Table 28. Nonimmigrant Admissions (I-94 Only) by Selected Category of Admission and Region and Country of Citizenship: Fiscal Year 2017

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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	77,643,267	23,637,046	46,419,211	2,534,356	3,969,276	450,457	575,214	57,707
Africa	809,114	X	666,160	59,127	27,893	41,032	13,853	1,049
Asia	15,154,164	6,457,303	6,006,080	1,349,196	998,111	114,428	212,948	16,098
Europe	17,889,171	15,141,486	1,365,759	423,299	686,366	161,550	105,264	5,447
North America	35,375,881	X	32,557,464	505,948	2,024,817	71,639	204,422	11,591
Oceania	1,970,630	1,769,553	64,478	25,649	87,381	17,219	5,821	529
South America	6,349,041	268,704	5,697,664	161,360	142,146	42,424	30,889	5,854
Unknown	95,266	X	61,606	9,777	2,562	2,165	2,017	17,139

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	77,643,267	23,637,046	46,419,211	2,534,356	3,969,276	450,457	575,214	57,707
Afghanistan	3,581	X	1,910	631	25	718	255	42
Albania	17,056	X	14,151	1,517	568	547	238	35
Algeria	15,242	X	13,291	805	284	750	77	35
Andorra	1,720	1,371	46	171	75	D	D	14
Angola	9,603	X	6,900	1,596	338	686	61	22
Antigua and Barbuda	15,893	X	14,992	367	136	321	66	11
Argentina	1,129,997	X	1,085,461	11,542	23,073	6,215	1,957	1,749
Armenia	13,774	X	11,614	636	592	690	225	17
Australia⁶	1,576,901	1,431,077	32,831	18,741	79,538	12,466	2,083	165
Austria	237,611	210,727	8,460	6,506	9,059	2,241	581	37
Azerbaijan	9,104	X	6,912	1,273	251	619	48	1
Bahamas	304,752	X	293,192	7,962	750	1,375	1,250	223
Bahrain	8,767	X	7,168	1,057	102	420	17	3
Bangladesh	40,120	X	29,646	6,230	1,223	2,290	676	55
Barbados	69,318	X	66,984	823	430	757	283	41
Belarus	22,589	X	18,926	1,328	1,392	322	609	12
Belgium	325,897	295,607	6,978	5,934	13,164	3,593	567	54
Belize	31,340	X	28,496	736	446	726	915	21
Benin	3,330	X	2,301	363	65	554	38	9
Bhutan	1,156	X	612	264	24	232	24	-
Bolivia	76,933	X	71,519	2,640	1,035	1,183	484	72
Bosnia and Herzegovina	11,020	X	8,246	1,125	302	509	828	10
Botswana	3,105	X	2,108	331	82	452	131	1
Brazil	2,147,412	X	2,011,385	61,958	55,569	9,604	7,656	1,240
Brunei	1,479	1,034	92	133	27	188	5	-
Bulgaria	43,815	X	31,126	6,386	2,482	970	2,810	41
Burkina Faso	6,002	X	4,716	488	100	619	69	10
Burma	11,502	X	7,976	1,976	152	382	1,002	14
Burundi	2,106	X	1,597	192	11	270	29	7
Cabo Verde	5,317	X	4,833	117	55	151	156	5
Cambodia	5,947	X	3,890	767	109	531	631	19
Cameroon	15,676	X	12,014	1,541	395	1,497	201	28
Canada	13,028,998	X	11,616,347	210,388	1,063,537	16,302	120,905	1,519
Central African Republic	385	X	216	29	D	113	D	9
Chad	1,195	X	745	100	8	332	5	5
