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   Bosnia and Herzegovina  21.1%
   Cuba  13.8%
   Iran  10.9%
   Afghanistan  8.9%
   Ukraine  8.8%
   Sudan  5.7%
   Liberia  5.3%
   Vietnam  4.2%
   Russia  4%
   Iraq  3.2%
   Somalia  2.9%
   Sierra Leone  1.7%
   Croatia  1.7%
   Ethiopia  1.4%
   Belarus  1.3%
   Armenia  1.1%
   Eritrea  0.8%
   Kazakhstan  0.7%
   Azerbaijan  0.6%
   Uzbekistan  0.4%


Rank   Countries  Amount  (top to bottom)   
#1   Bosnia and Herzegovina: 3,874 
#2   Cuba: 2,534 
#3   Iran: 2,000 
#4   Afghanistan: 1,635 
#5   Ukraine: 1,618 
#6   Sudan: 1,054 
#7   Liberia: 982 
#8   Vietnam: 774 
#9   Russia: 731 
#10   Iraq: 592 
#11   Somalia: 536 
#12   Sierra Leone: 317 
#13   Croatia: 305 
#14   Ethiopia: 249 
#15   Belarus: 232 
#16   Armenia: 204 
#17   Eritrea: 155 
#18   Kazakhstan: 122 
#19   Azerbaijan: 109 
#20   Uzbekistan: 82 
#21   Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 54 
#22   Estonia: 36 
#23   Moldova: 31 
#24   Rwanda: 28 
#25   Latvia: 20 
#26   Georgia: 16 
#27   Lithuania: 8 
#28   Ghana: 8 
#29   Angola: 8 
#30   Togo: 7 
#31   Cambodia: 7 
#32   Congo, Republic of the: 7 
#33   Burundi: 6 
#34   Sri Lanka: 6 
#35   Kyrgyzstan: 6 
#36   Pakistan: 4 
#37   Tajikistan: 4 
#38   Syria: 4 
#39   Cameroon: 4 
#40   Lebanon: 3 
#41   Burma: 3 
#42   Turkmenistan: 3 
#43   Thailand: 3 
#44   China: 3 
#45   Algeria: 2 
#46   Nigeria: 2 
#47   Guinea-Bissau: 1 
#48   Germany: 1 
#49   Chad: 1 
#50   Laos: 1 
#51   Israel: 1 
#52   Yemen: 0 
#53   Zimbabwe: 0 
Total: 18,393  
Weighted average: 347.0  


DEFINITION: Number of applications for Refugee status in the United States in the 2002 fiscal year approved. Listed by country of chargeability.

SOURCE: United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

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Suchita Vemuri
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5th April 2005 		Hi Nick, the office of US Citizenship and Immigration Services has data from 1820 onwards, but for the years after 1870, it's presented in blocks of 10 years, except for the years after 2000. Between 1961 and 1970 there were 453,937 registered immigrants from Mexico entering the USA, between 1971 and 1980 there were 640,294, between 1981 and 1990 there were 1,655,843, and between 1991 and 2000 2,249,421. In the years 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003, the numbers were 171,748, 204,844, 217,318 and 114,984, respectively.
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