Office of Homeland Security Statistics

Immigration statistics: administrative categories and flows

Find administrative tables on immigration categories and actions.

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Dataset guide / Fiscal year and table release-specific

Dataset guide · Office of Homeland Security Statistics

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Choose a released table and preserve its fiscal year, unit and category. The yearbook index links to distinct reports on permanent residence, refugees, asylum, naturalization and other administrative actions.

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Limits to keep in view

Actions or admissions need not equal unique people. A page marked “download coming soon” is not a completed dataset, and flows are not the resident migrant population.

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What are you trying to understand? Identify the population and place before looking for a number that might support your position.

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