Immigration

Lawful permanent residents are the fiscal year counts in DHS Yearbook Table 1. Nationwide encounters are the monthly sum of the CBP Encounter Count column. A dataset that is not parsed stays in the fetch record.

Persons obtaining lawful permanent resident status

DHS Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, Table 1. Fiscal years. OHSS rounds cells to the nearest 10. The 1976 row covers 15 months. Shading uses October 1, the same fiscal year rule as the other charts on this site.

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Background bands mark who was president. They are not an attribution of cause. Presidents do not solely control these metrics. Monthly points use the president in office on the first day of the month. Calendar year points use the president in office on July 1. Fiscal year points use the president in office on October 1, the first day of that fiscal year. A fiscal year runs through the following September 30 and can include two presidents.

Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status
Units: Persons. Count. as published.
Table 1, Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status. 1 Includes the 15 months from July 1, 1975 to September 30, 1976 because the end date of fiscal years was changed from June 30 to September 30. Note: To protect privacy, we round table cells to the nearest 10. Source: March 2025 Office of Homeland Security Statistics System of Record based on data provided by USCIS.
Source: Office of Homeland Security Statistics, Lawful Permanent Residents 2024 Data Tables (xlsx). Retrieved 2026-10-19. Series: ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/yearbook/2024/table1
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CBP nationwide encounters

Sum of the Encounter Count column in each CBP nationwide encounters workbook. October of a fiscal year is October of the previous calendar year. Repeated rows in a file stay in the sum.

DemocraticRepublican

Background bands mark who was president. They are not an attribution of cause. Presidents do not solely control these metrics. Monthly points use the president in office on the first day of the month. Calendar year points use the president in office on July 1. Fiscal year points use the president in office on October 1, the first day of that fiscal year. A fiscal year runs through the following September 30 and can include two presidents.

Nationwide encounters
Units: Encounters. Count. as published.
Sum of the Encounter Count column for each fiscal year and month. Workbooks: Nationwide Encounters - FY26TD August; Nationwide Encounters - FY25; Nationwide Encounters - FY23-FY24; Nationwide Encounters - FY16-FY22; Nationwide Encounters - FY05-FY15. October of a fiscal year is October of the previous calendar year. Repeated rows stay in the sum.
Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Nationwide Encounters - FY05-FY15. Retrieved 2026-10-19. Series: www.cbp.gov/document/stats/cbp-data-download-portal-library
Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Nationwide Encounters - FY16-FY22. Retrieved 2026-10-19.
Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Nationwide Encounters - FY23-FY24. Retrieved 2026-10-19.
Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Nationwide Encounters - FY25. Retrieved 2026-10-19.
Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Nationwide Encounters - FY26TD August. Retrieved 2026-10-19.
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