Asylum outcomes by nationality · FY2015–2025
Ghana: US Asylum Outcomes
Signature read: 2,553 merits decisions place Ghana among the busiest nationality codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,553 decisions FY2015–2025 (#34 of 196).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 51.4%
- Asylum grant rate
- 48.6%
- Asylum denial rate
- 2,553
- Asylum decisions
Ghana in one line
Ghana's asylum grant rate is 51.4% (mid-band grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 2,553 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).
- 51.4%
- Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
- 2,553
- Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
- +3.1 pp
- vs. national average
- 48.6%
- Asylum denial rate
Ghana nationals' merits outcome mix
2,553merits decisions FY2015–2025
Ghana 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)
51.4% 110th of 196 higher than 86 of 196 nationalities
Nationalities, banded by asylum grant rate
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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025
Ghana grant-rate neighbors
Asylum grant rates for nationalities whose FY2015–2025 merits rate is closest to Ghana (ABS gap), not the same top-volume strip on every page. Ghana 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.
- Afghanistan · 2,565 merits · 76.1% grant
- Armenia · 2,626 merits · 70.1% grant
- Somalia · 2,647 merits · 42.3% grant
- Ukraine · 2,339 merits · 78.9% grant
Heavy-corpus nationality Ghana: 2,553 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Ghana's 2,553-decision EOIR nationality row is sourced, computed, and verified.
Source: U.S. EOIR, Immigration Court Statistics Ghana 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. Ghana'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.