FY 2012 Asylum Statistics w/FY 2008 Asylum Statistics

. . . of the 276 different languages that were spoken in court proceedings . . . Spanish was the most frequent at 68 percent . . . among the top 10 countries from which aliens were granted asylum each year during the five-year period FY 2008 to FY 2012: China, Ethiopia, and India . . .

I think this covers normal proceedings and do not cover the mass amnesties granted by the 1960s campus radical, psycho spoiled brats and their ideological litters occupying buildings on the Beltway campus.

Nothing exceptional here vis-a-vis the doings of the federal buildings occupiers -- it's just the number of countries who haven't gotten the word from the various grievance industries, the Obama-Holder demagogues, and the employees of the MSM that the American is the bane of civilization. Why are they here? What were they thinking?

Immigration Court

"A tribunal that conducts immigration proceedings. The immigration courts are part of the Executive Office for Immigration Review’s Office of the Chief Immigration Judge. Each immigration court is staffed with one or more immigration judges who conduct immigration hearings. An administrative control immigration court is one that creates and maintains Records of Proceedings for immigration courts within an assigned geographical area. Management functions of the immigration court are supervised by a Court Administrator."

Table columns:

NATIONALITY
REC: RECEIVED
The number of judicial filings received.
GRA: GRANTED
DEN: DENIED
ABA: ABANDONED
"If an applicant for relief fails to appear for a court hearing, or fails to provide any required information within the time frame allowed without good cause, the application is considered abandoned. In addition, if an applicant fails to timely file an application for relief, the immigration judge may deem that application waived."
WIT: WITHDRAWN
OTH: OTHER

Hover shortened NATIONALITY names for full name.

N means none for that year.

Immigration Courts

NATIONALITYNATIONALITYfillerfille
FY 2012 Asylum Statistics	fillerfillerfilll	FY 2008 Asylum Statistics

