A report updated as of April 15 reveals that 1,314,330 Cubans live in the United States, which makes the island the seventh country with the most residents in that nation.
The document on Washington’s Nationalization Policy, from the Congressional Research Service, also states that 64% already have citizenship.
Cited by Diario Las Américas, the report indicates that Cuba is preceded by citizens of Mexico, India, China, the Philippines, El Salvador and Vietnam, out of a total of 25 countries included in the ranking.
Some 46,913 Cubans obtained U.S. citizenship in 2022, at which time the island occupied the fourth position with the most naturalizations in the United States, according to the document.
But by 2023, “only 6% of the Cuban population in the United States turned out to be ineligible for the authorities,” so they did not obtain citizenship, says Diario Las Américas. However, 30% were considered potentially eligible.
The humanitarian parole program, implemented by the U.S. Government to establish an orderly migration, has allowed the entry of 79,000 Cubans until last February.
The figure was confirmed by the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in a statement with the most recent update on the operation of the strategy that also benefits migrants from Venezuela, Haiti and Nicaragua.
According to the document, since November 2023 to date, 19,000 Cubans have entered the United States, which places the island as the third country where most migrants have benefited from this alternative.
In the last two full fiscal years, a total of 425,000 Cubans have entered the United States irregularly, to which must be added the more than 40,000 visas for migrants that Washington has issued on the island in that period and the more than 80,000 Cubans who have obtained humanitarian parole.
