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Nicaragua — Asylum records by EOIR nationality category

In FY2025, 24.84% of 6,856 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

24.84%

1,703Grant records
5,153Denial records
6,856Outcome records

Recorded grant share = grants ÷ (grants + denials): 1,703 ÷ (1,703 + 5,153) = 24.84%.

95% statistical interval: 23.83%–25.88%

United States overall: 23.13% · +1.71 percentage points compared with this parent cohort.

Nicaragua
24.84%N 6,856
United States overall
23.13%N 124,581

Across immigration courts for this nationality

25 immigration courts have 100 or more grant-or-denial records for this nationality in FY2025. Their recorded grant shares range from 3.45% to 68.00%; the median is 19.54%. 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recorded asylum application grant-or-denial outcomes linked within the same immigration-court proceeding; abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed and other outcomes are excluded.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%FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY202545.06%38.80%47.11%42.13%24.84%37.13%46.12%47.28%43.52%23.13%
Latest year
24.84%FY2025 · 6,856 records
Highest year
47.11%FY2023 · 2,645 records
Lowest year
24.84%FY2025 · 6,856 records
Published years
5FY2021–FY2025
  • Nicaragua
  • 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)
FY202126932859745.06%—
FY20221,0511,6582,70938.80%−6.26
FY20231,2461,3992,64547.11%+8.31
FY20242,1532,9575,11042.13%−4.97
FY20251,7035,1536,85624.84%−17.29

Methodology

How much did the published annual shares vary?

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

Standard deviation: 7.89 percentage points. Median absolute deviation: 3.34 percentage points. Largest change between adjacent published years: 17.29 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: NU.

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.

Nicaragua · FY2025
GroupGrantsDenialsNRecorded grant share95% interval
Adelanto · ADL14520.00%3.62%–62.45%
Annandale5816222026.36%20.98%–32.56%
Annandale9101947.37%27.33%–68.29%
Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street2016918910.58%6.96%–15.78%
Atlanta – Ted Turner Drive0330.00%<0.01%–56.15%
Aurora0550.00%0.00%–43.45%
Baltimore37498643.02%33.08%–53.56%
Boston · BOS831172.73%43.44%–90.25%
Buffalo8182630.77%16.50%–49.99%
Charlotte1815417210.47%6.72%–15.93%
Chelmsford691540.00%19.82%–64.25%
Chelmsford13425.00%4.56%–69.94%
Chicago12417329741.75%36.28%–47.43%
Cleveland10859510.53%5.82%–18.30%
Concord683210068.00%58.34%–76.33%
Conroe019190.00%0.00%–16.82%
Dallas129310511.43%6.66%–18.92%
Denver30124271.43%56.43%–82.83%
Detroit25305545.45%33.03%–58.48%
El Paso14395326.42%16.44%–39.58%
El Paso SPC111128.33%1.49%–35.39%
Elizabeth5232817.86%7.88%–35.59%
Eloy0440.00%0.00%–48.99%
Florence0660.00%<0.01%–39.03%
Fort Snelling51401453.45%1.48%–7.82%
Guaynabo · SAJNo grant or denial record in FY2025
Harlingen4151921.05%8.51%–43.33%
Hartford13193240.63%25.52%–57.74%
Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court3417120516.59%12.12%–22.28%
Houston – Greenspoint Park152612765.43%3.32%–8.77%
Houston – S. Gessner Road61441504.00%1.85%–8.45%
Hyattsville6512418934.39%27.99%–41.41%
ImperialNo grant or denial record in FY2025
Indianapolis, Indiana · INP6024730719.54%15.50%–24.34%
Kansas City10203033.33%19.23%–51.22%
Laredo0550.00%0.00%–43.45%
Las Vegas575611350.44%41.36%–59.49%
LaSalle122234.35%0.77%–20.99%
Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard425810042.00%32.80%–51.79%
Los Angeles – N. Los Angeles Street2815218015.56%10.99%–21.56%
Los Fresnos · PEP26825.00%7.15%–59.07%
Los Fresnos · PIS0110.00%0.00%–79.35%
Memphis · MEM299412323.58%16.95%–31.81%
Miami · KRO121224.55%0.81%–21.80%
Miami · MIA383563949.64%7.11%–12.96%
New Orleans · NOL15715531250.32%44.80%–55.83%
New York - Broadway16486425.00%16.01%–36.82%
New York - Federal Plaza19143357.58%40.81%–72.76%
New York - Varick34498340.96%31.01%–51.71%
Newark14264035.00%22.13%–50.49%
Oakdale2182010.00%2.79%–30.10%
Omaha019190.00%0.00%–16.82%
Orlando3115318416.85%12.13%–22.92%
Otay Mesa0110.00%0.00%–79.35%
Otero017170.00%0.00%–18.43%
Pearsall130313.23%0.57%–16.19%
Philadelphia11273828.95%17.00%–44.76%
Phoenix16425827.59%17.75%–40.20%
Portland12333.33%6.15%–79.23%
Portland6263218.75%8.89%–35.31%
Sacramento · SMO30205060.00%46.18%–72.39%
Salt Lake City13132650.00%32.06%–67.94%
San Antonio2915918815.43%10.96%–21.28%
San Diego020200.00%0.00%–16.11%
San Francisco · SFR1457121667.13%60.61%–73.05%
Santa Ana8967876711.60%9.53%–14.06%
Seattle4212216425.61%19.54%–32.79%
Sterling · STE11816728541.40%35.84%–47.20%
Stewart113147.14%1.27%–31.47%
Tacoma111128.33%1.49%–35.39%
Tucson6111735.29%17.31%–58.70%
West Los Angeles Immigration Court · WLA5621326920.82%16.39%–26.06%

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 Nicaragua, 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

Nicaragua · EOIR source nationality category NU. 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
Granted2691,0511,2462,1531,703
Denied3281,6581,3992,9575,153
Recorded as abandoned1497589061,9424,025
Recorded as withdrawn572512955791,125
Recorded as not adjudicated3791,3252,1393,0991,955
Recorded as administratively closed2392170293277
Other recorded categories20000
No application result recorded1846741,0071,9572,901
Total records in this table1,3915,8097,16212,98017,139

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

Nicaragua · Across the United States

FY2025

Lawyer / representative record found

27.66%

G 1,623 / D 4,245 / N 5,868

No qualifying lawyer / representative record found

8.10%

G 80 / D 908 / N 988

19.6 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
2,0217952942930

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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