What is the immigration court grant rate for Cameroon nationals?

Cameroon nationals sit in the upper third of tracked nationalities at 68.0% across 7,591 merits decisions (DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025).

How many immigration court cases involve Cameroon nationals?

Cameroon is a heavy-corpus nationality with 7,591 asylum merits decisions FY2015–2025 (5,163 granted, 2,428 denied) - #16 of 196 by caseload.

Do grant rates vary by immigration court for Cameroon nationals?

Yes. Cameroon's 68.0% national-row rate already sits well above the 48.3% overall average; court-level spreads can widen that further depending on judge mix and case type.

Is this data predictive of individual case outcomes?

No. Cameroon's 68.0% upper-third aggregate still mixes courts, judges, relief types, and counsel rates, it is not a forecast for any one merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

By Nationality

Asylum outcomes by nationality · FY2015–2025

Cameroon: US Asylum Outcomes

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Published: 2025-09-30
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Signature read: Cameroon runs +19.7 pp above the 48.3% national average, the strongest gap stamp on this page. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 7,591 decisions FY2015–2025 (#16 of 196).

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Data updated 2026-09-05

68.0%
Asylum grant rate: 32.0%
Asylum denial rate: 7,591
Asylum decisions

Cameroon in one line

Cameroon's asylum grant rate is 68.0% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 7,591 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

68.0%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 7,591
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +19.7 pp
vs. national average: 32.0%
Asylum denial rate

Cameroon nationals' merits outcome mix

7,591merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted5,163(68%)Denied2,428(32%)

Statistical data only. Cameroon's 68.0% 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.

Cameroon 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)

68% 63rd of 196 higher than 133 of 196 nationalities

Nationalities, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Cameroon grant-rate neighbors

Upper-third grant-rate neighbors for Cameroon (68.0%): ABS-closest nationalities on the FY2015–2025 merits ladder, with the 48.3% national average marked.

Libya

71.5%

Rwanda

71.2%

Kyrgyzstan

70.8%

Armenia

70.1%

Venezuela

69.9%

Mongolia

69.9%

Iran

69.4%

Turkey

68.8%

Cameroon

68.0%

Eritrea

66.6%

Romania

65.3%

Myanmar (Burma)

64.9%

Nationalities with a similar asylum caseload

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

Bangladesh · 7,355 merits · 64.0% grant
Nepal · 6,669 merits · 74.5% grant
Nigeria · 5,094 merits · 60.4% grant
Turkey · 4,892 merits · 68.8% grant

Heavy-corpus nationality Cameroon: 7,591 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Cameroon's 7,591-decision EOIR nationality row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for Cameroon nationals; gap vs national average +19.7 pp. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 7,591 decisions FY2015–2025 (#16 of 196).

Source: U.S. EOIR, Immigration Court Statistics Cameroon asylum merits outcomes FY2015–2025 · 2025 Accessed 2026-09-05

Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. Cameroon'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.