DEFINITION
Number of refugee
status applications denied in the
United States in the 2002
fiscal year, listed by country of chargeability
| Rank |
Countries
|
Amount
|
|
# 1
|
Liberia: |
3,427 |
|
|
# 2
|
Somalia: |
3,327 |
|
|
# 3
|
Bosnia and Herzegovina: |
3,110 |
|
|
# 4
|
Cuba: |
3,028 |
|
|
# 5
|
Ukraine: |
1,545 |
|
|
# 6
|
Ethiopia: |
1,097 |
|
|
# 7
|
Vietnam: |
954 |
|
|
# 8
|
Sierra Leone: |
763 |
|
|
# 9
|
Iran: |
595 |
|
|
# 10
|
Russia: |
499 |
|
|
# 11
|
Afghanistan: |
390 |
|
|
# 12
|
Sudan: |
317 |
|
|
# 13
|
Belarus: |
195 |
|
|
# 14
|
Iraq: |
125 |
|
|
# 15
|
Kazakhstan: |
58 |
|
|
# 16
|
Azerbaijan: |
37 |
|
|
# 17
|
Moldova: |
35 |
|
|
# 18
|
Estonia: |
26 |
|
|
# 19
|
Croatia: |
24 |
|
|
# 20
|
Congo, Democratic Republic of the: |
23 |
|
|
# 21
|
Armenia: |
19 |
|
|
= 22
|
Togo: |
18 |
|
|
= 22
|
Latvia: |
18 |
|
|
= 22
|
Rwanda: |
18 |
|
|
= 25
|
Eritrea: |
16 |
|
|
= 25
|
Uzbekistan: |
16 |
|
|
# 27
|
Lithuania: |
12 |
|
|
# 28
|
Algeria: |
11 |
|
|
# 29
|
Kyrgyzstan: |
9 |
|
|
# 30
|
Burma: |
8 |
|
|
# 31
|
Sri Lanka: |
7 |
|
|
= 32
|
Georgia: |
5 |
|
|
= 32
|
Pakistan: |
5 |
|
|
# 34
|
Cambodia: |
4 |
|
|
= 35
|
China: |
2 |
|
|
= 35
|
Tajikistan: |
2 |
|
|
= 37
|
Zimbabwe: |
1 |
|
|
= 37
|
Israel: |
1 |
|
|
= 37
|
Congo, Republic of the: |
1 |
|
|
= 37
|
Turkmenistan: |
1 |
|
|
# 41
|
Yemen: |
0 |
|
| |
Total: |
19,749 |
|
| |
Weighted average: |
481.7 |
|
DEFINITION: Number of refugee
status applications denied in the
United States in the 2002
fiscal year, listed by country of chargeability