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Asylum outcomes by nationality · FY2015–2025

Mauritania: US Asylum Outcomes

Signature read: 2,821 merits decisions place Mauritania among the busiest nationality codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,821 decisions FY2015–2025 (#30 of 196).

Data updated 2026-09-05

55.2%
Asylum grant rate
44.8%
Asylum denial rate
2,821
Asylum decisions

Mauritania in one line

Mauritania's asylum grant rate is 55.2% (mid-band grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 2,821 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

55.2%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
2,821
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+6.9 pp
vs. national average
44.8%
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.

Mauritania 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)

55.2% 100th of 196 higher than 96 of 196 nationalities

Nationalities, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Mauritania grant-rate neighbors

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

Gambia
57.7%
Yemen
57.4%
Sudan
57.1%
Israel
56.8%
Guinea
55.6%
Jordan
55.2%
Mauritania
55.2%
Tunisia
55.1%
Togo
54.2%
Poland
53.9%
Nicaragua
53.7%
Bhutan
52.9%

Nationalities with a similar asylum caseload

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

  • Guinea · 2,831 merits · 55.6% grant
  • Somalia · 2,647 merits · 42.3% grant
  • Armenia · 2,626 merits · 70.1% grant
  • Afghanistan · 2,565 merits · 76.1% grant

Heavy-corpus nationality Mauritania: 2,821 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Mauritania's 2,821-decision EOIR nationality row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for Mauritania nationals; merits-decision volume 2,821. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,821 decisions FY2015–2025 (#30 of 196).

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