Chile	423,098	268,704	127,663	10,014	10,330	3,855	2,464	68
China, People's Republic^7,8	3,383,133	5,979	2,624,321	616,981	100,005	9,158	14,325	12,364
Colombia	994,978	X	926,855	29,572	21,287	9,940	6,501	823
Comoros	206	X	102	D	-	91	D	1
Congo, Democratic Republic	8,343	X	6,701	644	121	819	38	20
Congo, Republic	1,785	X	1,146	163	18	445	6	7
Costa Rica	319,831	X	307,979	3,905	4,724	1,733	1,432	58
Cote d'Ivoire	9,223	X	6,703	1,284	155	989	83	9
Croatia	35,078	X	26,345	2,384	1,631	644	4,054	20
Cuba	72,363	X	67,284	284	1,298	594	405	2,498
Cyprus	12,465	X	10,642	1,035	457	252	71	8
Czechia	136,282	116,097	7,448	6,368	4,543	1,511	298	17
Denmark⁹	377,327	345,070	8,311	6,992	11,806	4,412	639	97
Djibouti	1,486	X	1,252	45	5	179	-	5
Dominica	6,696	X	5,692	386	119	155	338	6
Dominican Republic	458,203	X	435,775	8,305	7,428	1,770	4,376	549
Ecuador	445,969	X	430,136	9,283	2,789	1,939	1,432	390
Egypt	96,715	X	80,367	7,302	3,990	4,328	658	70
El Salvador	209,730	X	199,375	3,105	2,477	1,873	2,432	468
Equatorial Guinea	1,617	X	982	307	D	324	D	-
Eritrea	3,755	X	3,373	197	6	78	80	21
Estonia	28,544	24,208	1,591	1,012	764	754	207	8
Ethiopia	25,110	X	20,951	1,948	395	1,146	613	57
Fiji	12,343	X	10,810	121	101	474	823	14
Finland	175,076	157,079	3,210	3,903	7,764	2,770	302	48
France¹⁰	2,099,450	1,891,564	31,850	52,642	103,442	15,599	3,800	553
Gabon	2,862	X	2,013	344	15	479	5	6
Gambia	2,108	X	1,661	114	21	252	46	14
Georgia	5,617	X	3,710	698	242	435	527	5
Germany	2,409,465	2,160,492	67,866	56,691	97,028	20,228	6,648	512
Ghana	28,824	X	22,949	3,037	1,042	1,379	375	42
Greece	101,625	73,240	13,235	6,376	4,591	1,626	2,518	39
Grenada	13,012	X	11,498	270	178	341	718	7
Guatemala	302,128	X	285,254	3,543	9,368	2,406	1,134	423
Guinea	3,939	X	3,241	137	75	418	48	20
Guinea-Bissau	328	X	164	20	D	129	D	4
Guyana	73,818	X	71,314	458	117	592	1,282	55
Haiti	154,981	X	148,524	1,443	969	1,015	2,519	511
Holy See	162	X	D	-	D	112	-	1
Honduras	231,029	X	215,261	4,665	3,524	1,478	5,702	399
Hungary	108,588	90,997	6,442	4,808	4,252	1,351	712	26
Iceland	70,124	62,782	3,537	1,456	1,186	432	728	3
India	2,055,480	X	1,264,598	181,612	554,628	8,887	44,821	934
Indonesia	144,790	X	100,932	13,512	1,978	4,202	24,098	68
Iran	21,892	X	14,530	6,273	305	360	369	55
Iraq	19,123	X	16,790	1,041	129	897	245	21
Ireland	575,551	521,641	11,152	14,560	24,991	2,112	912	183
Israel	481,255	X	435,873	13,878	21,954	8,812	534	204
Italy	1,384,255	1,248,156	34,833	30,922	54,110	10,143	5,808	283
Jamaica	352,461	X	314,301	12,577	16,713	1,362	7,267	241
Japan	3,975,012	3,672,493	25,351	66,006	189,707	15,578	5,545	332
