What is the immigration court grant rate for Samoa nationals?

Samoa nationals sit in the lower third of tracked nationalities at 42.9% across 7 merits decisions (DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025).

How many immigration court cases involve Samoa nationals?

Samoa is a thin-corpus nationality with 7 asylum merits decisions FY2015–2025 (3 granted, 4 denied).

Do grant rates vary by immigration court for Samoa nationals?

Yes. Samoa's 42.9% national-row rate sits below the 48.3% overall average; court-level spreads can push individual venues higher or lower still.

Is this data predictive of individual case outcomes?

No. Samoa's 57.1% denial-leaning aggregate still mixes courts, judges, country conditions, and counsel rates, it is not a forecast for any one merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

By Nationality

Asylum outcomes by nationality · FY2015–2025

Samoa: US Asylum Outcomes

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Published: 2025-09-30
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Signature read: 7 merits decisions make Samoa a thin-volume nationality code in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked nationalities at 42.9% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is thin-corpus at 7 decisions FY2015–2025.

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

42.9%
Asylum grant rate: 57.1%
Asylum denial rate: 7
Asylum decisions

Samoa in one line

Samoa's asylum grant rate is 42.9% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 7 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

42.9%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate: 7
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume: -5.4 pp
vs. national average: 57.1%
Asylum denial rate

Samoa nationals' merits outcome mix

7merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted3(43%)Denied4(57%)

Statistical data only. Samoa's 57.1% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Samoa 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)

42.9% 136th of 196 higher than 60 of 196 nationalities

Nationalities, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Samoa grant-rate neighbors

Lower-third grant-rate neighbors for Samoa (42.9%): 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%

Samoa

42.9%

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%

Lower-third grant-rate nationality Samoa (42.9%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Samoa's 7-decision EOIR nationality row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for Samoa nationals; merits-decision volume 7. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 7 decisions FY2015–2025.

Source: U.S. EOIR, Immigration Court Statistics Samoa asylum merits outcomes FY2015–2025 · 2025 Accessed 2026-09-05

Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. Samoa'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.