Table 10. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Broad Class of Admission and Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Year 2019

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Region of Birth	Total	Immediate Relatives of U.S. Citizens	Family-Sponsored Preferences	Employment-Based Preferences	Diversity	Refugees and Asylees	Other
Total	1,031,765	505,765	204,139	139,458	43,463	106,911	32,029
Africa	111,194	48,500	11,859	6,898	18,584	25,073	280
Asia	364,761	145,525	87,225	77,716	12,810	31,989	9,496
Europe	87,597	43,586	6,301	22,002	10,192	5,283	233
North America	370,860	205,659	84,768	18,470	285	41,336	20,342
Oceania	5,359	2,803	483	1,462	596	9	6
South America	90,850	58,971	13,182	12,897	969	3,202	1,629
Unknown	1,144	721	321	13	27	19	43

Country of Birth	Total	Immediate Relatives of U.S. Citizens	Family-Sponsored Preferences	Employment-Based Preferences	Diversity	Refugees and Asylees	Other
Total	1,031,765	505,765	204,139	139,458	43,463	106,911	32,029
Afghanistan	10,136	744	328	34	254	928	7,848
Albania	5,366	1,749	1,259	114	2,139	100	5
Algeria	2,299	744	141	67	1,327	D	D
Angola	226	117	27	18	22	42	-
Anguilla	14	11	D	-	-	-	D
Antigua and Barbuda	323	222	86	D	D	-	D
Argentina	3,925	2,326	189	1,181	52	123	54
Armenia	3,101	1,191	305	200	1,208	189	8
Aruba	52	43	5	4	-	-	-
Australia	3,205	1,621	88	1,144	344	3	5
Austria	437	234	25	168	5	D	D
Azerbaijan	1,169	337	56	73	640	63	-
Bahamas	922	756	76	76	8	3	3
Bahrain	183	60	28	90	D	D	D
Bangladesh	15,176	6,146	7,773	1,071	D	158	D
Barbados	338	227	68	D	-	-	D
Belarus	2,263	721	154	375	888	D	D
Belgium	714	328	19	330	24	9	4
Belize	806	611	150	24	-	9	12
Benin	619	294	48	18	251	8	-
Bermuda	84	62	D	16	-	-	D
Bhutan	1,441	56	D	D	17	1,360	-
Bolivia	1,525	1,009	266	145	10	44	51
Bosnia and Herzegovina	637	422	101	58	D	28	D
Botswana	61	39	D	15	-	D	-
Brazil	19,825	12,730	767	5,867	8	248	205
Brunei	23	9	D	10	-	D	-
Bulgaria	1,759	1,156	153	205	217	22	6
Burkina Faso	646	385	38	D	105	87	D
Burma	5,024	860	582	D	193	3,311	D
Burundi	781	126	12	D	134	504	D
Cabo Verde	1,852	874	965	9	D	-	D
Cambodia	2,748	1,936	581	131	78	16	6
Cameroon	4,369	1,871	502	100	1,403	489	4
Canada	11,388	5,588	489	4,998	58	54	201
Cayman Islands	53	34	9	5	-	5	-
Central African Republic	231	20	6	D	9	189	D
Chad	224	44	-	6	24	150	-
Chile	1,762	1,147	109	408	18	60	20
China, People's Republic	62,248	25,104	12,748	17,154	21	7,081	140
Colombia	19,841	15,171	2,506	1,356	D	704	D
Comoros	10	5	-	D	D	-	-
Congo, Democratic Republic	8,999	591	302	60	2,638	5,403	5
Congo, Republic	476	142	9	34	136	152	3
Costa Rica	2,348	1,800	204	245	13	49	37
Cote d'Ivoire	1,589	818	192	42	380	146	11
Croatia	360	215	26	99	13	7	-
Cuba	41,641	4,276	4,334	12	112	32,900	7
Curacao	53	36	D	9	-	D	-
Cyprus	111	64	6	34	4	3	-
