Active DACA Recipients in Georgia

Georgia residents holding an active DACA grant, as counted by USCIS on irregular release dates from September 2017 to April 2019 and at federal fiscal quarter-ends since; FY2018 q1 and FY2023 q3 have no release.

Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) - Active DACA Recipients reports, Immigration and Citizenship Data
Year coverage: 2017–2026
Updated: quarterly
Version: 1.0.0
Schema hash: 3f676937c7d9

Detail levels available

State · default

Overview

Number of Georgia residents holding Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on each snapshot date, from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' Active DACA Recipients reports: the Georgia row of the State or Territory of Residence table, one row per federal fiscal quarter with a release, from FY2017 q4 (as of 2017-09-04) to FY2026 q3 (as of 2026-06-30); FY2018 q1 and FY2023 q3 have no release. Before June 2019 USCIS released at irregular month-ends, each placed in the fiscal quarter containing it. A point-in-time stock, rounded by USCIS to the nearest 10.

Row grain: One row per year, quarter, county_fips.

Key metric

num_active_recipients — Active DACA Recipients (count)

The single headline value most answers want.

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Variables

Every column in the fact table. The code is the exact field name the API returns.

Column	Type	Unit	Range	Null?	Description
`year`Year	integer	—	—	no	Federal fiscal year of the snapshot (October 1 - September 30). FY N runs from October 1 of calendar year N-1, so a December 31 snapshot belongs to the NEXT calendar year's fiscal year (2025-12-31 is FY2026 q1). USCIS labels its releases this way. Full description▾ Federal fiscal year of the snapshot (October 1 - September 30). FY N runs from October 1 of calendar year N-1, so a December 31 snapshot belongs to the NEXT calendar year's fiscal year (2025-12-31 is FY2026 q1). USCIS labels its releases this way.
`quarter`Quarter	string	—	—	no	Federal fiscal quarter of the snapshot (q1 = Oct-Dec, as of Dec 31). Full description▾ Federal fiscal quarter the snapshot date falls in: q1 = October-December (as of December 31), q2 = January-March (March 31), q3 = April-June (June 30), q4 = July-September (September 30). The count is a stock on that one day, not a quarterly flow, and there is no annual total. Every row is as of its quarter's last day except USCIS's irregular early month-end releases, each placed in the fiscal quarter that contains it: FY2017 q4 = 2017-09-04; FY2018 q3 = 2018-05-31; FY2018 q4 = 2018-08-31; FY2019 q1 = 2018-11-30; FY2019 q2 = 2019-02-28. FY2018 q1 and FY2023 q3 have no release and no row. 4 allowed values▾ `q1` `q2` `q3` `q4`
`county_fips`County FIPS	string	—	—	yes	Always NULL: USCIS publishes DACA recipients by state of residence, not by county, so this dataset is Georgia statewide only. Kept for the immigration domain's shared key shape. Full description▾ Always NULL: USCIS publishes DACA recipients by state of residence, not by county, so this dataset is Georgia statewide only. Kept for the immigration domain's shared key shape. Joins counties; adds its label columns.
`num_active_recipients`Active DACA Recipients	integer	count	—	yes	Georgia residents holding an active DACA grant on the snapshot date. Full description▾ Approximate number of people holding an active Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) grant on the snapshot date whose state of residence, at the time of their most recent DACA application, is Georgia: the Georgia row of the State or Territory of Residence table in USCIS's Active DACA Recipients report. USCIS counts individuals whose DACA expires on or after the snapshot date and excludes those who have since become lawful permanent residents or citizens. A point-in-time stock: never sum across quarters. Rounded by USCIS to the nearest 10 (to the nearest 100 in the 2017-09-04 release, FY2017 q4).

Filters

Query parameters the fact endpoint accepts. Comma-separated values are OR within a parameter; multiple parameters AND together.

Parameter	Kind	Allowed values	Notes
`year`	year_exact	any value	—
`year_min`	year_range	any value	—
`year_max`	year_range	any value	—
`detail`	detail	`states`	enum-enforced, default: states
`county_fips`	foreign_key	any value	multi-value
`quarter`	categorical	`q1q2q3q4`	multi-value, enum-enforced, pick one

Example requests

Run these against the base URL — they return live data.

