Immigration Judge Asylum Grant Rates 2025setting - One surprise for me was the low grant rate for asylum cases in immigration court. The overall approval rate for court cases in fy 2023 was only 14. 40%, which is slightly better. Compared to judge grogan's denial rate of 31. 1 percent, immigration court judges across the country denied 63. 8 percent of asylum claims during this same period. Grant rates averaged 46%, up from 36% in fy 2025. Not only were more asylum applications granted by immigration judges than ever before, but many asylum cases moved. The new york asylum office grant rate dropped to 5 percent in fy 2025, and the boston asylum office grant rate declined. Grants—cases that uscis interviewed and approved for asylum status. Denials—cases uscis interviewed and found ineligible for asylum status while the applicant was in lawful immigration. There are now 37 judges who during fy 2025 have made at least 100 dedicated docket asylum decisions. Under the new biden administration asylum seekers are seeing greater success rates in securing asylum. While asylum denial rates had grown ever higher during the trump. Wide differences in immigration judge asylum denial rates are evident across many courts in the latest release of trac’s immigration judge report series. The new trac study examines the denial/approval rates of a group of nearly 100 fairly new immigration judges, a group not included in trac’s earlier study of a larger group of.
One surprise for me was the low grant rate for asylum cases in immigration court. The overall approval rate for court cases in fy 2023 was only 14. 40%, which is slightly better. Compared to judge grogan's denial rate of 31. 1 percent, immigration court judges across the country denied 63. 8 percent of asylum claims during this same period. Grant rates averaged 46%, up from 36% in fy 2025. Not only were more asylum applications granted by immigration judges than ever before, but many asylum cases moved.