Immigration and Citizenship Data

USCIS receives and adjudicates approximately 6 million petitions and applications annually from individuals and employers. These petitions and applications typically allow foreign nationals to stay in United States as lawful permanent residents (LPR) or immigrants, to stay temporarily to work as nonimmigrants for some other purpose, or to obtain U.S. citizenship.

These reports generally provide summary data on the number of applications or petitions received, approved, denied and pending. In addition, certain tables list the USCIS office responsible for the adjudication. For Information on the number and characteristics of persons granted LPR and citizenship status, please refer to data and reports published by the DHS Office of Immigration Statistics at http://www.dhs.gov/Immigration-statistics. Additionally, see the Electronic Reading Room for frequently requested statistics.

The information on this page is organized based on the benefits provided to individuals:

Family Based

This section contains reports on the number of petitions and applications for lawful permanent resident (LPR) status based on a family relationship with an LPR or U.S. citizen.

Employment Based

This section contains reports on the number of petitions and applications for temporary or lawful permanent resident status based on needed job skills.

Temporary Workers: Data on petitions for H-2A (seasonal agricultural) and L-1B (intracompany transferee specialized knowledge) temporary worker status.

Permanent Residents: Data on applications for lawful permanent resident (LPR) status based on needed job skills and alien entrepreneurs creating jobs in the United States.

Humanitarian

This section contains reports on the number of applications for asylum and refugee status as well as for victims of trafficking or crime.

Permanent Residents: Data on petitions/applications for lawful permanent resident (LPR) status based on humanitarian concerns (asylees and refugees).

Victims of Trafficking or Crime: Data on applications for nonimmigrant status for victims of trafficking or crime.

Citizenship and Naturalization

This section contains data on citizenship and naturalization benefits and application processing times.

Frequently Requested Statistics

This section contains data on various petitions/applications for immigration and citizenship benefits, including the number of applicants for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

All Forms

This section contains data on all forms.

Archives

This section contains previously published reports.

Find this page at: www.uscis.gov/data

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