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Asylum outcomes by nationality · FY2015–2025

United Arab Emirates: US Asylum Outcomes

Signature read: United Arab Emirates runs +36.2 pp above the 48.3% national average, the strongest gap stamp on this page. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked nationalities at 84.5% (above the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

84.5%
Asylum grant rate
15.5%
Asylum denial rate
71
Asylum decisions

United Arab Emirates in one line

United Arab Emirates's asylum grant rate is 84.5% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 71 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

84.5%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
71
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
+36.2 pp
vs. national average
15.5%
Asylum denial rate
Statistical data only. United Arab Emirates's 84.5% 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.

United Arab Emirates 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)

84.5% 12th of 196 higher than 184 of 196 nationalities

Nationalities, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

United Arab Emirates grant-rate neighbors

Upper-third grant-rate neighbors for United Arab Emirates (84.5%): ABS-closest nationalities on the FY2015–2025 merits ladder, with the 48.3% national average marked.

Soviet Union
89.4%
Belarus
88.4%
United Arab Emirates
84.5%
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%

Data from the DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) via FOIA bulk case data for United Arab Emirates nationals. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how United Arab Emirates's 71-decision EOIR nationality row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for United Arab Emirates nationals; gap vs national average +36.2 pp. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 71 decisions FY2015–2025.

Source: U.S. EOIR, Immigration Court Statistics United Arab Emirates 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. United Arab Emirates'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.