Table 10. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Broad Class of Admission and Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Year 2018

The 2018 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 10. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Broad Class of Admission and Region of Birth: Fiscal Year 2018
Region of Birth	Total	Immediate Relatives of U.S. Citizens	Family-Sponsored Preferences	Employment-Based Preferences	Diversity	Refugees and Asylees	Other
Total	1,096,611	478,961	216,563	138,171	45,350	185,909	31,657
Africa	115,736	45,413	12,654	5,809	17,318	34,224	318
Asia	397,187	139,024	83,115	83,802	14,714	64,547	11,985
Europe	80,024	35,746	6,065	20,689	10,985	6,335	204
North America	418,991	207,224	99,744	16,254	380	77,701	17,688
Oceania	4,653	2,284	407	1,183	729	28	22
South America	78,869	48,511	14,326	10,385	1,207	3,028	1,412
Unknown	1,151	759	252	49	17	46	28

Table 10. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Broad Class of Admission and Country of Birth: Fiscal Year 2018
Country of Birth	Total	Immediate Relatives of U.S. Citizens	Family-Sponsored Preferences	Employment-Based Preferences	Diversity	Refugees and Asylees	Other
Total	1,096,611	478,961	216,563	138,171	45,350	185,909	31,657
Afghanistan	12,935	719	351	33	143	1,929	9,760
Albania	5,049	1,678	869	101	2,249	143	9
Algeria	2,123	732	208	78	1,091	14	-
Angola	176	90	15	19	18	34	-
Anguilla	23	13	D	D	-	-	-
Antigua and Barbuda	325	210	100	11	-	-	4
Argentina	3,080	1,733	183	984	36	87	57
Armenia	3,217	1,174	329	D	1,379	173	D
Aruba	45	28	D	12	D	D	-
Australia	2,693	1,238	76	934	433	5	7
Austria	401	176	18	180	21	D	D
Azerbaijan	1,015	326	66	59	488	76	-
Bahamas	759	597	75	74	D	10	D
Bahrain	143	51	23	58	D	7	D
Bangladesh	15,717	7,374	7,229	865	D	211	D
Barbados	318	214	68	D	-	-	D
Belarus	1,951	554	D	269	755	234	D
Belgium	537	225	22	254	29	4	3
Belize	632	495	96	18	D	D	17
Benin	573	273	53	14	223	10	-
Bermuda	65	50	D	D	-	-	-
Bhutan	2,350	50	5	7	D	2,283	D
Bolivia	1,523	1,046	280	112	16	35	34
Bosnia and Herzegovina	682	377	124	75	51	55	-
Botswana	72	34	7	11	4	16	-
Brazil	15,394	9,957	684	4,378	16	185	174
Brunei	29	10	D	14	D	-	-
Bulgaria	1,798	1,026	181	234	324	30	3
Burkina Faso	525	252	38	15	96	121	3
Burma	8,182	735	523	62	97	6,765	-
Burundi	762	92	12	4	57	597	-
Cabo Verde	1,929	963	957	6	D	-	D
Cambodia	3,187	2,234	631	193	113	13	3
Cameroon	4,236	1,794	530	75	1,380	447	10
Canada	9,898	4,471	547	4,542	31	99	208
Cayman Islands	47	27	9	7	-	4	-
Central African Republic	304	19	D	-	D	282	-
Chad	251	34	D	D	11	201	-
Chile	1,519	998	126	287	25	61	22
China, People's Republic	65,214	24,022	11,728	18,843	19	10,420	182
Colombia	17,545	12,296	3,171	1,116	9	846	107
Congo, Democratic Republic	9,941	565	365	D	2,323	6,634	D
Congo, Republic	580	80	18	34	62	378	8
Costa Rica	2,171	1,687	174	212	8	51	39
Cote d'Ivoire	1,375	635	157	48	316	203	16
