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Nicaragua

CBP recorded 218 encounters of people it lists as citizens of Nicaragua in August 2026, 0.6% of the nationwide total. That is rank 15 of 22 entries CBP publishes.

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August 2026 at a glance

Encounters, August 2026
218
Events recorded, not people.
Share of nationwide encounters
0.6%
Of 34,428 recorded nationwide in August 2026.
Change on the prior month
-11.4%
From 246 in July 2026.
Change on the same month a year earlier
+37.1%
From 159 in August 2025.
Fiscal year 2026 to date
2,055
The first 11 months of the fiscal year.
Encounters in the published file
235,285
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 Nicaragua by month, with share of the nationwide total
MonthEncountersShare of nationwide
October 202220,9907.5%
November 202234,33312.1%
December 202235,48111.7%
January 20233,7951.8%
February 20233,3211.6%
March 20235,3372.1%
April 20235,7472.1%
May 20236,5352.4%
June 20235,1592.4%
July 20234,8872.0%
August 20236,2242.0%
September 20236,9202.0%
October 20238,6412.8%
November 20239,2923.0%
December 202313,6993.7%
January 20249,7914.0%
February 202411,4044.5%
March 20248,7423.5%
April 20247,3803.0%
May 20246,7242.8%
June 20246,7133.3%
July 20245,0993.0%
August 20242,6651.7%
September 20248990.6%
October 20247030.5%
November 20246310.5%
December 20247120.6%
January 20254020.5%
February 2025800.3%
March 2025850.3%
April 20251160.4%
May 20251290.4%
June 20251570.6%
July 20251350.5%
August 20251590.6%
September 20251430.5%
October 20251630.5%
November 20252160.7%
December 20251980.6%
January 20261470.4%
February 20261510.6%
March 20261780.6%
April 20261600.5%
May 20261810.6%
June 20261970.6%
July 20262460.7%
August 20262180.6%

Nearest by volume

Entries either side of Nicaragua in August 2026
RankCitizenshipAugust 2026
14Russia290
16Ukraine209

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 Nicaragua 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 Nicaragua or the number of Nicaragua 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