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Asylum outcomes by nationality · FY2015–2025

Senegal: US Asylum Outcomes

Signature read: 3,263 merits decisions place Senegal among the busiest nationality codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 3,263 decisions FY2015–2025 (#26 of 196).

Data updated 2026-09-05

42.2%
Asylum grant rate
57.8%
Asylum denial rate
3,263
Asylum decisions

Senegal in one line

Senegal's asylum grant rate is 42.2% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 3,263 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

42.2%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
3,263
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-6.1 pp
vs. national average
57.8%
Asylum denial rate
Statistical data only. Senegal's 57.8% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Senegal 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)

42.2% 139th of 196 higher than 57 of 196 nationalities

Nationalities, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Senegal grant-rate neighbors

Lower-third grant-rate neighbors for Senegal (42.2%): ABS-closest nationalities on the FY2015–2025 merits ladder, with the 48.3% national average marked.

Argentina
45.2%
Tanzania
44.6%
Peru
43.0%
Hungary
42.7%
Somalia
42.3%
Senegal
42.2%
Thailand
41.5%
South Korea
40.9%
Germany
40.5%
Haiti
40.3%
South Africa
40.2%
Ecuador
40.0%

Nationalities with a similar asylum caseload

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

Heavy-corpus nationality Senegal: 3,263 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Senegal's 3,263-decision EOIR nationality row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for Senegal nationals; merits-decision volume 3,263. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 3,263 decisions FY2015–2025 (#26 of 196).

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