Approximately one million people receive green cards in the United States every year.
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Bulwark TakesAug 29, 2026
Multiple tier1 and primary sources (AP 2025, CRS 2024, MigrationPolicy 2026) state the US grants roughly 1 million green cards annually, so the claim matches the record as of 2026-08-29.
This claim is about the present, so it is judged as of the day it was checked.
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… a lot of Filipino and Filipina nurses that come to this country and, you know, to, to fill labor shortages in that occupation, and almost all of them, maybe all, maybe virtually all of them, come through this green card pathway? Is that right? That's right. If you think about, you know, the million or so people who get green cards every year, about half of them are coming from abroad, and half of them are already here, and most of the people who are already here are here on some kind of they came here as a student, or they're on some kind of temporary work visa, and they're adjusting their …
Bulwark Takes · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. AP's explainer states the US has been granting about 1 million green cards a year.[1]
Supports. CRS (Congress.gov) states the INA grants LPR status to roughly 1 million foreign nationals annually, with 675,000 as the base admission limit plus exemptions.[2]
Supports. MigrationPolicy's 2026 explainer says the US has granted about 1 million green cards annually in recent years, roughly half to people already in the US.[3]
Context. DHS-based reporting puts FY2025 green card recipients at about 1.32 million, and FREOPP notes that 2020 issuance fell to about 707,000, so annual counts vary with the measure and year.[4][5][6]
Sources
6 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 primary, 4 not rated
- 1Every legal route to US residency, explainedapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Table 1. Employment-Based Immigration Preference Systemcongress.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 3Explainer: How the U.S. Legal Immigration System Worksmigrationpolicy.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4How many immigrants get green cards every year?usafacts.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Here’s Who’s Getting US Green Cards: Latest Annual DHS Datanewsweek.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 6The bureaucratic border wall keeping skilled immigrants ... - FREOPPfreopp.org · not rated · cited for: context
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