Persons obtaining lawful permanent resident status

By country of birth (persons)

2021 (most recent) persons obtaining lawful permanent resident status in the United States by country of birth:

Highest: Mexico (107,230)
Lowest: Comoros and 1 other (4 each).

Data table

Year	Afghanistan	Albania	Algeria	Angola	Anguilla	Antigua and Barbuda	Argentina	Armenia	Aruba	Australia	Austria	Azerbaijan	Bahamas	Bahrain	Bangladesh	Barbados	Belarus	Belgium	Belize	Benin	Bermuda	Bhutan	Bolivia	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Botswana	Brazil	Brunei	Bulgaria	Burkina Faso	Burma	Burundi	Cabo Verde	Cambodia	Cameroon	Canada	Cayman Islands	Central African Republic	Chad	Chile	China, People's Republic	Colombia	Comoros	Congo, Democratic Republic	Congo, Republic	Costa Rica	Cote d'Ivoire	Croatia	Cuba	Curacao	Cyprus	Czechia	Czechoslovakia (former)	Denmark	Djibouti	Dominica	Dominican Republic	Ecuador	Egypt	El Salvador	Equatorial Guinea	Eritrea	Estonia	Eswatini	Ethiopia	Fiji	Finland	France	French Polynesia	Gabon	Gambia	Georgia	Germany	Ghana	Greece	Grenada	Guatemala	Guinea	Guinea-Bissau	Guyana	Haiti	Honduras	Hong Kong	Hungary	Iceland	India	Indonesia	Iran	Iraq	Ireland	Israel	Italy	Jamaica	Japan	Jordan	Kazakhstan	Kenya	Korea, North	Korea, South	Kosovo	Kuwait	Kyrgyzstan	Laos	Latvia	Lebanon	Lesotho	Liberia	Libya	Lithuania	Luxembourg	Macau	Madagascar	Malawi	Malaysia	Maldives	Mali	Malta	Marshall Islands	Mauritania	Mauritius	Mexico	Micronesia, Federated States	Moldova	Monaco	Mongolia	Montenegro	Montserrat	Morocco	Mozambique	Namibia	Nepal	Netherlands	Netherlands Antilles (former)	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	Sao Tome and Principe	Saudi Arabia	Senegal	Serbia	Serbia and Montenegro (former)	Seychelles	Sierra Leone	Singapore	Sint Maarten	Slovakia	Slovenia	Somalia	South Africa	South Sudan	Soviet Union (former)	Spain	Sri Lanka	Sudan	Suriname	Sweden	Switzerland	Syria	Taiwan	Tajikistan	Tanzania	Thailand	Togo	Tonga	Trinidad and Tobago	Tunisia	Turkey	Turkmenistan	Turks and Caicos Islands	Uganda	Ukraine	United Arab Emirates	United Kingdom	United States	Uruguay	Uzbekistan	Venezuela	Vietnam	Virgin Islands, British	Yemen	Zambia	Zimbabwe	All other countries
2021	9,488	2,612	1,898	208	11	201	3,248	1,833	28	2,682	359	545	997	151	6,405	269	1,435	601	670	467	71	137	1,121	478	58	18,351	24	1,000	551	2,143	730	941	1,762	3,578	9,978	58	151	100	1,632	49,847	15,293	4	3,906	219	1,991	1,207	294	23,077	29	102	496	48	322	111	279	24,553	7,532	4,396	18,668	29	1,304	140	28	3,706	419	324	4,107	12	123	778	1,239	3,900	3,939	842	370	8,904	745	23	3,435	11,456	10,116	1,334	730	83	93,450	1,588	5,734	1,726	1,364	3,103	3,069	13,357	3,960	3,416	1,330	3,088	20	12,351	562	916	710	349	258	2,253	14	2,504	409	487	32	46	84	167	1,605	4	378	23	12	144	65	107,230	10	1,052	7	762	266	13	3,819	48	75	7,309	1,009	14	665	4,220	182	13,100	745	226	154	9,691	10	844	20	356	5,044	27,511	2,970	750	323	1,846	5,525	784	113	457	228	130		1,780	962	810	403		1,227	799	24	311	87	961	2,716	69	1,082	2,644	1,232	871	117	788	614	1,748	4,246	538	1,438	4,037	1,143	171	1,852	514	4,465	161	53	1,146	7,578	1,332	9,229	256	830	990	14,412	16,312	39	4,345	361	737	38
