Lawful Permanent Residents

Lawful permanent residents (LPRs), also known as “green card” holders, are non-citizens who are lawfully authorized to live permanently within the United States. LPRs may accept an offer of employment without special restrictions, own property, receive financial assistance at public colleges and universities, and join the Armed Forces. They also may apply to become U.S. citizens if they meet certain eligibility requirements. The Immigration and Nationality Act provides several broad classes of admission for foreign nationals to gain LPR status, the largest of which focuses on admitting immigrants for the purpose of family reunification. Other major categories include economic and humanitarian immigrants, as well as immigrants from countries with relatively low levels of immigration to the United States.

Reports

The following are key datasets and resources published by the Office of Immigration Statistics.

Yearbook of Immigration Statistics

This annual report and its supplemental tables include a collection of tables that provides data on foreign nationals who were granted lawful permanent residence. The Yearbook also includes tables on those who were admitted into the United States on a temporary basis; applied for asylum or refugee status; or were naturalized; or who were the subject of enforcement actions, including noncitizen inadmissibility determinations, apprehensions, removals, and returns.

Lawful Permanent Residents Annual Flow Report

This annual report presents information obtained from LPR applications, on the number and characteristics of persons who became LPRs in the United States, providing information such as country of birth, state and core-based statistical area of residence, age and sex, and type and class of admission.

State Immigration Data

This annual set of tables provides 10 years of data for each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, with data on refugee arrivals and total asylum grants (affirmative and defensive combined), including raw counts and per capita counts, along with state rankings for each within each year. They also include data on total, new arrival, and adjustment lawful permanent residents; I-94 nonimmigrant arrivals; and naturalizations.

• State Immigration Data
• Immigration Map

Lawful Permanent Residents Population Estimates

This report presents estimates of the LPR population living in the United States on January 1 of the given year.

Legal Immigration and Adjustment of Status Report

This quarterly report provides tables with preliminary legal immigration counts based on data available one month after the reporting period and details the number of adjustments of immigration status, presenting data broken out by type of adjustment, type and detailed class of admission, and country of nationality.

Profiles on Lawful Permanent Residents

These tables provide detailed profiles of selected demographic characteristics of immigrants who became LPRs by fiscal year. Profiles are available by country of birth, state of residence, and core-based statistical area of residence.

Immigrant Classes of Admission

Estimated LPR Population and Number Eligible to Naturalize among Recent Arrivals

This report provides estimates of the recent LPR population and subpopulation eligible to naturalize living in the top 50 core-based statistical areas, including county-level breakdown within those areas as of January 1, 2022.

LPR Yearbook Tables 8 to 11 Expanded

These tables are expanded versions of Tables 8 through 11 from each Yearbooks of Immigration Statistics to distinguish between Adjustments of Status and New Arrivals.

Lawful Permanent Residents by Type, Broad Class of Admission, and Sex and Broad Age Group: Top Twenty States

This file provides state-level data for the top 20 states of residence of new lawful permanent residents: Expanded version of two panels of Table 9 (sex and broad age group) of the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics to distinguish between Adjustments of Status and New Arrivals.

LPRs by Country of Birth and Major Classes of Admission

These tables provide Lawful Permanent Residents (LPRs) and derivative (spouses and children) employment-based LPRs by country of birth and major class of admission.

LPR by State, County, Country of Birth, and Major Class of Admission

These tables are county-level data for the top 200 counties of residence of new Lawful Permanent Residents by major class of admission and country of birth.

Adjustments to Lawful Permanent Residence by Year of Entry

This table has data on year of entry into the United States of those adjusting to LPR status for the top 10 countries of birth and by world regions.

COVID-19 Vulnerability by Immigration Status

This report presents population estimates by four categories of immigration status–lawful permanent residents, resident nonimmigrants, refugees and asylees, and unauthorized immigrants–and addresses unique COVID-19-related risks each status group may face.

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