# Boston — USCIS asylum office

In FY2025Q1 (2024-10-01 – 2024-12-31), 10.11% of 722 I-589 applications completed at this asylum office were approvals (all asylum offices: 10.37%).

- Address: John W. McCormack Federal Building, 5 Post Office Square, 14th Floor, Boston, MA, 02109
- Phone: 617-574-3600
- Email: bostonasylumoffice@uscis.dhs.gov
- Official USCIS profile (checked 2026-09-17): https://egov.uscis.gov/office-locator/asyprofile/MA/Boston/ZBO
- FY2025Q1 (2024-10-01 – 2024-12-31): 73 approvals among 722 recorded completions, 10.11%; all asylum offices 10.37% (N 28,460)
- Asylum offices with published approvals and at least 100 recorded completions in the same quarter: 11; range 1.37%–33.45%

## Verified quarters

- FY2022Q1 (2021-10-01 – 2021-12-31): applications received 1,073; recorded completions 260; pending at quarter end 20,923; approved withheld by USCIS; denied or referred 197; administratively closed or dismissed 38; asylum status terminated not separately listed
- FY2022Q2 (2022-01-01 – 2022-03-31): applications received 1,318; recorded completions 302; pending at quarter end 21,941; approved 71; denied or referred 164; administratively closed or dismissed 67; asylum status terminated not separately listed
- FY2022Q3 (2022-04-01 – 2022-06-30): applications received 1,692; recorded completions 265; pending at quarter end 23,369; approved 57; denied or referred 108; administratively closed or dismissed withheld by USCIS; asylum status terminated not separately listed
- FY2022Q4 (2022-07-01 – 2022-09-30): applications received 1,838; recorded completions 257; pending at quarter end 24,949; approved 66; denied or referred 48; administratively closed or dismissed 143; asylum status terminated not separately listed
- FY2023Q1 (2022-10-01 – 2022-12-31): applications received 1,859; recorded completions 156; pending at quarter end 26,688; approved 53; denied or referred 70; administratively closed or dismissed withheld by USCIS; asylum status terminated not separately listed
- FY2023Q2 (2023-01-01 – 2023-03-31): applications received 1,886; recorded completions 256; pending at quarter end 28,319; approved 102; denied or referred 84; administratively closed or dismissed 70; asylum status terminated not separately listed
- FY2023Q3 (2023-04-01 – 2023-06-30): applications received 2,712; recorded completions 268; pending at quarter end 30,763; approved 152; denied or referred withheld by USCIS; administratively closed or dismissed 86; asylum status terminated not separately listed
- FY2023Q4 (2023-07-01 – 2023-09-30): applications received 3,521; recorded completions 670; pending at quarter end 33,614; approved 286; denied or referred withheld by USCIS; administratively closed or dismissed 346; asylum status terminated not separately listed
- FY2025Q1 (2024-10-01 – 2024-12-31): applications received 3,343; recorded completions 722; pending at quarter end 46,895; approved 73; denied or referred 162; administratively closed or dismissed 487; asylum status terminated not separately listed

## How to read these figures

- Approval share of completions is approvals divided by all recorded completions, which include denials, referrals to immigration court and administrative closures; it is not a grant rate of decided cases.
- FY2022 and FY2023 count decisions made, including decisions not yet served. FY2025 counts decisions made for adjudications before 2024-01-01, decisions served for adjudications from 2024-01-01, and administrative closures. Shares are compared only within one quarter.
- A number USCIS withheld is marked withheld and never reconstructed from totals; quarters without a verified office report are not interpolated.
- Branches and interview locations do not inherit a parent office’s statistics. Counts do not predict an individual result.

## Sources

- Page: https://asylumcompass.com/uscis/office/boston
- Structured data: https://asylumcompass.com/uscis/office/boston.json
- USCIS FY2022 workbook (queried 2023-07-19): https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/data/AsylumFiscalYear2022ToDateStats.xlsx
- USCIS FY2023 workbook (queried 2023-11-01): https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/data/asylumfiscalyear2023todatestats_230930.xlsx
- USCIS FY2025 workbook (queried 2025-01-28): https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/data/asylumfiscalyear2025todatestats_241231.xlsx
- Office locator: https://egov.uscis.gov/office-locator/asy
- License: CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

Cite as: AsylumCompass. “Boston — USCIS asylum office.” https://asylumcompass.com/uscis/office/boston. Verified office statistics through 2024-12-31.