How did annual legal noncitizen admissions (by visa type) change under each U.S. president since 1990?

1. What the available reporting covers — recent refugee caps and sweeping reviews

The search results emphasize recent, high-profile shifts in refugee policy rather than a longitudinal, visa-by-visa dataset. The Biden Administration set a refugee admissions target of 125,000 for FY2025, announced in a State Department Presidential Determination ^[1]. After the 2025 transition, the Trump White House imposed a much lower refugee cap — reported as 7,500 for the coming year — and ordered broad reviews and pauses that affect refugee processing and other immigration applications ^{[2] [3]}.

2. Policy actions that affect admission totals, not raw historical totals

Several items in the set document executive actions that directly alter flows: the January 20, 2025 executive orders suspended refugee entry pending review (White House announcement) and set administrative reviews of refugees admitted under Biden ^{[4] [5]}. Separate reporting shows the Trump administration ordered re-interviews of refugees admitted between Jan 20, 2021 and Feb 20, 2025 — a cohort Reuters reported as about 233,000 people — and paused some immigration application processing for nationals of certain countries ^{[3] [6]}. These actions change future admissions and processing throughput rather than providing historical per-president visa tallies ^{[4] [3]}.

3. Gaps: the specific historical dataset you asked for is not present

None of the returned sources provide the requested tabulation — annual legal noncitizen admissions by visa type (e.g., immigrant visas, nonimmigrant visas, refugees, asylees, parolees, temporary work visas) broken out under each president since 1990. The available materials are policy announcements, executive orders, reporting on reviews and caps, and commentary about likely impacts; they do not contain a historical visa-category time series or per‑president totals (available sources do not mention a complete historical dataset by president and visa type).

4. How to get the precise historical numbers (sources the current results lack)

To produce the table you requested would require authoritative datasets not among these search results: typically the Department of Homeland Security Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, the State Department’s visa issuance reports, and annual refugee Presidential Determinations / Refugee Processing data. Those official compilations break out admissions and visa issuances by category and year; they are the primary sources that would allow attribution to presidential terms. The present search results do not include those publications (available sources do not mention DHS Yearbook or State Department visa statistics in full).

5. Recent examples showing how presidential policy changes can shift totals

The sources illustrate the scale at which policy shifts can alter admissions: Biden’s FY2025 refugee determination at 125,000 signaled a high annual target for refugee resettlement ^[1]. In contrast, reporting shows the subsequent administration set a FY2026 cap at 7,500 and ordered reviews and pauses that would dramatically reduce near-term refugee admissions and delay other immigration processing ^{[2] [3]}. Those concrete numbers in the reporting demonstrate how a single presidential determination or proclamation can change planned annual totals ^{[1] [2]}.

6. Caveats and competing perspectives in the available coverage

News outlets and advocacy groups in these items conflict on intent and impact: government notices frame reviews and pauses as national-security or vetting improvements ^{[4] [7]}, while refugee and immigrant advocates call such reviews traumatic and likely to undermine resettlement commitments ^[5]. Some reporting quantifies the cohort affected (about 233,000 refugees admitted between 2021–2025 in Reuters’ coverage), but available sources differ on emphasis and implied harm versus security benefit ^{[3] [5]}.

7. Next steps I can do for you

I can (A) assemble a year-by-year table of admissions by visa type from authoritative primary datasets (DHS Yearbook, State Department visa reports, USCIS and Refugee Processing data) if you want me to fetch those specific sources; or (B) summarize admissions trends for particular visa categories since 1990 using those official datasets. The current search results do not contain the full historical numbers needed to answer your original question directly (available sources do not mention those full datasets). Which do you prefer?