Table 28. Nonimmigrant Admissions (I-94 Only) by Selected Category of Admission and Region and Country of Citizenship: Fiscal Year 2019

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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	81,563,139	24,102,240	49,822,217	2,527,655	4,106,324	454,494	511,471	38,738
Africa	815,177	X	660,590	61,569	33,175	43,273	15,747	823
Asia	15,100,864	6,321,977	5,961,565	1,376,835	1,077,008	119,760	233,401	10,318
Europe	18,517,513	15,721,358	1,414,029	420,541	692,623	166,151	98,199	4,612
North America	38,575,567	X	35,871,032	451,746	2,047,465	62,877	131,138	11,309
Oceania	1,917,903	1,708,094	61,640	25,800	98,547	17,793	5,442	587
South America	6,550,198	350,811	5,789,459	184,466	152,474	42,188	24,191	6,609
Unknown	85,917	X	63,902	6,698	5,032	2,452	3,353	4,480

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	81,563,139	24,102,240	49,822,217	2,527,655	4,106,324	454,494	511,471	38,738
Afghanistan	3,200	X	1,906	529	37	550	134	44
Albania	21,457	X	17,802	2,215	399	620	391	30
Algeria	16,063	X	14,195	700	350	687	105	26
Andorra	1,765	1,544	D	76	50	48	D	-
Angola	7,730	X	5,552	1,055	290	773	38	22
Antigua and Barbuda	17,806	X	16,711	415	137	357	60	126
Argentina	926,594	X	882,536	12,502	23,360	5,528	1,418	1,250
Armenia	16,956	X	14,670	800	605	616	255	10
Australia⁶	1,524,305	1,369,855	30,575	18,551	90,293	12,723	2,242	66
Austria	235,194	208,366	9,235	6,251	8,411	2,353	566	12
Azerbaijan	9,418	X	7,090	1,346	247	687	48	-
Bahamas	310,405	X	299,478	7,492	799	1,388	881	367
Bahrain	7,506	X	5,977	944	93	475	17	-
Bangladesh	45,080	X	33,298	7,736	1,005	2,529	461	51
Barbados	69,585	X	67,515	744	446	611	238	31
Belarus	25,270	X	21,415	1,170	1,674	410	580	21
Belgium	330,226	297,934	8,237	5,910	13,608	3,872	631	34
Belize	33,515	X	30,101	706	249	1,179	1,264	16
Benin	3,092	X	2,203	270	73	504	37	5
Bhutan	1,244	X	689	230	20	289	16	-
Bolivia	81,073	X	75,507	2,841	917	1,249	492	67
Bosnia and Herzegovina	10,995	X	8,205	1,224	292	475	794	5
Botswana	3,237	X	2,324	381	D	366	88	D
Brazil	2,417,221	X	2,255,158	78,101	66,293	10,271	5,215	2,183
Brunei	1,523	1,014	138	125	37	197	12	-
Bulgaria	47,275	X	35,046	6,303	2,277	1,056	2,550	43
Burkina Faso	5,356	X	4,066	459	98	672	D	D
Burma	12,679	X	8,655	2,187	139	341	1,357	-
Burundi	1,608	X	987	303	16	288	11	3
Cabo Verde	4,663	X	4,158	92	87	183	128	15
Cambodia	7,787	X	5,723	974	110	510	456	14
Cameroon	11,992	X	9,387	775	306	1,343	164	17
Canada	13,926,155	X	12,527,074	209,607	1,092,194	16,687	79,228	1,365
Central African Republic	440	X	246	31	24	128	7	4
Chad	1,085	X	624	96	3	343	15	4