2020	11,407	3,508	1,581	181	11	190	2,970	2,145	22	2,523	311	814	614	127	9,272	226	1,723	629	475	450	67	1,091	976	477	43	16,746	11	1,118	465	4,000	1,099	995	1,593	2,842	9,526	50	148	111	1,520	41,483	11,989	4	7,522	308	1,658	1,049	241	16,367	31	105	454	69	405	84	287	30,005	6,157	6,164	17,907	27	1,881	126	25	6,280	425	317	4,053	15	86	664	1,179	3,913	4,627	945	307	7,815	858	27	3,027	9,338	8,277	1,783	761	81	46,363	1,428	8,805	2,266	1,466	3,687	3,184	12,826	3,905	3,063	1,307	4,026	28	16,244	678	768	594	486	224	2,120	14	1,674	514	475	20	64	84	197	1,898	4	389	44	12	134	68	100,325	15	1,367	8	543	303	12	2,866	60	90	7,847	962	7	607	2,570	139	12,398	590	248	118	10,474	8	601	19	256	5,626	25,491	3,341	679	215	1,994	7,967	1,084	106	463	196	154	4	1,854	999	1,077	149	4	713	807	21	343	76	2,024	2,733	117	1,070	2,620	1,463	1,867	117	835	592	3,176	4,759	523	2,312	4,177	1,276	202	1,718	463	4,359	250	33	1,802	9,886	1,251	9,655	187	699	1,347	12,136	29,995	29	5,908	401	674	35
2019	10,136	5,366	2,299	226	14	323	3,925	3,101	52	3,205	437	1,169	922	183	15,176	338	2,263	714	806	619	84	1,441	1,525	637	61	19,825	23	1,759	646	5,024	781	1,852	2,748	4,369	11,388	53	231	224	1,762	62,248	19,841	10	8,999	476	2,348	1,589	360	41,641	53	111	714	0	416	151	511	49,911	11,083	9,479	27,656	30	2,385	193	32	9,060	734	497	4,787	25	148	1,378	1,691	4,848	8,526	1,350	554	13,453	1,579	51	5,385	17,253	15,901	2,021	1,070	70	54,495	1,899	6,640	6,514	1,760	4,304	3,822	21,689	4,503	4,998	1,533	7,052	29	18,479	1,020	1,201	881	850	319	2,605	22	3,495	511	750	42	99	75	213	2,303	8	586	47	22	230	95	156,052	21	1,935	7	765	376	24	3,721	77	98	10,201	1,274	21	844	3,818	201	15,888	1,079	329	148	13,921	14	1,059	24	452	10,049	45,920	4,700	940	287	2,616	9,822	1,509	238	726	403	195	12	2,514	1,665	1,532	139	6	1,443	818	37	422	119	3,752	3,174	191	1,227	3,115	1,689	2,949	172	1,018	595	5,967	5,801	1,158	3,142	5,551	1,546	256	3,150	510	5,713	330	56	2,560	11,762	1,586	11,337	262	1,109	2,550	15,720	39,712	58	3,717	511	758	40
2018	12,935	5,049	2,123	176	23	325	3,080	3,217	45	2,693	401	1,015	759	143	15,717	318	1,951	537	632	573	65	2,350	1,523	682	72	15,394	29	1,798	525	8,182	762	1,929	3,187	4,236	9,898	47	304	251	1,519	65,214	17,545	8	9,941	580	2,171	1,375	286	76,486	56	120	534	51	353	281	492	57,413	11,472	9,826	28,326	17	2,428	151	18	12,403	730	442	4,276	10	112	1,023	1,643	4,443	8,394	1,214	501	15,638	1,282	27	5,165	21,360	13,794	2,075	917	89	59,821	1,756	10,116	14,351	1,401	3,706	3,329	20,347	4,317	5,322	1,378	7,190	41	17,676	886	1,090	908	863	356	2,581	12	3,101	499	658	30	91	79	257	3,051	4	488	58	23	212	67	161,858	19	2,206	13	636	299	20	3,077	100	75	11,953	998	7	719	3,061	93	13,952	1,082	284	110	15,802	7	897	27	389	9,878	47,258	4,357	889	236	2,448	8,621	1,620	250	696	333	179	9	2,100	1,420	1,217	132	6	1,527	801	27	370	95	7,557	3,010	185	1,022	2,841	1,594	3,658	182	889	570	14,686	5,079	893	3,186	5,556	1,534	225	2,758	517	5,585	286	41	2,412	11,879	1,379	9,908	306	960	4,612	11,762	33,834	37	1,885	477	749	41