Croatia	286	159	31	70	18	D	D
Cuba	76,486	3,024	3,381	13	201	69,860	7
Curacao	56	31	11	7	D	D	D
Cyprus	120	50	7	44	5	14	-
Czechia	534	359	15	124	30	6	-
Czechoslovakia (former)	51	27	D	10	-	7	D
Denmark	353	148	13	180	D	D	-
Djibouti	281	39	D	D	38	196	-
Dominica	492	274	195	17	-	-	6
Dominican Republic	57,413	26,731	30,270	223	-	97	92
Ecuador	11,472	6,449	3,194	444	235	413	737
Egypt	9,826	2,900	1,074	969	3,420	1,449	14
El Salvador	28,326	15,410	7,315	1,475	-	2,480	1,646
Equatorial Guinea	17	12	-	D	D	D	-
Eritrea	2,428	630	259	D	94	1,405	D
Estonia	151	87	8	39	13	D	D
Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)	18	D	D	D	-	-	D
Ethiopia	12,403	4,701	1,914	259	2,170	3,347	12
Fiji	730	270	252	15	164	23	6
Finland	442	148	7	261	22	D	D
France	4,276	1,596	145	2,269	231	28	7
French Polynesia	10	10	-	-	-	-	-
Gabon	112	63	13	12	D	12	D
Gambia	1,023	657	143	7	13	190	13
Georgia	1,643	761	154	107	564	57	-
Germany	4,443	2,250	149	1,707	278	46	13
Ghana	8,394	5,574	1,574	261	852	114	19
Greece	1,214	700	55	371	81	D	D
Grenada	501	368	88	32	-	3	10
Guatemala	15,638	8,061	2,993	1,213	24	1,917	1,430
Guinea	1,282	778	119	11	122	226	26
Guinea-Bissau	27	19	4	D	-	D	-
Guyana	5,165	2,073	3,003	56	3	13	17
Haiti	21,360	12,530	8,155	154	-	476	45
Honduras	13,794	8,273	2,296	1,162	49	1,189	825
Hong Kong	2,075	560	765	683	52	D	D
Hungary	917	527	38	263	78	D	D
Iceland	89	36	D	49	D	-	-
India	59,821	20,652	14,845	22,672	34	1,228	390
Indonesia	1,756	1,078	160	329	42	121	26
Iran	10,116	1,752	713	2,566	628	4,441	16
Iraq	14,351	1,280	365	94	206	11,763	643
Ireland	1,401	733	29	600	30	D	D
Israel	3,706	1,626	156	1,824	63	32	5
Italy	3,329	1,485	172	1,331	158	176	7
Jamaica	20,347	13,542	5,667	1,047	3	43	45
Japan	4,317	2,428	116	1,632	119	8	14
Jordan	5,322	2,411	1,058	366	150	1,327	10
Kazakhstan	1,378	533	D	167	442	172	D
Kenya	7,190	2,609	529	547	908	2,549	48
Korea, North	41	23	-	D	D	15	-
Korea, South	17,676	5,833	1,178	10,601	15	10	39
Kosovo	886	429	151	D	207	86	D
Kuwait	1,090	337	217	252	63	218	3
Kyrgyzstan	908	232	64	35	316	258	3
Laos	863	701	110	28	D	20	D
Latvia	356	239	15	43	37	19	3
Lebanon	2,581	1,304	769	351	18	135	4
Lesotho	12	8	-	D	D	-	-
Liberia	3,101	1,497	370	35	928	262	9
Libya	499	168	22	154	58	97	-
Lithuania	658	449	47	69	89	4	-
Luxembourg	30	15	-	D	-	-	D
Macau	91	21	41	29	-	-	-
Macedonia	1,082	585	189	35	255	14	4
Madagascar	79	34	6	30	9	-	-
Malawi	257	98	5	28	6	120	-
Malaysia	3,051	526	200	531	30	1,753	11
Mali	488	303	42	15	12	85	31
Malta	58	10	D	D	-	39	-
Marshall Islands	23	23	-	-	-	-	-
Mauritania	212	96	12	4	7	93	-
Mauritius	67	36	D	22	-	-	D
Mexico	161,858	105,539	36,276	5,600	10	1,270	13,163
Micronesia, Federated States	19	D	-	D	-	-	-
Moldova	2,206	701	121	112	644	624	4
Monaco	13	7	-	6	-	-	-
Mongolia	636	293	33	90	135	66	19
Montenegro	299	193	62	15	D	17	D
Montserrat	20	D	D	-	-	-	-
Morocco	3,077	1,959	280	158	660	13	7
Mozambique	100	42	D	D	-	47	-
