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Annual ORR Reports to Congress - 2003

TABLE 1 -- Arrivals by Country of Origin, FY 1983-2003

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

FY 83-98

FY 1999

FY 2000

FY 2001

FY 2002

FY 2003

FY 83 - 03

AFGHANISTAN

22,420

  361

  1,712

  2,935

1,669

1,446

 30,543

ALBANIA

3,640

  11

1

3

  5

 

  3,660

ANGOLA

  279

 

2

34

 16

  20

351

BULGARIA

1,971

 
 
 
 
 

  1,971

BURMA

  668

  295

637

543

  128

  200

  2,471

BURUNDI

  104

  223

165

109

  62

  12

675

CAMBODIA

71,405

 
 

23

  2

  7

  71,437

CUBA a/

40,481

2,019

  3,184

  2,941

1,924

  301

  50,850

CUBA (Entrant) b/

87,653

21,976

  20,069

  17,154

17,956

10,129

  174,937

CZECH REPUBLIC

7,534

 

1

 
 
 

 7,535

DEM.REP.CONGO

  818

  69

  1,359

262

  109

  281

  2,898

ETHIOPIA c/

26,984

1,911

  1,434

  1,541

  343

1,692

  33,905

HAITI d/

6,651

  91

49

23

  2

 

 6,816

HAITI (Entrant) e/

14,500

1,321

  1,639

  1,608

  825

  931

  20,824

HUNGARY

5,124

 
 
 
 
 

  5,124

IRAN

42,957

1,737

  5,099

  6,581

1,525

2,428

  60,327

IRAQ

33,523

1,962

  3,145

  2,473

 446

  294

  41,843

LAOS

113,380

  19

64

22

  18

  13

  113,516

LIBERIA

4,119

2,493

  2,616

  3,414

  561

2,915

  16,118

LIBYA

  357

 
 

5

 
 

362

NICARAGUA

1,536

 
 
 
 
 

  1,536

NIGERIA

  416

  625

50

81

  27

  47

  1,246

POLAND

28,796

 2

1

4

 

  1

  28,804

ROMANIA

34,656

  2

4

 

  1

 

  34,663

RWANDA

  437

  153

347

94

  47

  50

  1,128

SIERRA LEONE

  315

  678

  1,129

 1,999

  176

1,350

  5,647

SOMALIA

24,784

4,321

  6,022

  4,940

  242

1,708

  42,017

SUDAN

5,592

2,389

  3,831

  5,951

  882

2,090

  20,735

TOGO

  91

  93

510

276

 16

  35

  1,021

UGANDA

  342

  12

18

12

  2

  5

391

USSR (Former) f/

421,802

16,913

  14,576

  14,869

9,978

8,728

  486,866

VIETNAM

367,540

9,622

  2,839

  2,730

3,049

1,399

  387,179

VIETNAM (Amerasia)

73,881

  241

979

378

  263

  67

  75,809

YUGOSLAVIA (Former) g/

83,453

38,620

  22,548

  15,763

5,450

2,500

  168,334

OTHER/UNKNOWN h/

2,281

  152

196

352

  126

  528

  3,660

Table Total

1,530,490

108,311

94,226

87,120

45,850

39,177

1,905,174

 

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.