More Chinese Head to U.S., Report Says

China sent 16,000 more immigrants to the United States in 2011 than in 2010, the U.S. government says.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's latest yearbook, updated on April 15, 2012, said the country granted green cards to more than 1.06 million immigrants in 2011, and 87,000 of them were Chinese.  The statistics were taken from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services data.

Mexico, China and India were still the top three countries in terms of the number of immigrants they sent to the U.S.