Nonimmigrant admissions

By COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP (Person)

Frequency

Yearly

2021 (most recent) Nonimmigrant admissions in the United States By COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP:

Highest: Mexico (4,551,988)
Lowest: Palau and 1 other (3 each).

Data table

Year	Afghanistan	Albania	Algeria	Andorra	Angola	Antigua and Barbuda	Argentina	Armenia	Australia	Austria	Azerbaijan	Bahamas	Bahrain	Bangladesh	Barbados	Belarus	Belgium	Belize	Benin	Bhutan	Bolivia	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Botswana	Brazil	Brunei	Bulgaria	Burkina Faso	Burma	Burundi	Cabo Verde	Cambodia	Cameroon	Canada	Central African Republic	Chad	Chile	China, People's Republic	Colombia	Comoros	Congo, Democratic Republic	Congo, Republic	Costa Rica	Cote d'Ivoire	Croatia	Cuba	Cyprus	Czechia	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	Holy See	Honduras	Hungary	Iceland	India	Indonesia	Iran	Iraq	Ireland	Israel	Italy	Jamaica	Japan	Jordan	Kazakhstan	Kenya	Kiribati	Korea, North	Korea, South	Kosovo	Kuwait	Kyrgyzstan	Laos	Latvia	Lebanon	Lesotho	Liberia	Libya	Liechtenstein	Lithuania	Luxembourg	Madagascar	Malawi	Malaysia	Maldives	Mali	Malta	Marshall Islands	Mauritania	Mauritius	Mexico	Micronesia, Federated States	Moldova	Monaco	Mongolia	Morocco	Mozambique	Namibia	Nauru	Nepal	Netherlands	New Zealand	Nicaragua	Niger	Nigeria	North Macedonia	Norway	Oman	Pakistan	Palau	Panama	Papua New Guinea	Paraguay	Peru	Philippines	Poland	Portugal	Qatar	Romania	Russia	Rwanda	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Saint Lucia	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Samoa	San Marino	Sao Tome and Principe	Saudi Arabia	Senegal	Serbia and Montenegro (former)	Seychelles	Sierra Leone	Singapore	Slovakia	Slovenia	Solomon Islands	Somalia	South Africa	South Sudan	Spain	Sri Lanka	Sudan	Suriname	Sweden	Switzerland	Syria	Taiwan	Tajikistan	Tanzania	Thailand	Timor-Leste	Togo	Tonga	Trinidad and Tobago	Tunisia	Turkey	Turkmenistan	Tuvalu	Uganda	Ukraine	United Arab Emirates	United Kingdom	Uruguay	Uzbekistan	Vanuatu	Venezuela	Vietnam	Yemen	Zambia	Zimbabwe
2021	1,288	8,204	1,106	172	1,397	5,605	241,215	9,674	47,627	18,331	2,354	120,316	2,199	20,445	9,790	2,720	19,865	13,331	775	175	49,219	2,696	490	122,941	146	9,455	1,619	1,705	349	740	1,249	1,858	1,512,473	422	323	171,357	186,177	915,230	49	2,251	255	208,073	1,664	8,726	8,448	1,853	9,740	14,744	112	1,404	362,857	347,530	38,032	166,615	509	283	2,306	286	14,668	595	5,675	127,069	723	874	5,033	144,766	12,531	11,921	3,913	231,488	884	102	34,731	76,040	62	212,104	6,880	2,129	540,303	32,203	3,412	1,587	17,770	165,454	145,088	164,754	130,528	19,180	12,290	13,170	34	14	168,257	2,089	16,642	2,177	68	3,299	15,239	122	739	416	136	4,124	861	292	614	8,096	179	1,587	817	23	343	1,111	4,551,988	24	4,626	147	3,278	10,827	444	680	8	16,141	71,434	12,987	34,943	415	41,325	3,073	11,261	3,532	48,462	3	75,465	142	29,016	322,114	113,585	24,492	18,375	8,682	24,788	80,961	2,733	2,111	5,771	3,421	514	47	11	42,012	4,706		73	1,235	11,164	4,090	2,736	21	144	29,047	178	185,244	4,994	959	3,235	19,180	29,885	881	49,729	599	1,695	21,097	50	830	108	16,410	3,794	63,489	105	3	2,758	49,873	13,535	212,084	21,390	1,414	16	204,910	12,490	809	1,243	2,700
