Table 28. Nonimmigrant Admissions (I-94 Only) By Selected Category Of Admission And Region And Country Of Citizenship: Fiscal Year 2016

The 2016 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics is a compendium of tables that provide data on foreign nationals who are granted lawful permanent residence (i.e., immigrants who receive a “green card”), admitted as temporary nonimmigrants, granted asylum or refugee status, or are naturalized. The Yearbook also presents data on immigration enforcement actions, including apprehensions and arrests, removals, and returns.

Table 28. Nonimmigrant Admissions (I-94 Only) By Selected Category Of Admission And Region Of Citizenship: Fiscal Year 2016
Region of Citizenship	Total	Tourists and Business Travelers		Students and Exchange Visitors³	Temp-orary Workers and Families⁴	Diplomats and Other Represen-tatives⁵	All Other Classes	Unknown
Region of Citizenship	Total	Visa Waiver¹	Other²	Students and Exchange Visitors³	Temp-orary Workers and Families⁴	Diplomats and Other Represen-tatives⁵	All Other Classes	Unknown
Total	76,786,751	23,132,817	45,995,616	2,528,990	3,896,674	438,725	745,001	48,928
Africa	812,547	X	670,014	59,453	28,074	40,055	13,731	1,220
Asia	14,690,021	6,083,747	6,002,565	1,324,575	948,350	112,490	205,644	12,650
Europe	17,749,364	15,107,039	1,286,697	416,446	659,397	155,075	119,378	5,332
North America	35,552,990	X	32,510,136	551,073	2,037,776	72,378	366,881	14,746
Oceania	1,907,856	1,715,904	62,226	24,225	82,037	16,133	6,834	497
South America	6,030,594	226,127	5,435,761	150,512	140,024	41,681	31,837	4,652
Unknown	43,379	X	28,217	2,706	1,016	913	696	9,831

