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TABLE 1 -- REFUGEE, AMERASIAN, AND ENTRANT ARRIVALS BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN, FY 1983-2002

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

FY 83-97

FY 1998

FY 1999

FY 2000

FY 2001

FY 2002

FY 83 - 02

AFGHANISTAN

22,332

88

361

1,712

2,935

1,669

29,097

ALBANIA

3,637

3

11

1

3

5

3,660

ANGOLA

279

 
 

2

34

16

331

BULGARIA

1,971

 
 
 
 
 

1,971

BURMA

482

186

295

637

543

128

2,271

BURUNDI

76

28

223

165

109

62

663

CAMBODIA

71,398

7

 
 

23

2

71,430

CUBA a/

38,894

1,587

2,019

3,186

2,942

1,925

50,553

CUBA (Entrant) b/

73,900

13,509

20,730

17,865

14,527

16,015

156,546

CZECH REPUBLIC

7,530

4

 

1

 
 

7,535

DEM.REP.CONGO

775

43

69

1,359

262

109

2,617

ETHIOPIA c/

26,796

188

1,911

1,434

1,541

343

32,213

HAITI d/

6,611

40

91

49

23

2

6,816

HAITI (Entrant) e/

14,122

590

1,270

1,571

1,454

719

19,726

HUNGARY

5,124

 
 
 
 
 

5,124

IRAN

41,372

1,585

1,737

5,099

6,581

1,525

57,899

IRAQ

31,903

1,620

1,962

3,145

2,473

446

41,549

LAOS

113,371

9

19

64

22

18

113,503

LIBERIA

2,482

1,637

2,493

2,616

3,414

561

13,203

LIBYA

357

 
 
 

5

 

362

NICARAGUA

1,535

1

 
 
 
 

1,536

NIGERIA

95

321

625

50

81

27

1,199

POLAND

28,794

2

2

1

4

 

28,803

ROMANIA

34,654

2

2

4

 

1

34,663

RWANDA

352

85

153

347

94

47

1,078

SIERRA LEONE

132

183

678

1,129

1,999

176

4,297

SOMALIA

21,832

2,952

4,321

6,022

4,940

242

40,309

SUDAN

4,305

1,287

2,389

3,831

5,951

882

18,645

TOGO

78

13

93

510

276

16

986

UGANDA

340

2

12

18

12

2

386

USSR (Former) f/

398,545

23,257

16,913

14,576

14,869

9,978

478,128

VIETNAM

357,274

10,266

9,622

2,839

2,730

3,049

385,780

VIETNAM (Amerasia)

73,506

375

241

979

378

263

75,742

YUGOSLAVIA (Former) g/

52,630

30,823

38,620

22,548

15,763

5,450

165,834

OTHER/UNKNOWN h/

2,125

156

152

196

352

126

3,117

Table Total

1,439,609

90,849

107,014

91,956

84,340

43,804

1,857,572

 

a/ Includes Cubans with humanitarian parolee status prior to FY 1992.

b/ Includes Cubans with humanitarian parolee since 1992 or Havana parolee status since 1995.

c/ Includes Eritrea

d/ Includes Haitians with humanitarian parolee status prior to FY 1992.

e/ Includes Haitians with entrant status or with humanitarian parolee status since FY 1992.

f/ Includes refugees from the former republics of the Soviet Union.

g/ Includes refugees from the former republics of Yugoslavia.

h/ Includes countries with fewer than 300 arrivals as well as cases with an unknown country of origin.