2020	1,755	11,192	6,140	659	2,737	7,762	369,659	9,999	607,868	92,756	3,965	143,531	2,884	18,986	28,150	11,650	123,859	13,736	1,426	501	34,008	5,154	1,294	1,079,508	599	21,219	1,898	5,279	613	1,388	3,193	4,791	6,737,778	419	384	207,111	1,051,690	466,993	54	3,466	543	190,017	4,075	19,261	22,151	5,116	58,407	138,917	171	2,427	266,300	222,479	50,734	109,574	740	571	14,641	508	10,879	4,929	79,197	966,849	1,050	1,040	5,972	941,831	14,225	53,121	5,690	162,755	1,389	104	22,735	68,221	67	119,460	54,851	29,004	1,059,774	69,960	2,671	8,201	270,763	210,114	563,266	165,277	1,731,801	20,864	14,553	18,136	250	31	1,120,013	2,602	21,513	2,579	951	13,637	20,367	227	1,403	400	785	21,326	5,852	952	1,218	43,914	282	1,986	3,694	90	657	3,614	11,004,919	139	5,330	537	8,316	17,261	1,164	1,196	54	17,455	355,983	137,102	37,769	724	64,728	5,058	110,891	5,570	56,729	47	85,466	465	14,155	182,868	235,866	128,063	97,082	6,649	55,284	145,050	3,067	5,679	8,121	5,741	1,360	311	22	52,729	5,096	6,474	178	1,334	77,300	26,035	15,586	136	80	80,683	217	507,711	10,748	1,844	5,207	228,446	164,729	1,471	213,759	860	3,251	46,974	107	1,347	1,585	87,671	6,598	95,838	574	71	5,785	68,249	15,180	2,169,835	30,180	3,555	98	187,870	53,565	773	2,312	5,327
2019	3,200	21,457	16,063	1,765	7,730	17,806	926,594	16,956	1,524,305	235,194	9,418	310,405	7,506	45,080	69,585	25,270	330,226	33,515	3,092	1,244	81,073	10,995	3,237	2,417,221	1,523	47,275	5,356	12,679	1,608	4,663	7,787	11,992	13,926,155	440	1,085	471,793	3,256,187	1,108,458	168	9,724	1,617	363,877	9,968	39,935	64,510	13,396	147,310	349,665	391	6,652	516,384	480,255	105,571	245,090	1,854	1,193	29,673	1,483	25,594	11,943	167,146	2,336,381	2,476	2,384	13,272	2,328,365	38,328	111,782	14,451	321,061	3,578	273	62,224	140,909	129	242,057	127,016	71,403	2,316,025	154,598	5,843	17,668	644,352	466,595	1,479,146	376,270	3,916,108	52,060	33,346	43,509	768	87	2,352,342	5,253	56,461	5,016	2,532	28,278	48,458	718	4,341	842	2,035	48,848	16,351	2,387	3,262	108,764	521	4,665	9,339	261	1,725	8,484	21,412,174	398	10,088	1,234	18,769	39,723	2,676	2,690	162	39,690	893,210	371,055	78,385	1,822	181,000	12,236	291,979	10,738	124,207	164	177,548	1,393	34,900	371,948	514,858	276,937	229,025	16,722	126,038	301,321	7,908	14,366	20,787	13,529	3,006	775	75	167,228	11,708	18,541	472	3,603	178,159	69,661	34,132	318	154	167,393	668	1,256,743	28,436	4,468	14,487	517,617	427,963	3,746	539,980	2,100	8,405	130,777	279	3,338	3,717	210,051	15,308	202,923	1,355	183	15,022	129,987	40,066	5,305,437	85,122	10,929	230	496,123	143,700	1,530	5,597	13,346
