Among recorded asylum application grant-or-denial outcomes linked within the same immigration-court proceeding; abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed and other outcomes are excluded. One case may contribute more than one proceeding.
This interval describes binomial sampling variability only; it does not account for administrative errors, case mix, attribution uncertainty, or selection bias.
Use historical results to understand past cases, not to forecast an individual outcome.
Removal, deportation, exclusion and asylum-only proceedings. ASYL grant codes G/I/P; denial D. Other outcomes are excluded from this denominator. Conflicting applications and inconsistent case links are excluded.
Judge attribution uses the proceeding’s IJ_CODE assignment. It does not establish who personally authored every decision. Court attribution uses the proceeding’s recorded court, which may differ from historical hearing venue.
This interval describes binomial sampling variability only; it does not account for administrative errors, case mix, attribution uncertainty, or selection bias.
The source has known malformed lines: 357 physical lines were rejected; accepted logical rows are 262 below EOIR’s count file. Statistics describe accepted records. The official asylum report uses a different unit and will not exactly match these totals.
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Latest year
67.33%FY2025 · 1,099 records
Highest year
85.98%FY2024 · 749 records
Lowest year
62.96%FY2021 · 27 records
Published years
5FY2021–FY2025
Afghanistan
United States overall
Annual historical trend
Fiscal years run from 10-01 through 09-30. Every eligible public-source group is shown; a year without a record is not withheld. Small samples can vary sharply.
These totals come from the pinned public EOIR CASE source under the same grant and denial population as the national total.
Grant share · EOIR public CASE data · 2026-08
Fiscal year (10-01–09-30)
Grant records
Denial records
N
Share
Change from prior FY (percentage points)
FY2021
17
10
27
62.96%†Small sample
—
FY2022
69
12
81
85.19%†Small sample
—
FY2023
174
30
204
85.29%
—
FY2024
644
105
749
85.98%
+0.69
FY2025
740
359
1,099
67.33%
−18.65
†Limited sample. Interpret the interval and underlying records with care.
Standard deviation: 8.63 percentage points. Median absolute deviation: 0.69 percentage points. Largest change between adjacent published years: 18.65 percentage points.
These summarize the displayed annual rates; they do not measure judge quality or explain why outcomes changed. Annual variation method
EOIR public CASE data · 2026-08EOIR CASE nationality aggregates · eoir-2026-08-nationality-complete-v1Provenance
Nationality is an administrative source category, not a measure of identity or residence. Source category: AF.
Published court and judge cohorts
All court and judge combinations with eligible records are shown. Small counts describe a few proceeding records and their rates can change sharply.
This period also updates the summary above. The table caption shows the selected period.
Grants ÷ (grants + denials) among eligible asylum proceeding records. One proceeding event is the unit; this is not a count of unique people.
Source files and checks
Removal, deportation, exclusion and asylum-only proceedings. ASYL grant codes G/I/P; denial D. Other outcomes are excluded from this denominator. Conflicting applications and inconsistent case links are excluded.
Judge attribution uses the proceeding’s IJ_CODE assignment. It does not establish who personally authored every decision. Court attribution uses the proceeding’s recorded court, which may differ from historical hearing venue.
This interval describes binomial sampling variability only; it does not account for administrative errors, case mix, attribution uncertainty, or selection bias.
The source has known malformed lines: 357 physical lines were rejected; accepted logical rows are 262 below EOIR’s count file. Statistics describe accepted records. The official asylum report uses a different unit and will not exactly match these totals.
For Afghanistan, open the EOIR country research entry and the Department of State human rights report index. Select the country and report year in the official source. The EOIR entry currently points to that report index; it does not supply a verified country-by-year document set for this page.
Recorded asylum application results for this nationality
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · EOIR source nationality categoryAF. These are saved application result codes grouped by the proceeding completion year, including outcomes beyond grants and denials.
One eligible proceeding record per row · 2026-08 CASE snapshot
Recorded category
FY2021
FY2022
FY2023
FY2024
FY2025
Granted
17
69
174
644
740
Denied
10
12
30
105
359
Recorded as abandoned
2
4
12
27
42
Recorded as withdrawn
4
2
6
13
36
Recorded as not adjudicated
9
31
79
288
189
Recorded as administratively closed
0
6
5
17
16
Other recorded categories
0
0
0
0
0
No application result recorded
1
3
50
197
294
Total records in this table
43
127
356
1,291
1,676
The grant share elsewhere uses only grants and denials. This table includes eight saved result categories, so its total is larger. A blank result is shown separately and is not a denial or a verified pending case. Small groups can vary sharply.
No qualifying lawyer / representative record found
37.70%
G 69 / D 114 / N 183
35.5 percentage points between the two groups · FY2025
A filing was found in the data. It does not confirm help at the decision. No matching filing does not prove there was no legal help. These numbers do not show what caused the difference.
Recorded BIA appeal dispositions associated with this nationality code
One recorded IJ Case Appeal event is counted, not one person. Nationality is the code stored directly on the appeal record; the linked proceeding and case nationality never replace it.
Decision FY2021–FY2025 pooled · all filing parties · source cutoff 2026-08-31
BIA patterns can change over time. These figures describe recorded dispositions during the displayed historical period, not a permanent characteristic of a person, court or nationality. Changes may coincide with law, policy, administration, BIA composition, case mix or backlog; these data alone do not establish why.
All filing parties pooled · recorded BIA appeal events
Appeal events (denominator)
DIS · recorded dismissal/affirmance
REM · remand as recorded
SUS · appeal sustained as recorded
Other · mixed recorded dispositions
85
29
25
1
30
Small sample: N is below 100. Counts remain visible; a few events can change the pattern substantially.
Filing parties A, I, B and O remain distinct in the private audit. This pooled table shows counts only; it does not calculate a combined outcome percentage. REM is not an asylum grant, and these are not final asylum outcomes.
Appeal and proceeding nationality can disagree. The appeal field is the recorded event attribute; this table does not decide which record is personally correct or establish citizenship.
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: Outcomes and related groups for the source nationality category
Source reachable at the last check; its contents have not been compared with this edition yet
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