Table 28. Nonimmigrant Admissions (I-94 Only) By Selected Category Of Admission And Country Of Citizenship: Fiscal Year 2016
Country of Citizenship	Total	Tourists and Business Travelers		Students and Exchange Visitors³	Temp-orary Workers and Families⁴	Diplomats and Other Represen-tatives⁵	All Other Classes	Unknown
Country of Citizenship	Total	Visa Waiver¹	Other²	Students and Exchange Visitors³	Temp-orary Workers and Families⁴	Diplomats and Other Represen-tatives⁵	All Other Classes	Unknown
Total	76,786,751	23,132,817	45,995,616	2,528,990	3,896,674	438,725	745,001	48,928
Afghanistan	4,474	X	2,707	686	35	722	287	37
Albania	12,808	X	10,144	1,205	554	583	245	77
Algeria	14,365	X	12,231	845	382	761	91	55
Andorra	1,642	1,357	82	83	77	38	D	D
Angola	10,238	X	7,363	1,704	429	624	105	13
Antigua and Barbuda	17,505	X	16,524	371	120	293	180	17
Argentina	986,148	X	943,224	10,665	23,287	5,871	2,222	879
Armenia	10,654	X	8,819	546	450	602	220	17
Australia⁶	1,529,987	1,393,642	30,256	17,887	74,160	11,198	2,670	174
Austria	240,176	216,122	6,613	6,245	8,355	2,034	780	27
Azerbaijan	8,535	X	6,430	1,120	298	614	64	9
Bahamas	275,778	X	263,900	7,301	807	1,501	2,106	163
Bahrain	9,594	X	8,002	1,139	109	325	8	11
Bangladesh	43,643	X	33,053	6,190	1,530	2,114	656	100
Barbados	68,463	X	65,965	779	566	758	341	54
Belarus	21,586	X	17,920	1,475	1,282	322	571	16
Belgium	319,522	291,235	5,784	6,068	12,356	3,434	572	73
Belize	31,468	X	28,665	659	458	746	905	35
Benin	3,385	X	2,355	400	75	510	38	7
Bhutan	1,058	X	530	233	D	250	27	D
Bolivia	74,671	X	69,074	2,614	1,191	1,252	479	61
Bosnia and Herzegovina	10,310	X	7,748	961	255	484	847	15
Botswana	2,893	X	2,068	366	127	289	40	3
Brazil	1,988,148	X	1,866,261	53,749	50,962	8,789	7,438	949
Brunei	1,675	1,081	108	147	20	311	D	D
Bulgaria	44,815	X	30,483	7,002	2,698	1,049	3,530	53
Burkina Faso	7,423	X	5,752	829	121	630	79	12
Burma	9,445	X	6,356	1,622	135	352	971	9
Burundi	1,671	X	1,137	166	26	326	12	4
Cabo Verde	5,584	X	5,032	111	48	155	227	11
Cambodia	5,662	X	3,881	698	101	529	438	15
Cameroon	14,858	X	11,492	1,259	389	1,404	290	24
Canada	13,006,072	X	11,366,670	231,582	1,140,594	16,407	248,001	2,818
Central African Republic	351	X	175	32	12	121	4	7
Chad	1,130	X	663	100	D	355	D	7
Chile	403,143	226,127	151,165	9,569	9,445	4,136	2,635	66
China, People's Republic^7,8	3,264,362	2,736	2,585,232	560,061	87,288	8,990	13,448	6,607
Colombia	951,844	X	885,763	27,527	20,983	9,889	6,808	874
Comoros	187	X	101	10	D	72	D	-
Congo, Democratic Republic	8,303	X	6,515	820	99	803	60	6
Congo, Republic	1,807	X	1,247	203	26	322	4	5
Costa Rica	306,162	X	295,201	3,601	4,194	1,686	1,353	127
Cote d'Ivoire	9,283	X	6,859	1,202	192	887	123	20
Croatia	33,964	X	24,886	2,113	1,558	642	4,740	25
Cuba	52,735	X	48,978	172	873	736	379	1,597
Cyprus	11,465	X	9,823	914	458	199	63	8
Czechia	122,475	102,061	8,381	5,986	4,346	1,343	331	27
Denmark⁹	365,602	335,158	6,763	7,016	11,563	4,293	713	96
Djibouti	870	X	643	30	D	187	D	6
Dominica	5,539	X	4,830	242	61	108	290	8
Dominican Republic	398,929	X	376,820	7,211	7,626	1,831	4,610	831
Ecuador	432,419	X	416,736	8,654	2,971	1,856	1,815	387
Egypt	110,525	X	93,133	8,219	4,053	4,240	752	128
El Salvador	214,391	X	203,962	2,896	2,422	1,970	2,478	663
Equatorial Guinea	1,597	X	970	367	11	239	D	D
Eritrea	3,604	X	3,226	204	11	80	74	9
Estonia	27,308	22,682	2,100	955	666	682	214	9
Ethiopia	23,693	X	19,487	1,883	570	1,137	569	47
Fiji	13,004	X	11,412	141	73	487	871	20
Finland	178,713	161,474	3,008	3,871	7,421	2,510	396	33
France¹⁰	2,067,168	1,871,506	25,892	50,439	99,201	14,483	5,020	627
Gabon	3,079	X	2,082	470	21	492	11	3
Gambia	2,194	X	1,684	130	26	309	40	5
Georgia	11,130	X	7,902	1,282	394	928	609	15
Germany	2,366,405	2,138,056	52,776	55,556	91,510	20,400	7,633	474
Ghana	28,818	X	23,359	2,701	946	1,437	311	64
Greece	96,769	66,999	15,045	6,086	4,354	1,539	2,695	51
Grenada	12,784	X	11,167	288	160	364	789	16
Guatemala	289,392	X	274,388	3,421	7,501	2,223	1,335	524
Guinea	3,771	X	3,085	180	81	353	63	9
Guinea-Bissau	251	X	151	11	-	86	D	D
Guyana	71,449	X	68,825	404	127	574	1,445	74
Haiti	161,476	X	154,677	1,293	883	1,027	2,969	627
Holy See	128	X	16	D	D	109	-	-
Honduras	219,702	X	204,652	4,271	3,339	1,363	5,592	485
Hungary	99,844	81,320	7,814	4,430	4,298	1,187	751	44
Iceland	60,909	54,571	2,769	1,423	1,183	372	587	4
India	1,967,181	X	1,206,225	181,721	524,414	8,426	44,163	2,232
Indonesia	133,883	X	91,241	13,356	2,211	4,135	22,877	63
Iran	31,481	X	22,624	7,492	465	383	409	108
Iraq	20,969	X	18,582	1,272	118	744	202	51
Ireland	543,398	491,963	10,419	13,953	24,010	1,982	978	93
Israel	464,862	X	421,261	13,289	21,106	7,990	967	249
Italy	1,357,604	1,234,097	28,594	28,908	49,904	9,794	6,061	246
Jamaica	351,417	X	311,460	11,812	18,138	1,302	8,371	334
Japan	3,985,785	3,696,408	20,621	64,947	182,062	15,390	5,955	402
Jordan	54,191	X	42,322	4,847	930	5,501	480	111
Kazakhstan	26,929	X	18,966	6,132	707	1,008	103	13
Kenya	31,226	X	22,776	3,112	1,165	3,337	798	38
Kiribati	941	X	268	41	19	150	453	10
