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Green-card backlog · by country
Nearly 4 million people are waiting in the green-card line.
The U.S. immigrant-visa waiting list isn't spread evenly across the world — ten countries carry roughly three-quarters of it. Here's the full country-by-country breakdown of who is waiting.
4.03M
on the official waiting list
75%
from just 10 countries
~29%
from Mexico alone
10
countries shown below
Top 10 countries by people waiting
Bar length ∝ people waiting1Mexico
1.19M
29.5% of total
2India
291K
7.2% of total
3Philippines
288K
7.1% of total
4Dominican Republic
251K
6.2% of total
5China
231K
5.7% of total
6Vietnam
217K
5.4% of total
7Bangladesh
215K
5.3% of total
8Pakistan
142K
3.5% of total
9Haiti
117K
2.9% of total
10El Salvador
78K
1.9% of total
Source: U.S. Department of State, National Visa Center — immigrant-visa waiting list, as of November 1, 2023. Figures count documentarily-qualified applicants awaiting an available visa number and are rounded to the nearest thousand. Totals exclude adjustment-of-status cases pending with USCIS, so the true backlog is larger. For authoritative records, see travel.state.gov.
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