Originally Posted by FAITH

Anyone have any info about how many new green cards are issued each year?? If we can find that, then we will know how fast DHS is ramping up for next year compared with the average number of cards it issues. I'll keep looking, and hope that we will discover what the average issuance is.
Edit:
OK--I found some decent info that suggests there are 700,000 - 800,000 green cards issued every year, so the 1.8 million in new green card orders this year is about 2.5 times the norm...sounds like a good way to jump start whatever DHS is expecting.

I found some #'s on the Green cards
Okay per the U.S Legal Permanent Residents:2008 by Homeland Security;

There were a total of 1,107,126 granted green cards. Out of these #'s 466,558 were new arrivals and 640, 568 adjusted status meaning they were already here in the U.S. I cannot attach the link (dont know how).

But you can go to http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/s...pr_fr_2008.pdf
to find this report.