Uzbek Americans
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| (10,000 (Uzbek ancestry or ethnic origin, US census in the year 2000) 100,000 (Uzbek-born, 2014)) |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
| New York City Metropolitan Area,New Jersey, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Houston | |
| Languages | |
| English · Uzbek · Tajik · Russian · Bukhori · | |
| Religion | |
| Islam · Russian Orthodoxy · Judaism · | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Turkic peoples |
Uzbek Americans are Americans of Uzbek descent or Uzbek immigrants with American citizenship.
Since the late 1950s, over 1,000 Uzbek families migrated to the United States, according to unofficial data. The first of them came from Europe, but from the mid-1960s they mainly came from Turkey and, to a lesser extent, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.
According to U.S. Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs Statistics, 56,028 families has won DV lottery during 1996-2016.
The biggest wave of Uzbek immigrants to the United States settled in the country in the 1980s, from Afghanistan, because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Since the early 1990s to the present day, most of the Uzbeks of Uzbekistan who migrate to the U.S. settle there under the so-called Green Card Lottery.
Every year for the last 5–6 years, around 1,000-1,800 Uzbeks win the green card lottery. Thus, more than 20,000 ethnic Uzbeks are citizens of the United States today. Uzbeks live mainly in New York, San Antonio, Houston, Philadelphia and New Jersey, growing rapidly in populations particularly in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City and in Northern New Jersey. However, smaller pockets of Uzbek Americans can be found in other major American metropolitan areas. The years of 2012 and 2013 had the largest migration of Uzbeks to the United States in history, much more so than the 1000-1800 green card lottery winners that were originally set in place.
Most Uzbek migrants are engaged in business and science, working in various institutions and companies. Part of the Uzbek diaspora is involved in government offices, schools and colleges of the country, as well as in areas like defense, aviation and medicine. Some representatives of the Uzbek diaspora hold senior executive positions in a number of American states. In the United States, according to officials of law enforcement, representatives of the Uzbek diaspora are the most law-abiding and rarely violate the law. Among them are many families of models.
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