Table 10. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Broad Class of Admission and Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Year 2016

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Region of Birth	Total	Family-Sponsored Preferences	Employment-Based Preferences	Immediate Relatives of U.S. Citizens	Diversity	Refugees and Asylees	Other
Total	1,183,505	238,087	137,893	566,706	49,865	157,425	33,529
Africa	113,426	11,420	5,054	51,206	20,137	25,265	344
Asia	462,299	108,734	81,288	180,168	15,503	62,895	13,711
Europe	93,567	6,380	21,323	49,513	11,949	4,197	205
North America	427,293	96,604	18,330	231,712	714	62,053	17,880
Oceania	5,588	458	1,276	3,132	675	38	9
South America	79,608	14,120	10,568	49,814	827	2,934	1,345
Unknown	1,724	371	54	1,161	60	43	35

Country of Birth	Total	Family-Sponsored Preferences	Employment-Based Preferences	Immediate Relatives of U.S. Citizens	Diversity	Refugees and Asylees	Other
Total	1,183,505	238,087	137,893	566,706	49,865	157,425	33,529
Afghanistan	12,513	400	42	1,081	127	686	10,177
Albania	5,773	889	75	2,918	1,730	155	6
Algeria	2,180	169	62	674	1,253	21	1
Angola	198	20	30	85	30	32	1
Anguilla	20	4	-	15	-	-	1
Antigua and Barbuda	324	91	15	217	-	-	1
Argentina	4,091	195	1,343	2,341	31	101	80
Armenia	3,543	304	102	1,589	1,286	256	6
Aruba	23	D	D	D	-	-	-
Australia	3,239	67	1,006	1,773	388	D	D
Austria	432	15	149	233	27	5	3
Azerbaijan	784	54	56	354	232	87	1
Bahamas	656	52	60	532	5	5	2
Bahrain	138	28	62	36	5	7	-
Bangladesh	18,723	9,899	653	7,841	D	289	D
Barbados	371	80	42	245	-	-	4
Belarus	2,127	109	285	751	792	188	2
Belgium	691	19	308	323	32	9	-
Belize	851	183	46	586	D	D	24
Benin	577	21	18	267	249	22	-
Bermuda	99	D	19	70	D	-	-
Bhutan	4,217	3	11	47	3	4,153	-
Bolivia	1,595	287	109	1,098	24	38	39
Bosnia and Herzegovina	971	126	72	642	61	65	5
Botswana	78	8	14	39	3	13	1
Brazil	13,812	551	3,489	9,438	14	152	168
Brunei	31	4	14	13	-	-	-
Bulgaria	2,670	163	281	1,445	726	50	5
Burkina Faso	642	38	11	267	144	179	3
Burma	13,065	569	61	777	125	11,532	1
Burundi	415	9	11	58	58	278	1
Cabo Verde	2,242	1,086	3	1,145	3	4	1
Cambodia	3,173	508	70	2,239	287	63	6
Cameroon	4,899	485	104	1,936	1,664	701	9
Canada	12,793	576	5,221	6,665	62	73	196
Cayman Islands	55	8	3	38	-	6	-
Central African Republic	202	5	D	26	D	167	-
Chad	136	6	4	27	15	84	-
Chile	1,698	81	381	1,166	3	49	18
China, People's Republic	81,772	17,294	19,942	31,658	28	12,657	193
Colombia	18,610	3,097	1,339	13,014	14	1,008	138
Congo, Democratic Republic	6,791	208	39	865	2,839	2,840	-
Congo, Republic	625	6	11	97	46	460	5
Costa Rica	2,224	148	237	1,753	3	52	31
Cote d'Ivoire	1,617	126	36	730	391	309	25
Croatia	388	20	72	254	29	13	-
Cuba	66,516	4,363	17	4,555	538	57,036	7
Curacao	35	4	4	22	-	5	-
Cyprus	131	7	23	80	12	9	-
Czechia	650	9	151	445	38	5	2
