	150	2,450	140	20	20
French Polynesia	20	10	0	10	0	0	0
Gabon	160	90	10	10	30	10	0
Gambia	1,080	790	60	30	50	140	10
Georgia	2,690	1,060	250	160	1,110	110	0
Germany	4,550	2,220	130	1,800	330	50	30
Ghana	6,910	5,140	250	690	740	80	20
Greece	1,020	520	60	360	60	0	10
Grenada	450	350	70	30	0	0	0
Guatemala	15,690	5,860	2,160	2,690	30	2,900	2,050
Guinea	1,540	690	40	80	500	240	10
Guinea-Bissau	50	40	0	0	10	0	0
Guyana	5,860	2,720	3,050	60	10	20	10
Haiti	15,450	11,770	3,050	220	0	380	20
Honduras	14,140	6,780	1,670	2,440	0	2,110	1,140
Hong Kong	2,290	820	600	850	10	10	0
Hungary	810	460	20	270	40	10	10
Iceland	60	40	0	20	0	0	0
India	78,070	31,790	15,140	28,570	60	1,740	790
Indonesia	1,930	1,300	90	310	70	150	20
Iran	11,450	4,030	1,860	3,300	1,610	630	20
Iraq	3,960	1,830	290	110	740	770	230
Ireland	1,340	670	20	640	10	0	10
Israel	3,650	1,750	80	1,730	40	50	10
Italy	3,470	1,600	130	1,490	120	100	20
Jamaica	21,460	14,820	5,690	820	0	80	60
Japan	4,060	2,230	80	1,550	180	0	10
Jordan	7,140	4,260	1,310	580	750	230	10
Kazakhstan	2,900	790	60	380	1,460	200	10
Kenya	5,080	2,030	160	1,260	1,350	270	20
Korea, North	20	20	0	10	0	0	0
Korea, South	15,770	5,620	490	9,570	30	10	50
Kosovo	1,040	390	180	50	350	60	10
Kuwait	1,170	460	150	290	200	90	0
Kyrgyzstan	2,680	410	50	60	1,970	190	10
Laos	730	640	40	20	10	10	0
Latvia	240	140	10	60	30	0	0
Lebanon	3,650	2,010	830	570	160	70	10
Lesotho	20	10	0	10	0	0	0
Liberia	2,590	1,120	200	10	540	720	10
Libya	920	290	40	220	300	70	0
Lithuania	530	350	20	100	70	0	0
Luxembourg	60	20	0	40	0	0	0
Macau	90	40	20	30	0	0	0
Madagascar	80	50	0	10	10	0	0
Malawi	200	110	0	50	20	20	0
Malaysia	1,700	660	80	510	40	400	20
Mali	40	20	0	0	10	0	0
Malta	540	380	10	10	50	70	10
Marshall Islands	40	20	0	10	0	0	0
Mauritania	390	110	0	0	140	140	0
Mauritius	60	40	0	20	0	0	0
Mexico	180,530	123,280	29,860	8,800	10	1,580	17,000
Micronesia, Federated States	20	10	0	0	0	0	0
Moldova	1,540	830	70	80	340	230	0
Mongolia	810	350	40	170	170	70	20
Montenegro	340	260	20	20	30	10	0
Montserrat	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
Morocco	6,170	2,320	410	170	3,260	10	10
Mozambique	70	50	0	10	0	0	0
Namibia	100	50	0	30	0	20	0
Nauru	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nepal	11,930	3,930	660	2,350	4,230	740	30
Netherlands	1,210	560	30	590	20	10	10
Netherlands Antilles (former)	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
New Zealand	720	350	30	240	90	0	10
Nicaragua	3,870	2,360	620	160	40	560	130
Niger	200	110	0	30	30	10	10
Nigeria	15,790	10,740	830	3,430	20	770	20
North Macedonia	920	500	100	80	220	10	0
Norway	310	170	10	120	10	0	0
Oman	210	50	10	120	30	0	0
Pakistan	11,110	5,820	1,960	2,460	20	700	150
Palau	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
Panama	1,010	750	110	110	0	20	10
Papua New Guinea	40	10	0	10	10	0	0
Paraguay	450	360	30	40	0	10	10
Peru	12,580	7,950	3,150	600	480	150	240
Philippines	49,200	20,640	12,030	16,250	10	20	240
Poland	3,170	1,930	190	830	190	10	30
Portugal	890	610	30	230	10	10	10
Qatar	660	100	40	270	160	30	60
Romania	1,860	1,220	60	400	130	40	10
Russia	11,570	4,860	410	2,260	3,200	830	30
Rwanda	1,850	250	60	50	810	680	0
Saint Kitts and Nevis	150	100	40	10	0	0	0
Saint Lucia	560	430	90	40	0	0	0
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	260	210	50	0	0	0	0
Samoa	170	160	10	0	0	0	0
Sao Tome and Principe	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
Saudi Arabia	3,040	890	260	950	640	280	10
Senegal	1,400	1,030	50	60	170	80	20
Serbia	690	510	0	150	10	20	0
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	540	290	60	50	120	20	10
Sierra Leone	1,870	1,250	210	30	330	60	0
Singapore	880	300	40	530	10	0	10
Sint Maarten	50	30	10	0	0	0	0
Slovakia	330	230	0	90	10	0	0
Slovenia	100	60	10	30	0	0	0
Somalia	1,230	560	90	10	240	330	0
South Africa	3,850	1,560	90	1,860	290	50	10
South Sudan	100	40	10	0	20	40	0
Soviet Union (former)	1,440	810	10	260	10	340	0
Spain	3,350	1,270	150	1,570	70	270	10
Sri Lanka	2,270	630	120	590	750	150	10
Sudan	3,340	560	130	60	2,260	330	0
Suriname	140	70	50	20	0	0	0
Sweden	820	440	30	310	20	0	10
Switzerland	620	240	10	330	20	10	0
Syria	3,680	1,660	650	220	200	930	0
Taiwan	5,300	2,180	390	2,540	170	0	30
Tajikistan	2,090	350	80	60	1,550	40	10
Tanzania	1,820	380	30	110	120	1,180	10
Thailand	5,230	3,460	180	570	470	540	20
Togo	2,100	700	340	10	960	80	0
Tonga	250	170	60	0	20	0	0
Trinidad and Tobago	2,590	1,710	530	300	20	10	30
Tunisia	660	390	20	100	150	10	0
Turkey	7,330	2,350	160	1,570	1,480	1,690	90
Turkmenistan	720	120	30	60	450	50	0
Turks and Caicos Islands	50	40	10	0	0	0	0
Uganda	1,660	520	40	150	310	640	10
Ukraine	11,250	4,880	520	1,240	2,650	1,940	30
United Arab Emirates	1,840	360	210	820	260	130	70
United Kingdom	9,720	4,860	290	4,450	50	30	40
United States	220	120	10	30	10	20	40
Uruguay	870	670	20	120	10	40	20
Uzbekistan	5,550	1,250	1,110	160	2,790	190	50
Venezuela	18,440	9,220	620	3,440	360	4,770	30
Vietnam	36,000	14,080	18,180	3,330	0	150	260
Virgin Islands, British	40	30	0	0	0	0	0
Yemen	5,580	3,680	1,040	90	660	100	0
Zambia	480	230	20	80	40	90	0
Zimbabwe	1,310	370	60	650	120	90	10
All other countries ^[1]	80	50	10	20	10	0	0
Unknown	730	430	120	50	50	60	30

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