# Venezuelans' asylum grant rate fell from 56% to 7%

Published 2026-11-07 · By Pushbuild · Data: [US Immigration Court Outcomes API – Asylum Grant Rates by Judge and Court](https://pushbuild.com/apis/immigration-court-outcomes.html)

**56%**Venezuelans' asylum grant rate fell from · as of 2026-11-07

**In fiscal 2024, 56.4% of decided Venezuelan asylum cases were granted; in fiscal 2026, 6.8%.** Indians fell from 60.8% to 4.9%, Chinese from 72.1% to 25.5%. Russians kept the highest rate, 41.8%.

| Nationality | Grant rate FY24 | Grant rate FY26 | Denials FY26 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Russia | 83.0% | 41.8% | 2,179 |
| China | 72.1% | 25.5% | 3,158 |
| Venezuela | 56.4% | 6.8% | 16,664 |
| India | 60.8% | 4.9% | 4,681 |
| Nicaragua | 42.3% | 5.4% | 6,641 |
| El Salvador | 35.8% | 2.6% | 9,092 |
| Honduras | 27.8% | 1.9% | 15,448 |
| Guatemala | 36.6% | 2.1% | 13,974 |
| Cuba | 48.0% | 6.4% | 4,879 |
| Colombia | 17.8% | 2.3% | 11,262 |
| Mexico | 15.6% | 1.0% | 21,047 |
| Bangladesh | 70.8% | 6.5% | 797 |
| Ecuador | 18.6% | 1.1% | 10,182 |
| Peru | 19.8% | 2.4% | 5,398 |

## Caveats

Nationalities with 1,000+ decisions in fiscal 2024.

## Sources

- [Executive Office for Immigration Review, FOIA library](https://www.justice.gov/eoir/foia-library-0), read through the Pushbuild [US Immigration Court Outcomes API](https://pushbuild.com/apis/immigration-court-outcomes.html) on 2026-11-07

Data as of 2026-11-07. Every figure in this post is in the table above and the CSV below.

Download the data behind this post: [b2-asylum-grant-rate-by-nationality-fy24-vs-26.csv](https://pushbuild.com/apis/analysis/data/b2-asylum-grant-rate-by-nationality-fy24-vs-26.csv)

## Get this data

Every number in this post comes from the [US Immigration Court Outcomes API – Asylum Grant Rates by Judge and Court](https://pushbuild.com/apis/immigration-court-outcomes.html). $0.0016 per row returned; every key gets $1 of free usage each month.

```
curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/immigration-court-outcomes/run \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"groupBy": ["fiscalYear", "court"], "application": "asylum", "fiscalYearFrom": 2025, "maxItems": 20}'
```

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As of 2026-11-07. Source: https://pushbuild.com/apis/analysis/asylum-grant-rate-by-nationality/