Vietnamese Immigrants in the United States

From the Migration Policy Institute, “Vietnamese Immigrants in the United States” offers information about Vietnamese immigrants.   Jeanne Batalova writes that, in previous decades, the vast majority of Vietnamese immigrants to the United States arrived as refugees. Recently, most are coming through family reunification channels, either as immediate relatives of U.S. citizens or through other family-sponsored pathways. The change represents an evolution of the Vietnamese immigrant population, which is the sixth-largest in the United States and now includes more than 1.3 million people.  This article provides a range of details about this group over time and currently. 

Figure 1. Vietnamese Immigrant Population in the United States, 1980-2022