LEGAL immigrants in 2004 946,142

If anyone wants to know how many LEGAL immigrants in 2004 see http://uscis.gov/graphics/shared/statistics/publications/FlowRptTempAdmis2004.pdf.

For any real "number nuts" see U.S. Legal Permanent Residents: 2004
http://uscis.gov/graphics/shared/statistics/publications/FlowReportLegalPermResidents2004.pdf Legal immigration increased 34 percent from 705,827 in 2003 to 946,142 in 2004 . . .

In 2004, nearly one-fifth (19 percent) of all persons becoming LPRs were born in Mexico.

The second leading country of birth was India (7.4 percent), followed by the Philippines (6.1 percent), China (5.4 percent), the Dominican Republic (3.2 percent), El Salvador (3.1 percent), Cuba (2.2 percent), Korea (2.1 percent), and Colombia (2.0 percent).

These 10 countries represented 53 percent of all new LPRs in 2004.