Figure 2: Estimated Numbers of Compact Migrants in U.S. Areas, 2005-2009
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report: www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-64
Compacts of Free Association
Improvements Needed to Assess and Address Growing Migration
[U.S. compacts with the freely associated states (FAS)—the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Marshall Islands, and Palau—permit FAS citizens to migrate to the United States and its territories (U.S. areas) without regard to visa and labor certification requirements. Thousands of FAS citizens have migrated to U.S. areas (compact migrants)—particularly to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Guam, and Hawaii, which are defined as affected jurisdictions.]
a The Guam and CNMI estimates are from the 2008 enumeration; remaining
estimates are from the 2005-2009 ACS.
b Census suppressed the estimated values of remaining states to
protect the confidentiality of individual respondents; we do not know
how many of the remaining states contain migrants.
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