Chile	471,793	350,811	93,101	10,666	11,594	3,732	1,836	53
China, People's Republic^7,8	3,256,187	2,415	2,457,874	652,259	117,217	8,277	13,476	4,669
Colombia	1,108,458	X	1,031,934	35,789	24,255	10,114	5,314	1,052
Comoros	168	X	83	D	-	73	D	-
Congo, Democratic Republic	9,724	X	7,747	772	144	950	72	39
Congo, Republic	1,617	X	1,064	104	58	376	9	6
Costa Rica	363,877	X	350,439	4,479	6,277	1,543	1,080	59
Cote d'Ivoire	9,968	X	7,394	1,161	144	1,142	113	14
Croatia	39,935	X	30,969	2,543	1,675	670	4,064	14
Cuba	64,510	X	60,048	247	693	448	593	2,481
Cyprus	13,396	X	11,556	1,140	410	215	69	6
Czechia	147,310	128,856	6,178	5,527	4,963	1,513	262	11
Denmark⁹	349,665	317,683	8,809	6,405	11,562	4,539	628	39
Djibouti	391	X	149	20	D	212	D	4
Dominica	6,652	X	5,507	596	D	145	272	D
Dominican Republic	516,384	X	490,213	12,139	8,124	2,115	3,319	474
Ecuador	480,255	X	461,591	11,188	3,008	2,460	1,681	327
Egypt	105,571	X	88,006	8,119	4,494	4,267	629	56
El Salvador	245,090	X	235,540	3,298	2,525	1,766	1,603	358
Equatorial Guinea	1,854	X	1,164	299	9	378	D	D
Eritrea	1,193	X	942	64	16	76	61	34
Estonia	29,673	25,730	921	1,052	853	864	249	4
Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)	1,483	X	925	214	43	267	17	17
Ethiopia	25,594	X	20,809	2,242	546	1,360	597	40
Fiji	11,943	X	10,362	135	63	568	804	11
Finland	167,146	150,040	3,458	3,514	6,849	2,849	407	29
France¹⁰	2,336,381	2,121,625	38,033	53,619	103,594	15,125	3,996	389
Gabon	2,476	X	1,709	318	24	408	9	8
Gambia	2,384	X	1,754	160	42	324	83	21
Georgia	13,272	X	9,425	1,660	429	1,092	646	20
Germany	2,328,365	2,084,664	71,275	54,287	91,187	19,402	6,934	616
Ghana	38,328	X	30,738	3,917	1,084	2,113	440	36
Greece	111,782	87,520	8,261	6,822	4,902	1,604	2,651	22
Grenada	14,451	X	12,987	261	279	335	585	4
Guatemala	321,061	X	305,326	3,678	8,367	2,213	1,029	448
Guinea	3,578	X	2,920	113	46	396	99	4
Guinea-Bissau	273	X	146	19	-	105	3	-
Guyana	62,224	X	59,847	540	105	538	1,156	38
Haiti	140,909	X	135,571	1,549	685	943	2,027	134
Holy See	129	X	23	D	4	96	D	D
Honduras	242,057	X	226,897	4,930	3,252	1,630	5,019	329
Hungary	127,016	110,906	4,173	4,879	4,640	1,767	633	18
Iceland	71,403	63,569	4,027	1,527	1,131	520	624	5
India	2,316,025	X	1,443,536	201,472	611,848	9,664	48,614	891
Indonesia	154,598	X	105,809	13,045	2,349	4,345	28,991	59
Iran	5,843	X	929	4,506	69	229	45	65
Iraq	17,668	X	15,491	790	141	930	293	23
Ireland	644,352	588,911	12,150	12,910	26,818	2,282	1,152	129
Israel	466,595	X	416,795	15,169	21,569	12,346	490	226
Italy	1,479,146	1,333,908	38,354	33,951	56,458	10,108	6,133	234
Jamaica	376,270	X	334,012	14,799	19,198	1,588	6,533	140
Japan	3,916,108	3,615,829	24,882	64,218	186,758	17,037	5,859	1,525