Czechoslovakia (former)	62	D	11	42	-	D	4
Denmark	521	14	243	243	17	3	1
Djibouti	281	7	4	54	24	191	1
Dominica	298	155	4	136	3	-	-
Dominican Republic	61,161	28,375	330	32,191	3	111	151
Ecuador	10,757	3,043	671	6,246	-	235	562
Egypt	12,045	941	881	3,899	3,476	2,826	22
El Salvador	23,449	6,573	1,860	12,516	-	897	1,603
Equatorial Guinea	18	D	-	14	-	D	-
Eritrea	2,267	178	29	678	134	1,247	1
Estonia	211	D	38	140	18	D	-
Ethiopia	13,232	1,993	190	5,372	2,096	3,569	12
Fiji	866	296	14	341	181	33	1
Finland	489	12	225	215	35	-	2
France	5,159	186	2,418	2,233	276	37	9
French Polynesia	27	-	D	21	D	-	-
Gabon	165	D	9	108	13	32	D
Gambia	1,247	104	18	850	19	242	14
Georgia	1,635	142	82	900	445	64	2
Germany	5,306	171	1,653	3,019	409	42	12
Ghana	6,949	1,151	252	4,962	478	90	16
Greece	1,451	59	340	916	117	18	1
Grenada	585	78	29	464	D	D	9
Guatemala	13,002	2,438	1,530	6,295	13	1,162	1,564
Guinea	1,501	122	16	743	245	352	23
Guinea-Bissau	37	4	D	28	-	D	-
Guyana	5,771	3,256	57	2,399	4	21	34
Haiti	23,584	8,807	169	13,576	-	948	84
Honduras	13,302	2,284	1,316	8,379	28	469	826
Hong Kong	2,510	943	692	801	47	25	2
Hungary	1,048	23	264	653	94	13	1
Iceland	97	D	D	57	-	-	-
India	64,687	18,230	20,747	24,246	28	1,068	368
Indonesia	2,129	187	382	1,324	37	173	26
Iran	13,298	2,523	1,600	3,172	2,883	3,111	9
Iraq	18,904	279	72	1,310	103	15,026	2,114
Ireland	1,759	40	666	993	51	4	5
Israel	4,142	174	1,704	2,119	102	33	10
Italy	4,078	146	1,320	2,106	273	228	5
Jamaica	23,350	5,831	823	16,587	D	D	55
Japan	5,207	167	1,650	3,203	170	8	9
Jordan	5,269	1,360	311	3,199	102	284	13
Kazakhstan	1,310	64	155	588	359	144	-
Kenya	6,274	399	423	2,810	1,039	1,574	29
Korea, North	47	D	D	27	-	12	-
Korea, South	21,801	1,250	13,463	7,053	7	9	19
Kosovo	1,020	121	22	605	180	91	1
Kuwait	1,186	192	197	473	57	262	5
Kyrgyzstan	847	42	47	328	228	201	1
Laos	856	105	12	720	-	18	1
Latvia	391	34	59	264	31	D	D
Lebanon	2,971	793	349	1,668	47	109	5
Lesotho	19	D	-	15	-	D	1
Liberia	3,619	326	30	1,504	1,403	352	4
Libya	642	34	66	328	75	135	4
Lithuania	735	53	60	476	140	D	D
Luxembourg	34	3	16	12	D	D	-
Macau	109	30	45	28	6	-	-
Macedonia	1,262	204	42	730	266	17	3
Madagascar	88	D	18	42	20	D	-
Malawi	205	11	23	104	7	59	1
Malaysia	3,382	181	552	781	37	1,822	9
Maldives	11	D	D	7	-	D	-
Mali	598	30	26	326	26	168	22
Malta	65	-	9	26	-	30	-
Marshall Islands	32	D	-	D	-	-	D
Mauritania	317	16	16	127	6	151	1
Mauritius	110	11	38	51	10	-	-
Mexico	174,534	34,718	6,078	119,541	11	1,042	13,144
Micronesia, Federated States	11	-	-	D	D	-	-
Moldova	2,929	149	102	814	1,435	428	1
Monaco	11	D	4	4	D	-	-
Mongolia	750	29	112	354	135	106	14
Montenegro	387	94	11	261	8	9	4
Montserrat	14	D	-	8	D	-	-
Morocco	4,586	421	152	2,958	1,025	21	9
Mozambique	101	3	8	37	-	53	-
Namibia	87	D	12	31	D	41	-
Nepal	12,851	994	1,386	2,989	3,242	4,209	31