Korea, North	121	X	52	16	3	37	-	13
Korea, South	2,191,485	1,862,434	138,983	128,687	49,073	7,353	4,388	567
Kosovo	6,058	X	4,548	875	85	420	126	4
Kuwait	76,821	X	53,390	21,861	134	1,342	14	80
Kyrgyzstan	4,113	X	2,936	629	78	363	102	5
Laos	2,106	X	1,323	204	42	293	240	4
Latvia	24,742	19,107	2,179	902	800	597	1,139	18
Lebanon	51,595	X	44,381	3,585	1,885	1,389	265	90
Lesotho	715	X	361	90	13	211	40	-
Liberia	4,538	X	3,713	257	30	406	122	10
Libya	2,106	X	1,224	583	96	176	15	12
Liechtenstein	2,252	2,053	34	47	50	65	D	D
Lithuania	38,043	30,287	3,044	2,441	1,087	631	529	24
Luxembourg	15,508	14,195	295	341	319	328	D	D
Macedonia	10,790	X	7,160	1,891	280	459	989	11
Madagascar	1,974	X	1,231	186	28	428	96	5
Malawi	3,178	X	2,132	355	D	550	75	D
Malaysia	102,269	255	84,179	9,916	5,171	1,627	1,066	55
Maldives	453	X	225	63	12	132	21	-
Mali	4,643	X	3,467	420	103	598	33	22
Malta	6,935	6,000	500	78	173	146	D	D
Marshall Islands	180	X	57	7	-	82	25	9
Mauritania	1,909	X	1,364	150	24	352	11	8
Mauritius	6,945	X	4,841	382	216	303	1,194	9
Mexico	19,644,990	X	18,420,891	264,446	843,480	36,032	74,107	6,034
Micronesia, Federated States	175	X	72	D	-	76	D	24
Moldova	12,869	X	9,740	2,120	408	381	207	13
Monaco	1,367	1,097	55	60	56	99	-	-
Mongolia	15,288	X	11,258	3,057	339	554	72	8
Morocco¹¹	38,137	X	31,561	3,087	816	2,057	495	121
Mozambique	2,724	X	1,890	254	62	463	D	D
Namibia	2,526	X	1,781	166	59	463	52	5
Nauru	187	9	76	3	D	95	D	D
Nepal	35,672	X	24,172	8,076	1,604	971	820	29
Netherlands¹²	820,325	751,482	15,209	12,363	27,133	9,874	4,026	238
New Zealand¹³	353,745	322,001	12,530	5,824	7,660	3,147	2,356	227
Nicaragua	79,609	X	71,832	1,130	1,410	668	4,419	150
Niger	1,935	X	1,076	227	31	567	31	3
Nigeria	215,143	X	195,085	12,593	3,176	2,758	1,330	201
Norway	303,484	274,958	6,971	8,797	6,900	5,064	762	32
Oman	11,326	X	5,007	5,336	74	894	10	5
Pakistan	136,659	X	115,108	11,541	5,598	3,230	942	240
Palau	135	X	34	4	4	78	4	11
Panama	173,769	X	162,155	5,464	1,613	1,472	2,969	96
Papua New Guinea	1,502	252	730	133	6	206	170	5
Paraguay	33,610	X	30,478	1,636	458	907	111	20
Peru	344,403	X	314,190	13,145	5,769	4,457	6,510	332
Philippines	449,501	X	322,771	13,187	17,061	5,445	90,438	599
Poland	230,471	X	198,951	10,298	9,047	3,049	8,937	189
Portugal	192,521	174,040	4,472	3,984	6,355	1,616	1,977	77
Qatar	19,840	X	14,926	3,603	35	1,240	18	18
Romania	103,298	X	78,024	8,671	4,668	1,791	10,064	80
Russia	316,804	X	271,580	16,419	14,995	4,570	8,892	348
Rwanda	6,102	X	3,601	1,528	89	770	109	5
Saint Kitts and Nevis	12,966	X	12,144	406	106	188	98	24
Saint Lucia	19,502	X	16,858	324	97	374	1,828	21
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	12,589	X	10,339	149	65	163	1,862	11
Samoa	2,554	X	2,150	63	33	126	176	6
San Marino	770	693	8	13	7	49	-	-
Sao Tome and Principe	89	X	40	D	-	40	D	-
Saudi Arabia	260,262	X	146,550	103,505	1,739	8,289	54	125
Senegal	11,283	X	8,697	854	270	1,365	70	27
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	46,641	X	31,904	7,725	2,018	996	3,968	30
Seychelles	528	X	353	31	3	115	26	-
Sierra Leone	3,270	X	2,535	186	33	425	76	15
Singapore	159,907	132,204	1,924	11,064	7,658	5,739	1,280	38
Slovakia	58,556	46,692	4,209	4,691	2,030	676	240	18
Slovenia	28,340	24,197	1,599	944	972	443	185	-
Solomon Islands	504	X	351	18	3	115	17	-
Somalia	430	X	239	64	3	67	45	12
South Africa	150,734	X	125,922	5,791	11,886	2,582	4,414	139
South Sudan	486	X	210	91	D	158	18	D
Spain	1,113,561	991,483	20,650	38,249	50,749	9,066	2,798	566
Sri Lanka	29,339	X	22,626	3,057	1,383	814	1,411	48
Sudan	6,329	X	5,200	524	59	488	37	21
Suriname	13,254	X	12,515	192	63	240	238	6
Swaziland	1,246	X	782	197	45	191	6	25
Sweden	622,440	572,385	11,101	13,994	18,891	4,869	1,076	124
Switzerland	478,603	438,061	14,828	10,346	11,083	3,277	965	43
Syria	13,475	X	11,920	908	192	135	234	86
Taiwan	514,994	388,629	60,854	44,307	18,356	46	2,686	116
Tajikistan	2,280	X	1,456	467	41	301	15	-
Tanzania	8,634	X	6,442	1,084	271	642	188	7
Thailand	122,225	X	92,440	20,846	2,829	2,657	3,397	56
Timor-Leste	244	X	37	38	D	156	8	D
Togo	3,028	X	2,230	237	42	417	91	11
Tonga	4,477	X	4,091	82	61	198	36	9
Trinidad and Tobago	197,752	X	188,058	3,255	3,263	1,166	1,899	111
Tunisia	15,069	X	11,352	1,787	383	1,105	393	49
Turkey	242,419	X	194,091	30,755	9,326	4,950	3,173	124
Turkmenistan	1,592	X	964	416	43	158	11	-
Tuvalu	202	X	69	4	-	95	34	-
Uganda	11,479	X	7,910	1,050	677	1,651	185	6
Ukraine	127,148	X	93,514	9,966	7,204	1,513	14,810	141
United Arab Emirates	41,070	X	31,582	6,817	164	2,459	22	26
United Kingdom¹⁴	5,216,692	4,691,708	238,885	57,454	168,495	37,816	20,953	1,381
Uruguay	87,370	X	82,101	1,332	1,599	1,792	434	112
Uzbekistan	12,410	X	10,105	1,355	283	545	113	9
Vanuatu	263	X	130	16	17	80	20	-
Venezuela	644,135	X	595,429	21,025	23,169	1,918	1,702	892
Vietnam	119,949	X	90,727	22,258	2,321	1,594	2,841	208
Yemen	5,628	X	3,893	1,327	55	264	50	39
Zambia	5,418	X	3,747	511	D	877	151	D
Zimbabwe	10,843	X	7,442	1,406	641	674	665	15
Unknown	43,379	X	28,217	2,706	1,016	913	696	9,831

