{"main_topic":"immigration","sub_topic":"state_rpc","topic":"refugee_arrivals","key":"immigration/state_rpc/refugee_arrivals","version":"1.0.0","year_min":2012,"year_max":2026,"year_gaps":[],"update_frequency":"monthly","detail_levels":["states"],"default_detail":"states","path_template":"immigration/refugee_arrivals/year={year}/{detail}.parquet","grain":["year","county_fips","nationality"],"title":"Refugee Arrivals in Georgia by Nationality","summary":"Refugees resettled in Georgia each federal fiscal year since FY2012, by nationality, from the State Department's arrival reports.","description":"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').","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","source_url":"https://www.rpc.state.gov/archives","endpoint":"/api/v1/immigration/refugee_arrivals","columns":[{"name":"year","type":"integer","role":"year","nullable":false,"label":"Year","short_description":"Federal fiscal year (Oct 1 - Sep 30).","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.","valid_values":null,"example":2024,"unit":null,"value_min":null,"value_max":null,"null_meaning":null,"key_metric_grain_contributor":false,"metric_component":null},{"name":"county_fips","type":"string","role":"fk_county","nullable":true,"label":"County FIPS","short_description":"","description":"Always NULL: RPC reports arrivals by state only. Kept for the immigration domain's shared key shape.","valid_values":null,"example":null,"unit":null,"value_min":null,"value_max":null,"null_meaning":null,"key_metric_grain_contributor":false,"metric_component":null},{"name":"nationality","type":"string","role":"categorical","nullable":false,"label":"Nationality","short_description":"Refugee's nationality ('all' = Georgia total).","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.","valid_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"],"example":"afghanistan","unit":null,"value_min":null,"value_max":null,"null_meaning":null,"key_metric_grain_contributor":true,"metric_component":null},{"name":"num_arrivals","type":"integer","role":"metric","nullable":true,"label":"Refugee Arrivals","short_description":"Refugees resettled in Georgia in the fiscal year.","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.","valid_values":null,"example":3227,"unit":"count","value_min":null,"value_max":null,"null_meaning":"an OCR'd report row that could not be verified (none in this release); the 'all' row is never NULL","key_metric_grain_contributor":false,"metric_component":null}],"key_metric":"num_arrivals","usage":"Star-schema fact table of Georgia statewide rows (county_fips always NULL). Filter nationality = 'all' for Georgia's total per fiscal year; pin a year and exclude 'all' for the nationality breakdown - never sum 'all' with the nationality rows. The latest fiscal year may be year-to-date. Read directly with DuckDB over Parquet.","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).","null_semantics":{"suppressed_to_null":false,"zero_is_real":true},"available_years":[2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022,2023,2024,2025,2026],"schema_hash":"c88782239d7319c3ef448270d77ef052934fbbd4fc0ea1693f86545aed3d39d7","tags":["immigration","u.s. department of state, bureau of population, refugees, and migration, refugee processing center - refugee arrivals by state and nationality","refugee_arrivals"],"granularity_description":"One row per year, county_fips, nationality.","example_queries":[{"description":"Georgia's refugee arrivals by federal fiscal year","query":"SELECT year, num_arrivals FROM refugee_arrivals WHERE nationality = 'all' ORDER BY year"},{"description":"Nationalities of Georgia's FY2025 arrivals","query":"SELECT nationality, num_arrivals FROM refugee_arrivals WHERE year = 2025 AND nationality <> 'all' AND num_arrivals > 0 ORDER BY num_arrivals DESC"},{"description":"Afghan refugee arrivals in Georgia over time","query":"SELECT year, num_arrivals FROM refugee_arrivals WHERE nationality = 'afghanistan' ORDER BY year"}],"foreign_keys":[{"column":"county_fips","target_object":"counties","target_columns":["county_fips"],"attribute_columns_added":["county_name"],"scope":"global"}],"filters":[{"param":"year","kind":"year_exact","type":"integer","multi_value":false,"enum_enforced":false,"values":null},{"param":"year_min","kind":"year_range","type":"integer","multi_value":false,"enum_enforced":false,"values":null},{"param":"year_max","kind":"year_range","type":"integer","multi_value":false,"enum_enforced":false,"values":null},{"param":"detail","kind":"detail","type":"string","multi_value":false,"enum_enforced":true,"values":["states"],"default":"states"},{"param":"county_fips","kind":"foreign_key","column":"county_fips","type":"string","multi_value":true,"enum_enforced":false,"values":null},{"param":"nationality","kind":"categorical","column":"nationality","type":"string","multi_value":true,"enum_enforced":true,"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"],"has_total":true,"total_value":"all","requires_single_value":false,"nullable":false,"null_filter_token":null}],"filter_hints":[],"values_endpoint":"/api/v1/immigration/refugee_arrivals/values"}