Asylum outcomes by nationality · FY2015–2025

Albania: US Asylum Outcomes

Signature read: Albania runs +29.0 pp above the 48.3% national average, the strongest gap stamp on this page. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,053 decisions FY2015–2025 (#39 of 196).

Data updated 2026-09-05

77.3%
Asylum grant rate
22.7%
Asylum denial rate
2,053
Asylum decisions

Albania in one line

Albania's asylum grant rate is 77.3% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 2,053 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

77.3%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
2,053
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+29.0 pp
vs. national average
22.7%
Asylum denial rate
Statistical data only. Albania's 77.3% upper-third grant history still mixes courts, case types, and counsel rates, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Albania vs all nationalities by asylum grant rate

Where this nationality's FY2015–2025 asylum grant rate sits among every tracked nationality (a case-outcome measure, not a quality ranking)

77.3% 27th of 196 higher than 169 of 196 nationalities

Nationalities, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Albania grant-rate neighbors

Upper-third grant-rate neighbors for Albania (77.3%): ABS-closest nationalities on the FY2015–2025 merits ladder, with the 48.3% national average marked.

Russia
79.9%
Syria
79.6%
Djibouti
79.1%
Ukraine
78.9%
Yugoslavia
78.5%
China
77.9%
Kosovo
77.7%
Albania
77.3%
Afghanistan
76.1%
Ethiopia
75.4%
Iraq
74.6%
Turkmenistan
74.6%

Nationalities with a similar asylum caseload

Heavy-corpus nationality peers by merits volume, orthogonal to the ABS(grant-rate) neighbors above.

  • Jamaica · 2,143 merits · 34.4% grant
  • Iraq · 2,162 merits · 74.6% grant
  • Iran · 1,904 merits · 69.4% grant
  • Georgia · 2,256 merits · 64.0% grant

Heavy-corpus nationality Albania: 2,053 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for Albania nationals; gap vs national average +29.0 pp. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,053 decisions FY2015–2025 (#39 of 196).

Source: U.S. EOIR, Immigration Court Statistics Albania asylum merits outcomes FY2015–2025 · 2025

Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. Albania's grant-rate and caseload figures are recomputed live from the EOIR case-level extract on every request, never hand-typed. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-05.