Czechia	714	487	21	155	33	15	3
Denmark	416	207	13	182	8	3	3
Djibouti	151	33	D	D	26	77	-
Dominica	511	308	176	20	4	-	3
Dominican Republic	49,911	23,778	25,694	230	3	115	91
Ecuador	11,083	6,329	2,968	416	108	378	884
Egypt	9,479	3,077	1,015	982	3,313	1,087	5
El Salvador	27,656	15,718	5,807	1,725	D	2,785	D
Equatorial Guinea	30	25	D	D	D	D	-
Eritrea	2,385	615	179	141	98	1,349	3
Estonia	193	118	10	41	20	4	-
Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)	32	14	D	13	D	-	-
Ethiopia	9,060	3,575	1,355	283	1,520	2,321	6
Fiji	734	273	293	13	152	3	-
Finland	497	159	10	308	20	-	-
France	4,787	2,008	152	2,364	218	29	16
French Polynesia	25	19	-	6	-	-	-
Gabon	148	103	7	3	13	22	-
Gambia	1,378	1,000	148	16	24	170	20
Georgia	1,691	852	135	80	595	25	4
Germany	4,848	2,687	153	1,727	223	47	11
Ghana	8,526	6,101	1,363	344	610	83	25
Greece	1,350	750	91	396	99	11	3
Grenada	554	407	115	23	D	D	D
Guatemala	13,453	6,008	2,264	1,333	33	2,070	1,745
Guinea	1,579	967	177	11	238	169	17
Guinea-Bissau	51	47	D	-	D	-	-
Guyana	5,385	2,391	2,886	85	10	4	9
Haiti	17,253	10,826	5,761	144	D	475	D
Honduras	15,901	10,362	1,958	1,235	24	1,371	951
Hong Kong	2,021	622	565	782	41	D	D
Hungary	1,070	730	31	263	35	5	6
Iceland	70	33	D	32	D	-	-
India	54,495	21,049	13,387	18,553	25	1,007	474
Indonesia	1,899	1,217	208	292	69	95	18
Iran	6,640	1,397	416	2,512	190	2,096	29
Iraq	6,514	1,456	402	86	281	4,076	213
Ireland	1,760	947	33	752	22	6	-
Israel	4,304	2,267	150	1,732	76	64	15
Italy	3,822	1,896	187	1,378	164	186	11
Jamaica	21,689	15,484	4,942	1,184	D	D	47
Japan	4,503	2,547	148	1,607	195	3	3
Jordan	4,998	2,804	1,133	334	278	439	10
Kazakhstan	1,533	682	D	201	465	120	D
Kenya	7,052	2,673	517	742	1,139	1,948	33
Korea, North	29	23	-	3	-	D	D
Korea, South	18,479	6,812	1,118	10,495	16	4	34
Kosovo	1,020	469	268	20	221	42	-
Kuwait	1,201	377	231	383	59	148	3
Kyrgyzstan	881	280	37	61	333	165	5
Laos	850	707	102	22	D	15	D
Latvia	319	215	23	40	24	13	4
Lebanon	2,605	1,285	746	401	77	93	3
Lesotho	22	15	D	D	D	-	D
Liberia	3,495	1,803	514	15	900	255	8
Libya	511	214	23	156	52	66	-
Lithuania	750	495	69	73	99	4	10
Luxembourg	42	24	D	D	-	-	-
Macau	99	32	28	36	3	-	-
Madagascar	75	42	D	24	5	D	-
Malawi	213	95	9	15	3	88	3
Malaysia	2,303	709	162	557	29	835	11
Mali	586	445	52	8	26	41	14
Malta	47	10	-	D	D	28	-
Marshall Islands	22	D	-	D	-	-	-
Mauritania	230	108	35	4	16	67	-
Mauritius	95	54	5	27	6	D	D
Mexico	156,052	102,103	30,554	6,698	13	1,303	15,381
Micronesia, Federated States	21	D	-	D	D	-	-
Moldova	1,935	907	95	103	541	286	3
Mongolia	765	341	46	141	166	62	9
Montenegro	376	258	97	D	13	D	-
Montserrat	24	21	3	-	-	-	-
Morocco	3,721	2,019	352	141	1,183	13	13
Mozambique	77	32	D	D	-	33	-
Namibia	98	48	-	15	7	28	-
Nepal	10,201	2,637	895	1,528	2,919	2,192	30
Netherlands	1,274	640	40	551	33	D	D
