Employer Sponsored Immigration, 1995-2002 | |||||||||
|
|
|
Employment-based Immigrants |
Temporary Workers and Trainees (a) |
|
|
|
| ||
|
Year |
Total |
|
Total |
H-1bs |
H-2s (b) |
NAFTA |
Other | ||
|
1995 |
306,000 |
85,336 |
220,664 |
117,574 |
25,587 |
23,904 |
53,599 | ||
|
2000 |
742,253 |
107,024 |
635,229 |
355,605 |
84,754 |
91,279 |
103,591 | ||
|
2001 |
867,675 |
179,195 |
688,480 |
384,191 |
100,082 |
95,486 |
108,721 | ||
|
2002 |
830,017 |
174,968 |
655,049 |
370,490 |
102,615 |
73,699 |
108,245 | ||
|
(a.)The figure for admissions of temporary workers and trainees includes each entry to the U.S., and is thus greater than the number of visas issued. | |||||||||
|
(b.) H-2 visas are issued to "workers performing services unavailable in the United States." Source: Homeland Security, 2002 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, October 2003. Tables 4 and 26. | |||||||||
Edwin S. Rubenstein (email him) is President of ESR Research Economic Consultants in Indianapolis.
