Noncitizen apprehensions

By country of nationality (persons)

2021 (most recent) noncitizen apprehensions in the United States by country of nationality:

Highest: Mexico (695,582)
Lowest: Czechoslovakia (former) and 1 other (0 each).

Data table

Year	Afghanistan	Albania	Algeria	Angola	Antigua and Barbuda	Argentina	Armenia	Australia	Austria	Azerbaijan	Bahamas	Bahrain	Bangladesh	Barbados	Belarus	Belgium	Belize	Benin	Bhutan	Bolivia	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Botswana	Brazil	Bulgaria	Burkina Faso	Burma	Burundi	Cabo Verde	Cambodia	Cameroon	Canada	Central African Republic	Chad	Chile	China, People's Republic	Colombia	Congo, Democratic Republic	Congo, Republic	Costa Rica	Cote d'Ivoire	Croatia	Cuba	Cyprus	Czechia	Czechoslovakia (former)	Denmark	Djibouti	Dominica	Dominican Republic	Ecuador	Egypt	El Salvador	Equatorial Guinea	Eritrea	Estonia	Eswatini	Ethiopia	Fiji	Finland	France	Gabon	Gambia	Georgia	Germany	Ghana	Greece	Grenada	Guatemala	Guinea	Guinea-Bissau	Guyana	Haiti	Honduras	Hungary	Iceland	India	Indonesia	Iran	Iraq	Ireland	Israel	Italy	Jamaica	Japan	Jordan	Kazakhstan	Kenya	Korea, South	Kosovo	Kuwait	Kyrgyzstan	Laos	Latvia	Lebanon	Liberia	Libya	Lithuania	Madagascar	Malawi	Malaysia	Mali	Malta	Marshall Islands	Mauritania	Mauritius	Mexico	Micronesia, Federated States	Moldova	Mongolia	Montenegro	Morocco	Namibia	Nepal	Netherlands	New Zealand	Nicaragua	Niger	Nigeria	North Macedonia	Norway	Oman	Pakistan	Palau	Panama	Paraguay	Peru	Philippines	Poland	Portugal	Qatar	Romania	Russia	Rwanda	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Saint Lucia	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Samoa	Saudi Arabia	Senegal	Serbia	Serbia and Montenegro (former)	Sierra Leone	Singapore	Slovakia	Slovenia	Somalia	South Africa	Soviet Union (former)	Spain	Sri Lanka	Sudan	Suriname	Sweden	Switzerland	Syria	Taiwan	Tajikistan	Tanzania	Thailand	Togo	Tonga	Trinidad and Tobago	Tunisia	Turkey	Turkmenistan	Uganda	Ukraine	United Arab Emirates	United Kingdom	Uruguay	Uzbekistan	Venezuela	Vietnam	Yemen	Zambia	Zimbabwe	All other countries
2021	145	68	506	258	18	724	914	127	28	38	637	8	1,097	18	442	37	400	86	15	306	38	4	58,151	41	223	46	20	28	39	509	9,454	11	19	7,933	1,468	10,381	408	180	780	167	27	40,549		53	0	19	8	27	3,934	102,575	206	104,586	16	129	17	4	129	11	11	581	5	36	275	243	590	48	13	293,954	273	13	275	50,608	331,397	61	5	4,816	112	427	102	122	267	473	2,131	296	236	91	231	775	31	18	74	75	21	160	103	22	53	23	6	17	145		15	101	21	695,582	49	68	48	14	379	6	478	229	50	52,633	52	554	19	21	6	487	6	615	107	4,053	791	143	134	4	4,596	4,336	92	8	36	25	11	90	753	46	18	145	12	36	13	154	99	0	927	123	74	6	51	33	100	442	43	26	257	135	11	104	330	1,638	3	40	832	12	525	208	739	52,590	293	64	12	33	20
