Asylum outcomes by nationality · FY2015–2025

Eritrea: US Asylum Outcomes

Signature read: Eritrea runs +18.3 pp above the 48.3% national average, the strongest gap stamp on this page. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 3,671 decisions FY2015–2025 (#22 of 196).

Data updated 2026-09-05

66.6%
Asylum grant rate
33.4%
Asylum denial rate
3,671
Asylum decisions

Eritrea in one line

Eritrea's asylum grant rate is 66.6% (mid-band grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 3,671 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

66.6%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
3,671
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+18.3 pp
vs. national average
33.4%
Asylum denial rate
Statistical data only. These are aggregate historical rates, not predictions for individual cases. Outcomes vary significantly by court, judge, case type, and legal representation. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Eritrea 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)

66.6% 66th of 196 higher than 130 of 196 nationalities

Nationalities, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Eritrea grant-rate neighbors

Asylum grant rates for nationalities whose FY2015–2025 merits rate is closest to Eritrea (ABS gap), not the same top-volume strip on every page. Eritrea is highlighted; the thin line marks the 48.3% national average.

Iran
69.4%
Turkey
68.8%
Cameroon
68.0%
Eritrea
66.6%
Romania
65.3%
Uzbekistan
64.4%
Algeria
64.2%
Palestine
64.1%
Bangladesh
64.0%
Georgia
64.0%
Tajikistan
63.9%

Nationalities with a similar asylum caseload

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

Heavy-corpus nationality Eritrea: 3,671 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 Eritrea nationals; gap vs national average +18.3 pp. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 3,671 decisions FY2015–2025 (#22 of 196).

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