Jordan	52,060	X	39,942	4,676	1,308	5,679	417	38
Kazakhstan	33,346	X	24,561	6,619	1,040	951	162	13
Kenya	43,509	X	33,575	4,164	1,109	3,650	992	19
Kiribati	768	X	216	47	D	151	334	D
Korea, North	87	X	8	21	4	38	-	16
Korea, South	2,352,342	2,111,855	55,676	122,867	50,901	7,855	2,895	293
Kosovo	5,253	X	3,529	868	D	610	148	D
Kuwait	56,461	X	39,262	15,626	201	1,359	D	D
Kyrgyzstan	5,016	X	3,570	945	52	338	111	-
Laos	2,532	X	1,628	303	27	262	300	12
Latvia	28,278	22,887	1,572	1,093	838	756	1,129	3
Lebanon	48,458	X	40,727	4,010	2,145	1,346	189	41
Lesotho	718	X	418	88	D	181	16	D
Liberia	4,341	X	3,075	266	46	785	155	14
Libya	842	X	106	322	57	347	D	D
Liechtenstein	2,035	1,820	51	D	63	59	D	-
Lithuania	48,848	41,297	1,512	3,073	1,620	945	389	12
Luxembourg	16,351	14,864	455	334	302	357	39	-
Madagascar	2,387	X	1,482	225	27	442	207	4
Malawi	3,262	X	2,077	395	80	603	104	3
Malaysia	108,764	488	90,493	9,707	5,655	1,325	1,042	54
Maldives	521	X	249	46	6	207	13	-
Mali	4,665	X	3,731	387	100	414	21	12
Malta	9,339	8,157	386	216	309	239	32	-
Marshall Islands	261	X	67	D	D	121	50	13
Mauritania	1,725	X	1,207	114	25	368	D	D
Mauritius	8,484	X	5,497	619	210	277	1,875	6
Mexico	21,412,174	X	20,291,145	175,416	897,182	26,020	17,794	4,617
Micronesia, Federated States	398	X	45	9	-	153	4	187
Moldova	10,088	X	8,024	903	413	496	244	8
Monaco	1,234	998	63	D	56	71	D	-
Mongolia	18,769	X	14,341	3,014	584	637	185	8
Morocco¹¹	39,723	X	32,856	2,934	950	2,325	603	55
Mozambique	2,676	X	1,823	233	111	445	55	9
Namibia	2,690	X	2,002	226	64	311	83	4
Nauru	162	22	42	D	D	93	-	D
Nepal	39,690	X	29,558	6,610	1,499	1,126	847	50
Netherlands¹²	893,210	813,888	21,861	13,566	28,111	12,579	2,955	250
New Zealand¹³	371,055	338,162	13,319	6,650	8,003	2,970	1,683	268
Nicaragua	78,385	X	72,121	1,216	1,662	636	2,668	82
Niger	1,822	X	1,129	194	48	431	14	6
Nigeria	181,000	X	162,500	10,992	3,527	3,056	867	58
North Macedonia (formerly Macedonia)	12,236	X	8,680	1,953	343	495	761	4
Norway	291,979	263,579	7,958	8,089	6,532	5,284	517	20
Oman	10,738	X	5,076	4,396	135	1,100	D	D
Pakistan	124,207	X	103,439	12,253	5,496	2,507	409	103
Palau	164	X	26	D	-	99	D	35
Panama	177,548	X	165,634	6,000	1,753	1,433	2,534	194
Papua New Guinea	1,393	55	866	141	30	211	90	-
Paraguay	34,900	X	31,518	1,896	416	924	105	41
Peru	371,948	X	338,725	17,458	5,749	4,227	5,246	543
Philippines	514,858	X	369,128	13,878	14,294	4,616	112,592	350
Poland	276,937	X	245,827	11,773	10,126	3,861	5,228	122
Portugal	229,025	207,772	5,748	4,429	7,275	1,957	1,815	29
Qatar	16,722	X	12,743	1,756	35	2,166	19	3
Romania	126,038	X	100,117	10,299	5,724	2,308	7,529	61