X Not applicable.

D Data withheld to limit disclosure.

- Represents zero.

¹ Includes GB, GMB, GT, GMT, WB, and WT admissions.

² Includes B1, B2 and a limited number of Border Crossing Card (BCC) admissions.

³ Includes principals, spouses, and children (F1, F2, J1, J2, M1, and M2 admissions).

⁴ Includes principals, spouses, and children (CW1, CW2, E1 to E3, H1B, H1B1, H1C, H2A, H2B, H2R, H3, H4, I1, L1, L2, O1 to O3, P1 to P4, Q1, R1, R2, TD and TN admissions).

⁵ Includes principals, spouses, and children (A1 to A3, G1 to G5, and N1 to N7 admissions).

⁶ Australia includes Australia, Norfolk Island, Christmas Island, and Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

⁷ China includes the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, and Macau.

⁸ Admissions in the Visa Waiver category include only residents of Hong Kong admitted under the Guam and Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Visa Waiver Program.

⁹ Denmark includes Denmark, Faroe Islands, and Greenland.

¹⁰ France includes France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Reunion, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and Wallis and Futuna.

¹¹ Morocco includes Morocco and Western Sahara.

¹² Netherlands includes the Netherlands, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten.

¹³ New Zealand includes New Zealand, Cook Islands, Tokelau, and Niue.

¹⁴ United Kingdom includes the United Kingdom, Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, and Turks and Caicos Islands.

Notes: Admissions represent counts of events, i.e., arrivals, not unique individuals; multiple entries of an individual on the same day are counted as one admission.

The majority of short-term admissions from Canada and Mexico are excluded.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

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