Asylum outcomes by nationality · FY2015–2025
El Salvador: US Asylum Outcomes
Signature read: 91,626 merits decisions place El Salvador among the busiest nationality codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 91,626 decisions FY2015–2025 (#2 of 196).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 34.2%
- Asylum grant rate
- 65.8%
- Asylum denial rate
- 91,626
- Asylum decisions
El Salvador in one line
El Salvador's asylum grant rate is 34.2% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 91,626 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).
- 34.2%
- Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
- 91,626
- Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
- -14.1 pp
- vs. national average
- 65.8%
- Asylum denial rate
El Salvador nationals' merits outcome mix
91,626merits decisions FY2015–2025
El Salvador 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)
34.2% 165th of 196 higher than 31 of 196 nationalities
Nationalities, banded by asylum grant rate
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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025
El Salvador grant-rate neighbors
Lower-third grant-rate neighbors for El Salvador (34.2%): ABS-closest nationalities on the FY2015–2025 merits ladder, with the 48.3% national average marked.
Nationalities with a similar asylum caseload
Heavy-corpus nationality peers by merits volume, orthogonal to the ABS(grant-rate) neighbors above.
Heavy-corpus nationality El Salvador: 91,626 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how El Salvador's 91,626-decision EOIR nationality row is sourced, computed, and verified.
Source: U.S. EOIR, Immigration Court Statistics El Salvador 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. El Salvador'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.