Jordan	52,240	X	40,558	4,785	988	5,430	387	92
Kazakhstan	31,769	X	23,011	6,927	734	970	112	15
Kenya	35,876	X	27,588	3,270	1,171	3,048	779	20
Kiribati	1,007	X	237	42	25	171	510	22
Korea, North	69	X	16	14	-	34	-	5
Korea, South	2,510,988	2,223,813	100,894	125,827	48,254	7,618	4,238	344
Kosovo	5,403	X	3,752	990	115	420	122	4
Kuwait	61,578	X	39,519	20,236	230	1,581	9	3
Kyrgyzstan	1,943	X	1,443	187	49	209	52	3
Laos	2,760	X	1,654	237	31	272	554	12
Latvia	27,205	21,459	2,080	950	876	712	1,121	7
Lebanon	48,860	X	41,731	3,481	1,836	1,523	244	45
Lesotho	680	X	333	91	9	193	52	2
Liberia	4,580	X	3,555	336	45	492	144	8
Libya	1,481	X	780	369	51	260	14	7
Liechtenstein	2,183	1,919	89	41	74	60	-	-
Lithuania	28,461	24,383	1,752	763	831	419	298	15
Luxembourg	14,395	13,008	325	342	327	369	24	-
Macedonia	11,979	X	8,059	2,148	284	465	1,014	9
Madagascar	1,975	X	1,227	158	27	431	129	3
Malawi	3,356	X	2,232	357	47	626	90	4
Malaysia	101,047	609	82,272	10,440	5,271	1,472	935	48
Maldives	659	X	382	65	10	173	28	1
Mali	4,653	X	3,491	399	119	531	96	17
Malta	7,319	6,252	537	102	156	243	27	2
Marshall Islands	201	X	70	D	D	85	34	6
Mauritania	1,403	X	920	118	14	336	11	4
Mauritius	7,026	X	4,765	465	253	325	1,203	15
Mexico	19,326,562	X	18,101,904	235,898	906,336	35,349	42,743	4,332
Micronesia, Federated States	181	X	70	D	-	104	D	3
Moldova	11,561	X	8,991	1,562	402	395	197	14
Monaco	1,249	991	D	61	60	85	D	-
Mongolia	15,380	X	11,377	2,926	359	591	118	9
Morocco¹¹	36,968	X	30,043	3,034	932	2,395	489	75
Mozambique	2,546	X	1,773	232	91	420	25	5
Namibia	2,739	X	2,043	194	45	365	86	6
Nauru	128	5	44	D	D	61	10	2
Nepal	39,062	X	28,394	7,142	1,533	1,121	810	62
Netherlands¹²	853,332	777,886	19,059	13,572	28,280	11,088	3,106	341
New Zealand¹³	371,173	338,371	13,553	6,365	7,638	3,001	1,948	297
Nicaragua	77,049	X	69,900	1,187	1,509	688	3,663	102
Niger	2,054	X	1,347	225	28	431	20	3
Nigeria	215,801	X	196,326	12,613	3,110	2,527	1,084	141
Norway	319,594	290,688	7,866	8,599	6,636	4,996	759	50
Oman	10,331	X	4,347	5,092	78	801	13	-
Pakistan	124,800	X	104,064	11,234	5,197	3,501	661	143
Palau	91	X	30	D	-	46	D	9
Panama	162,076	X	149,544	5,964	1,599	1,648	3,243	78
Papua New Guinea	1,122	100	582	145	6	175	109	5
Paraguay	32,283	X	29,059	1,760	342	946	147	29
Peru	342,442	X	310,924	14,153	5,842	4,464	6,651	408
Philippines	485,524	X	352,474	14,609	15,246	5,446	97,158	591
Poland	242,920	X	212,207	11,288	9,330	3,455	6,474	166
Portugal	204,627	185,010	5,012	4,156	6,776	1,750	1,865	58
Qatar	16,352	X	11,833	2,999	44	1,448	22	6
Romania	108,786	X	83,926	9,546	4,654	1,856	8,713	91
Russia	344,368	X	297,397	17,729	15,659	4,440	8,679	464
