# Chicago — USCIS asylum office

In FY2025Q1 (2024-10-01 – 2024-12-31), 10.37% of 3,415 I-589 applications completed at this asylum office were approvals (all asylum offices: 10.37%).

- Address: 181 W. Madison Street, Suite 3000, Chicago, IL, 60602
- Phone: 312-849-5200
- Email: Chicago.Asylum@uscis.dhs.gov
- Official USCIS profile (checked 2026-09-17): https://egov.uscis.gov/office-locator/asyprofile/IL/Chicago/ZCH
- FY2025Q1 (2024-10-01 – 2024-12-31): 354 approvals among 3,415 recorded completions, 10.37%; 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 2,739; recorded completions 1,146; pending at quarter end 30,792; approved 330; denied or referred 582; administratively closed or dismissed 233; asylum status terminated withheld by USCIS
- FY2022Q2 (2022-01-01 – 2022-03-31): applications received 3,697; recorded completions 1,514; pending at quarter end 32,971; approved 422; denied or referred 635; administratively closed or dismissed 457; asylum status terminated 0
- FY2022Q3 (2022-04-01 – 2022-06-30): applications received 5,763; recorded completions 1,677; pending at quarter end 37,061; approved 480; denied or referred 858; administratively closed or dismissed 339; asylum status terminated 0
- FY2022Q4 (2022-07-01 – 2022-09-30): applications received 8,253; recorded completions 1,180; pending at quarter end 44,140; approved 351; denied or referred 431; administratively closed or dismissed 397; asylum status terminated withheld by USCIS
- FY2023Q1 (2022-10-01 – 2022-12-31): applications received 9,982; recorded completions 572; pending at quarter end 53,912; approved 198; denied or referred 95; administratively closed or dismissed 279; asylum status terminated not separately listed
- FY2023Q2 (2023-01-01 – 2023-03-31): applications received 10,023; recorded completions 749; pending at quarter end 63,170; approved 290; denied or referred 63; administratively closed or dismissed 396; asylum status terminated not separately listed
- FY2023Q3 (2023-04-01 – 2023-06-30): applications received 15,181; recorded completions 765; pending at quarter end 77,553; approved 464; denied or referred withheld by USCIS; administratively closed or dismissed 277; asylum status terminated not separately listed
- FY2023Q4 (2023-07-01 – 2023-09-30): applications received 17,834; recorded completions 5,342; pending at quarter end 90,020; approved 982; denied or referred withheld by USCIS; administratively closed or dismissed 4,337; asylum status terminated not separately listed
- FY2025Q1 (2024-10-01 – 2024-12-31): applications received 17,388; recorded completions 3,415; pending at quarter end 155,642; approved 354; denied or referred 319; administratively closed or dismissed 2,742; 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/chicago
- Structured data: https://asylumcompass.com/uscis/office/chicago.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. “Chicago — USCIS asylum office.” https://asylumcompass.com/uscis/office/chicago. Verified office statistics through 2024-12-31.