Refugee Arrivals in Georgia by Nationality

Refugees resettled in Georgia each federal fiscal year since FY2012, by nationality, from the State Department's arrival reports.

Source: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, Refugee Processing Center - Refugee Arrivals by State and Nationality (fiscal-year reports); analyzed by Georgia Civic Data
Year coverage: 2012–2026
Updated: monthly
Version: 1.0.0
Schema hash: c88782239d73

Detail levels available

State · default

Overview

Refugees resettled in Georgia by nationality, per federal fiscal year, from the U.S. Department of State Refugee Processing Center's 'Refugee Arrivals by State and Nationality' reports: the FY2012-FY2025 year-end reports and the FY2026 fiscal-year-to-date report (2025-10-01 through 2026-08-31). One row per fiscal year and nationality, plus Georgia's total (nationality = 'all').

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

Key metric

num_arrivals — Refugee Arrivals (count)

The single headline value most answers want.

JSON schema →Data contract (YAML) →

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 (Oct 1 - Sep 30). Full description▾ Federal fiscal year of arrival (October 1 - September 30): FY N runs from October 1 of calendar year N-1, so 2024 = 2023-10-01 to 2024-09-30. Year to date: FY2026 covers 2025-10-01 through 2026-08-31 only, not a full year.
`county_fips`County FIPS	string	—	—	yes	Always NULL: RPC reports arrivals by state only. Kept for the immigration domain's shared key shape. Full description▾ Always NULL: RPC reports arrivals by state only. Kept for the immigration domain's shared key shape. Joins counties; adds its label columns.
`nationality`Nationality	string	—	—	no	Refugee's nationality ('all' = Georgia total). Full description▾ The refugee's nationality as RPC records it (the FY2021+ reports head the column 'PA Nationality', the principal applicant's), in a topic vocabulary covering every nationality with at least one Georgia arrival in any fiscal year; 'all' = every arrival in Georgia. congo is the Republic of the Congo and dem_rep_congo the Democratic Republic of the Congo; sudan and republic_of_south_sudan are distinct; burma is Myanmar; sri_lanka is RPC's 'Sri Lanka (Ceylon)'. The nationality rows partition the 'all' row. 69 allowed values▾ `all — total / aggregate` `afghanistan` `algeria` `bangladesh` `belarus` `bhutan` `burma` `burundi` `cambodia` `cameroon` `central_african_republic` `chad` `china` `colombia` `congo` `cuba` `dem_rep_congo` `ecuador` `egypt` `el_salvador` `eritrea` `ethiopia` `gambia` `ghana` `guatemala` `guinea` `haiti` `honduras` `india` `indonesia` `iran` `iraq` `ivory_coast` `jamaica` `kazakhstan` `kenya` `kuwait` `kyrgyzstan` `liberia` `mali` `moldova` `mongolia` `nepal` `nicaragua` `niger` `nigeria` `north_korea` `pakistan` `palestine` `republic_of_south_sudan` `russia` `rwanda` `senegal` `sierra_leone` `somalia` `south_africa` `sri_lanka` `sudan` `syria` `thailand` `togo` `turkey` `uganda` `ukraine` `uzbekistan` `venezuela` `vietnam` `yemen` `zimbabwe`
`num_arrivals`Refugee Arrivals	integer	count	—	yes	Refugees resettled in Georgia in the fiscal year. Full description▾ Refugees who arrived in the United States in the fiscal year and were resettled in Georgia (placement state through FY2020, affiliate state FY2021-FY2023, actual destination state from FY2024), from RPC's Refugee Arrivals by State and Nationality reports. Excludes Special Immigrant Visa recipients. A 0 is a real zero. Year to date: FY2026 covers 2025-10-01 through 2026-08-31 only.

