| 2026-06-21 | Political exile |
| 2025-05-22 | Einstein, notably |
| 2022-04-01 | Citizenship test taker, perhaps |
| 2021-12-23 | New citizen, perhaps |
| 2020-10-16 | Defector, perhaps |
| 2020-05-15 | Albert Einstein or Enrico Fermi |
| 2019-02-28 | Albert Einstein, notably |
| 2018-01-02 | New citizenship seeker |
| 2017-10-27 | Expat |
| 2017-08-24 | Asylum seeker, maybe |
| 2015-05-02 | Edward Snowden, notably |
| 2010-01-01 | Einstein, notably |
| 2008-10-22 | Asylum seeker, perhaps |
| 2007-12-03 | Settler from a foreign land |
| 2006-12-03 | One who's left |
| 2005-07-27 | Rachmaninoff, for one |
| 2004-09-15 | New arrival, of sorts |
| 2004-08-15 | Asylum seeker, maybe |
| 2003-09-14 | Political asylum seeker |
| 2003-07-08 | Political refugee |
| 2002-09-19 | New arrival |
| 2002-03-03 | New citizen, perhaps |
| 2001-08-17 | New citizen, perhaps |
| 2001-03-07 | Displaced person, maybe |
| 2001-01-11 | Solzhenitsyn, e.g. |
| 2000-05-28 | Asylum seeker |
| 1999-06-16 | Nabokov, e.g. |
| 1999-05-02 | Rudolf Nureyev, e.g. |
| 1999-03-28 | Political refugee |
| 1999-01-24 | Einstein, e.g. |
| 1998-04-18 | Foreign fleer |
| 1998-01-11 | Baryshnikov, e.g. |
| 1997-06-21 | Einstein, e.g. |
| 1996-08-07 | Asylum seeker |
| 1996-08-04 | Vladimir Nabokov or Jerzy Kosinski |
| 1996-05-07 | Refugee |
| 1995-12-17 | Refugee, for one |
| 1995-10-22 | Einstein or Fermi, e.g. |
| 1995-08-03 | Political refugee |