Netherlands	1,319	39	542	683	43	9	3
Netherlands Antilles (former)	18	D	D	13	D	-	-
New Zealand	846	35	234	484	90	D	D
Nicaragua	3,486	778	75	2,401	10	121	101
Niger	119	8	12	86	13	-	-
Nigeria	14,380	2,313	958	10,914	20	133	42
Norway	362	21	104	231	D	D	-
Oman	116	24	35	27	12	17	1
Pakistan	19,313	7,121	1,992	9,272	10	887	31
Palau	14	D	-	D	-	-	-
Panama	1,029	146	96	760	4	17	6
Papua New Guinea	23	D	5	13	D	-	-
Paraguay	434	30	46	337	-	17	4
Peru	10,940	2,687	462	7,425	8	140	218
Philippines	53,287	14,857	7,657	30,345	9	17	402
Poland	5,603	887	798	3,512	363	11	32
Portugal	1,006	62	197	704	18	15	10
Qatar	272	51	54	106	43	18	-
Romania	3,554	270	562	2,224	403	91	4
Russia	9,297	555	1,627	4,781	1,815	499	20
Rwanda	1,357	20	20	100	258	956	3
Saint Kitts and Nevis	250	74	4	172	-	-	-
Saint Lucia	777	104	32	628	D	D	D
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	422	75	28	314	D	D	1
Samoa	219	D	D	211	-	-	-
Sao Tome and Principe	12	D	D	9	-	-	-
Saudi Arabia	2,117	316	318	901	271	307	4
Senegal	1,533	137	63	1,085	117	86	45
Serbia	1,351	108	122	859	239	22	1
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	202	7	36	98	-	56	5
Seychelles	16	D	D	10	-	-	-
Sierra Leone	1,535	128	10	949	324	121	3
Singapore	812	42	431	316	15	5	3
Sint Maarten	42	-	6	33	-	3	-
Slovakia	483	19	89	339	28	7	1
Slovenia	119	D	35	69	9	3	D
Somalia	6,958	177	13	1,489	80	5,199	-
South Africa	3,023	112	932	1,433	231	307	8
South Sudan	124	3	-	100	7	14	-
Soviet Union (former)	1,042	16	153	568	4	296	5
Spain	3,519	118	1,321	1,383	151	540	6
Sri Lanka	1,913	254	477	634	296	241	11
Sudan	3,159	111	28	726	1,256	1,037	1
Suriname	156	44	9	97	D	D	-
Swaziland	20	-	D	D	D	-	-
Sweden	1,144	27	444	617	46	7	3
Switzerland	743	21	291	369	45	16	1
Syria	4,800	1,170	241	1,850	114	1,416	9
Taiwan	5,120	841	2,083	2,052	137	D	D
Tajikistan	593	29	52	179	289	42	2
Tanzania	788	51	59	420	28	226	4
Thailand	7,039	300	362	3,612	32	2,651	82
Togo	1,938	201	11	899	710	114	3
Tonga	283	48	8	221	4	-	2
Trinidad and Tobago	3,469	614	242	2,556	21	5	31
Tunisia	518	17	55	366	64	14	2
Turkey	4,469	227	1,154	1,900	1,000	179	9
Turkmenistan	235	15	29	98	75	18	-
Turks and Caicos Islands	39	5	D	28	D	D	-
Uganda	1,649	86	109	663	152	623	16
Ukraine	10,422	986	930	5,404	1,915	1,175	12
United Arab Emirates	1,370	247	382	388	137	197	19
United Kingdom	12,673	565	5,132	6,848	76	28	24
United States	468	D	30	364	D	30	28
Uruguay	972	31	112	763	4	33	29
Uzbekistan	4,359	588	133	903	2,500	225	10
Venezuela	10,772	818	2,550	5,490	724	1,135	55
Vietnam	41,451	21,845	1,261	18,172	-	115	58
Virgin Islands, British	40	8	5	27	-	-	-
Yemen	13,040	4,049	26	8,407	421	134	3
Zambia	487	22	78	280	15	91	1
Zimbabwe	815	76	143	399	66	123	8
All other countries ¹	52	D	10	28	6	D	-
Unknown	1,724	371	54	1,161	60	43	35

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