Immigration Law Research Guide: Statistics

I. Federal Agencies

A. Department of Homeland Security

B. Department of Justice

C. Department of Labor

D. Department of State

II. Primary Sources of Immigration Law

A. Statutory Authority

B. Administrative Regulations

C. Administrative Decisions

D. Case Law

III. General Secondary Sources

IV. News, Journals & Blogs

V.  Asylum Law

VI. Business Immigration Law

VII. Immigration & Criminal Law

VIII. Statistics

IX. Organizations

X. Self-Help

• U.S. Department of Homeland Security: Immigration Statistics.  Includes news releases covering nonimmigrant admissions, U.S. legal permanent residents, naturalizations, and estimates of the undocumented immigrant population, in addition to the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics (2004- ).  

• Executive Office for Immigration Review, Statistical Year Book (2000- ).  Contents include a summary of highlights, statistical information relating to Immigration Courts, the Bureau of Immigration Appeals, and the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer (OCAHO), in addition to asylum statistics by nationality. 

• Syracuse University, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), Immigration Project.  As stated on their website, TRAC's Immigration Project "is a unique new multi-year effort to systematically go after very detailed information from the government, check it for accuracy and completeness and then make it available in an understandable way to the American people, Congress, immigration groups and others."  Includes various reports on different immigration enforcement topics, detailed reports on how over 200 immigration judges have handled asylum cases, and a library of government immigration reports by the GAO, CRS and inspectors general.

• U.S. Census Bureau:
  • United States foreign-born population.  Includes Reports, Data Tables, and Foreign-Born Profiles.

• MPI Migration Data Hub.  A project of the Migration Policy Institute, an independent think tank which analyzes the movement of people worldwide.  The Data Hub provides immigration statistics, maps, and numbers for the United States and other countries.   See also MPI's "Migration Information Source," an online journal which includes the "Country Resources" feature.