Table 28. Nonimmigrant Admissions (I-94 Only) by Selected Category of Admission and Region and Country of Citizenship: Fiscal Year 2018

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Region of Citizenship	Total	Tourists and Business Travelers (Visa Waiver)¹	Tourists and Business Travelers (Other)²	Students and Exchange Visitors³	Temporary Workers and Families⁴	Diplomats and Other Representatives⁵	All Other Classes	Unknown
Total	81,279,692	24,007,315	49,779,763	2,569,225	3,919,567	457,599	502,298	43,925
Africa	838,490	X	691,773	60,308	30,323	41,701	13,307	1,078
Asia	15,279,660	6,385,584	6,106,626	1,395,309	1,048,962	119,109	214,203	9,867
Europe	18,297,426	15,548,234	1,374,887	421,962	692,773	163,913	89,570	6,087
North America	37,987,067	X	35,364,834	482,505	1,901,216	71,097	152,492	14,923
Oceania	1,962,796	1,757,794	63,087	25,535	93,996	16,812	4,890	682
South America	6,828,559	315,703	6,113,518	176,216	148,485	43,229	24,628	6,780
Unknown	85,694	X	65,038	7,390	3,812	1,738	3,208	4,508

Country of Citizenship	Total	Tourists and Business Travelers (Visa Waiver)¹	Tourists and Business Travelers (Other)²	Students and Exchange Visitors³	Temporary Workers and Families⁴	Diplomats and Other Representatives⁵	All Other Classes	Unknown
Total	81,279,692	24,007,315	49,779,763	2,569,225	3,919,567	457,599	502,298	43,925
Afghanistan	3,379	X	1,961	544	48	685	100	41
Albania	20,713	X	17,595	1,812	466	519	295	26
Algeria	15,224	X	13,279	764	342	712	89	38
Andorra	1,949	1,692	56	77	70	D	D	-
Angola	8,864	X	6,400	1,366	272	750	43	33
Antigua and Barbuda	16,873	X	15,846	408	151	338	54	76
Argentina	1,146,405	X	1,102,041	12,515	22,961	5,808	1,410	1,670
Armenia	14,272	X	12,066	696	678	649	175	8
Australia⁶	1,563,991	1,412,605	32,782	18,412	86,076	12,086	1,839	191
Austria	233,473	206,643	8,911	6,372	8,870	2,229	418	30
Azerbaijan	9,007	X	6,879	1,209	266	588	60	5
Bahamas	295,093	X	283,979	7,601	696	1,340	948	529
Bahrain	8,614	X	7,061	1,006	89	447	11	-
Bangladesh	45,351	X	33,710	7,655	895	2,442	587	62
Barbados	69,433	X	67,187	791	491	663	280	21
Belarus	24,229	X	20,477	1,184	1,592	361	603	12
Belgium	335,312	303,669	7,863	5,864	13,609	3,888	378	41
Belize	32,649	X	29,552	828	228	874	1,151	16
Benin	3,243	X	2,282	288	77	573	20	3
Bhutan	1,229	X	729	226	D	235	22	D
Bolivia	77,165	X	71,554	2,653	1,038	1,274	589	57
Bosnia and Herzegovina	11,315	X	8,510	1,174	279	478	857	17
Botswana	3,185	X	2,204	331	123	419	100	8
Brazil	2,529,813	X	2,376,392	73,696	61,810	10,379	5,524	2,012
Brunei	1,589	1,086	148	122	D	208	D	-
Bulgaria	45,327	X	32,800	6,200	2,345	1,094	2,840	48
Burkina Faso	5,227	X	4,062	417	86	617	37	8
Burma	11,549	X	7,815	2,159	156	323	1,083	13
Burundi	1,475	X	1,040	184	10	218	17	6
