By Nationality

Asylum outcomes by nationality · FY2015–2025

Cape Verde: US Asylum Outcomes

Signature read: Cape Verde runs -34.0 pp versus the 48.3% national average, the strongest gap stamp on this page. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked nationalities at 14.3% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is thin-corpus at 35 decisions FY2015–2025.

Data updated 2026-09-05

14.3%
Asylum grant rate
85.7%
Asylum denial rate
35
Asylum decisions

Cape Verde in one line

Cape Verde's asylum grant rate is 14.3% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 35 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

14.3%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
35
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-34.0 pp
vs. national average
85.7%
Asylum denial rate
Statistical data only. Cape Verde's 85.7% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Cape Verde 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)

14.3% 191st of 196 higher than 5 of 196 nationalities

Nationalities, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Cape Verde grant-rate neighbors

Lower-third grant-rate neighbors for Cape Verde (14.3%): ABS-closest nationalities on the FY2015–2025 merits ladder, with the 48.3% national average marked.

Guatemala
36.4%
Philippines
35.2%
Honduras
35.1%
Jamaica
34.4%
El Salvador
34.2%
Mexico
32.5%
Brazil
32.0%
Spain
32.0%
Guyana
29.1%
Bosnia and Herzegovina
26.9%
Trinidad and Tobago
20.0%
Cape Verde
14.3%

Lower-third grant-rate nationality Cape Verde (14.3%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Cape Verde's 35-decision EOIR nationality row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for Cape Verde nationals; gap vs national average -34.0 pp. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 35 decisions FY2015–2025.

Source: U.S. EOIR, Immigration Court Statistics Cape Verde 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. Cape Verde'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.