By Nationality

Asylum outcomes by nationality · FY2015–2025

Iran: US Asylum Outcomes

Signature read: Iran runs +21.1 pp above the 48.3% national average, the strongest gap stamp on this page. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,904 decisions FY2015–2025 (#40 of 196).

Data updated 2026-09-05

69.4%
Asylum grant rate
30.6%
Asylum denial rate
1,904
Asylum decisions

Iran in one line

Iran's asylum grant rate is 69.4% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 1,904 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

69.4%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
1,904
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+21.1 pp
vs. national average
30.6%
Asylum denial rate
Statistical data only. Iran's 69.4% 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.

Iran 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)

69.4% 60th of 196 higher than 136 of 196 nationalities

Nationalities, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Iran grant-rate neighbors

Upper-third grant-rate neighbors for Iran (69.4%): ABS-closest nationalities on the FY2015–2025 merits ladder, with the 48.3% national average marked.

Indonesia
72.1%
Burkina Faso
71.9%
Libya
71.5%
Rwanda
71.2%
Kyrgyzstan
70.8%
Armenia
70.1%
Venezuela
69.9%
Mongolia
69.9%
Iran
69.4%
Turkey
68.8%
Cameroon
68.0%
Eritrea
66.6%

Nationalities with a similar asylum caseload

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

  • Syria · 1,772 merits · 79.6% grant
  • Albania · 2,053 merits · 77.3% grant
  • Kyrgyzstan · 1,672 merits · 70.8% grant
  • Jamaica · 2,143 merits · 34.4% grant

Heavy-corpus nationality Iran: 1,904 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Iran's 1,904-decision EOIR nationality row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for Iran nationals; gap vs national average +21.1 pp. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,904 decisions FY2015–2025 (#40 of 196).

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