By Nationality

Asylum outcomes by nationality · FY2015–2025

Russia: US Asylum Outcomes

Signature read: Russia runs +31.6 pp above the 48.3% national average, the strongest gap stamp on this page. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 16,614 decisions FY2015–2025 (#13 of 196).

Data updated 2026-09-05

79.9%
Asylum grant rate
20.1%
Asylum denial rate
16,614
Asylum decisions

Russia in one line

Russia's asylum grant rate is 79.9% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 16,614 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

79.9%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
16,614
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+31.6 pp
vs. national average
20.1%
Asylum denial rate
Statistical data only. Russia's 79.9% 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.

Russia 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)

79.9% 18th of 196 higher than 178 of 196 nationalities

Nationalities, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Russia grant-rate neighbors

Upper-third grant-rate neighbors for Russia (79.9%): ABS-closest nationalities on the FY2015–2025 merits ladder, with the 48.3% national average marked.

Uganda
80.4%
Russia
79.9%
Syria
79.6%
Djibouti
79.1%
Ukraine
78.9%
Yugoslavia
78.5%
China
77.9%
Kosovo
77.7%
Albania
77.3%
Afghanistan
76.1%
Ethiopia
75.4%
Iraq
74.6%

Nationalities with a similar asylum caseload

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

  • Brazil · 17,029 merits · 32.0% grant
  • Peru · 15,703 merits · 43.0% grant
  • Cuba · 17,572 merits · 47.9% grant
  • Haiti · 10,578 merits · 40.3% grant

Heavy-corpus nationality Russia: 16,614 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Russia's 16,614-decision EOIR nationality row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for Russia nationals; gap vs national average +31.6 pp. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 16,614 decisions FY2015–2025 (#13 of 196).

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