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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:

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

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.

Transparency for U.S. Workers

H-1B Datasets: These datasets provide information about the hiring practices of employers who petition for foreign national workers.

H2-B Dataset

EAD Reports: These reports provide an overview of all categories for which employment authorization documents (EAD) are provided to foreign nationals. They also specify which employment authorization classes are specifically authorized by statute and which classes are provided to foreign nationals as a matter of the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security.

L-1 Datasets

Humanitarian

This section contains reports on the number of applications for asylum and refugee status, applications and petitions for victims of trafficking or other serious crimes, and self-petitions for victims of domestic violence.

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.

Victims of Domestic Violence (Battery or Extreme Cruelty): Data on self-petitions for victims of domestic violence.

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.

Forms

This section contains data on all forms and I-407 data.

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