Rwanda	5,883	X	3,395	1,559	93	718	112	6
Saint Kitts and Nevis	13,101	X	12,288	414	124	203	58	14
Saint Lucia	18,635	X	16,338	355	101	332	1,501	8
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	12,368	X	10,313	150	56	180	1,664	5
Samoa	2,459	X	2,072	74	14	120	179	-
San Marino	751	692	7	16	6	30	-	-
Sao Tome and Principe	99	X	34	D	-	54	D	-
Saudi Arabia	190,983	X	108,115	72,486	1,575	8,751	39	17
Senegal	11,287	X	8,785	799	204	1,408	78	13
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	35,279	X	26,042	3,949	1,386	725	3,154	23
Seychelles	465	X	316	18	3	112	14	2
Sierra Leone	3,878	X	2,971	225	36	476	158	12
Singapore	161,433	133,627	2,322	11,043	8,442	4,959	975	65
Slovakia	61,425	49,399	4,038	4,812	2,106	795	252	23
Slovenia	29,360	25,015	1,712	988	1,061	418	161	5
Solomon Islands	335	X	196	12	-	97	30	-
Somalia	321	X	161	50	D	49	D	15
South Africa	155,696	X	129,412	6,708	12,130	2,698	4,555	193
South Sudan	495	X	234	75	D	152	D	1
Spain	1,143,548	1,015,528	22,270	40,985	52,226	9,415	2,886	238
Sri Lanka	31,478	X	24,507	3,125	1,363	897	1,552	34
Sudan	4,425	X	3,460	408	58	459	26	14
Suriname	13,624	X	12,770	170	102	330	247	5
Swaziland	562	X	325	71	27	108	18	13
Sweden	607,993	554,600	14,068	13,499	19,425	5,301	978	122
Switzerland	459,938	416,944	16,431	10,673	11,548	3,398	886	58
Syria	9,954	X	8,869	666	134	98	169	18
Taiwan	524,357	419,748	36,358	46,859	18,937	56	2,290	109
Tajikistan	2,394	X	1,542	492	54	283	23	-
Tanzania	8,074	X	5,868	1,062	243	701	199	1
Thailand	124,577	X	93,760	21,871	2,899	2,630	3,345	72
Timor-Leste	238	X	54	35	D	141	D	-
Togo	3,120	X	2,402	197	42	354	118	7
Tonga	4,276	X	3,834	120	45	231	40	6
Trinidad and Tobago	195,355	X	186,223	3,221	2,995	1,031	1,808	77
Tunisia	14,633	X	10,907	1,699	434	1,193	373	27
Turkey	220,195	X	174,501	28,659	9,717	4,717	2,531	70
Turkmenistan	1,791	X	1,117	464	53	149	4	4
Tuvalu	168	X	39	5	-	93	31	-
Uganda	12,914	X	8,957	1,224	693	1,869	158	13
Ukraine	130,093	X	98,547	8,339	7,928	1,558	13,623	98
United Arab Emirates	36,630	X	28,435	5,783	130	2,259	15	8
United Kingdom¹⁴	5,076,167	4,558,681	227,740	57,108	173,069	39,239	18,664	1,666
Uruguay	85,291	X	80,410	1,250	1,523	1,665	299	144
Uzbekistan	14,049	X	11,565	1,478	267	624	101	14
Vanuatu	245	X	110	12	12	95	16	-
Venezuela	583,196	X	540,168	18,560	20,137	1,691	1,769	871
Vietnam	134,687	X	101,686	25,290	2,725	1,762	3,073	151
Yemen	3,839	X	2,713	741	43	261	66	15
Zambia	6,071	X	4,245	567	137	923	196	3
Zimbabwe	11,791	X	7,939	1,479	646	898	817	12
Unknown	95,266	X	61,606	9,777	2,562	2,165	2,017	17,139

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