Netherlands Antilles (former)	21	16	D	D	-	-	-
New Zealand	844	427	D	288	82	D	D
Nicaragua	3,818	2,680	828	77	4	113	116
Niger	201	134	6	23	25	8	5
Nigeria	15,888	11,491	2,527	1,655	11	172	32
North Macedonia (formerly Macedonia)	1,079	590	208	67	196	18	-
Norway	329	255	6	59	D	5	D
Oman	148	39	11	84	D	6	D
Pakistan	13,921	5,999	4,743	2,266	13	815	85
Palau	14	11	-	3	-	-	-
Panama	1,059	788	148	89	-	27	7
Papua New Guinea	24	20	-	D	D	-	-
Paraguay	452	353	41	37	5	12	4
Peru	10,049	6,722	2,535	413	D	D	222
Philippines	45,920	24,441	13,793	7,358	8	17	303
Poland	4,700	2,956	535	922	227	12	48
Portugal	940	622	47	237	8	19	7
Qatar	287	84	45	97	42	19	-
Romania	2,616	1,680	203	475	199	52	7
Russia	9,822	4,441	555	2,082	2,190	534	20
Rwanda	1,509	114	50	26	330	986	3
Saint Kitts and Nevis	238	123	109	D	-	D	-
Saint Lucia	726	541	144	34	D	D	D
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	403	309	73	D	-	-	D
Samoa	195	183	D	D	-	-	-
Sao Tome and Principe	12	9	3	-	-	-	-
Saudi Arabia	2,514	1,055	318	492	416	229	4
Senegal	1,665	1,205	242	58	88	53	19
Serbia	1,532	1,060	117	143	184	28	-
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	139	76	3	27	-	28	5
Sierra Leone	1,443	1,023	209	15	147	46	3
Singapore	818	301	58	448	8	3	-
Sint Maarten	37	D	-	D	-	-	-
Slovakia	422	289	18	92	16	D	D
Slovenia	119	61	D	53	D	D	-
Somalia	3,752	377	59	D	D	3,308	-
South Africa	3,174	1,502	D	1,187	216	147	D
South Sudan	191	120	8	13	10	40	-
Soviet Union (former)	1,227	728	13	251	12	220	3
Spain	3,115	1,369	148	1,226	73	295	4
Sri Lanka	1,689	531	185	466	370	125	12
Sudan	2,949	594	131	D	1,244	948	D
Suriname	172	113	47	D	-	D	-
Sweden	1,018	570	34	394	8	9	3
Switzerland	595	300	9	261	19	D	D
Syria	5,967	696	318	290	D	4,606	D
Taiwan	5,801	2,154	919	2,551	168	6	3
Tajikistan	1,158	193	60	44	837	24	-
Tanzania	3,142	449	67	56	50	2,513	7
Thailand	5,551	3,737	292	487	55	946	34
Togo	1,546	649	203	D	607	68	D
Tonga	256	200	42	-	D	D	-
Trinidad and Tobago	3,150	2,208	734	171	5	4	28
Tunisia	510	354	20	86	38	9	3
Turkey	5,713	2,264	236	1,625	1,356	209	23
Turkmenistan	330	116	20	21	164	9	-
Turks and Caicos Islands	56	51	D	D	-	-	-
Uganda	2,560	644	127	115	147	1,522	5
Ukraine	11,762	4,511	890	1,375	1,907	3,060	19
United Arab Emirates	1,586	365	262	731	138	80	10
United Kingdom	11,337	6,203	481	4,565	58	13	17
United States	262	178	D	29	D	17	30
Uruguay	1,109	879	41	107	8	33	41
Uzbekistan	2,550	750	583	166	893	146	12
Venezuela	15,720	9,800	826	2,871	746	1,440	37
Vietnam	39,712	15,861	21,870	1,804	5	64	108
Virgin Islands, British	58	44	11	3	-	-	-
Yemen	3,717	2,335	1,128	97	D	121	D
Zambia	511	267	17	61	13	145	8
Zimbabwe	758	391	50	184	36	92	5
All other countries¹	61	28	7	16	7	3	-
Unknown	1,144	721	321	13	27	19	43

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