---
title: "Refugees resettled in Georgia by nationality, per federal fiscal year, from the U"
method: GET
path: "/api/v1/immigration/refugee_arrivals"
tags: ["immigration"]
---

# Refugees resettled in Georgia by nationality, per federal fiscal year, from the U

`GET /api/v1/immigration/refugee_arrivals`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://georgiacivicdata.org`
- URL: `https://georgiacivicdata.org/api/v1/immigration/refugee_arrivals`
- Auth: none declared

Refugees resettled in Georgia by nationality, per federal fiscal year, from the U.S. Department of State Refugee Processing Center's 'Refugee Arrivals by State and Nationality' reports: the FY2012-FY2025 year-end reports and the FY2026 fiscal-year-to-date report (2025-10-01 through 2026-08-31). One row per fiscal year and nationality, plus Georgia's total (nationality = 'all').

**Filterable categorical columns** (comma-separated values union; multiple columns AND together):
- `nationality` — one of: `all`, `afghanistan`, `algeria`, `bangladesh`, `belarus`, `bhutan`, `burma`, `burundi`, `cambodia`, `cameroon`, `central_african_republic`, `chad`, `china`, `colombia`, `congo`, `cuba`, `dem_rep_congo`, `ecuador`, `egypt`, `el_salvador`, `eritrea`, `ethiopia`, `gambia`, `ghana`, `guatemala`, `guinea`, `haiti`, `honduras`, `india`, `indonesia`, `iran`, `iraq`, `ivory_coast`, `jamaica`, `kazakhstan`, `kenya`, `kuwait`, `kyrgyzstan`, `liberia`, `mali`, `moldova`, `mongolia`, `nepal`, `nicaragua`, `niger`, `nigeria`, `north_korea`, `pakistan`, `palestine`, `republic_of_south_sudan`, `russia`, `rwanda`, `senegal`, `sierra_leone`, `somalia`, `south_africa`, `sri_lanka`, `sudan`, `syria`, `thailand`, `togo`, `turkey`, `uganda`, `ukraine`, `uzbekistan`, `venezuela`, `vietnam`, `yemen`, `zimbabwe`

**Detail levels available:** states (default: `states`)

**Year coverage:** 2012–2026 (15 years, no gaps)

**NULL handling:** zero is a real value.

**Source:** U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, Refugee Processing Center - Refugee Arrivals by State and Nationality (fiscal-year reports); analyzed by Georgia Civic Data

## Query parameters

- `year` integer, nullable: Exact year
- `year_min` integer, nullable: Inclusive lower bound
- `year_max` integer, nullable: Inclusive upper bound
- `district_code` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of GOSA district codes (e.g. `601,602`)
- `school_code` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of GOSA school codes. Combine with `district_code` for unique school keys.
- `county_fips` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of 5-digit county FIPS codes (e.g. `13121,13067`)
- `tract_geoid` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of 11-digit census tract GEOIDs (e.g. `13121011100`)
- `block_group_geoid` string, nullable: Comma-separated list of 12-digit census block group GEOIDs (e.g. `131210111001`)
- `demographic` string, nullable: Comma-separated demographic codes (e.g. `all,black,hispanic`)
- `detail` string, nullable: Detail level (whatever the topic publishes — e.g. schools, districts, counties, or states).
- `limit` integer, nullable: Page size
- `offset` integer: Page offset
- `columns` string, nullable: Comma-separated output columns to return (fact columns plus joined dimension attributes). Defaults to all.
- `format` 'json' | 'csv' | 'parquet': Response format: json | csv | parquet

## Response `200`

Paginated rows. JSON returns an envelope with `data` and `pagination`; CSV/Parquet return raw bytes with `X-Total-Count` header.

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

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