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CBP recorded 3,292 encounters of people it lists as citizens of China in August 2026, 9.6% of the nationwide total. That is rank 3 of 22 entries CBP publishes.

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August 2026 at a glance

Encounters, August 2026
3,292
Events recorded, not people.
Share of nationwide encounters
9.6%
Of 34,428 recorded nationwide in August 2026.
Change on the prior month
+27.4%
From 2,583 in July 2026.
Change on the same month a year earlier
+119.6%
From 1,499 in August 2025.
Fiscal year 2026 to date
27,331
The first 11 months of the fiscal year.
Encounters in the published file
188,368
Since October 2022.

Taken from CBP on September 19, 2026. Citizenship is as CBP recorded it at the encounter.

Since October 2022

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Encounters of citizens of China by month, with share of the nationwide total
MonthEncountersShare of nationwide
October 20222,2810.8%
November 20222,3680.8%
December 20222,8180.9%
January 20233,1471.5%
February 20233,1501.5%
March 20234,4371.7%
April 20235,4342.0%
May 20235,1721.9%
June 20234,6012.2%
July 20236,1572.5%
August 20235,8641.9%
September 20237,2712.1%
October 20237,1602.3%
November 20237,2382.3%
December 20238,6152.3%
January 20246,7722.8%
February 20247,1122.8%
March 20245,0692.1%
April 20246,5272.6%
May 20247,4213.1%
June 20246,1713.0%
July 20245,5693.3%
August 20246,0403.8%
September 20245,0073.5%
October 20244,7583.3%
November 20243,6442.9%
December 20244,0773.3%
January 20253,8524.7%
February 20252,6579.3%
March 20251,9366.7%
April 20251,2544.3%
May 20251,4725.0%
June 20251,4305.7%
July 20251,5986.5%
August 20251,4995.7%
September 20251,4595.6%
October 20252,0116.6%
November 20251,8356.0%
December 20252,2817.4%
January 20263,60810.4%
February 20262,3378.7%
March 20262,7088.6%
April 20262,1957.0%
May 20262,1886.7%
June 20262,2937.3%
July 20262,5837.6%
August 20263,2929.6%

Nearest by volume

Entries either side of China in August 2026
RankCitizenshipAugust 2026
2Other nationalities (not a country)6,538
4India3,066

Full rankings: countries of citizenship and sectors and field offices. All topics: immigration and the border.

What this page cannot show

  • An encounter is an event. The same person may be encountered more than once, so this is not a count of China citizens.
  • Citizenship is what CBP recorded at the encounter. It is not a claim about where a person lived, travelled from, or was born.
  • CBP names a fixed set of countries and groups every other nationality as Other, so the countries published here are not the full range of nationalities encountered.
  • These counts describe enforcement activity. They do not measure migration from China or the number of China citizens in the United States.

Full method at methodology.

Sources

  • Nationwide Encounters — U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) · retrieved 2026-09-19
    apps/web/queries/immigration/citizenship_trend.sql

Data retrieved