2018	3,379	20,713	15,224	1,949	8,864	16,873	1,146,405	14,272	1,563,991	233,473	9,007	295,093	8,614	45,351	69,433	24,229	335,312	32,649	3,243	1,229	77,165	11,315	3,185	2,529,813	1,589	45,327	5,227	11,549	1,475	4,913	6,838	14,405	13,704,855	438	918	454,757	3,420,805	1,055,609	180	9,620	1,761	335,957	9,549	37,646	77,715	12,809	141,599	371,310	442	6,293	486,495	466,436	101,379	225,133	1,817	1,634	28,019	1,329	25,986	12,345	168,023	2,236,217	2,548	2,311	12,191	2,381,702	34,295	108,897	13,253	307,313	3,522	273	65,299	146,325	150	236,927	113,979	76,784	2,223,163	153,099	9,582	16,991	630,939	503,918	1,456,866	370,408	3,809,830	53,203	32,853	39,708	886	77	2,541,826	5,085	60,044	4,955	2,463	27,227	48,455	723	4,368	915	2,108	45,709	15,694	2,131	3,377	108,370	490	4,787	8,136	194	1,120	7,637	21,182,686	370	10,340	1,157	16,202	35,248	2,803	2,749	153	36,733	890,570	376,671	80,186	1,909	221,819	12,307	306,062	10,866	129,736	171	163,848	1,022	36,127	347,186	498,980	265,052	226,500	16,779	117,798	290,901	6,963	12,936	18,814	12,374	2,800	807	94	182,445	10,438	20,031	498	3,527	166,194	63,839	30,969	318	240	168,289	641	1,213,431	30,584	4,663	13,178	582,603	445,323	6,349	539,788	2,196	8,535	127,783	212	3,129	3,453	191,501	14,624	205,199	1,575	189	14,693	129,239	39,231	5,162,089	90,563	12,628	233	546,021	137,360	1,868	5,928	12,396
2017	3,581	17,056	15,242	1,720	9,603	15,893	1,129,997	13,774	1,576,901	237,611	9,104	304,752	8,767	40,120	69,318	22,589	325,897	31,340	3,330	1,156	76,933	11,020	3,105	2,147,412	1,479	43,815	6,002	11,502	2,106	5,317	5,947	15,676	13,028,998	385	1,195	423,098	3,383,133	994,978	206	8,343	1,785	319,831	9,223	35,078	72,363	12,465	136,282	377,327	1,486	6,696	458,203	445,969	96,715	209,730	1,617	3,755	28,544	562	25,110	12,343	175,076	2,099,450	2,862	2,108	5,617	2,409,465	28,824	101,625	13,012	302,128	3,939	328	73,818	154,981	162	231,029	108,588	70,124	2,055,480	144,790	21,892	19,123	575,551	481,255	1,384,255	352,461	3,975,012	52,240	31,769	35,876	1,007	69	2,510,988	5,403	61,578	1,943	2,760	27,205	48,860	680	4,580	1,481	2,183	28,461	14,395	1,975	3,356	101,047	659	4,653	7,319	201	1,403	7,026	19,326,562	181	11,561	1,249	15,380	36,968	2,546	2,739	128	39,062	853,332	371,173	77,049	2,054	215,801	11,979	319,594	10,331	124,800	91	162,076	1,122	32,283	342,442	485,524	242,920	204,627	16,352	108,786	344,368	5,883	13,101	18,635	12,368	2,459	751	99	190,983	11,287	35,279	465	3,878	161,433	61,425	29,360	335	321	155,696	495	1,143,548	31,478	4,425	13,624	607,993	459,938	9,954	524,357	2,394	8,074	124,577	238	3,120	4,276	195,355	14,633	220,195	1,791	168	12,914	130,093	36,630	5,076,167	85,291	14,049	245	583,196	134,687	3,839	6,071	11,791
2016	4,519	12,883	14,427	1,638	10,281	17,540	986,574	10,701	1,529,052	240,182	8,577	276,734	9,663	44,211	68,630	21,673	319,549	31,564	3,420	1,069	74,813	10,355	2,904	1,991,441	1,675	44,935	7,473	9,541	1,678	5,636	5,710	15,009	13,019,782	355	1,142	403,463	3,280,179	953,931	187	8,402	1,813	306,551	9,367	34,022	52,784	11,491	122,423	365,671	875	7,313	397,784	433,038	111,226	214,681	1,620	3,681	27,323	1,080	23,881	13,043	178,710	2,068,940	3,111	2,230	9,617	2,367,813	28,995	96,967	12,824	290,019	3,791	252	71,203	161,877	128	220,021	99,880	60,879	1,988,420	134,536	31,805	21,116	543,054	465,738	1,357,516	351,792	3,987,687	54,551	27,057	31,400	944	120	