NATIONALITY	REC	GRA	DEN	ABA	WIT	OTH
AFGHANISTAN	65	36	16	2	5	23
ALBANIA	197	93	63	1	8	58
ALGERIA	18	7	9	1	1	8
ANDORRA	0	1	0	0	0	0
ANGOLA	13	1	8	0	1	5
ANGUILLA	1	0	0	0	0	0
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA	6	0	3	0	0	0
ARGENTINA	29	5	7	3	15	25
ARMENIA	141	100	61	6	21	107
ARUBA	1	0	0	0	0	1
AUSTRALIA	2	0	4	0	1	0
[AUSTRIA]	N	N	N	N	N	N
AZERBAIJAN	37	17	5	1	5	17
BAHAMAS	9	5	9	1	2	4
BAHRAIN	9	0	1	0	0	1
BANGLADESH	306	80	56	12	42	127
BARBADOS	2	0	1	0	1	1
[REMOVED FROM U.S.]	N	N	N	N	N	N
BELARUS	95	37	12	4	3	24
BELGIUM	12	4	2	1	1	2
BELIZE	27	3	7	0	4	6
BENIN	21	6	5	0	0	8
BERMUDA	2	0	0	0	0	0
BHUTAN	7	4	2	0	1	0
BOLIVIA	62	8	10	0	8	17
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA	32	1	17	1	8	12
BOTSWANA	3	1	0	0	0	1
BRAZIL	303	19	45	13	50	89
[BRITISH I.O.T.]	N	N	N	N	N	N
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS	0	0	0	0	0	1
BRUNEI	1	0	0	0	0	1
BULGARIA	40	21	22	3	8	26
BURKINA FASO	140	57	14	1	8	13
BURMA (MYANMAR)	84	64	20	1	7	30
BURUNDI	53	10	6	0	2	9
BYELORUSSIA (BELARUS)	55	50	4	2	7	11
CAMBODIA	17	11	9	0	3	7
CAMEROON	276	184	58	7	20	75
CANADA	20	7	11	6	3	5
CAPE VERDE	4	0	0	0	1	1
CAYMAN ISLANDS	3	0	1	0	0	0
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC	19	5	3	1	1	8
CHAD	13	21	3	1	3	7
CHILE	28	0	5	1	1	5
CHINA	10,985	5,383	1,550	234	285	2,144
COCOS ISLAND	0	1	0	0	0	0
COLOMBIA	451	131	145	21	120	244
COMORO ISLANDS	2	1	0	0	0	2
CONGO	88	57	27	6	14	38
COSTA RICA	20	2	3	1	2	9
CROATIA	7	1	1	0	3	6
CUBA	99	5	67	6	39	79
[CYPRUS]	N	N	N	N	N	N
CZECH REPUBLIC	15	0	7	0	4	5
CZECHOSLOVAKIA	6	0	2	0	0	1
REP. of CONGO	35	10	9	2	4	12
DENMARK	0	0	0	0	0	1
DJIBOUTI	15	6	3	0	0	1
DOMINICA	3	0	3	1	0	1
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC	203	8	59	16	23	85
EAST GERMANY	0	0	0	0	0	1
ECUADOR	847	16	38	8	101	117
EGYPT	537	306	40	7	24	100
EL SALVADOR	2,991	191	1,126	172	772	2,008
EQUATORIAL GUINEA	0	1	0	0	0	1
ERITREA	171	351	47	2	5	42
ESTONIA	8	0	4	0	2	2
ETHIOPIA	372	458	72	7	19	86
MICRONESA	2	0	0	0	0	0
FIJI	33	14	20	0	3	24
[FINLAND]	N	N	N	N	N	N
FRANCE	17	0	7	1	3	6
GABON	13	1	2	0	0	5
GAMBIA	241	81	30	5	40	44
[GAZA STRIP]	N	N	N	N	N	N
GEORGIA	38	22	17	0	13	27
GERMANY	23	4	15	2	9	11
GHANA	82	10	38	3	14	31
GIBRALTAR	1	0	1	0	0	1
GREECE	9	1	3	0	0	1
GRENADA	15	1	1	0	0	2
GUADELOUPE	3	0	0	0	0	0
GUATEMALA	2,895	222	911	159	849	1,815
GUINEA	223	157	81	6	56	109
GUINEA BISSAU	3	0	1	0	0	4
GUYANA	40	5	19	1	10	28
HAITI	726	49	185	20	45	594
HOLLAND	1	0	1	0	1	0
HONDURAS	1,257	93	429	65	158	508
HONG KONG	4	0	1	0	2	3
HUNGARY	45	2	13	10	4	5
[ICELAND]	N	N	N	N	N	N
INDIA	1,703	282	329	88	116	578
INDONESIA	274	126	144	27	55	206
IRAN	167	109	44	10	26	73
IRAQ	154	111	64	5	32	32
IRELAND	1	0	0	0	1	5
ISRAEL	37	6	14	2	7	14
ITALY	12	1	3	0	2	2
IVORY COAST (COTE D'IVOIRE)	188	75	55	4	36	83
JAMAICA	194	15	112	3	46	67
JAPAN	21	1	4	2	1	6
JORDAN	63	17	21	1	18	26
KAMPUCHEA	0	1	0	0	2	0
KAZAKHSTAN	74	14	10	4	7	26
KENYA	232	76	97	19	42	82
KIRGHIZIA (KYRGYZSTAN)	129	30	21	4	4	27
[KIRIBATI]	N	N	N	N	N	N
KOSOVO	37	27	7	1	2	6
