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US Refugee Program: Current Fiscal Year Admission Statistics

Country of Origin

Admissions
Ceiling

Admitted
as of 10/31/09

AFRICA

15,500

951

EAST ASIA

17,000

1,533

EUROPE

2,500

97

LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN

5,000

279

NEAR EAST & SOUTH ASIA

35,000

2,352

UNALLOCATED RESERVE

5,000

0

 

 

 

   TOTAL

80,000

5,212

 

Country of Origin
Admissions Ceiling Admitted as of 10/31/09
AFRICA 12,000  
Angola    
Burundi   45
Cameroon    
Central African Rep.    
Chad    
Congo   32
Dem Rep Congo   101
Djibouti    
Equatorial Guinea    
Eritrea   229
Ethiopia   17
Gabon  
Gambia  
Ghana    
Guinea  
Ivory Coast  
Kenya  
Liberia 52
Madagascar  
Mauritania  
Nigeria  
Rwanda 10
Sierra Leone 11
Somalia 400
Sudan 51
Togo  
Zambia  
Uganda 3
Zimbabwe  
Total Africa 12,000 951

 

Country of Origin
Admissions Ceiling Admitted as of 10/31/09
EAST ASIA
20,500  
Burma   1,421
Cambodia   1
China   14
Korea, North    
Laos    
Thailand    
Vietnam   97
Total East Asia 20,500 1,533

 

Country of Origin
Admissions Ceiling Admitted as of 10/31/09
EUROPE
2,500
 
Albania    
Armenia    
Azerbaijan    
Belarus   2
Estonia    
Georgia    
Kazakhstan    
Kyrgyzstan   12
Latvia    
Moldova   32
Russia   25
Turkmenistan    
Ukraine   26
Uzbekistan    
Total Europe 2,500 97

 

Country of Origin
Admissions Ceiling Admitted as of 10/31/09
LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN 5,500  
Colombia   4
Cuba   275
Total Latin America & Caribbean 5,500 279

 

Country of Origin
Admissions Ceiling Admitted as of 10/31/09
NEAR EAST & SOUTH ASIA 39,500  
Afghanistan   29
Bhutan   1,223
Egypt   5
Iran   231
Iraq   803
Kuwait    
Lebanon   2
Libya   1
Nepal    
Pakistan   9
Palestine   27
Sri Lanka   11
Syria    
Yemen   11
Total Near East & South Asia 39,500 2,352


Updated November 2009


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