Immigrants Admitted to the United States, 1998 United States Department of Justice. Immigration and Naturalization Service demographic characteristics immigrants immigration immigration policy immigration status national identity place of birth population characteristics population migration population trends ICPSR.XVII.A RCMD.VIII NACDA.I DSDR.V This data collection contains information on the characteristics of aliens who became legal permanent residents of the United States in fiscal year 1998 (October 1997 through September 1998). Data are presented for two types of immigrants. The first category, New Arrivals, arrived from outside the United States with valid immigration visas issued by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. The second category, Adjustments, were already in the United States with temporary status and were adjusted to legal permanent residence through petition to the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. Variables include port of entry, month and year of admission, class of admission, and state and area to which the immigrants were admitted. Demographic information such as age, sex, marital status, occupation, country of birth, country of last permanent residence, and nationality is also provided. 2008-03-19 administrative records data 2956 10.3886/ICPSR02956.v3 records of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service United States 1997-10-01--1998-09-30 ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/).