Table 3. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2015

Region of birth	2013	2014	2015
Total	990,553	1,016,518	1,051,031
Africa	98,304	98,413	101,415
Asia	400,548	430,508	419,297
Europe	86,556	83,266	85,803
North America	315,660	324,354	366,126
Oceania	5,277	5,112	5,404
South America	80,945	73,715	72,309
Unknown	3,263	1,150	677

Country of birth	2013	2014	2015
Total	990,553	1,016,518	1,051,031
Afghanistan	2,196	10,527	8,328
Albania	3,186	3,828	4,653
Algeria	1,241	1,669	1,775
American Samoa	D	-	-
Angola	143	148	154
Anguilla	22	20	22
Antigua-Barbuda	344	369	290
Argentina	4,372	3,874	3,730
Armenia	2,722	2,913	2,962
Aruba	45	40	38
Australia	2,759	2,809	3,034
Austria	415	438	474
Azerbaijan	637	672	676
Bahamas	630	654	725
Bahrain	115	122	145
Bangladesh	12,099	14,645	13,570
Barbados	428	384	376
Belarus	1,970	2,015	1,994
Belgium	675	632	662
Belize	946	789	772
Benin	342	517	466
Bermuda	88	106	112
Bhutan	8,954	7,298	6,325
Bolivia	2,071	1,719	1,626
Bosnia-Herzegovina	697	693	859
Botswana	53	58	61
Brazil	11,033	10,429	11,424
British Virgin Islands	45	56	38
Brunei	21	25	21
Bulgaria	2,844	2,981	2,688
Burkina Faso	585	583	575
Burma	12,565	11,144	12,808
Burundi	260	273	351
Cambodia	2,624	2,536	1,868
Cameroon	3,908	3,943	4,374
Canada	13,181	11,586	12,673
Cape Verde	1,673	1,154	1,253
Cayman Islands	44	48	53
Central African Republic	213	155	234
Chad	111	119	175
Chile	1,736	1,581	1,596
China, People's Republic	71,798	76,089	74,558
Colombia	21,131	18,175	17,316
Comoros	D	9	5
Congo, Democratic Republic	2,792	4,347	5,345
Congo, Republic	1,059	552	496
Costa Rica	2,114	1,966	2,029
Cote d'Ivoire	1,486	1,477	1,497
Croatia	353	297	348
Cuba	32,219	46,679	54,396
Curacao	-	27	22
Cyprus	126	129	113
Czech Republic	676	606	637
Czechoslovakia (former)	74	74	58
Denmark	506	514	609
Djibouti	90	190	370
Dominica	244	345	229
Dominican Republic	41,311	44,577	50,610
Ecuador	10,591	10,960	10,187
Egypt	10,294	11,477	12,085
El Salvador	18,260	19,273	19,487
Equatorial Guinea	18	15	25
Eritrea	2,138	2,002	2,220
Estonia	211	220	189
Ethiopia	13,097	12,300	11,394
Fiji	895	802	875
Finland	331	350	407
France	4,425	4,284	4,693
French Polynesia	-	24	14
Gabon	127	167	146
Gambia	1,018	1,111	1,142
Georgia	1,368	1,240	1,410
Germany	6,032	5,584	5,436
Ghana	10,265	7,115	6,186
Greece	1,361	1,235	1,211
Grenada	687	633	525
Guatemala	10,224	10,238	11,773
Guinea	1,518	1,375	1,389
Guinea-Bissau	43	30	39
Guyana	5,897	6,267	5,543
Haiti	20,351	15,274	16,967
Honduras	8,898	8,156	9,274
Hong Kong	2,226	2,278	2,085
Hungary	1,052	996	1,095
Iceland	139	86	104
India	68,458	77,908	64,116
Indonesia	2,731	2,139	2,084
Iran	12,863	11,615	13,114
Iraq	9,552	19,153	21,107
Ireland	1,626	1,605	1,607
Israel	3,996	3,805	3,965
Italy	2,960	3,298	3,544
Jamaica	19,400	19,026	17,642
Japan	5,925	5,545	5,395
Jordan	4,188	5,187	4,664
Kazakhstan	1,241	1,221	1,201
