Visa requirements for Bahamian citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of The Bahamas. OneSource Genealogy and Family History Searchable Databases cemeteries, funeral homes, obituaries, census records, searchable databases, immigration and migration. Immigration Surging 1. Million Arriving Annually. Download a PDF of this Backgrounder. Steven A. Camarota is the director of research and Karen Zeigler is a demographer at the Center for Immigration Studies. A Center for Immigration Studies CIS analysis of newly released data from the Census Bureaus American Community Survey ACS shows that 1. The ACS is the Bureaus largest survey and the new findings confirm research published by the Center in June of this year based on a much smaller Bureau survey, which also showed a significant increase in new arrivals in 2. Newly arrived immigrants include new green card holders permanent residents long term temporary visitors who often stay permanently, such as guest workers and foreign students and new illegal immigrants. Office of Admissions Enrollment Management Bessemer Campus 1100 9th Avenue, S. W. Bessemer, Alabama 35022 205 9293418 Financial Aid Code 001059. The just released public use data from the American Community Survey shows 1. Between three fourths and two thirds of the 1. The remainder are new illegal immigrants. Data released thus far for the first six months of the year indicate that new arrivals may have reached 1. The number who arrived in 2. The overall immigrant population grew about twice as fast in the last two years as it did in the prior four years. The 1. 9 million increase in the immigrant population in just the last two years almost equals the two million growth in the four year period from 2. It is important to note that arrivals are offset by those immigrants who leave the country each year and by normal mortality of about 3. Therefore, growth in the overall immigrant population is less than new arrivals. As a share of the U. S. population, 1. As recently as 1. Based on current trends and Census Bureau projections, the immigrant share of the population will surpass the highest level in American history seven years from now. Sending regions with the largest numerical increases in immigrants living in the United States since 2. East Asia up 8. 47,0. South Asia up 8. Caribbean up 4. Sub Saharan Africa up 3. Middle East up 3. Central America up 3. The number of European immigrants declined by 3. Major sending countries with the largest numerical increases in immigrants living in the United States since 2. India up 6. 09,0. China up 5. 10,0. Philippines up 2. Dominican Republic up 1. El Salvador up 1. Cuba up 1. 06,0. Nigeria up 1. Guatemala up 9. 7,0. Haiti up 8. 8,0. Pakistan up 8. Honduras up 7. 6,0. Bangladesh up 7. Venezuela up 7. Colombia up 6. 3,0. Vietnam up 6. 0,0. Iraq up 5. 5,0. 00. Major sending countries with the largest percentage increases in immigrants living in the United States since 2. Saudi Arabia up 1. Bangladesh up 4. Nigeria up 4. Egypt and Iraq each up 3. India up 3. 4 percent, Ethiopia up 3. Bahamas Immigration Card Pdf File' title='Bahamas Immigration Card Pdf File' />Pakistan up 2. Ghana up 2. Dominican Republic up 2. Honduras up 1. 5 percent, Guatemala and the Philippines each up 1. Iran up 1. 1 percent. After the Great Recession began in 2. This is a reminder that even though the U. S. economy experienced a prolonged recession and historically weak economic growth, the United States remains an attractive place for immigrants to settle. States with the largest numerical increases in the number of immigrants from 2. California up 5. Texas up 5. Florida up 4. 28,0. New York up 2. 32,0. New Jersey up 1. Massachusetts up 1. Maryland up 1. 08,0. Virginia up 1. 08,0. Pennsylvania up 9. Washington up 9. Georgia up 8. Minnesota up 7. 9,0. North Carolina up 7. States with the largest percentage increases in the number of immigrants from 2. North Dakota up 7. Wyoming up 3. 9 percent, West Virginia up 3. South Dakota up 2. Treascy-side-2-big.png' alt='Bahamas Immigration Card Pdf File' title='Bahamas Immigration Card Pdf File' />Delaware up 2. Minnesota up 2. Alaska up 1. Mississippi up 1. Tennessee and New Hampshire each up 1. Nebraska and Oklahoma each up 1. Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Texas each up 1. Data Source. On October 2. Census Bureau released the public use data from the 2. American Community Survey ACS. The survey reflects the U. S. population as of July 1, 2. The ACS is by far the largest survey taken by the federal government each year and includes over two million households. Several weeks ago, the Census Bureau posted some of the results from the ACS to its American Fact. Finder system. 9. The immigrant population, referred to as the foreign born by the Census Bureau, are those individuals who were not U. S. citizens at birth. It includes naturalized citizens, legal permanent immigrants green card holders, temporary workers, and foreign students. It does not include those born to immigrants in the United States, including to illegal immigrant parents, nor does it include those born in outlying U. S. territories such as Puerto Rico. Prior research by the Department of Homeland Security and others indicates that some 9. ACS. 1. 0 Thus all the figures reported above are for both legal and illegal immigrants. Steven Camarota, New Data Immigration Surged in 2. More than three million legal and illegal immigrants settled in the United States in the last two years, Center for Immigration Studies, June 2. The ACS for each year is weighted to reflect the population as of July 1. As such, it only reports arrival data for the first six months when it is released each year. When the next ACS is released the following year, it reports the number of arrivals for the entire prior year. So, for example, the 2. ACS showed 8. 49,0. ACS shows 1. 4. 94 million arrivals for all of 2. In recent years the ratio of arrivals from the first six months of the year to the number shown for the entire year when the next years ACS is released is 1. The 2. 01. 5 ACS shows that 9. Therefore, we project that when the 2. ACS is released it will show 1. Microsoft Visio 2010 Download Portugues Serial Podcast here. The new data indicates that growth in the immigrant population is accelerating. Between 2. 00. 9 and 2. Based on analysis done by the Center for Immigration Studies and Decision Demographics, we estimate that the death rate among the foreign born is 7. This translates into 3. Historical numbers from the decennial censuses can be found at the Census Bureaus website. They show that, in 1. U. S. population and fell for a time, but again reached 1. These two figures represent the highest share ever recorded. Table 2 of the Census Bureau projections published in 2. U. S. population in 2. The Census Bureau projected that the foreign born population would be 1. U. S. population in 2. ACS shows. This is an indication that, at least so far, the United States is on track to set a new record in the share of the population that is comprised of immigrants in just seven years. Countries that can be identified in the public use 2. ACS file are coded as the following regions Mexico Central America Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama South America Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and South America not specified Caribbean Bermuda, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Antigua Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St.