Asylum outcomes by nationality · FY2015–2025
South Sudan: US Asylum Outcomes
Signature read: South Sudan runs -34.0 pp versus the 48.3% national average, the strongest gap stamp on this page. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked nationalities at 14.3% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is mid-band at 77 decisions FY2015–2025.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 14.3%
- Asylum grant rate
- 85.7%
- Asylum denial rate
- 77
- Asylum decisions
South Sudan in one line
South Sudan's asylum grant rate is 14.3% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 77 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).
- 14.3%
- Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
- 77
- Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
- -34.0 pp
- vs. national average
- 85.7%
- Asylum denial rate
South Sudan nationals' merits outcome mix
77merits decisions FY2015–2025
South Sudan 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)
14.3% 191st of 196 higher than 5 of 196 nationalities
Nationalities, banded by asylum grant rate
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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025
South Sudan grant-rate neighbors
Lower-third grant-rate neighbors for South Sudan (14.3%): ABS-closest nationalities on the FY2015–2025 merits ladder, with the 48.3% national average marked.
Lower-third grant-rate nationality South Sudan (14.3%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how South Sudan's 77-decision EOIR nationality row is sourced, computed, and verified.
Source: U.S. EOIR, Immigration Court Statistics South Sudan 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. South Sudan'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.