KUWAIT	10	6	0	1	3	2
LAOS	29	2	29	0	8	10
LATVIA	14	3	4	1	1	3
LEBANON	57	19	28	1	17	40
LESOTHO	0	1	0	0	0	0
LIBERIA	129	20	26	5	35	71
LIBYA	38	6	1	5	11	31
LITHUANIA	7	0	3	1	1	5
MACAU	8	0	2	0	1	3
MACEDONIA	20	3	10	2	1	4
MADAGASCAR	2	0	0	0	0	1
MALAWI	4	3	3	0	0	2
MALAYSIA	36	4	6	0	6	7
MALDIVES	0	1	0	0	0	0
MALI	212	80	39	2	41	60
MALTA	1	0	0	0	0	0
[MARTINIQUE]	N	N	N	N	N	N
MAURITANIA	74	44	40	5	9	43
MAURITIUS	4	0	0	0	0	2
MEXICO	9,206	126	1,395	138	1,906	2,335
MOLDAVIA (MOLDOVA)	194	93	46	6	16	68
MONACO	1	0	0	0	1	0
MONGOLIA	207	35	55	11	10	86
MONTENEGRO	4	0	1	0	0	1
[MONTSERRAT]	N	N	N	N	N	N
MOROCCO	36	10	7	1	11	8
MOZAMBIQUE	1	0	0	0	0	0
NAMIBIA	1	1	0	0	2	0
NEPAL	750	403	138	9	22	153
NETHERLANDS	8	1	0	0	3	1
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES	1	0	0	0	0	0
NEW CALEDONIA	1	0	0	0	0	0
NEW ZEALAND	7	0	0	0	0	6
NICARAGUA	205	14	87	12	40	113
NIGER	35	8	10	1	9	18
NIGERIA	208	35	101	4	29	85
NIUE	20	7	1	0	0	5
NO NATIONALITY	1	1	0	0	0	2
NORFOLK ISLAND	1	0	0	0	0	0
NORTH KOREA	5	3	3	2	0	4
NORWAY	8	0	1	0	1	2
[OMAN]	N	N	N	N	N	N
PAKISTAN	368	191	101	15	67	171
PALESTINE	6	1	2	0	2	3
PANAMA	12	1	4	0	4	11
[PAPUA NEW GUINEA]	N	N	N	N	N	N
PARAGUAY	7	0	3	0	0	3
BENIN	1	0	0	0	0	0
PERU	238	23	47	5	42	119
PHILIPPINES	199	8	33	8	31	124
POLAND	34	1	18	2	5	8
PORTUGAL	10	0	3	1	3	2
[QATAR]	N	N	N	N	N	N
ROMANIA	158	12	11	11	13	46
RUSSIA	489	176	112	28	57	187
RWANDA	60	24	10	0	4	17
SAMOA	1	0	1	0	0	0
SAN MARINO	1	0	0	0	0	0
SAUDI ARABIA	19	12	6	1	1	6
SENEGAL	152	31	18	3	42	48
SERBIA MONTENEGRO	21	5	12	0	0	8
SEYCHELLES	6	1	1	0	0	2
SIERRA LEONE	74	33	30	1	9	38
SINGAPORE	6	4	2	0	0	2
SLOVAK REPUBLIC	10	0	1	0	1	7
SLOVENIA	2	2	2	0	1	1
[SOLOMON ISLANDS]	N	N	N	N	N	N
SOMALIA	185	99	57	2	21	107
SOUTH AFRICA	16	3	10	1	3	7
SOUTH KOREA	45	4	17	3	3	19
SOUTH SUDAN	1	0	1	0	0	0
SOVIET UNION	430	281	38	9	19	97
SPAIN	19	6	1	6	1	10
SRI LANKA	198	108	52	25	7	86
ST. KITTS, WEST INDIES	3	0	0	0	1	1
ST. LUCIA	2	2	0	1	2	3
ST. VINCENT	4	1	3	0	0	4
STATELESS	87	102	19	4	8	40
SUDAN	88	50	29	0	7	34
SURINAME	8	0	4	0	1	8
SWAZILAND	2	0	0	0	0	1
SWEDEN	1	1	4	0	0	2
[SWITZERLAND]	N	N	N	N	N	N
SYRIA	148	37	17	3	7	33
TAIWAN	3	0	1	1	1	2
TAJIKISTAN (TADZHIK)	42	8	8	4	3	13
TANZANIA	13	6	16	1	2	12
THAILAND	12	5	9	1	3	8
MARSHALL ISLANDS	0	2	1	0	1	0
TOGO	38	21	14	3	7	26
TONGA	5	0	1	0	0	2
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO	82	2	7	0	11	41
TUNISIA	13	0	4	1	4	8
TURKEY	62	24	13	4	6	23
TURKMENISTAN	17	7	3	2	1	3
TURKS AND CAICOS	2	0	0	1	0	1
UGANDA	64	28	13	2	4	24
UKRAINE	229	55	55	12	25	79
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES	3	1	0	0	2	4
UNITED KINGDOM	26	7	9	1	3	6
UNKNOWN NATIONALITY	144	18	50	0	26	58
UPPER VOLTA	1	0	0	0	0	0
URUGUAY	13	0	2	1	0	9
UZEBEKISTAN	114	42	31	10	16	55
[VANUATU]	N	N	N	N	N	N
VENEZUELA	360	130	130	18	75	154
VIETNAM	60	10	33	0	22	31
WESTERN SAHARA	1	0	0	0	0	0
YEMEN	58	16	10	1	9	16
YUGOSLAVIA	81	62	27	1	10	38
ZAIRE	14	3	2	5	2	8
ZAMBIA	7	2	7	0	1	3
ZIMBABWE	85	42	21	3	11	54
TOTAL	44,170	11,978	9,574	1,402	6,053	15,275

