Asylum outcomes by nationality · FY2015–2025

Egypt: US Asylum Outcomes

Signature read: Egypt runs +25.1 pp above the 48.3% national average, the strongest gap stamp on this page. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 3,164 decisions FY2015–2025 (#27 of 196).

Data updated 2026-09-05

73.4%
Asylum grant rate
26.6%
Asylum denial rate
3,164
Asylum decisions

Egypt in one line

Egypt's asylum grant rate is 73.4% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 3,164 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

73.4%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
3,164
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+25.1 pp
vs. national average
26.6%
Asylum denial rate
Statistical data only. Egypt's 73.4% 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.

Egypt 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)

73.4% 44th of 196 higher than 152 of 196 nationalities

Nationalities, banded by asylum grant rate

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more nationalities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Egypt grant-rate neighbors

Upper-third grant-rate neighbors for Egypt (73.4%): ABS-closest nationalities on the FY2015–2025 merits ladder, with the 48.3% national average marked.

Iraq
74.6%
Turkmenistan
74.6%
Nepal
74.5%
Saudi Arabia
74.4%
Moldova
74.0%
Azerbaijan
74.0%
Stateless
73.8%
Kazakhstan
73.6%
Egypt
73.4%
Burundi
72.4%
Indonesia
72.1%

Nationalities with a similar asylum caseload

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

Heavy-corpus nationality Egypt: 3,164 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 Egypt nationals; gap vs national average +25.1 pp. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 3,164 decisions FY2015–2025 (#27 of 196).

Source: U.S. EOIR, Immigration Court Statistics Egypt 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. Egypt'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.