Table 3.
Selected countries of origin by type of prior US experience
| Place of origin | Type of prior US experience |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total (%) | New arrival | Illegal border crosser | Visa abuser | Non-resident visitor | Non-resident worker | Student/exchange | Refugee/asylee | ||
| Europe | 12,765 | 100 | 27.6 | 10.0 | 7.7 | 18.1 | 5.2 | 4.6 | 26.9 |
| Poland | 2,076 | 100 | 52.0 | 16.3 | 14.8 | 11.2 | 5.6 | – | – |
| Asia | 20,879 | 100 | 43.7 | 8.0 | 12.5 | 11.1 | 3.7 | 10.4 | 10.7 |
| China | 3,877 | 100 | 37.4 | 13.9 | 13.1 | 11.2 | 3.3 | 21.0 | – |
| India | 2,616 | 100 | 74.5 | – | 11.3 | 5.3 | 2.4 | 6.5 | – |
| Korea | 742 | 100 | 12.9 | 5.7 | 12.9 | 41.4 | 2.9 | 24.3 | – |
| Philippines | 3,856 | 100 | 67.6 | 3.8 | 10.2 | 8.5 | 9.9 | – | – |
| North America | 1,261 | 100 | 23.5 | 3.4 | 18.5 | 16.0 | 32.8 | – | 5.9 |
| Latin America | 25,910 | 100 | 26.4 | 38.6 | 10.8 | 16.9 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.9 |
| Dominican Republic | 1,780 | 100 | 50.0 | 25.0 | 8.3 | 12.5 | 4.2 | – | – |
| El Salvador | 1,324 | 100 | 28.0 | 59.2 | 7.2 | – | – | 5.6 | – |
| Mexico | 9,703 | 100 | 15.5 | 56.7 | 9.2 | 15.5 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 0.8 |
| Africa | 3,697 | 100 | 55.3 | 10.6 | 5.2 | 7.2 | 8.0 | 5.7 | 8.0 |
| Oceania | 85 | 100 | – | – | – | 50.0 | 50.0 | – | – |