Namibia	75	25	D	D	-	42	-
Nepal	11,953	2,497	1,022	1,594	3,466	3,346	28
Netherlands	998	479	46	438	20	D	D
New Zealand	719	350	33	223	110	-	3
Nicaragua	3,061	1,998	769	80	5	114	95
Niger	93	68	D	9	10	D	D
Nigeria	13,952	9,998	2,531	1,209	12	172	30
Norway	284	162	10	92	16	D	D
Oman	110	30	13	46	5	16	-
Pakistan	15,802	6,766	5,260	2,271	11	1,414	80
Panama	897	619	166	57	5	38	12
Papua New Guinea	27	19	-	D	D	-	-
Paraguay	389	296	36	31	-	20	6
Peru	9,878	6,411	2,688	419	D	D	195
Philippines	47,258	23,018	15,064	8,655	8	23	490
Poland	4,357	2,495	794	771	242	11	44
Portugal	889	592	58	206	18	11	4
Qatar	236	69	33	78	36	D	D
Romania	2,448	1,492	216	496	186	47	11
Russia	8,621	3,461	536	2,056	1,865	684	19
Rwanda	1,620	90	45	34	222	1,229	-
Saint Kitts and Nevis	250	104	141	D	-	-	D
Saint Lucia	696	506	155	24	D	-	D
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	333	239	84	D	-	-	D
Samoa	179	163	6	3	4	-	3
Saudi Arabia	2,100	776	371	387	300	263	3
Senegal	1,420	983	205	51	91	59	31
Serbia	1,217	771	85	140	204	17	-
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	132	67	D	28	-	26	D
Sierra Leone	1,527	1,100	248	12	114	48	5
Singapore	801	278	45	465	9	D	D
Sint Maarten	27	23	D	D	-	D	-
Slovakia	370	250	19	69	24	5	3
Slovenia	95	48	D	37	D	-	-
Somalia	7,557	635	112	6	6	6,798	-
South Africa	3,010	1,154	96	997	160	598	5
South Sudan	185	128	D	-	D	49	-
Soviet Union (former)	1,022	496	6	226	18	270	6
Spain	2,841	1,074	158	1,175	D	346	D
Sri Lanka	1,594	517	187	446	234	193	17
Sudan	3,658	855	155	D	1,048	1,556	D
Suriname	182	112	59	D	D	D	D
Sweden	889	444	34	365	33	10	3
Switzerland	570	248	21	277	16	8	-
Syria	14,686	876	448	286	41	13,035	-
Taiwan	5,079	1,544	850	2,522	157	D	D
Tajikistan	893	187	46	46	570	39	5
Tanzania	3,186	363	48	78	D	2,669	D
Thailand	5,556	3,093	292	450	36	1,646	39
Togo	1,534	695	230	12	518	74	5
Tonga	225	168	38	-	16	-	3
Trinidad and Tobago	2,758	1,874	660	175	29	7	13
Tunisia	517	349	14	86	47	18	3
Turkey	5,585	2,005	198	1,573	1,472	319	18
Turkmenistan	286	94	D	31	121	20	D
Turks and Caicos Islands	41	34	7	-	-	-	-
Uganda	2,412	590	134	D	117	1,463	D
Ukraine	11,879	3,730	998	1,288	2,576	3,277	10
United Arab Emirates	1,379	322	246	530	101	173	7
United Kingdom	9,908	5,009	478	4,323	49	34	15
United States	306	206	19	28	-	30	23
Uruguay	960	741	48	96	14	36	25
Uzbekistan	4,612	715	532	139	2,993	226	7
Venezuela	11,762	6,399	854	2,454	850	1,168	37
Vietnam	33,834	15,866	16,240	1,560	3	58	107
Virgin Islands, British	37	21	D	D	-	-	-
Yemen	1,885	1,271	346	24	D	224	D
Zambia	477	211	25	60	D	169	D
Zimbabwe	749	361	49	160	41	131	7
All other countries¹	82	58	8	13	1	1	1
Unknown	1,151	759	252	49	17	46	28

D Data withheld to limit disclosure.
- Represents zero.
¹ Includes countries with fewer than 10 lawful permanent residents.

Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

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