Table 3. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Years 2016 to 2018

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Region of Birth	2016	2017	2018
Total	1,183,505	1,127,167	1,096,611
Africa	113,426	118,824	115,736
Asia	462,299	424,743	397,187
Europe	93,567	84,335	80,024
North America	427,293	413,650	418,991
Oceania	5,588	5,071	4,653
South America	79,608	79,076	78,869
Unknown	1,724	1,468	1,151

Country of Birth	2016	2017	2018
Total	1,183,505	1,127,167	1,096,611
Afghanistan	12,513	19,538	12,935
Albania	5,773	5,722	5,049
Algeria	2,180	2,139	2,123
American Samoa	-	D	D
Angola	198	209	176
Anguilla	20	23	23
Antigua and Barbuda	324	322	325
Argentina	4,091	3,482	3,080
Armenia	3,543	3,437	3,217
Aruba	23	47	45
Australia	3,239	2,906	2,693
Austria	432	387	401
Azerbaijan	784	881	1,015
Bahamas	656	725	759
Bahrain	138	130	143
Bangladesh	18,723	14,693	15,717
Barbados	371	373	318
Belarus	2,127	1,919	1,951
Belgium	691	625	537
Belize	851	746	632
Benin	577	648	573
Bermuda	99	68	65
Bhutan	4,217	2,940	2,350
Bolivia	1,595	1,510	1,523
Bosnia and Herzegovina	971	846	682
Botswana	78	112	72
Brazil	13,812	14,989	15,394
Brunei	31	24	29
Bulgaria	2,670	2,184	1,798
Burkina Faso	642	541	525
Burma	13,065	12,897	8,182
Burundi	415	1,094	762
Cabo Verde	2,242	2,618	1,929
Cambodia	3,173	4,056	3,187
Cameroon	4,899	4,668	4,236
Canada	12,793	11,484	9,898
Cayman Islands	55	67	47
Central African Republic	202	178	304
Chad	136	205	251
Chile	1,698	1,625	1,519
China, People's Republic	81,772	71,565	65,214
Colombia	18,610	17,956	17,545
Comoros	4	4	8
Congo, Democratic Republic	6,791	8,709	9,941
Congo, Republic	625	632	580
Costa Rica	2,224	2,184	2,171
Cote d'Ivoire	1,617	1,810	1,375
Croatia	388	375	286
Cuba	66,516	65,028	76,486
Curacao	35	34	56
Cyprus	131	117	120
Czechia	650	582	534
Czechoslovakia (former)	62	52	51
Denmark	521	461	353
Djibouti	281	222	281
Dominica	298	510	492
Dominican Republic	61,161	58,520	57,413
Ecuador	10,757	10,594	11,472
Egypt	12,045	9,834	9,826
El Salvador	23,449	25,109	28,326
Equatorial Guinea	18	20	17
Eritrea	2,267	2,449	2,428
Estonia	211	176	151
Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)	20	19	18
Ethiopia	13,232	14,637	12,403
Fiji	866	805	730
Finland	489	439	442
France	5,159	4,782	4,276
French Polynesia	27	20	10
Gabon	165	150	112
Gambia	1,247	1,134	1,023
Georgia	1,635	1,629	1,643
Germany	5,306	4,662	4,443
Ghana	6,949	8,455	8,394
Greece	1,451	1,314	1,214
Grenada	585	544	501
Guatemala	13,002	13,198	15,638
Guinea	1,501	1,348	1,282
Guinea-Bissau	37	48	27
Guyana	5,771	5,468	5,165
Haiti	23,584	21,824	21,360
Honduras	13,302	11,387	13,794
Hong Kong	2,510	2,415	2,075
Hungary	1,048	972	917
Iceland	97	86	89
India	64,687	60,394	59,821
Indonesia	2,129	1,914	1,756
Iran	13,298	13,791	10,116
Iraq	18,904	14,203	14,351
Ireland	1,759	1,485	1,401
Israel	4,142	3,802	3,706
Italy	4,078	3,655	3,329
Jamaica	23,350	21,905	20,347
Japan	5,207	4,635	4,317
Jordan	5,269	5,264	5,322
