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CBP recorded 290 encounters of people it lists as citizens of Russia in August 2026, 0.8% of the nationwide total. That is rank 14 of 22 entries CBP publishes.

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August 2026 at a glance

Encounters, August 2026
290
Events recorded, not people.
Share of nationwide encounters
0.8%
Of 34,428 recorded nationwide in August 2026.
Change on the prior month
-4.0%
From 302 in July 2026.
Change on the same month a year earlier
-44.3%
From 521 in August 2025.
Fiscal year 2026 to date
5,023
The first 11 months of the fiscal year.
Encounters in the published file
93,141
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 Russia by month, with share of the nationwide total
MonthEncountersShare of nationwide
October 20225,1741.9%
November 20226,9312.4%
December 20229,2273.1%
January 20235,8052.8%
February 20235,8862.8%
March 20235,2732.0%
April 20233,6331.3%
May 20234,1331.5%
June 20232,3491.1%
July 20232,9721.2%
August 20232,8740.9%
September 20232,9060.9%
October 20232,9350.9%
November 20232,5060.8%
December 20233,0150.8%
January 20242,2950.9%
February 20241,8770.7%
March 20241,5690.6%
April 20241,5870.6%
May 20241,3950.6%
June 20241,0870.5%
July 20241,3440.8%
August 20241,1290.7%
September 20241,1520.8%
October 20241,0160.7%
November 20241,1860.9%
December 20249990.8%
January 20258571.1%
February 20257562.6%
March 20257392.5%
April 20256452.2%
May 20256462.2%
June 20255532.2%
July 20256532.7%
August 20255212.0%
September 20254931.9%
October 20254541.5%
November 20254111.4%
December 20255701.9%
January 20265181.5%
February 20264351.6%
March 20265501.7%
April 20264711.5%
May 20265441.7%
June 20264781.5%
July 20263020.9%
August 20262900.8%

Nearest by volume

Entries either side of Russia in August 2026
RankCitizenshipAugust 2026
13El Salvador395
15Nicaragua218

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 Russia 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 Russia or the number of Russia 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