2,197,905	5,595	77,167	3,482	2,138	24,768	51,830	716	4,559	2,138	2,254	33,528	15,519	1,993	3,198	102,778	453	4,664	6,936	180	1,922	6,967	19,767,022	175	12,954	1,373	15,447	38,333	2,728	2,524	187	36,526	820,312	353,615	79,704	1,953	216,111	10,818	303,526	11,430	137,567	137	173,906	1,507	33,663	344,978	451,332	230,781	193,066	19,961	103,562	317,538	6,174	13,011	19,565	12,639	2,576	768	89	264,698	11,320	41,320	529	3,303	160,186	58,577	28,326	506	441	150,967	487	1,116,186	29,591	6,409	13,259	622,710	478,886	13,575	515,978	2,307	8,683	122,840	244	3,044	4,497	197,990	15,169	243,688	1,614	203	11,536	127,667	41,204	5,210,880	87,420	12,414	266	645,928	121,336	5,679	5,430	10,918
2015	4,334	9,992	13,623	1,344	13,787	15,022	806,698	8,654	1,499,354	235,601	8,419	249,276	9,313	43,938	62,214	17,486	327,654	28,160	3,473	1,215	65,089	9,699	2,914	2,505,525	1,880	43,247	6,432	7,583	1,772	4,451	3,756	13,070	13,408,292	342	1,176	354,366	2,935,175	990,683	197	7,321	1,969	241,739	8,276	32,189	52,215	10,282	116,177	364,769	546	7,087	338,009	384,373	104,049	173,145	1,687	3,094	24,103	1,145	18,967	13,442	171,655	2,075,668	3,079	2,310	11,110	2,381,765	27,965	88,012	12,484	256,875	3,223	295	56,719	136,804	144	183,851	92,587	56,149	1,898,327	137,940	35,266	21,381	524,500	458,225	1,319,429	304,611	4,021,857	53,559	29,519	29,008	953	99	1,946,887	5,663	73,943	3,609	2,294	23,963	51,894	593	5,360	2,879	2,350	32,932	15,748	1,750	3,219	105,570	564	4,219	6,434	200	2,083	6,825	20,378,001	159	12,600	1,311	14,808	37,058	2,807	2,565	115	30,019	801,610	336,645	69,935	1,759	214,519	10,321	336,555	11,419	119,644	160	162,027	1,939	32,942	320,007	420,917	217,453	190,056	20,194	96,349	323,435	5,065	12,950	17,859	12,562	2,413	912	106	306,182	10,796	40,528	508	3,288	163,668	55,113	27,977	307	359	153,290	541	1,052,251	27,954	4,792	14,971	623,935	484,475	16,010	487,570	1,999	9,677	116,992	232	2,671	3,417	189,641	13,523	226,665	1,691	167	11,222	118,352	40,507	4,968,049	81,603	11,988	236	643,784	114,572	5,549	5,627	10,754
2014	4,150	8,746	12,465	1,611	14,715	14,834	768,469	8,232	1,480,176	247,122	7,347	240,451	8,849	43,560	61,052	16,166	334,279	26,577	3,266	1,034	55,100	9,380	2,623	2,390,245	2,106	43,059	5,267	6,554	1,732	4,544	4,752	11,673	13,254,972	374	1,190	279,754	2,555,896	985,073	247	6,973	2,324	228,996	7,742	29,808	43,737	10,582	115,080	351,910	608	7,060	304,683	337,494	99,716	138,329	2,057	2,583	24,733	1,129	18,276	14,977	173,365	2,115,351	2,971	2,695	9,102	2,448,591	29,460	89,425	10,872	252,586	3,250	285	43,549	124,841	136	176,636	91,102	56,250	1,720,729	133,013	33,303	23,858	518,282	400,169	1,366,572	265,740	4,199,152	44,886	26,066	27,425	762	84	1,780,662	5,204	64,754	4,128	2,578	23,871	50,632	639	5,152	4,120	2,330	31,612	16,260	1,699	2,547	108,926	559	4,331	6,751	261	1,953	7,095	20,002,936	130	12,939	1,210	14,013	34,910	2,729	2,447	110	23,387	814,560	318,692	65,866	1,566	197,750	9,855	345,156	10,717	102,953	90	153,115	1,438	31,410	292,752	404,566	207,179	194,054	18,740	94,041	413,011	5,039	12,449	16,922	12,371	2,137	787	120	291,715	11,390	7,336	480	3,547	168,686	54,303	26,152	342	343	148,243	528	1,044,430	26,816	4,474	13,316	614,592	494,892	17,187	484,849	1,836	8,665	120,540	226	2,560	2,561	174,506	13,467	214,958	1,777	182	10,308	100,877	38,542	4,814,079	80,666	10,000	208	774,782	93,986	5,896	5,441	10,048
