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US Refugee Program: Current Fiscal Year Admission Statistics

Country of Origin

Admissions
Ceiling

Admitted
as of 2/28/10

AFRICA

15,500

4,496

EAST ASIA

17,000

7,070

EUROPE

2,500

744

LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN

5,000

1,958

NEAR EAST & SOUTH ASIA

35,000

14,974

UNALLOCATED RESERVE

5,000

0

 

 

 

   TOTAL

80,000

29,242

 

Country of Origin
Admissions Ceiling Admitted as of 2/28/10
AFRICA 15,500  
Angola    
Burundi   166
Cameroon   5
Central African Rep.   11
Chad   9
Congo   117
Dem Rep Congo   1,234
Djibouti    
Equatorial Guinea   9
Eritrea   651
Ethiopia   153
Gabon 1
Gambia 1
Ghana    
Guinea 3
Ivory Coast  
Kenya  
Liberia 111
Madagascar  
Mauritania 31
Nigeria  
Rwanda 75
Sierra Leone 24
Somalia 1,678
Sudan 195
Togo 1
Uganda 15
Zambia  
Zimbabwe 6
Total Africa 15,500 4,496

 

Country of Origin
Admissions Ceiling Admitted as of 2/28/10
EAST ASIA
17,000  
Burma   6,369
Cambodia   9
China   40
Korea, North    
Laos   5
Thailand   2
Vietnam   645
Total East Asia 17,000 7,070

 

Country of Origin
Admissions Ceiling Admitted as of 2/28/10
EUROPE
2,500
 
Albania    
Armenia    
Azerbaijan   9
Belarus   39
Estonia    
Georgia    
Kazakhstan   38
Kyrgyzstan   19
Lithuania   1
Moldova   225
Russia   152
Turkmenistan   1
Ukraine   196
Uzbekistan   64
Total Europe 2,500 744

 

Country of Origin
Admissions Ceiling Admitted as of 2/28/10
LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN 5,000  
Colombia   38
Cuba   1,917
Venezuela   3
Total Latin America & Caribbean 5,000 1,958

 

Country of Origin
Admissions Ceiling Admitted as of 2/28/10
NEAR EAST & SOUTH ASIA 35,000  
Afghanistan   274
Bhutan   5,373
Egypt   12
Iran   1,619
Iraq   6,959
Jordan   3
Kuwait   1
Lebanon   2
Libya   1
Morocco   1
Nepal    
Pakistan   23
Palestine   638
Sri Lanka   44
Syria   13
Yemen   11
Total Near East & South Asia 35,000 14,974


Updated March 2010


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