The Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS) of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released its population estimate of the number of Legal Permanent Residents, or LPRs, in the United States as of January 1, 2011.<\/p>\n
The OIS report addresses \u201cgreen card\u201d recipients who are persons granted lawful permanent resident status and have the unrestricted right to live and work in the U.S. The LPR data were collected from administrative records of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and are categorized by the residents’ countries of origin, the states they reside in, the years they obtained LPR status and whether such persons are eligible to become naturalized citizens.<\/p>\n
The report estimates that a total of 13.1 million LPRs were living in the United States at the beginning of 2011. Fifty-nine percent of the total obtained LPR status between (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS) of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released its population estimate of the number of Legal Permanent Residents, or LPRs, in the United States as of January 1, 2011. The OIS report…<\/span><\/p>\n