Cabo Verde	4,913	X	4,471	95	85	126	113	23
Cambodia	6,838	X	4,944	864	91	494	431	14
Cameroon	14,405	X	11,531	1,026	339	1,316	171	22
Canada	13,704,855	X	12,304,744	212,144	1,077,714	16,749	91,714	1,790
Central African Republic	438	X	249	47	13	118	D	D
Chad	918	X	521	84	11	295	4	3
Chile	454,757	315,703	111,319	10,386	11,384	3,919	1,980	66
China, People's Republic^7,8	3,420,805	2,983	2,625,021	657,996	108,751	8,592	11,803	5,659
Colombia	1,055,609	X	985,010	32,210	22,664	9,821	4,973	931
Comoros	180	X	83	11	-	86	-	-
Congo, Democratic Republic	9,620	X	7,606	734	132	1,057	67	24
Congo, Republic	1,761	X	1,280	141	30	284	16	10
Costa Rica	335,957	X	323,113	4,375	5,714	1,649	1,070	36
Cote d'Ivoire	9,549	X	6,991	1,243	163	1,054	88	10
Croatia	37,646	X	28,846	2,442	1,672	738	3,928	20
Cuba	77,715	X	70,760	260	970	718	271	4,736
Cyprus	12,809	X	10,982	1,097	417	247	59	7
Czechia	141,599	122,434	6,503	6,249	4,574	1,492	324	23
Denmark⁹	371,310	338,063	8,906	7,004	12,114	4,549	605	69
Djibouti	442	X	232	28	D	173	D	5
Dominica	6,293	X	5,238	453	174	162	262	4
Dominican Republic	486,495	X	463,131	10,131	7,525	1,915	3,216	577
Ecuador	466,436	X	449,285	10,277	2,784	2,334	1,363	393
Egypt	101,379	X	84,731	7,950	4,238	3,959	455	46
El Salvador	225,133	X	215,425	3,043	2,562	1,929	1,737	437
Equatorial Guinea	1,817	X	1,082	309	D	413	D	D
Eritrea	1,634	X	1,339	125	7	82	65	16
Estonia	28,019	23,878	1,191	1,043	817	856	D	D
Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)	1,329	X	872	205	44	173	12	23
Ethiopia	25,986	X	21,741	2,061	480	1,199	420	85
Fiji	12,345	X	10,906	156	58	451	758	16
Finland	168,023	150,440	3,339	3,799	7,143	2,974	298	30
France¹⁰	2,236,217	2,022,153	35,911	53,480	105,368	15,724	2,996	585
Gabon	2,548	X	1,853	307	17	348	13	10
Gambia	2,311	X	1,690	147	53	354	46	21
Georgia	12,191	X	8,283	1,637	462	1,046	708	55
Germany	2,381,702	2,130,453	73,355	55,791	95,605	21,037	4,790	671
Ghana	34,295	X	27,266	3,765	997	1,883	317	67
Greece	108,897	82,453	10,627	6,633	4,831	1,694	2,621	38
Grenada	13,253	X	11,758	326	182	376	605	6
Guatemala	307,313	X	290,038	3,536	9,844	2,303	1,063	529
Guinea	3,522	X	2,939	108	54	379	33	9
Guinea-Bissau	273	X	133	22	D	111	D	3
Guyana	65,299	X	62,949	490	115	517	1,197	31
Haiti	146,325	X	140,111	1,591	725	1,629	2,099	170
Holy See	150	X	27	D	-	117	3	D
Honduras	236,927	X	221,720	4,809	3,246	1,361	5,426	365
Hungary	113,979	98,060	4,770	4,809	4,158	1,553	602	27
Iceland	76,784	68,724	4,357	1,577	1,036	438	634	18
India	2,223,163	X	1,377,406	196,357	592,797	9,159	46,407	1,037
Indonesia	153,099	X	106,157	13,690	2,127	4,375	26,677	73
Iran	9,582	X	4,186	4,870	94	291	84	57
Iraq	16,991	X	14,962	936	110	808	143	32
Ireland	630,939	576,099	11,839	13,704	26,211	2,194	681	211
