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Navigate the U.S. asylum system

Understand your notices and the immigration court process, find official legal-help directories and explore public USCIS and EOIR asylum records.

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74 immigration courts at their listed locations, colored by recorded grant share in FY2026. Open the interactive map

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If your application began with USCIS, follow these steps. If it began in immigration court, start with the court or notice guide.

I applied with USCIS

Explore USCIS asylum records and find an asylum office. Check your USCIS notices or account for your application status.

I received a referral or court notice

Identify your document, understand what it says and find the right official source for questions about it. A referral directs the application to immigration court; the court has not decided it.

I need to understand a court or judge

Find a court or judge by name or ZIP, then explore historical outcomes and their sources.

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Asylum grant share in U.S. immigration courts

AsylumCompass publishes public USCIS and EOIR records, including 90 immigration courts, 1,697 immigration judge profiles and 245 nationality categories. In FY2026, 10,566 of 158,532 asylum grant-or-denial records in U.S. immigration courts were grants (6.7%). EOIR data through ; past records do not predict an individual case.

United States · all courts and nationalities · FY2026
Records through

6.7%

95% interval: 6.5%–6.8%

FY2026 record composition

Grants
10,566
Denials
147,966
Grant and denial records (N)
158,532

Compared with FY2025

FY2025: 23.0% · N 125,610

FY2026 is 16.32 percentage points lower than FY2025.

One person can have more than one record. Use this share to understand historical outcomes, not to predict an individual case.

Beyond grants and denials

Recorded grant share by fiscal year

0%10%20%30%40%50%FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY202646.1%47.2%43.3%23.0%6.7%
Each year is a separate published cell; nothing is smoothed or carried between years. A change in the share can come from which cases were decided as much as from how they were decided.

Across immigration courts

69 immigration courts have 100 or more grant-or-denial records in FY2026. Their recorded grant shares range from 0.0% to 33.5%; the median court is 6.1%. The larger dot is the national figure, which counts every record, so courts with more records weigh more.

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Across nationality categories

63 nationality categories have 100 or more grant-or-denial records in FY2026. Their recorded grant shares range from 0.7% to 61.0%; the median category is 10.4%. The larger dot is the national figure, which counts every record, so categories with more records weigh more.

Compare all nationality categories

Source: EOIR public CASE dataRecords through How this is calculatedData updates

Find an asylum office, court, judge or nationality

Every USCIS asylum office, by name. The courts and nationality categories with the most grant-or-denial records in FY2026, listed by record count — not by outcome. Each profile shows its own sources.

USCIS asylum offices

All 18 offices and interview locations

Immigration courts with the most records

All 90 immigration courts

Nationality categories with the most records

  • Mexico1.1% · 20,571 grant or denial records
  • Venezuela6.8% · 17,252 grant or denial records
  • Honduras1.9% · 15,198 grant or denial records
  • Guatemala2.1% · 13,854 grant or denial records
  • Colombia2.2% · 11,063 grant or denial records
  • Ecuador1.1% · 9,994 grant or denial records
  • El Salvador2.6% · 9,026 grant or denial records
  • Nicaragua5.4% · 6,794 grant or denial records
  • Peru2.4% · 5,331 grant or denial records
  • Cuba6.4% · 5,045 grant or denial records

All 245 nationality categories

Explore the data on this site

Browse outcomes, hearings, appeals and more. Each collection shows its source, period and counting rules.

Decisions, nationalities and representation

Hearings, motions and time in court

Appeals and particular groups

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Questions about these records

What does “recorded grant share” mean?

It is grants divided by grants plus denials among eligible asylum outcomes in EOIR’s public court records.

The unit is a proceeding record, not a person: one person can have more than one record, and withdrawals or other endings are counted separately.

DefinitionsHow this is calculated

Can these figures predict my case?

No. They describe past records. The outcome of a case depends on its own facts, evidence and law. For advice about your case, talk to a qualified lawyer or accredited representative.

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Can I check my own case status here?

No. AsylumCompass holds no personal case records. For an immigration court case, use EOIR’s automated case information. For an application filed with USCIS, use your USCIS online account or USCIS case status online.

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Why do the figures differ so much between courts?

The records do not say why. Courts hear different mixes of cases — nationalities, detention, representation and the year a case ended all differ — so a difference between two courts is not by itself evidence of how either decides.

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Where do the figures come from, and how current are they?

Immigration court figures come from EOIR’s public CASE data, with records through 2026-09-30. USCIS figures come from the agency’s published asylum statistics. Each page names its source edition, and every data update is listed with what changed.

Data sourcesData updates

Is AsylumCompass a government website or a law firm?

Neither. AsylumCompass is an independent, free public-information site. It is not affiliated with EOIR, USCIS, DHS or any government agency, and it does not give legal advice.

About this site

Data and sources

Coverage and source versions are listed separately from publication, acquisition and later checks. A check does not extend the records beyond their cutoff.

EOIR public CASE data

Used on this page: National historical asylum outcomes

Available page coverageFY2021–FY2026

Source edition2026-09

Source snapshot cutoff

Official FOIA libraryOriginal CASE ZIPEOIR code keyEdition details and fingerprint

Fiscal years offered on web pagesFY2021–FY2026

Source obtained or reviewed for this edition

Official source recheck ·

Source reachable at the last check; its contents have not been compared with this edition yet

Census 2020 state boundaries

Used on this page: Simplified state outlines on the maps

Source edition2020

Official geography ZIPEdition details and fingerprint

Source obtained or reviewed for this edition

Official source recheck

No later source recheck recorded for this edition

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