# El Salvador: asylum outcomes in immigration court

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

- EOIR nationality code: ES
- Recorded grant share, FY2025: 16.41% (1,284 grants, 6,540 denials, N 7,824); 95% interval 15.61%–17.25%
- United States, FY2025: 23.13% (N 124,581)
- FY2021–FY2025, pooled: 30.13% (10,408 grants, 24,140 denials, N 34,548); United States 37.33%
- By fiscal year: FY2021 26.66% (N 4,865); FY2022 33.44% (N 8,032); FY2023 38.07% (N 8,458); FY2024 35.78% (N 5,369); FY2025 16.41% (N 7,824)
- Immigration courts with at least 100 asylum grant-or-denial records for this nationality in FY2025: 22; range 0.00%–60.86%, median 9.29%

## 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- A recorded grant share is grants divided by grants plus denials; abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed and other outcomes are outside the denominator.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/el-salvador-es
- Structured data: https://asylumcompass.com/nationality/el-salvador-es.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. “El Salvador: asylum outcomes in immigration court.” https://asylumcompass.com/nationality/el-salvador-es. EOIR data through 2026-08-31.