2020	63	118	218	531	20	423	214	394	38	30	271		795	17	38	65	169	36	14	135	84	8	9,228	53	62	88	23	54	110	1,307	8,693	12	11	1,345	3,871	2,970	574	143	395	79	26	15,048	7	88		54	3	30	3,056	13,808	301	23,887	25	268	24		132	42	18	554	17	66	127	392	520	84	24	62,848	147	8	276	6,316	52,920	165	4	3,413	247	439	180	341	324	661	1,902	353	414	142	274	1,078	41	55	53	145	57	184	153	24	84	7	4	39	62		47	87	8	362,105	70	67	72	36	153		217	187	138	3,123	26	832	24	41	6	557	11	131	66	1,120	787	393	205	6	774	885	45	13	42	22	24	155	120	42	46	90	37	50	5	157	122	9	1,094	296	175	9	104	58	151	385	27	38	202	56	46	163	89	385		88	327	19	930	60	302	4,265	717	66	38	26	23
2019	108	168	96	514	26	469	475	538	68	57	498	11	1,481	60	94	132	385	37	33	227	111	5	22,198	70	63	91	33	78	192	2,170	12,098	16	18	1,171	6,109	4,705	1,497	323	543	98	43	36,082	8	183		62	4	47	3,836	15,451	359	102,484	22	387	37		134	70	53	928	25	137	412	617	538	191	30	292,022	193	10	502	4,148	276,805	248	14	10,834	243	756	298	706	424	1,002	2,105	403	583	195	396	1,089	47	90	89	172	70	156	222	38	136		4	59	123	6	44	107	17	312,130	101	85	93	59	154	6	445	338	190	15,641	38	1,733	52	77	10	772	29	193	61	1,822	1,077	433	387	20	1,146	1,422	63	16	48	27	33	374	158	86	52	142	44	85	24	173	209	18	1,700	563	177	15	208	102	176	663	37	45	367	61	67	273	88	766	40	180	626	34	1,696	133	727	10,465	1,292	103	49	63	27
2018	133	225	155	215	33	338	709	533	70	90	476	10	1,615	50	76	174	293	60	26	231	117	8	8,555	97	114	97	38	104	354	841	15,719	12	24	698	5,371	4,066	413	139	556	165	69	10,065	12	219	6	64	11	48	3,581	3,277	476	47,993	26	593	55	4	180	87	49	1,523	35	153	124	655	486	202	33	153,814	256	8	433	1,478	103,533	306	16	12,722	237	1,000	335	578	610	945	2,018	342	667	153	410	1,205	63	95	198	191	58	247	264	62	147	17	23	69	120	3	58	115	19	307,535	129	101	115	51	262	11	844	341	186	4,547	35	2,766	56	90	5	1,012	8	174	55	1,631	1,327	468	438	17	1,736	1,137	63	34	69	52	49	499	203	68	60	133	50	117	35	328	190	24	1,624	331	278	34	192	107	283	460	42	59	318	60	44	281	178	654	41	113	643	38	1,783	100	595	4,210	993	155	51	73	23
2017	183	230	128	131	41	367	538	628	68	51	375	24	987	45	70	127	270	37	30	225	141	8	6,643	92	59	87	53	90	143	600	19,396	6	38	689	6,356	3,491	296	104	469	76	53	5,076	9	178	6	72	37	33	3,496	3,308	463	67,500	22	710	57	3	208	103	37	862	31	187	103	660	479	192	30	93,519	381	8	345	10,793	67,225	380	7	5,690	244	850	738	301	400	906	1,993	442	731	89	295	1,140	67	106	88	225	77	206	273	46	123	4	20	62	110	4	39	38	17	264,716	140	129	134	52	212	7	733	316	203	2,005	22	2,257	53	83	14	1,044	20	170	43	1,415	1,060	522	328	31	1,753	653	35	49	57	38	30	680	197	81	121	128	50	100	26	528	193	35	1,359	179	225	37	195	99	466	547	22	51	269	82	63	304	97	463	68	68	560	35	1,455	117	171	2,383	855	526	66	61	37
2016	179	219	193	45	39	246	593	534	44	41	318	13	1,052	46	51	103	299	31	22	192	135	16	6,112	86	139	79	31	49	221	603	19,284	8	24	522	5,685	3,256	151	48	430	80	37	3,739	9	129	6	54	7	31	3,708	4,222	347	88,097	10	386	44		235	105	32	737	11	156	93	510	890	172	32	97,967	245	6	273	7,840	68,778	201	15	6,455	181	703	472	204	297	654	2,012	334	525	67	282	1,001	34	97	26	203	53	206	184	52	87	6	14	48	87	3	41	32	17	325,348	100	73	85	21	274		795	250	122	2,086	26	1,582	44	59	10	1,061	25	167	37	1,424	897	438	304	21	2,870	450	36	18	45	38	37	705	352	55	56	81	45	72	12	590	163	23	953	134	150	11	158	69	334	396	21	54	214	82	55	278	157	335	52	42	554	29	1,278	72	82	1,333	654	83	35	50	28
