USCIS asylum records

National USCIS counts of I-589 asylum applications: how many were received, completed and pending each quarter, and what the completed applications show.

FY2026 national I-589 quarterly trend

Three official USCIS All Forms workbooks report the same affirmative I-589 category for 2025-10 through 2026-06. Each quarter below is copied from its own release; pending is the stock at that quarter’s end.

Shared scale: 0–100,000.

Applications received

54KFY2026Q1
29KFY2026Q2
20KFY2026Q3

Recorded completions

77KFY2026Q1
43KFY2026Q2
48KFY2026Q3

Quarterly flows share one scale. The pending stock and all exact source counts are in the table.

Affirmatively filed I-589 applications · each published quarter
Quarter	Applications received	Approved	Denied or referred	Recorded completions	Other completions (calculated)	Pending at quarter end
FY2026Q1 · 2025-12-31	53,633	2,666	9,670	76,786	64,450	1,418,576
FY2026Q2 · 2026-03-31	29,261	66	215	43,414	43,133	1,414,955
FY2026Q3 · 2026-06-30	20,159	1,620	18,779	47,654	27,255	1,392,782

Other completions = total completions − approvals − denials/referrals. USCIS notes that I-589 completions also include administratively closed cases; this calculated remainder is not labelled as administrative closures alone.

The latest Q3 year-to-date completion total is 6,167 below the sum of the three separately published quarters. The releases may revise earlier data, so do not sum these rows to replace the latest year-to-date figure below.

See how each release reconciles with the prior year-to-date total

Difference = current release’s year-to-date count − prior release’s year-to-date count − current quarter count. These differences show that separately published releases do not add exactly; they do not identify which records were corrected.

Published year-to-date reconciliation differences
Release	Applications received	Approved	Denied or referred	Recorded completions
FY2026Q2	+48	+6	+7	−3,877
FY2026Q3	−100	0	+12	−2,290

Original workbooks: FY2026Q1 (snapshot) · FY2026Q2 (snapshot) · FY2026Q3 (snapshot)

Latest quarter and fiscal year to date

FY2026Q3 · 2026-04-01 – 2026-06-30

These national figures are separate from the older office-level series below. They cannot be assigned to individual offices.

I-589 · FY2026Q3
Metric	Quarter only	Fiscal year to date
Applications received	20,159	103,001
Approved	1,620	4,358
Denied or referred	18,779	28,683
Recorded completions	47,654	161,687
Pending at the reporting point	1,392,782	1,392,782
Other completions (calculated residual)	27,255	128,646

Fiscal year to date covers 2025-10-01 through 2026-06-30. Both pending columns refer to 2026-06-30; do not add them.

The source’s denial column includes referrals to immigration court. Other completions equal total completions minus approvals and denials/referrals; they include dismissals and other dispositions, not only administrative closures.

Source: USCIS All Forms, FY2026Q3, I-589 row 33, notes 1, 4, 5 and 12. Counts measure affirmatively filed applications, excluding defensive court claims; the workbook does not label this row principal applicants. The older Federal Register table below uses that distinct label, so the two series are not presented as one continuous measure. Counts may change with later revisions.

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FY2024 · historical complete fiscal year

422,457Applications received

129,891Recorded completions

1,374,006Pending at the reporting point

These principal-applicant figures are from the older Federal Register table. The FY2024 pending count is historical, not the latest inventory; the FY2026 quarterly workbook above has a later reporting date. These USCIS records are separate from immigration-court decisions and are not added to EOIR totals.

What did the completed records show?

Approval, administrative closure, and denial or referral are separate outcomes. Referral is not the final result of the later court case.

USCIS principal I-589 applicants · FY2015–FY2025 · FY2025 is partial
Fiscal year	Applications received	Pending at the reporting point	Recorded completions	Approved	Administratively closed	Denied or referred
FY2015	83,463	118,217	34,546	13,797	5,234	15,515
FY2016	116,295	206,764	27,746	9,112	5,998	12,636
FY2017	142,254	306,078	42,939	12,284	8,466	22,189
FY2018	108,308	343,647	70,738	16,383	13,060	41,295
FY2019	101,035	374,588	70,094	17,129	10,752	42,213
FY2020	99,152	422,173	51,565	9,952	13,772	27,841
FY2021	65,518	452,181	35,509	5,793	12,693	17,023
FY2022	247,790	664,290	35,678	7,576	12,650	15,452
FY2023	464,398	1,081,440	47,247	10,811	30,473	5,963
FY2024	422,457	1,374,006	129,891	17,175	107,007	5,709
FY2025 · through 2025-05-22	331,883	1,525,933	180,069	8,667	159,530	11,872

FY2025 covers only 2024-10-01 through 2025-05-22. It is not a full-year comparison or the latest caseload estimate.

Receipts and completions count activity during a period; pending measures an inventory. They do not track one fixed group of applicants.

Source, dates and counting rules

Table 2, Federal Register, 2026-02-23, page 8639. The source identifies USCIS principal applicants; accompanying family members are not counted here.

The table appears in a proposed rule. This page uses its historical statistics and does not present the proposed legal changes as current law.

The source combines denials and referrals. An approval rate comparable to EOIR grant-versus-denial records cannot be calculated from that combined column.

The adjoining narrative contains a claim about the highest receipts that conflicts with the table. We transcribe the table and retain the original source for verification.

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