# Costa Rica: asylum outcomes in immigration court

In FY2025, 13.56% of 59 asylum grant-or-denial records in this EOIR nationality category were grants (national: 23.13%).

- EOIR nationality code: CS
- Recorded grant share, FY2025: 13.56% (8 grants, 51 denials, N 59); 95% interval 7.03%–24.54% — small sample
- United States, FY2025: 23.13% (N 124,581)
- FY2021–FY2025, pooled: 22.32% (25 grants, 87 denials, N 112); United States 37.33%
- By fiscal year: FY2021 40.00% (N 5); FY2022 30.00% (N 10); FY2023 36.84% (N 19); FY2024 26.32% (N 19); FY2025 13.56% (N 59)

## How to read these figures

- The nationality is the EOIR source category saved on the proceeding, not a verified citizenship.
- A recorded grant share is grants divided by grants plus denials; abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed and other outcomes are outside the denominator.
- The distribution compares this nationality across courts; courts are never pooled.
- Past records do not predict an individual case.

## Sources

- Page: https://asylumcompass.com/nationality/costa-rica-cs
- Structured data: https://asylumcompass.com/nationality/costa-rica-cs.json
- EOIR CASE data: https://fileshare.eoir.justice.gov/EOIR%20Case%20Data.zip
- Counts and checks: https://asylumcompass.com/data/nationality-counts-2026-08.json
- Methodology: https://asylumcompass.com/methodology#historical-grant-share
- License: CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

Cite as: AsylumCompass. “Costa Rica: asylum outcomes in immigration court.” https://asylumcompass.com/nationality/costa-rica-cs. EOIR data through 2026-08-31.