2015	140	160	88	50	37	280	377	516	51	25	664	11	1,327	60	39	89	254	51	24	166	157	5	2,877	85	85	71	32	59	157	335	23,479	5	20	420	4,725	2,807	125	29	378	90	50	3,014	16	177	7	60	9	41	3,788	3,995	360	53,336	8	304	44	10	344	69	34	674	14	55	75	531	855	194	49	73,111	121	6	310	1,907	45,228	268	10	4,682	153	787	485	173	509	769	2,120	424	736	80	487	1,320	26	106	46	204	132	262	174	64	115	3	14	62	78	3	38	30	9	330,921	90	118	103	29	188	8	614	317	134	1,900	31	1,830	52	50	12	887	17	190	37	1,256	1,018	605	358	25	777	495	48	39	66	34	16	864	156	65	61	86	61	86	31	1,002	218	19	1,191	220	148	14	163	97	294	492	41	77	218	46	46	305	59	343	53	39	532	38	1,513	70	96	683	720	120	29	53	13
2014	137	481	80	62	55	348	254	480	49	58	770	15	981	82	43	132	346	38	12	265	162	7	2,353	113	55	87	39	59	164	375	24,436	10	36	302	5,171	2,568	99	52	532	90	64	3,724	12	171	12	67	5	52	4,634	6,640	425	81,651	10	239	45	5	450	84	31	815	22	92	77	601	556	226	55	101,695	130	4	335	2,796	112,530	290	19	3,921	173	933	439	213	581	795	2,505	442	518	111	499	1,458	28	62	77	344	122	278	246	67	130	10	20	87	125	5	74	45	17	405,844	107	111	105	20	259	7	595	361	139	3,228	48	1,538	48	66	9	753	28	189	41	1,952	1,390	548	408	22	1,244	511	59	45	74	59	23	684	201	36	105	133	60	110	27	499	179	64	1,200	198	209	14	157	96	312	453	39	158	329	50	58	462	80	367	32	63	389	45	1,657	122	163	640	882	116	41	68	29
2013	140	504	69	64	55	373	194	502	74	50	794	8	506	90	58	138	397	36	7	292	204	7	2,416	113	41	61	52	82	225	434	25,236	18	17	217	4,060	3,007	87	63	585	113	63	15,432	10	220	15	66		71	5,201	6,032	432	52,389	4	180	56	3	386	117	43	788	18	132	79	733	578	168	66	75,041	144		406	3,435	65,965	307	17	5,557	225	731	418	294	561	840	2,771	438	392	96	422	1,562	22	76	95	577	118	268	259	32	131	4	12	86	105	13	39	70	18	472,720	123	137	106	19	263	3	505	376	137	2,968	43	1,311	53	71	4	647	26	311	55	2,054	1,571	633	463	22	1,070	572	75	65	90	66	43	622	243	58	119	173	74	100	20	475	197	91	2,140	227	248	18	207	108	476	470	36	104	381	42	59	567	58	371	13	81	453	28	1,977	164	142	679	1,077	112	42	72	33
2012	178	343	110	43	96	441	281	427	76	50	720	12	388	141	77	128	432	30	8	365	236	14	3,099	177	51	80	49	139	291	280	28,699	10	11	279	4,142	2,965	87	93	726	139	66	16,117	20	253	20	87	11	79	5,923	4,721	453	39,856	13	225	64	4	343	130	56	821	18	150	74	796	563	191	59	59,068	175	3	499	2,838	51,871	344	26	3,032	299	754	409	288	621	915	3,351	403	472	146	582	1,626	22	50	46	784	88	260	372	56	185	11	22	104	130	9	36	77	12	519,852	122	151	142	33	262	4	308	362	140	2,746	59	1,205	70	86	4	779	36	297	58	1,956	1,700	912	562	8	1,445	694	46	71	97	67	41	503	224	38	122	193	69	141	23	494	216	117	1,769	338	306	21	172	136	206	263	61	114	430	62	96	692	62	441	14	83	566	26	2,212	174	152	852	1,593	124	61	85	36

Sources

Agency	The Department of Homeland Security
Source	Immigration Yearbook
Last updated at USAFacts	May 23, 2023
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