# Houston — USCIS asylum office

In FY2025Q1 (2024-10-01 – 2024-12-31), 8.34% of 3,251 I-589 applications completed at this asylum office were approvals (all asylum offices: 10.37%).

- Address: 16855 Northchase Drive, Second Floor, Houston, TX, 77060
- Phone: 281-248-5500
- Email: Houston.Asylum@uscis.dhs.gov
- Official USCIS profile (checked 2026-09-17): https://egov.uscis.gov/office-locator/asyprofile/TX/Houston/ZHN
- FY2025Q1 (2024-10-01 – 2024-12-31): 271 approvals among 3,251 recorded completions, 8.34%; 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 2,900; recorded completions 387; pending at quarter end 38,520; approved withheld by USCIS; denied or referred 132; administratively closed or dismissed 217; asylum status terminated withheld by USCIS
- FY2022Q2 (2022-01-01 – 2022-03-31): applications received 4,294; recorded completions 640; pending at quarter end 42,176; approved 96; denied or referred 285; administratively closed or dismissed 259; asylum status terminated 0
- FY2022Q3 (2022-04-01 – 2022-06-30): applications received 6,816; recorded completions 992; pending at quarter end 48,000; approved 198; denied or referred 487; administratively closed or dismissed 307; asylum status terminated 0
- FY2022Q4 (2022-07-01 – 2022-09-30): applications received 8,703; recorded completions 1,290; pending at quarter end 55,419; approved 205; denied or referred 278; administratively closed or dismissed 807; asylum status terminated 0
- FY2023Q1 (2022-10-01 – 2022-12-31): applications received 10,548; recorded completions 457; pending at quarter end 65,423; approved 253; denied or referred 105; administratively closed or dismissed 99; asylum status terminated not separately listed
- FY2023Q2 (2023-01-01 – 2023-03-31): applications received 11,918; recorded completions 676; pending at quarter end 76,667; approved 408; denied or referred 130; administratively closed or dismissed 138; asylum status terminated not separately listed
- FY2023Q3 (2023-04-01 – 2023-06-30): applications received 18,942; recorded completions 690; pending at quarter end 94,923; approved 576; denied or referred withheld by USCIS; administratively closed or dismissed withheld by USCIS; asylum status terminated not separately listed
- FY2023Q4 (2023-07-01 – 2023-09-30): applications received 16,954; recorded completions 1,715; pending at quarter end 110,162; approved 1,247; denied or referred 122; administratively closed or dismissed 346; asylum status terminated not separately listed
- FY2025Q1 (2024-10-01 – 2024-12-31): applications received 19,116; recorded completions 3,251; pending at quarter end 177,847; approved 271; denied or referred 192; administratively closed or dismissed 2,788; 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/houston
- Structured data: https://asylumcompass.com/uscis/office/houston.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. “Houston — USCIS asylum office.” https://asylumcompass.com/uscis/office/houston. Verified office statistics through 2024-12-31.