# The asylum grant rate fell from 43% to 7% in two years

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)

**43%**The asylum grant rate fell from · as of 2026-11-07

**Immigration judges granted 37,126 asylum applications and denied 48,540 in fiscal 2024, a 43.3% grant rate. In fiscal 2026 they granted 10,903 and denied 152,791: 6.7%.** Applications counted as abandoned went from 25,783 to 154,870, and in-absentia decisions from 228,216 to 448,410.

GrantedDeniedAbandonedGrant rate

| Fiscal year | Granted | Denied | Abandoned | Grant rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2018 | 14,355 | 28,296 | 5,860 | 33.7% |
| 2019 | 21,061 | 48,754 | 10,154 | 30.2% |
| 2020 | 17,780 | 45,717 | 7,898 | 28.0% |
| 2021 | 10,223 | 17,337 | 3,610 | 37.1% |
| 2022 | 26,529 | 30,949 | 9,656 | 46.2% |
| 2023 | 37,157 | 41,619 | 16,878 | 47.2% |
| 2024 | 37,126 | 48,540 | 25,783 | 43.3% |
| 2025 | 29,835 | 99,781 | 66,492 | 23.0% |
| 2026 | 10,903 | 152,791 | 154,870 | 6.7% |

## Caveats

EOIR data; grant rate is grants over grants plus denials, leaving out abandoned, withdrawn and other outcomes. Fiscal years end September 30.

## 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-outcomes-by-fy.csv](https://pushbuild.com/apis/analysis/data/b2-asylum-outcomes-by-fy.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-year/