NO EMIGRATIONS FROM AZERBAIJAN TO UNITED STATES IN 2007

TREND News Agency
April 17 2008
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, Baku, 17 April / TrendNews corr. E.Huseynov / In 2007,
there were not emigrations from Azerbaijan to the United States
and 3,100 tourists visited the country, the US State Department
report said.

In total, 6.4mln foreigners visited the United States in 2007, and
434,000 people emigrated to the country. The State Department reported
that according to the number of immigration and visitor visas issued
within 2007, citizens from the former SSSR countries demonstrated
had a lower rate of visits to the United States.

On the report, the number of emigrants from Armenia to the United
States totalled more than 1,000 people and 4,2000 tourists, Belorussia
– zero emigrants and 8,200 tourists, Estonia 7 emigrants and 7,600
tourists, Georgia – 444 emigrants and 4,800 tourists, Latvia – zero
emigrants and 9,000 tourists, Lithuania – zero emigrants and 9,500
tourists, Moscow – zero emigrants and 9,000 tourists, Russia – 4,329
emigrants and 137,200 tourists, Ukraine – 1,827 emigrants and 40,100
tourists, Kazakhstan – 972 emigrants and 11,700 tourists, Kirgizstan –
zero emigrants and 2,100 tourists, Turkmenistan -zero emigrants and
0,900 tourists and Uzbekistan – 1,117 emigrants and 2,600 tourists.

The statistic shows that the number of emigrants from the post Soviet
countries has been decreasing in recent years. Most emigrants came to
the United States from Mexico (53,400), Philippine (42,600.) and China
(32,400.), Washington ProFile reported.