Asylum seekers are having less and less success at their individual hearings before an immigration judge. Data generated on october 12, 2023. Nationality grants2 grant rate denials denial rate.
Asylum Seekers U.S. GAO
If an asylum seeker’s application is denied, they are referred to immigration court for deportation.
Some asylum offices recorded shockingly low asylum grant rates.
Administrative closure decisions that have not been placed back on the docket (redocketing occurs following an immigration judge’s grant of a party’s motion to recalendar). We recently discussed the widely differing asylum denial rates of immigration judges, from near zero in the case of some judges to near 100 percent for others. 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. 1 asylum rates for fiscal year 2023.
Wide differences in immigration judge asylum denial rates are evident across many courts in the latest release of trac’s immigration judge report series. In seeking to understand the variation in asylum grant rates by immigration judges (ijs), we apply a variation of the attitudinal model that we modify by incorporating a cognitive. There are now 37 judges who during fy 2022 have made at least 100 dedicated docket asylum decisions. In seeking to understand the variation in asylum grant rates by immigration judges (ijs), we apply a variation of the attitudinal model that we modify by incorporating a cognitive.
For the period 2017 to 2022, asylum approval rates ranged from 0% (a judge in houston) to 99% (a judge in san francisco).
While the last two fiscal years have seen the lowest asylum grant rates in years, they have also seen the lowest asylum denial rates since at least fy 2008. Grant rates averaged 46%, up from 36% in fy 2021. The new york asylum office grant rate dropped to 5 percent in fy 2020, and the boston asylum office grant rate declined. We are updating the instructions for people who were granted relief or protection from removal by an immigration judge or by the board of immigration appeals (bia).
Administrative closures are not reported due to the low volumes. Compared to judge law's denial rate of 87.2 percent, immigration court judges across the country denied 63.8 percent of asylum claims during this same period. Of the 635 ijs listed on the trac web page, 125. Not only were more asylum applications granted by immigration judges than ever before, but many asylum cases moved.
Affirmative asylum seekers composed 41 percent of all asylum grants in fy 2023.
