Asylum outcomes by nationality · FY2015–2025

Honduras: US Asylum Outcomes

Signature read: 92,313 merits decisions place Honduras among the busiest nationality codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 92,313 decisions FY2015–2025 (#1 of 196).

Data updated 2026-09-05

35.1%
Asylum grant rate
64.9%
Asylum denial rate
92,313
Asylum decisions

Honduras in one line

Honduras's asylum grant rate is 35.1% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 92,313 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

35.1%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
92,313
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-13.2 pp
vs. national average
64.9%
Asylum denial rate
Statistical data only. Honduras's 64.9% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Honduras 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)

35.1% 163rd of 196 higher than 33 of 196 nationalities

Nationalities, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Honduras grant-rate neighbors

Lower-third grant-rate neighbors for Honduras (35.1%): ABS-closest nationalities on the FY2015–2025 merits ladder, with the 48.3% national average marked.

Liberia
38.6%
Laos
36.8%
Bolivia
36.7%
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%

Nationalities with a similar asylum caseload

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

  • El Salvador · 91,626 merits · 34.2% grant
  • Guatemala · 89,544 merits · 36.4% grant
  • Mexico · 75,320 merits · 32.5% grant
  • China · 49,211 merits · 77.9% grant

Heavy-corpus nationality Honduras: 92,313 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 Honduras nationals; merits-decision volume 92,313. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 92,313 decisions FY2015–2025 (#1 of 196).

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