Israel	503,918	X	453,620	14,897	22,947	11,548	688	218
Italy	1,456,866	1,315,270	37,829	32,776	55,269	9,984	5,440	298
Jamaica	370,408	X	330,222	14,450	17,598	1,480	6,464	194
Japan	3,809,830	3,509,759	25,432	65,143	188,630	16,202	4,336	328
Jordan	53,203	X	41,141	4,978	1,377	5,304	340	63
Kazakhstan	32,853	X	24,090	6,599	864	1,193	94	13
Kenya	39,708	X	31,084	3,673	1,057	3,098	763	33
Kiribati	886	X	185	50	19	147	478	7
Korea, North	77	X	D	16	D	47	-	D
Korea, South	2,541,826	2,290,705	68,110	124,047	48,228	7,917	2,496	323
Kosovo	5,085	X	3,554	844	113	476	D	D
Kuwait	60,044	X	39,371	18,892	226	1,549	D	D
Kyrgyzstan	4,955	X	3,595	782	65	354	121	38
Laos	2,463	X	1,643	247	27	274	266	6
Latvia	27,227	21,544	1,763	1,014	864	783	1,253	6
Lebanon	48,455	X	40,950	3,893	2,019	1,374	174	45
Lesotho	723	X	381	92	12	200	38	-
Liberia	4,368	X	3,343	303	59	546	90	27
Libya	915	X	286	297	57	267	D	D
Liechtenstein	2,108	1,890	48	43	70	57	-	-
Lithuania	45,709	37,734	1,997	2,936	1,243	977	455	367
Luxembourg	15,694	14,196	388	341	354	390	D	D
Macedonia	12,307	X	8,550	2,091	329	525	802	10
Madagascar	2,131	X	1,317	191	D	438	160	D
Malawi	3,377	X	2,199	370	D	654	104	D
Malaysia	108,370	416	89,896	10,037	5,598	1,543	824	56
Maldives	490	X	241	62	D	161	D	-
Mali	4,787	X	3,658	357	158	560	37	17
Malta	8,136	6,999	466	142	222	279	28	-
Marshall Islands	194	X	55	D	D	80	42	12
Mauritania	1,120	X	645	110	22	339	D	D
Mauritius	7,637	X	5,091	551	206	295	1,480	14
Mexico	21,182,686	X	20,144,745	206,469	766,649	33,396	26,296	5,131
Micronesia, Federated States	370	X	106	D	-	141	D	120
Moldova	10,340	X	8,117	1,014	426	572	201	10
Monaco	1,157	888	D	64	62	81	D	-
Mongolia	16,202	X	12,191	2,829	385	666	123	8
Morocco¹¹	35,248	X	29,084	2,674	872	2,252	290	76
Mozambique	2,803	X	1,935	227	134	464	34	9
Namibia	2,749	X	2,039	198	61	344	100	7
Nauru	153	28	40	D	-	79	D	-
Nepal	36,733	X	26,819	6,613	1,565	935	711	90
Netherlands¹²	890,570	812,905	22,199	13,511	28,684	10,593	2,388	290
New Zealand¹³	376,671	345,102	12,541	6,553	7,746	2,948	1,475	306
Nicaragua	80,186	X	73,513	1,163	1,603	666	3,165	76
Niger	1,909	X	1,207	191	28	468	10	5
Nigeria	221,819	X	202,333	12,014	3,377	3,151	840	104
Norway	306,062	276,912	8,033	8,466	6,520	5,489	611	31
Oman	10,866	X	4,824	4,912	110	1,000	D	D
Pakistan	129,736	X	108,969	11,922	5,421	2,734	528	162
Palau	171	X	42	-	-	104	3	22
Panama	163,848	X	151,989	6,025	1,645	1,743	2,306	140
Papua New Guinea	1,022	59	617	115	D	159	57	D
Paraguay	36,127	X	32,732	1,880	390	991	109	25
Peru	347,186	X	315,351	15,165	5,794	4,586	5,831	459
Philippines	498,980	X	359,572	15,340	14,550	5,223	103,749	546
Poland	265,052	X	234,233	11,675	9,497	3,846	5,651	150
Portugal	226,500	205,780	5,627	4,219	7,037	1,931	1,853	53