All rows (first page), states level

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/immigration/daca_recipients"

states data for 2026

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/immigration/daca_recipients?year=2026"

Filtered to quarter = q1 for 2026

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/immigration/daca_recipients?year=2026&quarter=q1"

Download 2026 as CSV

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/immigration/daca_recipients?year=2026&format=csv"

Notes & limitations

NULL handling

Zero is a real, reported value.

Limitations

year is the FEDERAL FISCAL YEAR (October 1 - September 30), the reverse of the calendar-year enforcement topics in this domain: FY N runs from October 1 of N-1, so a December 31 snapshot is FY N+1 q1 (2025-12-31 is FY2026 q1). Figures match USCIS's published Active DACA Recipients reports for the same date. The count is a point-in-time STOCK - the people holding an active DACA grant on one day - not a flow over the quarter. Never sum quarters; a fiscal year's figure is one of its quarters, and the latest is the usual choice. Snapshot (as-of) date of every row: FY2017 q4 = 2017-09-04; FY2018 q2 = 2018-03-31; FY2018 q3 = 2018-05-31; FY2018 q4 = 2018-08-31; FY2019 q1 = 2018-11-30; FY2019 q2 = 2019-02-28; FY2019 q3 = 2019-06-30; FY2019 q4 = 2019-09-30; FY2020 q1 = 2019-12-31; FY2020 q2 = 2020-03-31; FY2020 q3 = 2020-06-30; FY2020 q4 = 2020-09-30; FY2021 q1 = 2020-12-31; FY2021 q2 = 2021-03-31; FY2021 q3 = 2021-06-30; FY2021 q4 = 2021-09-30; FY2022 q1 = 2021-12-31; FY2022 q2 = 2022-03-31; FY2022 q3 = 2022-06-30; FY2022 q4 = 2022-09-30; FY2023 q1 = 2022-12-31; FY2023 q2 = 2023-03-31; FY2023 q4 = 2023-09-30; FY2024 q1 = 2023-12-31; FY2024 q2 = 2024-03-31; FY2024 q3 = 2024-06-30; FY2024 q4 = 2024-09-30; FY2025 q1 = 2024-12-31; FY2025 q2 = 2025-03-31; FY2025 q3 = 2025-06-30; FY2025 q4 = 2025-09-30; FY2026 q1 = 2025-12-31; FY2026 q2 = 2026-03-31; FY2026 q3 = 2026-06-30. Before 2019-06-30 USCIS released at irregular month-ends. Each is placed in the fiscal quarter that contains it, and where two fell in one quarter the later is kept: FY2018 q2: 2018-01-31 superseded by 2018-03-31; FY2019 q2: 2019-01-31 superseded by 2019-02-28; FY2019 q3: 2019-04-30 superseded by 2019-06-30. The 2017-09-04 release (FY2017 q4) is 26 days short of the quarter's end and is rounded to the nearest 100, not 10. The series breaks at FY2018 q1 (no release dated between 2017-09-04 and 2018-01-31); FY2023 q3 (USCIS never published a June 30, 2023 release). Those quarters are ABSENT, not zero; a chart must not interpolate across them. Georgia statewide only. USCIS publishes DACA recipients by state of residence (at the time of the most recent DACA application), not by county, so county_fips is always NULL. USCIS also publishes a row for the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area (CBSA); it is not included, because this domain has no CBSA geography key. The releases' country-of-birth, sex, age, marital-status and expiration-month tables are national only (no Georgia breakdown), so they are not here. Counts are rounded by USCIS to the nearest 10 and cells under 10 are withheld as 'D'; Georgia's row has never been withheld. The active population excludes people who have since become lawful permanent residents or citizens. The I-821D application tables (receipts, renewals and initials pending) that share some 2019-2020 releases count applications, not recipients, and are excluded. Georgia's count falls from a peak of 22,180 (2018-08-31) to 14,070 (2026-06-30), in step with the national total; the decline is in USCIS's published figures, not a processing artefact.