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
`nationality`	categorical	69 allowed values▾ `all` `afghanistan` `algeria` `bangladesh` `belarus` `bhutan` `burma` `burundi` `cambodia` `cameroon` `central_african_republic` `chad` `china` `colombia` `congo` `cuba` `dem_rep_congo` `ecuador` `egypt` `el_salvador` `eritrea` `ethiopia` `gambia` `ghana` `guatemala` `guinea` `haiti` `honduras` `india` `indonesia` `iran` `iraq` `ivory_coast` `jamaica` `kazakhstan` `kenya` `kuwait` `kyrgyzstan` `liberia` `mali` `moldova` `mongolia` `nepal` `nicaragua` `niger` `nigeria` `north_korea` `pakistan` `palestine` `republic_of_south_sudan` `russia` `rwanda` `senegal` `sierra_leone` `somalia` `south_africa` `sri_lanka` `sudan` `syria` `thailand` `togo` `turkey` `uganda` `ukraine` `uzbekistan` `venezuela` `vietnam` `yemen` `zimbabwe`	multi-value, enum-enforced

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/refugee_arrivals"

states data for 2026

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

Filtered to nationality = afghanistan for 2026

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/immigration/refugee_arrivals?year=2026&nationality=afghanistan"

Download 2026 as CSV

curl "https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/immigration/refugee_arrivals?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 this domain's calendar-year enforcement topics: FY2024 runs from 2023-10-01 to 2024-09-30. Figures match RPC's published reports. PARTIAL YEAR: FY2026 covers 2025-10-01 through 2026-08-31 only (fiscal year to date). RPC's fiscal-year-to-date report is replaced by the year-end report once published; never compare it with a full year. The state concept changes: FY2012-FY2020 reports count arrivals by Placement State, FY2021-FY2023 by Affiliate State (the state of the resettlement agency affiliate), and FY2024 onward by Actual Destination State, which RPC defines as the placement state for Virtual R&P cases and the affiliate state for all other cases. For conventionally placed refugees the three coincide, and the series is published as one. Refugees only: Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) recipients who receive resettlement (R&P) benefits are excluded from every report, so the Afghans counted here are refugees, not SIV holders; Amerasian/SIV arrivals are a separate RPC report. RPC notes that historical monthly arrivals are subject to change due to reconciliation, so a re-issued report can differ from an earlier one; the FY2024 report is RPC's `_updated` re-issue (as of 30 Oct 2024). Data-pull timestamps printed on the PDF reports: FY2021 10/5/2021 12:47:17 PM; FY2022 10/4/2022 4:49:48 PM; FY2023 10/7/2023 2:05:00 AM; FY2024 11/13/2024 3:38:18 PM; FY2025 11/18/2025 7:38:09 PM; FY2026 9/3/2026 10:56:36 AM; the FY2012-FY2020 spreadsheets print none. From FY2020 RPC notes that, under the settlement in Doe et al. v. Trump (W.D. Wash.), certain arrivals count toward the FY2018 admissions ceiling: this affects which ceiling an arrival counts against, not the arrival counts. nationality is RPC's recorded nationality: 68 nationalities (every one with a Georgia arrival in some year) plus 'all' = Georgia's total (69 values). The FY2021+ reports head the column 'PA Nationality' (principal applicant). FY2021-FY2023 truncated labels and 'Gambia'/'The Gambia' are unified; congo is the Republic of the Congo, distinct from dem_rep_congo; sudan is distinct from republic_of_south_sudan; burma is RPC's name for Myanmar. FY2025's report prints no state totals, so its 'all' row is the sum of Georgia's nationality rows. A 0 is a real zero: RPC lists only nationalities with arrivals, and every year's rows reconcile to the total, so a nationality absent from a year had no Georgia arrivals. RPC publishes exact counts down to 1 with no suppression. Statewide only: the report has no county or city, so county_fips is always NULL. Annual only: the FY2021+ reports also give fiscal months, which are not published here. The FY2022 (page images) and FY2024 (fonts with no text mapping) reports were read by OCR. Every Georgia row was verified twice - its months sum to its total and the rows sum to Georgia's total - and matches the published totals; 7 rows needed a cell re-read and 0 could not be verified (NULL).