Kazakhstan	1,310	1,377	1,378
Kenya	6,274	6,957	7,190
Kiribati	9	D	D
Korea, North	47	32	41
Korea, South ¹	21,801	19,194	17,676
Kosovo	1,020	1,014	886
Kuwait	1,186	1,177	1,090
Kyrgyzstan	847	715	908
Laos	856	685	863
Latvia	391	359	356
Lebanon	2,971	2,818	2,581
Lesotho	19	24	12
Liberia	3,619	4,155	3,101
Libya	642	780	499
Lithuania	735	645	658
Luxembourg	34	33	30
Macau	109	109	91
Macedonia	1,262	1,027	1,082
Madagascar	88	60	79
Malawi	205	228	257
Malaysia	3,382	4,109	3,051
Maldives	11	5	D
Mali	598	544	488
Malta	65	75	58
Marshall Islands	32	23	23
Mauritania	317	287	212
Mauritius	110	96	67
Mexico	174,534	170,581	161,858
Micronesia, Federated States	11	6	19
Moldova	2,929	2,480	2,206
Monaco	11	14	13
Mongolia	750	661	636
Montenegro	387	323	299
Montserrat	14	12	20
Morocco	4,586	4,229	3,077
Mozambique	101	96	100
Namibia	87	130	75
Nepal	12,851	11,610	11,953
Netherlands	1,319	1,056	998
Netherlands Antilles (former)	18	9	7
New Caledonia	5	4	6
New Zealand	846	798	719
Nicaragua	3,486	3,072	3,061
Niger	119	116	93
Nigeria	14,380	13,539	13,952
Norway	362	290	284
Oman	116	104	110
Pakistan	19,313	17,408	15,802
Palau	14	13	7
Panama	1,029	889	897
Papua New Guinea	23	18	27
Paraguay	434	391	389
Peru	10,940	10,115	9,878
Philippines	53,287	49,147	47,258
Poland	5,603	4,845	4,357
Portugal	1,006	939	889
Qatar	272	224	236
Romania	3,554	2,953	2,448
Russia	9,297	8,918	8,621
Rwanda	1,357	1,394	1,620
Saint Kitts and Nevis	250	238	250
Saint Lucia	777	777	696
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	422	361	333
Samoa	219	194	179
Sao Tome and Principe	12	10	9
Saudi Arabia	2,117	2,135	2,100
Senegal	1,533	1,470	1,420
Serbia	1,351	1,410	1,217
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	202	144	132
Seychelles	16	10	6
Sierra Leone	1,535	2,058	1,527
Singapore	812	818	801
Sint Maarten	42	35	27
Slovakia	483	388	370
Slovenia	119	108	95
Somalia	6,958	7,404	7,557
South Africa	3,023	2,912	3,010
South Sudan	124	160	185
Soviet Union (former)	1,042	939	1,022
Spain	3,519	3,045	2,841
Sri Lanka	1,913	1,627	1,594
Sudan	3,159	3,515	3,658
Suriname	156	136	182
Sweden	1,144	950	889
Switzerland	743	565	570
Syria	4,800	5,877	14,686
Taiwan	5,120	4,858	5,079
Tajikistan	593	652	893
Tanzania	788	1,415	3,186
Thailand	7,039	6,311	5,556
Togo	1,938	1,572	1,534
Tonga	283	262	225
Trinidad and Tobago	3,469	3,100	2,758
Tunisia	518	535	517
Turkey	4,469	4,844	5,585
Turkmenistan	235	251	286
Turks and Caicos Islands	39	35	41
Uganda	1,649	1,898	2,412
Ukraine	10,422	10,135	11,879
United Arab Emirates	1,370	1,314	1,379
United Kingdom	12,673	10,948	9,908
United States	468	409	306
Uruguay	972	1,001	960
Uzbekistan	4,359	4,095	4,612
Venezuela	10,772	11,809	11,762
Vietnam	41,451	38,231	33,834
Virgin Islands, British	40	25	37
Yemen	13,040	6,029	1,885
Zambia	487	537	477
Zimbabwe	815	810	749
All other countries ²	34	37	33
Unknown	1,724	1,468	1,151

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