2013	2,837	7,889	9,558	1,271	12,617	15,151	744,864	7,431	1,453,814	237,429	7,162	244,650	7,341	30,314	58,558	14,211	315,611	25,327	2,821	633	50,838	7,465	2,381	2,143,154	2,022	40,029	3,928	4,967	1,740	3,140	4,898	9,639	4,445,881	189	550	245,792	2,098,801	830,891	158	3,861	2,859	207,840	5,219	26,905	34,615	8,699	100,056	324,608	338	6,783	280,563	268,332	89,578	119,572	1,197	1,528	20,942	863	16,884	13,996	161,020	1,959,424	2,792	2,551	6,628	2,359,681	27,822	81,400	10,674	224,006	2,777	126	39,412	108,382	130	157,751	81,213	55,202	1,491,712	123,583	26,144	17,077	487,428	381,206	1,205,816	233,430	4,298,081	38,867	22,422	22,105	654	59	1,656,795		48,784	4,584	2,556	22,330	42,775	524	4,152	4,016	2,234	27,854	15,785	1,265	2,359	102,605	420	3,806	6,379	176	1,303	5,892	17,980,784	209	12,604	1,194	11,819	30,618	2,278	2,165	85	19,419	781,198	295,210	59,296	1,583	157,509	9,436	320,842	7,794	78,246	136	143,365	1,301	27,498	261,827	358,961	168,854	174,757	15,894	82,238	364,116	4,074	11,559	15,959	12,204	2,021	745	77	232,782	10,518	3,376	429	3,188	162,922	49,173	22,977	411	215	135,400		934,322	23,015	3,196	12,618	551,820	472,914	15,004	444,046	1,709	7,635	109,761	34	2,186	2,202	164,705	11,287	192,113	1,345	151	9,398	87,913	28,897	4,566,669	70,535	9,930	203	815,797	73,913	3,904	4,887	8,738
2012	2,772	7,942	8,402	1,176	10,592	16,958	646,929	6,135	1,331,669	232,276	6,464	251,759	6,181	22,629	59,032	13,715	310,111	24,184	3,056	662	44,658	6,843	2,580	1,792,425	1,747	39,100	3,682	3,983	1,424	1,520	3,628	9,495	1,466,120	202	436	209,144	1,756,747	669,392	123	1,430	4,198	197,136	2,661	26,452	21,197	9,789	95,229	327,854	416	5,528	276,562	230,644	84,287	114,001	641	854	18,868	664	15,336	13,084	154,994	1,913,551	2,546	2,468	6,128	2,308,207	27,405	79,010	11,163	216,670	2,780	64	34,970	98,865	118	152,168	75,947	56,114	1,296,276	111,496	24,290	12,215	452,312	366,779	1,192,251	223,785	4,141,299	35,620	21,249	20,331	694	24	1,527,085		40,912	3,740	1,315	20,748	36,527	532	3,290	2,933	2,255	27,337	15,519	1,145	2,280	97,410	368	3,370	6,301	148	1,086	5,632	16,462,118	258	11,293	1,270	10,399	27,765	1,764	2,249	120	18,475	785,029	266,494	56,380	1,312	121,177	9,520	300,258	5,729	69,222	282	132,615	1,020	20,825	231,103	327,757	149,046	164,200	12,210	76,255	299,911	4,168	11,734	16,767	12,745	1,812	765	45	193,462	9,824	173	365	3,059	161,576	46,597	24,803	344	252	127,973		882,313	21,072	3,663	10,642	520,762	484,359	10,934	313,837	1,975	7,731	98,172	0	2,003	2,016	169,251	9,556	175,933	1,171	198	8,926	82,565	23,110	4,486,666	59,590	7,694	198	700,840	63,383	3,179	4,585	8,906

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Source	Immigration Yearbook
Last updated at USAFacts	August 28, 2023
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