Immigration

The Immigration desk's data pages: Border, H-1B & Talent, Migration & Economy, Students, Visas & Green Cards, World Comparison.

• Border: CBP encounters at and between ports of entry, by month, citizenship, state and fiscal year. Encounter levels drive federal enforcement and detention spending and local shelter and court costs, and…
• H-1B & Talent: H-1B approvals for new jobs and for extensions by fiscal year, the top employers, industries and states, a lookup by employer, and immigration lobbying. Approvals track demand for software…
• Migration & Economy: Every immigration measure against its own history, workers born abroad and the job market, how much of population growth comes from migration, and what prediction markets expect. Immigration feeds…
• Students: International students at U.S. colleges, what they spend here (counted as U.S. service exports), the states with the most, and how the U.S. compares with other countries. Their tuition supports…
• Visas & Green Cards: Temporary visas by purpose and class, green cards by route, where new green-card holders were born, entries by citizenship and naturalizations, each against five years earlier and 2019. Visitors'…
• World Comparison: The U.S. beside its allies, partners, rivals and other big immigration countries: net migration, the migrant population, ageing, admission routes, temporary migration, immigrants' jobs and foreign…