Russia	301,321	X	256,118	17,998	15,137	4,173	7,770	125
Rwanda	7,908	X	4,668	2,003	145	1,008	80	4
Saint Kitts and Nevis	14,366	X	13,664	401	95	162	39	5
Saint Lucia	20,787	X	18,533	396	161	308	1,380	9
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	13,529	X	11,566	175	29	304	1,450	5
Samoa	3,006	X	2,607	82	29	155	133	-
San Marino	775	711	D	18	D	33	-	-
Sao Tome and Principe	75	X	17	8	-	46	D	D
Saudi Arabia	167,228	X	101,671	55,002	1,688	8,816	40	11
Senegal	11,708	X	9,189	822	238	1,326	121	12
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	18,541	X	14,470	1,853	614	366	1,231	7
Seychelles	472	X	314	23	D	118	11	D
Sierra Leone	3,603	X	2,766	215	21	507	89	5
Singapore	178,159	149,381	2,714	11,462	9,539	4,161	736	166
Slovakia	69,661	59,527	2,802	4,036	2,289	750	247	10
Slovenia	34,132	30,275	1,248	1,016	977	481	D	D
Solomon Islands	318	X	181	23	4	94	16	-
Somalia	154	X	53	27	D	66	5	D
South Africa	167,393	X	135,114	8,593	15,911	2,298	5,329	148
South Sudan	668	X	320	130	7	180	31	-
Spain	1,256,743	1,122,063	25,169	45,022	52,666	9,103	2,599	121
Sri Lanka	28,436	X	21,928	2,718	1,437	979	1,357	17
Sudan	4,468	X	3,368	485	100	469	26	20
Suriname	14,487	X	13,711	165	81	298	229	3
Sweden	517,617	466,465	15,010	12,176	17,814	5,143	937	72
Switzerland	427,963	387,285	15,508	9,700	11,434	3,270	728	38
Syria	3,746	X	3,220	300	41	118	37	30
Taiwan	539,980	440,995	27,135	48,172	20,567	85	1,759	1,267
Tajikistan	2,100	X	1,355	444	60	221	D	D
Tanzania	8,405	X	6,421	1,115	215	545	102	7
Thailand	130,777	X	99,694	21,389	3,007	3,243	3,389	55
Timor-Leste	279	X	72	59	D	143	D	-
Togo	3,338	X	2,620	197	39	397	82	3
Tonga	3,717	X	3,175	128	98	254	58	4
Trinidad and Tobago	210,051	X	200,950	3,202	3,228	1,066	1,542	63
Tunisia	15,308	X	11,567	1,475	586	1,243	425	12
Turkey	202,923	X	157,749	27,516	10,963	4,138	2,492	65
Turkmenistan	1,355	X	814	327	25	180	D	D
Tuvalu	183	X	50	D	-	114	15	D
Uganda	15,022	X	10,820	1,344	704	1,958	179	17
Ukraine	129,987	X	99,124	6,030	9,266	1,761	13,730	76
United Arab Emirates	40,066	X	32,027	4,828	72	3,088	36	15
United Kingdom¹⁴	5,305,437	4,758,514	252,168	55,822	179,270	40,881	16,788	1,994
Uruguay	85,122	X	80,220	1,252	1,601	1,525	268	256
Uzbekistan	10,929	X	7,994	1,948	235	636	109	7
Vanuatu	230	X	109	17	5	87	12	-
Venezuela	496,123	X	465,611	12,068	15,095	1,322	1,231	796
Vietnam	143,700	X	109,775	26,277	2,850	1,784	2,929	85
Yemen	1,530	X	573	536	58	327	28	8
Zambia	5,597	X	3,891	620	112	857	114	3
Zimbabwe	13,346	X	8,692	1,658	747	886	1,348	15
Unknown	85,917	X	63,902	6,698	5,032	2,452	3,353	4,480

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