Qatar	16,779	X	12,529	2,358	29	1,843	D	D
Romania	117,798	X	93,131	9,739	4,886	2,095	7,868	79
Russia	290,901	X	246,694	16,522	15,742	4,035	7,676	232
Rwanda	6,963	X	4,133	1,838	149	778	55	10
Saint Kitts and Nevis	12,936	X	12,191	435	105	164	36	5
Saint Lucia	18,814	X	16,502	395	116	344	1,448	9
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	12,374	X	10,616	142	38	213	1,361	4
Samoa	2,800	X	2,438	84	D	127	121	D
San Marino	807	746	D	11	7	D	-	-
Sao Tome and Principe	94	X	26	D	-	56	-	D
Saudi Arabia	182,445	X	106,345	65,518	1,651	8,894	23	14
Senegal	10,438	X	8,093	701	156	1,388	83	17
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	20,031	X	15,482	2,149	570	434	1,386	10
Seychelles	498	X	321	31	5	126	15	-
Sierra Leone	3,527	X	2,730	197	24	483	85	8
Singapore	166,194	138,013	2,454	10,906	9,419	4,713	491	198
Slovakia	63,839	53,181	3,136	4,344	2,181	780	208	9
Slovenia	30,969	27,019	1,403	969	976	470	D	D
Solomon Islands	318	X	178	28	D	80	28	D
Somalia	240	X	83	35	D	88	D	17
South Africa	168,289	X	139,282	7,735	13,719	2,414	4,981	158
South Sudan	641	X	323	114	D	176	18	D
Spain	1,213,431	1,080,300	25,256	43,573	52,704	8,896	2,451	251
Sri Lanka	30,584	X	23,150	3,004	1,577	1,260	1,571	22
Sudan	4,663	X	3,633	463	67	454	28	18
Suriname	13,178	X	12,450	175	66	314	165	8
Sweden	582,603	529,534	14,997	13,039	18,685	5,403	835	110
Switzerland	445,323	403,095	15,881	10,366	11,896	3,356	658	71
Syria	6,349	X	5,662	427	65	123	57	15
Taiwan	539,788	442,622	26,659	48,328	20,239	63	1,523	354
Tajikistan	2,196	X	1,390	441	61	287	17	-
Tanzania	8,535	X	6,387	1,060	232	739	113	4
Thailand	127,783	X	96,732	22,149	2,993	3,047	2,811	51
Timor-Leste	212	X	53	34	-	121	4	-
Togo	3,129	X	2,401	196	40	420	63	9
Tonga	3,453	X	3,046	108	46	209	D	D
Trinidad and Tobago	191,501	X	182,454	3,130	3,240	1,085	1,520	72
Tunisia	14,624	X	10,898	1,520	596	1,229	349	32
Turkey	205,199	X	160,875	26,856	10,614	4,571	2,223	60
Turkmenistan	1,575	X	998	320	51	197	D	D
Tuvalu	189	X	43	7	-	109	27	3
Uganda	14,693	X	10,537	1,249	820	1,890	187	10
Ukraine	129,239	X	99,414	6,285	8,889	1,720	12,850	81
United Arab Emirates	39,231	X	31,313	5,247	56	2,585	10	20
United Kingdom¹⁴	5,162,089	4,635,480	240,735	56,614	174,787	38,720	13,599	2,154
Uruguay	90,563	X	85,708	1,242	1,572	1,553	271	217
Uzbekistan	12,628	X	9,840	1,559	321	797	101	10
Vanuatu	233	X	108	15	5	92	13	-
Venezuela	546,021	X	508,727	15,527	17,907	1,733	1,216	911
Vietnam	137,360	X	104,773	25,456	2,783	1,728	2,484	136
Yemen	1,868	X	1,071	433	68	267	13	16
Zambia	5,928	X	4,222	583	143	852	D	D
Zimbabwe	12,396	X	8,225	1,570	660	833	1,098	10
Unknown	85,694	X	65,038	7,390	3,812	1,738	3,208	4,508

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