Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants - and Immigration in the United States

The slowing growth of the immigrant population over the past few years is mirrored by the slowing growth of the overall U. [...] How have the number and share of immigrants changed over time? In 1850, the first year the United States began collecting nativity data through the census, the country had 2.2 million immigrants, representing nearly 10 percent of the total population. [...] History,” understand the impact of the 1965 law in “Fifty Years On, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act Continues to Reshape the United States,” and read more about the end of national-origin quotas in “The Geopolitical Origins of the U. [...] This was a 5 percent increase over the 707,000 new green cards issued in FY 2020, which covered the end of the Trump administration and the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic and marked the lowest number since 2003 and the first time the figure dropped below 1 million since 2013, when 991,000 people obtained green cards. [...] Due to the reduced capacity of the reset- What is the difference between a refugee and an tlement program and COVID-19-related logistic asylee? In the United States, the main difference is the challenges, slightly fewer than 25,500 refu- person’s location at the time of application.