The Dominican community in the United States is the most generous to its relatives in the home country. According to lawyer Roberto Alvarez, the DR will have received some US$2.7 billion in remittances in 2004 from Dominican residing in the United States, as estimated by the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB). This is the highest volume of remittances from any Latin American group. Alvarez says that two out of every five DR citizens receive remittances from abroad. The Listin Diario reports on an interview he gave to Orlando Jorge Mera on TV. Alvarez estimated that 1.3 million Dominicans live in the US, including their US-born offspring. In the interview, Alvarez said that from 1960 to 2003 the US has granted 904,000 permanent residencies to Dominicans and that 36% of the legal residents are either born in the US or have taken US citizenship. He referred to a study carried out by the US Migration Service that showed that only 21,000 of them are there illegally.