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United States immigration statistics. In 2022 there was 46,118,600 immigrant residents in the United States or 13.8% of the US population according to the American Immigration Council. The number of undocumented or illegal immigrants stood at 9,940,700 in 2022 making up 21.6% of all immigrants or 3% of the total US population. [1]
The Diversity Immigrant Visa program, also known as the green card lottery, is a United States government lottery program for receiving an immigrant visa followed by a permanent resident card. The Immigration Act of 1990 established the current and permanent Diversity Visa (DV) program. The lottery is administered by the Department of State and ...
Legal immigration to the United States over time A naturalization ceremony in Salem, Massachusetts in 2007. As of 2018, approximately half of immigrants living in the United States are from Mexico and other Latin American countries. [121] Many Central Americans are fleeing because of desperate social and economic circumstances in their countries.
This is a list of U.S. states and the District of Columbia by annual net migration. The first table lists U.S. states and the District of Columbia by annual net domestic migration, while the second table lists U.S. states and the District of Columbia by annual net international migration. There is a separate table for the U.S. territories. The ...
The United States is a net immigration country, meaning more people arrive in the U.S. than leave it. There is a scarcity of official records in this domain. [75] Given the high dynamics of the emigration-prone groups, emigration from the United States remains indiscernible from temporary country leave.
This is a list of U.S. states and the District of Columbia by immigrant population. Immigrant population is defined as "foreign-born," which means "anyone who is not a U.S. citizen at birth." [ 1 ]
The Philippine Immigration Act prescribes fourteen different visas grouped into two broad categories: Section 9 visas (non-immigrant visas), for temporary visits such as those for tourism, business, transit, study or employment. Section 13 visas (immigrant visas), for foreign nationals who wish to become permanent residents in the Philippines.
Under the law, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, [128] the number of first-generation immigrants living in the United States has increased, [129] from 9.6 million in 1970 to about 38 million in 2007. [130] Around a million people legally immigrated to the United States per year in the 1990s, up from 250,000 per year in the 1950s. [131]