# Nigeria: asylum outcomes in immigration court

In FY2025, 34.37% of 675 asylum grant-or-denial records in this EOIR nationality category were grants (national: 23.13%).

- EOIR nationality code: NI
- Recorded grant share, FY2025: 34.37% (232 grants, 443 denials, N 675); 95% interval 30.88%–38.03%
- United States, FY2025: 23.13% (N 124,581)
- FY2021–FY2025, pooled: 57.05% (1,634 grants, 1,230 denials, N 2,864); United States 37.33%
- By fiscal year: FY2021 68.66% (N 217); FY2022 68.07% (N 476); FY2023 67.04% (N 810); FY2024 56.27% (N 686); FY2025 34.37% (N 675)

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- A recorded grant share is grants divided by grants plus denials; abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed and other outcomes are outside the denominator.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