The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released data for Fiscal Year 2005, which listed the following statistics:  

• Lawful permanent immigration grew by 17 percent from FY 2004.
• Refugee admissions rose slightly from FY 2004, but remained below pre-9/11 levels
• The level of temporary visitors rebounded to near pre-9/11 levels
• Naturalizations increased by nearly 13 percent from FY 2004.

The number of people granted lawful permanent residence in the U.S. in FY 2005 climbed 17.2 percent to 1,122,373 in FY 2005.  This included 384,071 people newly arriving to the United States , and 738,302 adjusting from another type of immigration status.  

Nearly half of all new legal immigrants came from just ten countries.  Leading the list of birth for immigrants in FY 2005 was Mexico , with 161,445; the number of Mexican immigrants declined 8 percent from FY 2004.  The other countries on the list were India , China , the Philippines , Cuba , Vietnam , the Dominican Republic , Korea , Colombia , and Ukraine .  The countries with the largest numerical increases in immigrants to the U.S. were Cuba , India , China , Ukraine , and Korea .  

According to USCIS, the large increase in persons adjusting to lawful permanent resident status is likely the result of efforts by USCIS to speed the processing of immigration applications in order to eliminate its backlog of applications that have been pending for over six months.

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