REC	GRA	DEN	ABA	WIT	OTH
43	28	13	0	4	13
322	324	180	18	54	79
36	5	12	4	3	6
N	N	N	N	N	N
14	8	4	1	1	7
N	N	N	N	N	N
2	0	1	0	1	1
77	14	41	20	17	11
373	149	102	19	76	75
1	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	1	0	0	0
5	0	11	0	2	1
37	12	3	2	9	8
12	2	3	0	5	1
4	0	0	1	1	4
274	81	39	3	41	50
2	0	1	0	0	0
3	0	1	1	0	0
68	39	12	0	3	16
26	9	2	4	2	6
18	1	4	0	0	1
21	2	0	1	2	3
1	0	0	0	0	0
10	4	0	0	0	1
43	6	2	1	4	12
58	6	24	5	8	4
1	0	0	0	0	0
201	31	58	37	57	33
1	0	0	0	0	1
N	N	N	N	N	N
N	N	N	N	N	N
132	48	23	13	14	38
94	23	12	3	12	10
211	126	30	4	2	23
23	12	15	1	3	2
55	41	7	1	10	13
36	7	16	6	11	16
502	161	99	17	24	101
23	3	8	0	6	10
2	0	2	0	4	0
N	N	N	N	N	N
26	13	6	1	0	4
98	24	8	3	0	12
20	1	2	2	7	9
9,413	3,457	1,763	114	224	1,195
1	0	0	0	0	0
1,246	548	810	160	443	420
4	0	0	0	0	2
120	70	40	12	8	35
21	1	8	6	5	4
14	0	2	0	1	2
390	23	79	28	112	150
0	1	0	0	0	0
20	3	5	5	3	8
7	3	1	5	8	11
46	24	14	1	6	3
1	0	1	0	3	0
7	1	1	0	0	2
5	0	0	1	0	0
74	1	24	6	8	14
6	1	1	0	0	0
156	13	39	10	31	19
419	185	56	5	29	53
6,273	172	1,475	605	1,106	2,534
0	9	0	0	0	1
301	120	25	1	5	24
16	3	12	6	6	3
780	315	142	16	31	77
1	0	2	0	0	0
82	24	19	5	20	28
1	0	1	0	0	3
13	0	5	0	8	5
6	0	4	1	1	2
191	53	54	1	56	51
2	0	0	0	0	0
79	26	23	6	11	15
35	4	13	0	3	1
81	12	25	3	12	20
1	0	1	0	0	1
5	0	2	0	0	1
1	1	1	0	0	0
1	0	0	0	0	0
5,081	169	1,277	625	1,208	1,158
513	242	168	9	71	71
5	2	4	0	2	1
71	2	44	2	11	18
3,328	530	2,037	492	435	1,360
1	0	0	0	0	0
962	73	377	93	127	248
4	0	1	0	3	0
33	1	1	8	1	2
1	0	0	0	0	0
1,040	272	282	34	114	168
1,023	195	438	40	108	160
252	71	43	9	54	60
498	410	47	8	27	49
1	0	0	0	0	0
70	16	32	1	4	13
20	0	6	0	5	3
297	92	92	8	63	47
148	3	73	2	26	25
10	1	3	1	8	3
110	19	37	5	25	26
4	5	1	1	2	4
48	14	16	5	11	12
377	60	75	9	41	68
47	6	3	1	2	9
1	1	0	0	0	0
17	2	7	0	0	0
13	2	7	1	2	3
86	4	28	3	9	19
14	3	9	5	7	7
128	20	53	13	28	27
1	0	0	0	0	1
167	32	39	7	38	33
11	2	1	0	1	1
37	1	13	19	13	14
1	0	3	0	1	1
28	11	18	0	6	8
4	2	1	0	1	2
9	0	4	0	2	5
40	2	7	0	3	6
4	4	0	0	0	0
286	28	63	2	49	43
1	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0	0	0	0
115	94	129	22	17	44
1	0	1	0	0	0
3,650	73	249	387	1,598	411
162	16	11	5	7	21
0	2	1	1	2	0
187	42	29	7	7	31
N	N	N	N	N	N
0	0	1	0	0	0
41	23	21	5	12	13
1	0	1	0	1	1
1	0	1	0	1	0
459	152	65	5	8	45
9	1	2	2	1	1
N	N	N	N	N	N
6	0	0	1	0	0
3	0	0	0	0	0
386	23	135	103	89	194
47	8	11	2	3	10
203	28	88	5	35	35
15	11	2	0	2	2
4	1	1	0	0	3
N	N	N	N	N	N
3	3	0	6	1	1
0	0	0	0	2	1
2	1	0	0	0	0
516	142	142	19	79	101
7	1	5	2	3	4
10	1	6	0	0	2
0	0	1	0	0	0
6	1	0	1	3	0
0	1	1	0	0	0
238	52	104	22	67	62
238	15	31	3	42	43
47	7	11	8	24	21
10	1	4	1	4	8
6	3	1	0	0	0
135	56	30	20	22	49
519	201	113	44	81	136
37	20	11	0	0	5
1	0	1	0	2	0
1	1	0	0	0	0
10	5	8	0	3	1
133	18	40	3	16	16
69	24	19	1	6	9
6	0	4	0	0	1
137	47	72	5	11	45
8	2	0	0	2	1
5	0	2	5	2	4
3	3	0	0	0	0
0	0	1	0	0	0
230	101	62	7	11	60
30	1	18	0	5	7
25	1	7	2	5	3
N	N	N	N	N	N
339	173	58	14	37	85
10	1	4	0	2	0
367	87	74	13	30	32
1	0	0	0	0	0
1	1	1	0	0	0
5	0	1	0	0	0
216	59	36	5	7	24
127	30	17	7	12	28
2	0	2	1	3	5
N	N	N	N	N	N
15	2	4	0	1	0
2	0	0	0	0	0
72	11	24	6	18	9
16	0	6	0	7	4
18	1	3	0	2	2
29	5	21	1	5	6
34	4	13	0	5	7
1	0	0	0	0	0
90	63	31	3	10	26
7	0	1	1	3	4
57	6	17	2	12	7
11	1	6	0	6	4
90	11	17	1	9	19
29	15	2	3	4	3
0	0	0	0	0	1
87	33	11	8	8	19
204	59	60	21	33	56
2	0	0	0	0	1
37	3	11	3	5	9
95	5	28	0	6	17
N	N	N	N	N	N
13	1	5	5	3	5
224	67	44	12	18	54
1	0	0	1	0	0
808	306	379	59	147	150
109	7	46	2	16	27
2	0	0	0	0	1
41	8	28	1	9	11
213	128	32	6	24	48
10	3	0	0	1	2
24	5	5	0	3	2
202	68	40	14	24	32
48,820	10,892	13,169	3,451	7,675	11,021

