Table 11. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Broad Class of Admission and Region and Country of Last Residence: Fiscal Year 2023

Region of Last Residence

Region of last residence	Total	Immediate relatives of U.S. citizens	Family-sponsored preferences	Employment-based preferences	Diversity	Refugees and asylees	Other
Total	1,172,910	551,590	204,240	196,760	67,350	99,360	53,610
Africa	96,620	40,160	7,140	10,460	23,540	14,920	400
Asia	392,140	140,330	69,910	107,740	27,340	19,500	27,330
Europe	81,690	37,900	3,790	23,180	11,650	4,060	1,130
North America	407,620	203,040	104,890	26,380	1,380	53,520	18,420
Oceania	5,930	2,610	390	1,690	1,190	20	50
South America	100,560	56,240	11,210	24,040	1,230	6,590	1,250
Unknown	88,350	71,320	6,910	3,290	1,040	760	5,040

Country of Last Residence

Country of last residence	Total	Immediate relatives of U.S. citizens	Family-sponsored preferences	Employment-based preferences	Diversity	Refugees and asylees	Other
Total	1,172,910	551,590	204,240	196,760	67,350	99,360	53,610
Afghanistan	25,590	1,190	320	60	570	860	22,600
Albania	4,730	1,990	350	180	1,930	180	110
Algeria	4,950	750	160	80	3,910	30	20
Angola	540	130	20	30	280	80	0
Anguilla	30	20	10	0	0	0	0
Antigua and Barbuda	320	220	80	20	0	0	0
Argentina	4,560	2,440	180	1,750	90	60	40
Armenia	4,670	1,630	540	210	2,070	210	10
Aruba	90	70	10	10	0	0	0
Australia	3,810	1,770	210	1,330	460	10	30
Austria	500	250	40	160	40	0	0
Azerbaijan	1,070	180	40	110	660	90	10
Bahamas	870	660	50	140	10	10	10
Bahrain	420	180	20	140	70	10	0
Bangladesh	18,240	6,620	8,640	2,470	20	470	20
Barbados	320	230	40	40	0	0	0
Belarus	2,360	760	100	320	1,040	130	0
Belgium	760	320	20	380	30	10	10
Belize	620	490	90	30	0	0	20
Benin	670	310	60	30	270	10	0
Bermuda	130	80	0	40	0	0	0
Bhutan	190	40	0	20	90	40	0
Bolivia	1,370	980	160	130	20	50	30
Bosnia and Herzegovina	350	210	30	70	30	10	0
Botswana	80	40	10	20	10	0	0
Brazil	26,790	11,870	590	13,770	40	320	200
Brunei	30	10	0	10	0	0	0
Bulgaria	870	550	40	120	140	20	0
Burkina Faso	780	410	70	30	90	170	0
Burma	3,700	980	420	140	680	1,490	0
Burundi	720	50	10	0	90	560	0
Cabo Verde	1,610	850	720	30	20	0	0
Cambodia	2,300	1,630	420	120	90	10	20
Cameroon	5,410	2,070	450	100	1,650	1,130	10
Canada	18,590	9,160	2,230	6,460	420	50	260
Cayman Islands	150	110	20	10	0	0	0
Central African Republic	110	10	0	0	0	100	0
Chad	230	40	10	10	140	40	0
Chile	2,290	1,240	110	740	60	120	20
China, People's Republic	54,690	19,050	4,140	25,210	110	5,910	270
Colombia	21,930	16,350	1,810	2,860	20	800	90
Congo, Democratic Republic	4,360	530	170	30	950	2,680	0
Congo, Republic	420	100	10	20	70	210	0
Costa Rica	2,320	1,720	110	400	30	40	20
Cote d'Ivoire	1,270	390	170	50	480	160	10
Croatia	210	110	0	70	20	10	0
