DEFINITION
Number of refugee
status applications denied in the
United States in the 2002
fiscal year, listed by country of chargeability
| Rank |
Countries
|
Amount
(top to bottom)
|
| #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 | |
| #23 | Latvia: | 18 | |
| #24 | Rwanda: | 18 | |
| #25 | Eritrea: | 16 | |
| #26 | Uzbekistan: | 16 | |
| #27 | Lithuania: | 12 | |
| #28 | Algeria: | 11 | |
| #29 | Kyrgyzstan: | 9 | |
| #30 | Burma: | 8 | |
| #31 | Sri Lanka: | 7 | |
| #32 | Georgia: | 5 | |
| #33 | Pakistan: | 5 | |
| #34 | Cambodia: | 4 | |
| #35 | China: | 2 | |
| #36 | Tajikistan: | 2 | |
| #37 | Zimbabwe: | 1 | |
| #38 | Israel: | 1 | |
| #39 | Congo, Republic of the: | 1 | |
| #40 | 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