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Center for Immigration Studies
December 1, 2025

Why Have Asylum Grant Rates Been Plummeting?
By George Fishman


Here is the data on IJ asylum grant rates since 1996, derived from data provided by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) for fiscal years beginning in 2001 and by the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR, home of the immigration courts) for fiscal year 2000 and earlier. The highly respected TRAC is “a data gathering, data research, and data distribution organization that was founded in 1989 at Syracuse University” providing “comprehensive information about staffing, spending, and enforcement activities of the federal government” based on the “systematic and informed use of the Freedom of Information Act”. EOIR does not provide monthly figures, and its last reporting period is through June 2025.


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