Cuba	77,870	19,140	15,600	10	760	42,350	0
Cyprus	190	80	0	50	40	10	0
Czechia	630	350	20	180	60	10	10
Denmark	530	220	20	250	20	0	20
Djibouti	1,520	640	550	30	240	60	0
Dominica	350	210	120	20	0	0	0
Dominican Republic	66,630	26,150	39,890	370	0	90	120
Ecuador	10,350	6,390	1,950	850	260	280	630
Egypt	9,860	3,610	740	1,090	2,860	1,550	10
El Salvador	20,890	8,540	4,020	3,510	0	3,360	1,450
Equatorial Guinea	50	30	0	0	10	10	0
Eritrea	1,080	90	0	10	10	960	10
Estonia	150	100	0	30	30	0	0
Eswatini	30	20	0	10	10	0	0
Ethiopia	6,220	2,980	1,220	300	760	960	10
Fiji	870	200	70	10	590	0	10
Finland	390	180	10	150	30	0	20
France	4,930	1,890	230	2,460	290	20	50
French Polynesia	20	10	0	10	0	0	0
Gabon	150	80	10	10	30	10	0
Gambia	910	640	50	30	40	140	10
Georgia	2,490	900	240	160	1,080	110	0
Germany	5,950	2,810	240	1,880	580	50	380
Ghana	5,890	4,400	200	650	550	80	20
Greece	1,160	610	90	370	60	0	20
Grenada	390	300	60	30	0	0	0
Guatemala	14,330	5,030	2,130	2,540	30	2,890	1,710
Guinea	1,340	520	30	70	470	240	10
Guinea-Bissau	30	20	0	0	10	0	0
Guyana	5,290	2,330	2,880	50	10	10	0
Haiti	13,700	10,250	2,840	220	0	370	20
Honduras	12,050	5,080	1,550	2,290	0	2,100	1,020
Hong Kong	2,890	1,250	830	740	60	10	0
Hungary	790	420	20	270	70	10	10
Iceland	60	40	0	20	0	0	0
India	72,310	27,660	14,240	27,750	120	1,720	810
Indonesia	1,650	1,030	70	300	80	150	20
Iran	9,950	3,310	1,510	3,070	1,440	620	20
Iraq	3,100	1,160	190	100	680	760	210
Ireland	1,510	710	30	740	30	0	10
Israel	3,970	1,930	100	1,760	120	50	10
Italy	3,940	1,830	200	1,500	240	100	80
Jamaica	19,650	13,260	5,480	780	10	80	40
Japan	4,650	2,630	90	1,600	280	10	50
Jordan	6,500	3,790	1,170	500	780	240	10
Kazakhstan	2,600	570	40	380	1,390	200	20
Kenya	4,720	1,730	150	1,220	1,300	270	50
Korea, South	14,860	4,820	460	9,400	110	10	50
Kosovo	470	220	20	30	140	60	10
Kuwait	1,370	390	70	390	430	80	0
Kyrgyzstan	2,580	340	40	50	1,960	180	10
Laos	650	570	40	20	10	10	0
Latvia	230	130	10	60	30	0	0
Lebanon	3,170	1,700	740	530	130	60	0
Lesotho	20	10	0	0	10	0	0
Liberia	2,400	960	180	20	530	720	0
Libya	700	190	10	200	240	70	0
Lithuania	460	250	20	90	80	0	10
Luxembourg	70	20	0	40	10	0	0
Macau	130	50	40	40	0	0	0
Madagascar	60	40	0	10	0	0	0
Malawi	190	90	0	40	40	20	0
Malaysia	1,790	610	120	520	120	400	20
Maldives	20	0	0	10	10	0	0
Mali	430	290	10	10	50	70	10
Malta	80	40	0	20	10	0	0
Mauritania	360	90	0	0	120	140	0
Mauritius	60	30	0	20	10	0	0
Mexico	150,490	97,280	29,250	8,780	30	1,580	13,580
Micronesia, Federated States	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
Moldova	930	520	10	70	100	230	0
Mongolia	710	260	30	170	170	70	10
Montenegro	240	190	0	10	10	10	0
Morocco	5,810	2,070	390	150	3,180	10	10
Mozambique	50	30	0	10	0	0	0
Namibia	90	40	0	40	0	20	0
Nauru	10	0	0	0	10	0	0
