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El Salvador — Asylum records by EOIR nationality category

In FY2025, 16.41% of 7,824 asylum grant-or-denial records in this EOIR nationality category were grants (national: 23.13%).

Historical asylum grant share

FY2025 · 2024-10-01–2025-09-30

16.41%

1,284Grant records
6,540Denial records
7,824Outcome records

Recorded grant share = grants ÷ (grants + denials): 1,284 ÷ (1,284 + 6,540) = 16.41%.

95% statistical interval: 15.61%–17.25%

United States overall: 23.13% · −6.71 percentage points compared with this parent cohort.

El Salvador
16.41%N 7,824
United States overall
23.13%N 124,581

Across immigration courts for this nationality

22 immigration courts have 100 or more grant-or-denial records for this nationality in FY2025. Their recorded grant shares range from 0.00% to 60.86%; the median is 9.29%. The larger dot is this nationality across all courts.

See this nationality at each court

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recorded asylum application grant-or-denial outcomes linked within the same immigration-court proceeding; abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed and other outcomes are excluded.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.

Full definition and counting rulesWhat else is recorded besides a grant or denial?See related court, judge and nationality records

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.

Source
EOIR public CASE data · 2026-08
Metric version
Metric M1.1.0
Retrieved
2026-09-14
Source SHA-256
0a409ce1b175532df7bb2f0c58d06dd20fa6b4d904d749fde7df1b038ac498e2
Release manifest · Full methodology

How did the historical grant share change?

0%10%20%30%40%50%FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY202526.66%33.44%38.07%35.78%16.41%37.13%46.12%47.28%43.52%23.13%
Latest year
16.41%FY2025 · 7,824 records
Highest year
38.07%FY2023 · 8,458 records
Lowest year
16.41%FY2025 · 7,824 records
Published years
5FY2021–FY2025
  • El Salvador
  • 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 recordsDenial recordsNShareChange from prior FY (percentage points)
FY20211,2973,5684,86526.66%—
FY20222,6865,3468,03233.44%+6.78
FY20233,2205,2388,45838.07%+4.63
FY20241,9213,4485,36935.78%−2.29
FY20251,2846,5407,82416.41%−19.37

Methodology

How much did the published annual shares vary?

FY2021, FY2022, FY2023, FY2024, FY2025 · each year N ≥ 100

Standard deviation: 7.83 percentage points. Median absolute deviation: 4.63 percentage points. Largest change between adjacent published years: 19.37 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: ES.

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.

Selections update automatically.

