IMMIGRATION IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES BARBARA BOYLE TORREY BIXBY VISITING SCHOLAR POPULATION REFERENCE BUREAU

FOREIGN BORN POPULATIONS AS PERCENT OF TOTAL POPULATION Source: Statistics Canada; U.S. Census Bureau. Note: Canadian data are for the Census Year, which is one year after U.S. Census at the beginning of a decade. %

IMMIGRANT POPULATION BY PLACE OF BIRTH Source: Statistics Canada; U.S. Census Bureau. Tamara M. Woroby, American Review of Canadian Studies (Summer2005): %

PERSONS ENTERING CANADA AND U.S. BY STATUS : 2002 (excluding tourists) Source: Tamara M. Woroby, The American Review of Canadian Studies, (Summer 2005): %

IMMIGRANT LABORERS TO CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES (as percent of all immigrants) SOURCE: Tamara M. Woroby, op. cit.

CATEGORIES OF LEGAL IMMIGRANTS: 2000 (IN PERCENTAGE) SOURCE: Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Facts and Figures 2000 p Statistical Yearbook of the Immigration and Naturalization Service

CANADIAN SELECTION GRID FOR IMMIGRATION Selection Criteria Skilled Worker Immigrant Investor/ Entrepreneur Education 25 Official Language 24 Experience 21 Business Experience 35 Age 10 Arranged Employment 10 Adaptability 106

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR CITIZENSHIP CANADAUNITED STATES RESIDENCY3 YEARS5 YEARS LANGUAGEBASIC ENGLISH OR FRENCH UNDERSTAND BASIC ENGLISH DUAL CITIZENSHIPYESNO PERCENT NATURALIZED AMONG ELIGIBLE FOREIGN BORN RESIDENTS 84%40%

FOREIGN-BORN ENTERING BETWEEN WHO BECAME U.S. CITIZENS BY 2002 Source: U. Census Bureau, as reported in Philip Martin and Elizabeth Midgley “Immigration: Shaping and Reshaping America, PRB, June 2003.

IDENTITY OF FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION CANADAUNITED STATES MOSTLY AS CANADIAN OR AMERICAN 49 %54% MOSTLY BY ETHNICITY OR BIRTHPLACE 3322% BOTH EQUALLY 13%23% Source: Environics, Focus Canada, Source: Public Agenda, November 2002

IDENTITY OF U.S. IMMIGRANTS:2002 MEXICANOTHER LATINO EUROPEEAST ASIAN CARIB- BEAN MOSTLY AMERI- CAN 45%55%67%53%49% MOSTLY BIRTH CO. 28%21%13%20%24% BOTH EQUALLY 26%22%18%26%28% DON’T KNOW 1%3%2% --

LONGITUDINAL SURVEYS OF NEW IMMIGRANTS LONGIT. SURVEY OF IMMIGRANTS TO CANADA U.S. NEW IMMIGRANT SURVEY SAMPLE SIZE12,00010,000 ADULTS 1,000 PARENTS SAMPLE CHARACTER- ISTICS AGED 15 + ARRIVED ADULTS AND CHILD SURVEY NUMBER OF WAVES THREE WAVESREINTERVIEW EVERY 2 YEARS YEARS NEW PANEL IN FIVE YEARS.