2017	19,538	5,722	2,139	209	23	322	3,482	3,437	47	2,906	387	881	725	130	14,693	373	1,919	625	746	648	68	2,940	1,510	846	112	14,989	24	2,184	541	12,897	1,094	2,618	4,056	4,668	11,484	67	178	205	1,625	71,565	17,956	4	8,709	632	2,184	1,810	375	65,028	34	117	582	52	461	222	510	58,520	10,594	9,834	25,109	20	2,449	176	19	14,637	805	439	4,782	20	150	1,134	1,629	4,662	8,455	1,314	544	13,198	1,348	48	5,468	21,824	11,387	2,415	972	86	60,394	1,914	13,791	14,203	1,485	3,802	3,655	21,905	4,635	5,264	1,377	6,957	32	19,194	1,014	1,177	715	685	359	2,818	24	4,155	780	645	33	109	60	228	4,109	5	544	75	23	287	96	170,581	6	2,480	14	661	323	12	4,229	96	130	11,610	1,056	9	798	3,072	116	13,539	1,027	290	104	17,408	13	889	18	391	10,115	49,147	4,845	939	224	2,953	8,918	1,394	238	777	361	194	10	2,135	1,470	1,410	144	10	2,058	818	35	388	108	7,404	2,912	160	939	3,045	1,627	3,515	136	950	565	5,877	4,858	652	1,415	6,311	1,572	262	3,100	535	4,844	251	35	1,898	10,135	1,314	10,948	409	1,001	4,095	11,809	38,231	25	6,029	537	810	44
2016	12,513	5,773	2,180	198	20	324	4,091	3,543	23	3,239	432	784	656	138	18,723	371	2,127	691	851	577	99	4,217	1,595	971	78	13,812	31	2,670	642	13,065	415	2,242	3,173	4,899	12,793	55	202	136	1,698	81,772	18,610	4	6,791	625	2,224	1,617	388	66,516	35	131	650	62	521	281	298	61,161	10,757	12,045	23,449	18	2,267	211	20	13,232	866	489	5,159	27	165	1,247	1,635	5,306	6,949	1,451	585	13,002	1,501	37	5,771	23,584	13,302	2,510	1,048	97	64,687	2,129	13,298	18,904	1,759	4,142	4,078	23,350	5,207	5,269	1,310	6,274	47	21,801	1,020	1,186	847	856	391	2,971	19	3,619	642	735	34	109	88	205	3,382	11	598	65	32	317	110	174,534	11	2,929	11	750	387	14	4,586	101	87	12,851	1,319	18	846	3,486	119	14,380	1,262	362	116	19,313	14	1,029	23	434	10,940	53,287	5,603	1,006	272	3,554	9,297	1,357	250	777	422	219	12	2,117	1,533	1,351	202	16	1,535	812	42	483	119	6,958	3,023	124	1,042	3,519	1,913	3,159	156	1,144	743	4,800	5,120	593	788	7,039	1,938	283	3,469	518	4,469	235	39	1,649	10,422	1,370	12,673	468	972	4,359	10,772	41,451	40	13,040	487	815	48
2015	8,328	4,653	1,775	154	22	290	3,730	2,962	38	3,034	474	676	725	145	13,570	376	1,994	662	772	466	112	6,325	1,626	859	61	11,424	21	2,688	575	12,808	351	1,253	1,868	4,374	12,673	53	234	175	1,596	74,558	17,316	5	5,345	496	2,029	1,497	348	54,396	22	113	637	58	609	370	229	50,610	10,187	12,085	19,487	25	2,220	189	19	11,394	875	407	4,693	14	146	1,142	1,410	5,436	6,186	1,211	525	11,773	1,389	39	5,543	16,967	9,274	2,085	1,095	104	64,116	2,084	13,114	21,107	1,607	3,965	3,544	17,642	5,395	4,664	1,201	5,602	55	17,138	814	1,055	790	917	480	2,813	23	3,795	734	750	27	99	72	160	2,749	8	587	58	32	298	96	158,619	6	2,496	10	644	251	14	3,710	107	86	12,926	1,309	22	855	3,324	55	11,542	1,060	310	85	18,057	15	1,052	11	382	10,148	56,478	5,275	857	229	3,376	8,799	732	222	739	415	207	6	1,744	1,244	1,278	232	11	1,599	781	45	424	107	6,796	2,907	127	1,022	3,303	1,763	3,580	134	1,066	640	3,840	4,888	595	799	7,502	1,547	327	3,212	518	4,201	226	38	1,664	7,987	1,193	12,592	370	1,078	3,977	9,144	30,832	38	3,194	460	779	48