Kenya	6,123	5,884	5,602
Kiribati	3	6	D
Korea, North	48	142	55
Korea, South¹	23,166	20,423	17,138
Kosovo	839	758	814
Kuwait	937	1,057	1,055
Kyrgyzstan	652	707	790
Laos	923	806	917
Latvia	424	384	480
Lebanon	2,783	3,245	2,813
Lesotho	20	13	23
Liberia	3,334	3,874	3,795
Libya	376	524	734
Lithuania	854	747	750
Luxembourg	40	26	27
Macau	106	105	99
Macedonia	895	960	1,060
Madagascar	95	86	72
Malawi	159	172	160
Malaysia	2,477	2,622	2,749
Maldives	5	13	8
Mali	667	604	587
Malta	43	39	58
Marshall Islands	46	56	32
Mauritania	354	320	298
Mauritius	83	81	96
Mexico	135,028	134,052	158,619
Micronesia, Federated States	4	5	6
Moldova	2,485	2,341	2,496
Monaco	8	8	10
Mongolia	729	651	644
Montenegro	265	289	251
Montserrat	-	38	14
Morocco	3,336	3,605	3,710
Mozambique	73	71	107
Namibia	57	44	86
Nepal	13,046	12,357	12,926
Netherlands	1,142	1,195	1,309
Netherlands Antilles (former)	128	45	22
New Caledonia	6	6	9
New Zealand	921	796	855
Nicaragua	3,048	2,886	3,324
Niger	37	71	55
Nigeria	13,840	12,828	11,542
Norway	335	271	310
Oman	73	90	85
Pakistan	13,251	18,612	18,057
Palau	16	12	15
Panama	1,234	1,095	1,052
Papua New Guinea	27	18	11
Paraguay	448	391	382
Peru	12,564	10,606	10,148
Philippines	54,446	49,996	56,478
Poland	6,430	5,689	5,275
Portugal	918	892	857
Qatar	191	202	229
Romania	3,773	3,246	3,376
Russia	9,753	9,079	8,799
Rwanda	540	555	732
Saint Kitts-Nevis	259	263	222
Saint Lucia	853	844	739
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	529	448	415
Samoa	237	239	207
Sao Tome and Principe	6	5	6
Saudi Arabia	1,463	1,696	1,744
Senegal	1,340	1,273	1,244
Serbia	866	1,143	1,278
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	653	267	232
Seychelles	6	7	11
Sierra Leone	1,651	1,740	1,599
Singapore	835	779	781
Sint Maarten	-	45	45
Slovakia	507	460	424
Slovenia	62	78	107
Solomon Islands	3	5	D
Somalia	3,764	5,190	6,796
South Africa	2,629	2,676	2,907
South Sudan	59	74	127
Soviet Union (former)	1,264	1,136	1,022
Spain	2,480	2,928	3,303
Sri Lanka	1,847	1,767	1,763
Sudan	1,945	2,442	3,580
Suriname	178	158	134
Swaziland	15	23	19
Sweden	1,106	954	1,066
Switzerland	697	656	640
Syria	3,366	3,540	3,840
Taiwan	5,385	4,697	4,888
Tajikistan	550	516	595
Tanzania	837	774	799
Thailand	7,583	6,197	7,502
Togo	1,257	1,612	1,547
Tonga	348	320	327
Trinidad and Tobago	4,724	3,988	3,212
Tunisia	445	429	518
Turkey	4,144	3,834	4,201
Turkmenistan	210	254	226
Turks and Caicos Islands	50	40	38
Uganda	1,350	1,409	1,664
Ukraine	8,193	7,752	7,987
United Arab Emirates	910	1,039	1,193
United Kingdom	12,984	12,225	12,592
United States	319	358	370
Uruguay	1,352	1,128	1,078
Uzbekistan	4,382	5,194	3,977
Venezuela	9,572	8,427	9,144
Vietnam	27,101	30,283	30,832
Yemen	3,532	3,492	3,194
Zambia	505	441	460
Zimbabwe	924	797	779
All other countries²	27	31	34
Unknown	3,263	1,150	677

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