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! Metro population: 7,410,858 (1990 Census) !
! 7,734,000 (1996 CPS) !
! Foreign-born population: 887,611 (1990 Census) !
! Percent foreign born: 12.0% (1990 Census) !
! New legal immigrants: 319,687 (1991 to 1998) !
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INS DATA ON NEW LEGAL IMMIGRANTS 1991-1998
The Chicago PMSA (Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry and Will
Counties) accounted for nine-tenths of Illinois' legal immigrant settlement recorded by
the INS since the 1990 Census. The legal immigrant settlement
data during this period was influenced by adjustment of status of a large number of immigrants
who had been in illegal status until the amnesty that was adopted in the 1986 Immigration
Reform and Control Act (IRCA). This IRCA adjustment data -- which was still at the surge level
in FY-91, affected adjustments in the Chicago metro area, with over 20,000
Mexican legalizations accounting for most of them.
Just among the long-term resident amnesty applicants (excluding the amnestied agricultural workers), the number of applicants from the Chicago metro area numbered 100,939.
The data for FY'95, FY'97 and FY'98 were artificially low because the INS was not able to issue
green cards to all the applicants for adjustment of status who were already in the United States.
In those three years, new immigration could have registered as much as 30 percent higher, if the
INS had issued more visas.
The Chicago metropolitan area (MSA) remains the third greatest magnet in the country for new immigrants (after LA and NY). The average number of new settlers to the area is about 37,000, discounting the effects of the 1986 amnesty. In FY'98 the number of immigrants identifying the Chicago MSA as their destination was just over 30,000.
ANNUAL TOTAL IMMIGRATION BY FISCAL YEAR
Listed below are the overall total legal immigrant admissions and adjustments for each of the first six
years since the 1990 Census. Also available is the year-by-year breakdown of the major
nationalities of the new immigrants.
FISCAL YEAR NUMBER OF ADMISSIONS BY NATIONALITY 1991 60,590 FY-91 1992 37,435 FY-92 1993 44,121 FY-93 1994 40,081 FY-94 1995 31,730 FY-95 1996 39,989 FY-96 1997 35,386 1998 30,355 Total 319,687 (nationality composition FY91-96 below)
INS DATA ON FY'91-96 IMMIGRANT SETTLEMENT BY NATIONALITY
The following data are furnished for nationals of the countries with the largest number of
immigrants admitted or adjusted to legal U.S. residence each year. The absence of data for a country
simply means that the total number of admissions
to the United States by nationals of that country were not enough to merit detailed reporting by
MSA or PMSA jurisdiction.
Bangladesh 240 Canada 1,979 China * 10,916 Colombia 1,484 Cuba 461 Dominican R. 492 Ecuador 1,552 El Salvador 1,185 Guatemala 3,536 Guyana 128 Haiti 669 India 19,338 Iran 1,276 Ireland 2,392 Jamaica 1,425 Korea 4,159 Mexico 72,218 Pakistan 5,160 Peru 1,116 Philippines 14,613 Poland 48,033 Soviet Union ** 15,662 United K. 2,431 Vietnam 4,193 Yugoslavia 2,546 Other 36,626 Total 253,946 * Includes Hong Kong and Taiwan when available. ** Includes Russia and Ukraine data.1997 CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY (CPS) DATA
ILLEGAL ALIENS
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