2014	10,527	3,828	1,669	148	20	369	3,874	2,913	40	2,809	438	672	654	122	14,645	384	2,015	632	789	517	106	7,298	1,719	693	58	10,429	25	2,981	583	11,144	273	1,154	2,536	3,943	11,586	48	155	119	1,581	76,089	18,175	9	4,347	552	1,966	1,477	297	46,679	27	129	606	74	514	190	345	44,577	10,960	11,477	19,273	15	2,002	220	23	12,300	802	350	4,284	24	167	1,111	1,240	5,584	7,115	1,235	633	10,238	1,375	30	6,267	15,274	8,156	2,278	996	86	77,908	2,139	11,615	19,153	1,605	3,805	3,298	19,026	5,545	5,187	1,221	5,884	142	20,423	758	1,057	707	806	384	3,245	13	3,874	524	747	26	105	86	172	2,622	13	604	39	56	320	81	134,052	5	2,341	8	651	289	38	3,605	71	44	12,357	1,195	45	796	2,886	71	12,828	960	271	90	18,612	12	1,095	18	391	10,606	49,996	5,689	892	202	3,246	9,079	555	263	844	448	239	5	1,696	1,273	1,143	267	7	1,740	779	45	460	78	5,190	2,676	74	1,136	2,928	1,767	2,442	158	954	656	3,540	4,697	516	774	6,197	1,612	320	3,988	429	3,834	254	40	1,409	7,752	1,039	12,225	358	1,128	5,194	8,427	30,283	56	3,492	441	797	48
2013	2,196	3,186	1,241	143	22	344	4,372	2,722	45	2,759	415	637	630	115	12,099	428	1,970	675	946	342	88	8,954	2,071	697	53	11,033	21	2,844	585	12,565	260	1,673	2,624	3,908	13,181	44	213	111	1,736	71,798	21,131	3	2,792	1,059	2,114	1,486	353	32,219	0	126	676	74	506	90	244	41,311	10,591	10,294	18,260	18	2,138	211	15	13,097	895	331	4,425	0	127	1,018	1,368	6,032	10,265	1,361	687	10,224	1,518	43	5,897	20,351	8,898	2,226	1,052	139	68,458	2,731	12,863	9,552	1,626	3,996	2,960	19,400	5,925	4,188	1,241	6,123	48	23,166	839	937	652	923	424	2,783	20	3,334	376	854	40	106	95	159	2,477	5	667	43	46	354	83	135,028	4	2,485	8	729	265	0	3,336	73	57	13,046	1,142	128	921	3,048	37	13,840	895	335	73	13,251	16	1,234	27	448	12,564	54,446	6,430	918	191	3,773	9,753	540	259	853	529	237	6	1,463	1,340	866	653	6	1,651	835	0	507	62	3,764	2,629	59	1,264	2,480	1,847	1,945	178	1,106	697	3,366	5,385	550	837	7,583	1,257	348	4,724	445	4,144	210	50	1,350	8,193	910	12,984	319	1,352	4,382	9,572	27,101	45	3,532	505	924	40
2012	1,617	3,364	1,369	187	23	337	4,359	2,681	54	2,414	407	663	619	104	14,705	460	1,659	574	847	415	85	10,198	1,948	815	80	11,441	19	2,440	558	17,383	535	1,684	2,473	3,815	12,932	44	116	155	1,673	81,784	20,931	10	3,731	1,461	2,020	1,760	336	32,820	0	107	677	159	459	106	125	41,566	9,342	8,988	16,256	20	2,643	227	24	14,544	853	348	3,862	30	197	1,159	1,341	5,812	10,592	1,054	671	10,341	1,656	47	5,683	22,818	6,884	2,104	1,054	103	66,434	2,603	12,916	20,369	1,514	4,153	2,673	20,705	6,061	4,099	1,202	7,043	49	20,846	782	1,044	648	949	436	2,879	17	4,109	315	924	19	120	79	192	2,605	3	734	62	50	410	77	146,406	13	2,021	5	691	265	27	3,656	94	59	11,312	1,091	106	814	3,046	48	13,575	906	276	74	14,740	10	1,281	21	467	12,609	57,327	6,300	811	141	3,748	9,969	592	311	919	503	238	12	1,343	1,615	704	801	7	1,688	712	0	528	86	5,204	2,781	17	1,296	1,842	1,994	2,471	187	968	635	3,014	5,331	411	1,516	9,459	1,756	276	5,214	422	4,162	223	30	1,340	7,642	854	12,014	279	1,374	4,726	9,387	28,304	39	2,620	643	914	34

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Source	Immigration Yearbook
Last updated at USAFacts	May 23, 2023
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