Nepal	11,110	3,570	620	2,250	3,910	730	20
Netherlands	1,490	680	70	630	70	10	40
New Zealand	880	410	50	310	100	0	10
Nicaragua	3,190	1,850	480	150	50	550	110
Niger	160	80	0	30	20	10	10
Nigeria	13,870	9,390	730	2,960	20	760	10
North Macedonia	820	430	90	80	210	10	0
Norway	440	240	20	130	30	0	20
Oman	600	120	10	340	110	0	20
Pakistan	10,810	4,930	1,710	2,330	90	700	1,050
Palau	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
Panama	1,230	900	140	140	10	20	10
Papua New Guinea	40	20	0	10	10	0	0
Paraguay	370	290	30	30	0	10	10
Peru	11,250	6,750	3,090	590	460	150	200
Philippines	42,360	17,680	11,700	12,710	20	20	230
Poland	3,140	1,710	200	770	430	10	30
Portugal	1,040	670	40	250	40	10	30
Qatar	2,500	420	90	1,070	520	30	360
Romania	1,530	920	50	390	130	40	10
Russia	11,350	4,790	410	2,160	3,120	840	30
Rwanda	2,350	360	100	50	990	680	170
Saint Kitts and Nevis	180	130	40	10	0	0	0
Saint Lucia	490	360	90	30	0	0	0
Saint Martin (French)	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	210	170	40	0	0	0	0
Samoa	50	50	0	0	0	0	0
Saudi Arabia	4,050	1,080	250	1,560	880	280	10
Senegal	1,220	840	50	60	180	80	10
Serbia	690	510	0	150	10	20	0
Sierra Leone	1,990	1,160	190	20	570	50	0
Singapore	1,540	640	70	750	70	0	10
Sint Maarten	70	70	0	0	0	0	0
Slovakia	320	180	0	90	40	0	0
Slovenia	110	60	10	30	10	0	0
Somalia	450	70	0	10	50	330	0
South Africa	4,050	1,450	100	2,050	390	50	10
South Sudan	60	10	0	0	10	40	0
Spain	4,620	2,200	300	1,600	200	300	20
Sri Lanka	2,040	540	100	580	660	150	10
Sudan	2,130	350	110	50	1,300	330	0
Suriname	130	80	30	20	0	0	0
Sweden	1,110	560	110	340	60	0	40
Switzerland	810	360	40	350	40	10	10
Syria	2,570	920	420	180	140	920	0
Taiwan	5,190	2,080	400	2,510	170	0	30
Tajikistan	1,930	300	70	60	1,400	40	50
Tanzania	1,750	320	30	100	120	1,180	10
Thailand	4,900	3,130	160	580	480	540	20
Togo	2,060	630	330	10	1,000	80	0
Tonga	180	110	50	0	20	0	0
Trinidad and Tobago	2,280	1,430	510	300	20	10	30
Tunisia	550	300	10	90	130	10	0
Turkey	8,270	2,510	260	1,550	1,560	1,690	700
Turkmenistan	580	70	20	50	380	50	0
Turks and Caicos Islands	90	70	20	10	0	0	0
Uganda	1,530	480	30	150	210	650	0
Ukraine	9,670	4,100	420	1,150	2,030	1,950	30
United Arab Emirates	4,810	1,440	400	1,810	750	130	300
United Kingdom	12,250	5,770	520	5,600	240	20	100
Uruguay	640	450	10	110	10	40	10
Uzbekistan	5,150	1,010	1,050	160	2,670	190	80
Venezuela	15,590	7,070	370	3,130	260	4,750	20
Vietnam	34,510	13,160	17,730	3,200	10	150	260
Virgin Islands, British	90	70	10	10	0	0	0
Yemen	2,780	2,160	290	60	170	100	0
Zambia	450	200	20	90	60	90	0
Zimbabwe	920	250	50	440	90	90	10
All other countries ^[1]	110	70	10	30	10	0	0
Unknown	88,350	71,320	6,910	3,290	1,040	760	5,040

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