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Annual ORR Reports to Congress - 2004

TABLE 1 -- Arrivals by Country of Origin, FY 1983-2004

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

FY 83-99 FY 2000 FY 2001 FY 2002 FY 2003 FY 2004 FY 83 - 04
AFGHANISTAN
22,781
1,712
2,935
1,669
1,446
918
31,461
ALBANIA
3,651
1
3
5
 
 
3,660
ANGOLA
279
2
34
16
20
21
372
BULGARIA
1,971
 
 
 
 
 
1,971
BURMA
963
637
543
128
200
1,055
3,526
BURUNDI
327
165
109
62
12
273
948
CAMBODIA
71,401
 
23
2
7
3
71,436
COLUMBIA
8
 
 
8
145
569
730
CONGO
887
1,360
262
109
281
638
3,537
CUBA a/
42,477
3,184
2,941
1,924
301
2,959
53,786
CUBA (Entrant) b/
109,731
20,083
17,167
17,957
10,131
21,134
196,203
CZECH REPUBLIC
7,534
1
 
 
 
 
7,535
ETHIOPIA c/
28,889
1,434
1,541
343
1,692
2,825
36,724
HAITI d/
6,740
49
23
2
 
17
6,831
HAITI (Entrant) e/
15,956
1,799
1,704
866
990
316
21,631
HUNGARY
5,124
 
 
 
 
 
5,124
IRAN
44,691
5,099
6,581
1,525
2,428
1,783
62,107
IRAQ
35,335
3,145
2,473
446
295
65
41,759
KENYA
31
11
13
24
246
526
851
LAOS
113,387
64
22
18
13
5,995
119,499
LIBERIA
6,611
2,615
3,413
561
2,915
7,107
23,222
NICARAGUA
1,536
 
 
 
 
 
1,536
NIGERIA
1,041
50
81
27
47
33
1,279
POLAND
28,798
1
4
 
1
2
28,806
ROMANIA
34,657
4
 
1
 
3
34,665
RWANDA
590
347
94
47
50
177
1,305
SIERRA LEONE
993
1,129
1,999
176
1,350
1,066
6,713
SOMALIA
29,094
6,021
4,939
242
1,708
12,814
54,818
SUDAN
7,976
3,830
5,950
882
2,090
3,479
24,207
TOGO
184
510
276
16
35
38
1,059
UGANDA
354
18
12
2
5
11
402
USSR (Former) f/
438,673
14,576
14,869
9,948
8,728
8,785
495,579
VIETNAM
377,134
2,838
2,730
3,049
1,399
974
388,124
VIETNAM (Amerasia)
74,100
979
378
263
67
33
75,820
YUGOSLAVIA (Former) g/
122,071
22,548
15,763
5,438
2,500
486
168,806
OTHER/UNKNOWN h/
2,749
185
344
94
162
203
3,737
Table Total
1,638,724
94,397
87,226
45,850
39,264
74,308
1,979,769
 

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