Refugee

Refugees and Asylees Granted
Lawful Permanent Resident Status
By Region and Selected Country of Birth,
Fiscal Years 1946-94



	Total	1946-50	1951-60	1961-70	1971-80	1981 -90	1992	1993	1994
All countries	2,976,521	213,347	492,371	212,843	539,447	1,013,620	117,037	127,343	121,434
Europe	1,164,574	211,983	456,146	55,235	71,858	155,512	42,721	53,195	54,978
Albania	6,683	29	1 ,409	1 ,952	395	353	539	1,198	733
Austria	0	4,801	11,487	233	185	424	90	54	25
Bulgaria	6,825	139	1,138	1 ,799	1,238	1,197	562	303	138
Czechoslovakia	37,865	8,449	10,719	5,709	4	8,204	319	119	41
Estonia	11,754	1	4,103	16	2	25	155	125	176
Germany	101,626	36,633	62,860	665	143	851	94	82	84
Greece	31,423	124	28,568	586	478	1,408	28	39	65
Hungary	76,333	6,086	55,740	4,044	4,358	4,942	229	80	37
Italy	63,591	642	60,657	1,198	346	394	105	32	11
Latvia	39,728	21,422	16,783	49	16	48	315	493	568
Lithuania	28,069	18,694	8,569	72	23	37	157	228	214
Netherlands	17,638	129	14,336	3,134	8	14	2	7	3
Poland	209,602	78,529	81,323	3,197	5,882	33,889	1,512	731	334
Portugal	5,073	12	3,650	1,361	21	21	0	4	2
Romania	74,105	4,180	12,057	7,158	6,812	29,798	4,971	3,654	1,199
Soviet Union	330,328	14,072	30,059	871	31,309	72,306	33,504	45,900	50,756
Spain	10,652	1	246	4,114	5,317	736	50	37	55
Yugoslavia	85,198	9,816	44,755	18,299	11,297	324	58	77	506
Other Europe	10,651	1 ,082	7,687	778	382	541	31	32	31
Asia	1,177,933	1,106	33,422	19,895	210,683	712,092	53,422	51,783	45,768
Afghanistan	31,569	0	1	0	542	22,946	2,082	2,233	1 ,665
Cambodia	127,413	0	0	0	7,739	114,064	1 ,695	808	557
China	42,770	319	12,008	5,308	13,760	7,928	894	1,154	774
Hong Kong	9,028	0	1 ,076	2,128	3,468	1 ,916	193	90	82
Indonesia	17,600	0	8,253	7,658	222	1,385	13	16	41
Iran	65,174	118	192	58	364	46,773	3,093	3,875	2,186
Iraq	21,454	0	130	119	6,851	7,540	365	1,856	4,400
Japan	4,542	3	3,803	554	56	110	5	3	4
Korea	4,622	0	3,116	1,316	65	120	0	1	3
Laos	192,836	0	0	0	21,690	142,964	8,026	6,547	4,482
Syria	4,484	4	119	383	1,336	2,145	96	115	34
Thailand	45,979	0	15	13	1 ,241	30,259	4,048	3,724	3,076
Turkey	6,968	603	1 ,427	1 ,489	1,193	1 ,896	16	79	156
Vietnam	585,993	0	2	7	150,266	324,453	32,155	30,249	27,318
Other Asia	17,501	59	3,280	862	1,890	7,593	741	1 ,033	990
Africa	53,647	20	1,768	5,486	2,991	22,149	4,480	5,944	6,078
Egypt	8,799	8	1 ,354	5,396	1 ,473	426	18	35	37
Ethiopia	33,174	0	61	2	1 ,307	18,542	3,268	3,725	2,730
Other Afnca	11,674	12	353	88	211	3,181	1,194	2,184	3,311
Oceania	229	7	75	21	37	22	9	34	23
North America	574,944	163	831	132,068	252,633	121,840	15,962	15,926	14,204
Cuba	537,920	3	6	131,557	251,514	113,367	9,919	11,603	11,998
El Salvador	4,507	0	0	1	45	1,383	743	811	275
Nicaragua	25,390	1	1	3	36	5,590	4,668	2,892	966
Other North America	7,127	159	824	507	1,038	1 ,500	632	620	965
South America	5,055	32	74	123	1,244	1,976	442	461	383
Chile	1,039	0	5	4	420	531	16	17	8
Other South America	4,016	32	69	119	824	1,445	426	444	375
Unknown or not reported	139	36	55	15	1	29	1	0	0

SOURCE: U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Statistical Yearbook of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1994, U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, D.C., 1996, Table 33.

Refugees and Asylees Granted Lawful Permanent Resident Status By Region and Selected Country of Birth, Fiscal Years 1946-94

Refugees and Asylees Granted
Lawful Permanent Resident Status
By Region and Selected Country of Birth,
Fiscal Years 1946-94