Asylum outcomes by nationality · FY2015–2025
Cuba: US Asylum Outcomes
Signature read: gap versus national average (-0.4 pp) is the standout comparison stamp on Cuba's row. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 17,572 decisions FY2015–2025 (#11 of 196).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 47.9%
- Asylum grant rate
- 52.1%
- Asylum denial rate
- 17,572
- Asylum decisions
Cuba in one line
Cuba's asylum grant rate is 47.9% (mid-band grant rate, roughly in line with the 48.3% national average) across 17,572 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).
- 47.9%
- Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
- 17,572
- Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
- -0.4 pp
- vs. national average
- 52.1%
- Asylum denial rate
Cuba nationals' merits outcome mix
17,572merits decisions FY2015–2025
Cuba 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)
47.9% 124th of 196 higher than 72 of 196 nationalities
Nationalities, banded by asylum grant rate
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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025
Cuba grant-rate neighbors
Asylum grant rates for nationalities whose FY2015–2025 merits rate is closest to Cuba (ABS gap), not the same top-volume strip on every page. Cuba is highlighted; the thin line marks the 48.3% national average.
Nationalities with a similar asylum caseload
Heavy-corpus nationality peers by merits volume, orthogonal to the ABS(grant-rate) neighbors above.
Heavy-corpus nationality Cuba: 17,572 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Cuba's 17,572-decision EOIR nationality row is sourced, computed, and verified.
Source: U.S. EOIR, Immigration Court Statistics Cuba 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. Cuba'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.