El Salvador · FY2025
GroupGrantsDenialsNRecorded grant share95% interval
Adelanto · ADL036360.00%0.00%–9.64%
Annandale15156371421.15%18.31%–24.29%
Annandale16597521.33%13.58%–31.88%
Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street662688.82%4.11%–17.94%
Atlanta – Ted Turner Drive0330.00%<0.01%–56.15%
Aurora0880.00%0.00%–32.44%
Baltimore6933140017.25%13.86%–21.26%
Boston · BOS9910320249.01%42.20%–55.86%
Buffalo291118.18%5.14%–47.70%
Charlotte32352381.26%0.43%–3.64%
Chelmsford477111839.83%31.45%–48.85%
Chelmsford36933.33%12.06%–64.58%
Chicago17486526.15%17.02%–37.95%
Cleveland250523.85%1.06%–12.98%
Concord549014437.50%30.01%–45.64%
Conroe052520.00%0.00%–6.88%
Dallas43373411.17%0.46%–2.98%
Denver6323815.79%7.44%–30.42%
Detroit5202520.00%8.86%–39.13%
El Paso019190.00%0.00%–16.82%
El Paso SPC015150.00%0.00%–20.39%
Elizabeth154551.82%0.32%–9.61%
Eloy014140.00%<0.01%–21.53%
Florence011110.00%0.00%–25.88%
Fort Snelling21091111.80%0.50%–6.33%
Harlingen0440.00%0.00%–48.99%
Hartford3202313.04%4.54%–32.13%
HonoluluNo grant or denial record in FY2025
Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court34004030.74%0.25%–2.17%
Houston – Greenspoint Park02752750.00%0.00%–1.38%
Houston – S. Gessner Road71781853.78%1.84%–7.60%
Hyattsville7645052614.45%11.70%–17.71%
Imperial011110.00%0.00%–25.88%
Indianapolis, Indiana · INP487914.40%1.72%–10.76%
Kansas City033330.00%0.00%–10.43%
Laredo020200.00%0.00%–16.11%
Las Vegas347506.00%2.06%–16.22%
LaSalle035350.00%<0.01%–9.89%
Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard5971024.90%2.11%–10.97%
Los Angeles – N. Los Angeles Street1410712111.57%7.02%–18.49%
Los Fresnos · PEP040400.00%0.00%–8.76%
Los Fresnos · PIS0330.00%<0.01%–56.15%
Memphis · MEM12728414.29%8.37%–23.33%
Miami · KRO0660.00%<0.01%–39.03%
Miami · MIA159601.67%0.29%–8.86%
Napanoch · ULS0110.00%0.00%–79.35%
New Orleans · NOL332358.57%2.96%–22.38%
New York - Broadway17577422.97%14.87%–33.75%
New York - Federal Plaza8710018746.52%39.52%–53.67%
New York - Varick6917824727.94%22.71%–33.84%
Newark7931007.00%3.43%–13.75%
Oakdale025250.00%<0.01%–13.32%
Omaha181821.22%0.22%–6.59%
Orlando445498.16%3.22%–19.19%
Otay Mesa020200.00%0.00%–16.11%
Otero021210.00%0.00%–15.46%
Pearsall027270.00%0.00%–12.46%
Philadelphia6434912.24%5.73%–24.24%
Phoenix042420.00%0.00%–8.38%
PortlandNo grant or denial record in FY2025
Portland028280.00%<0.01%–12.06%
Sacramento · SMO7283520.00%10.04%–35.89%
Salt Lake City3131618.75%6.59%–43.01%
San Antonio9526114.75%7.96%–25.72%
San Diego016160.00%0.00%–19.36%
San Francisco · SFR26917344260.86%56.23%–65.30%
Santa Ana101641745.75%3.15%–10.25%
Seattle91271366.62%3.52%–12.10%
Sterling · STE15466081418.92%16.38%–21.75%
Stewart018180.00%0.00%–17.59%
Tacoma011110.00%0.00%–25.88%
Tucson3212412.50%4.34%–31.00%
West Los Angeles Immigration Court · WLA111831945.67%3.20%–9.87%

Court and judge groups: counting rules

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.

Source
EOIR public CASE data · 2026-08
Metric version
Metric M1.1.0
Retrieved
2026-09-14
Source SHA-256
0a409ce1b175532df7bb2f0c58d06dd20fa6b4d904d749fde7df1b038ac498e2
Release manifest · Full methodology

Official country research sources

For El Salvador, 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.

Country reports are research materials, not a finding about an individual case. Search official AG/BIA precedent citations

Recorded asylum application results for this nationality

El Salvador · EOIR source nationality category ES. 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 categoryFY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Granted1,2972,6863,2201,9211,284
Denied3,5685,3465,2383,4486,540
Recorded as abandoned4531,1511,6231,1972,407
Recorded as withdrawn7061,3571,6921,4251,312
Recorded as not adjudicated5,32220,28425,12123,2468,977
Recorded as administratively closed5072,3152,1261,472950
Other recorded categories17231064
No application result recorded3323375869692,210
Total records in this table12,20233,49939,61633,68423,684

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.

National result categories and counting rules

Lawyer-record comparison

El Salvador · Across the United States

FY2025

Lawyer / representative record found

18.41%

G 1,240 / D 5,494 / N 6,734

No qualifying lawyer / representative record found

4.04%

G 44 / D 1,046 / N 1,090

14.4 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.

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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/affirmanceREM · remand as recordedSUS · appeal sustained as recordedOther · mixed recorded dispositions
18,75011,1643,241554,290

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.

About these records

Nationality field: tblAppeal.strNat · Population: bia-decided-1 · Source cutoff: 2026-08-31.

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.

Download certified nationality BIA aggregates · Companion manifest · Read disclosure certificate · Historical nationality BIA edition · Methods

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: Outcomes and related groups for the source nationality category

Available page coverageFY2021–FY2025

Source edition2026-08

Source snapshot cutoff

Official FOIA libraryOriginal CASE ZIP · about 4.55 GBEOIR code keyEdition details and fingerprint

Standard comparison periodFY2021–FY2025

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

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