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Immigration court receipts increased by 17 percent between FY 2008 (352,117) and FY 2012 (410,753). The FY 2012 number represents a five percent decrease in receipts from FY 2011 (431,231). (Figure 1, page B2)
Immigration court completions increased by 12 percent between FY 2008 (340,793) and FY 2012 (382,675). The FY 2012 number represents a three percent decrease in completions from FY 2011 (394,737). (Figure 1, page B2)
The leading countries of origin for immigration court completions during FY 2012 were Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and China, representing 70 percent of the total caseload. (Figure 7, page E1)
Of the 276 different languages that were spoken in court proceedings in the immigration courts during FY 2012, Spanish was the most frequent at 68 percent. (Figure 8, page F1)
Fifty-six percent of aliens whose cases were completed in immigration courts during FY 2012 were represented. (Figure 9, page G1)
Asylum applications filed with the immigration courts decreased by 10 percent from FY 2008 to FY 2012. Affirmative receipts decreased by 11 percent while defensive receipts decreased by seven percent. (Figure 14, page I1)
In FY 2012, the New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco, CA; Newark, NJ; and Miami, FL, immigration courts received 58 percent of asylum applications filed with the courts. (Table 7, page I3)
Three countries were among the top 10 countries from which aliens were granted asylum each year during the five-year period FY 2008 to FY 2012: China, Ethiopia, and India. (Table 8, page J2)
The grant rate for asylum applications was 56 percent in FY 2012. The grant rate was 72 percent for affirmative applications and 35 percent for defensive applications. (Figures 17, 18, and 19, pages K1 and K2)
In FY 2012, the percentage of asylum cases in which either asylum or withholding of removal was granted was 64 percent. (Figure 20-B, page K5)
In FY 2012, the New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco, CA; Miami, FL; and Orlando, FL, immigration courts combined received 52 percent of the total CAT cases. (Table 11, page M2)
In FY 2012, 28 percent of proceedings completed at the immigration courts had an application for relief. (Figure 23, page N1)
Thirty-six percent of FY 2012 immigration court completions involved detained aliens. (Figure 24, page O1)
Voluntary Departure decisions decreased by less than one percent between FY 2008 (26,687) and FY 2012 (26,635). (Table 15, page Q1)
Receipts of appeals of immigration judge decisions decreased by 15 percent from FY 2008 (30,543) to FY 2012 (26,099) while receipts of appeals from DHS decisions increased by 78 percent from FY 2008 (3,021) to FY 2012 (5,390). Completions of appeals of immigration judge decisions decreased by 20 percent from FY 2008 (34,879) to FY 2012 (28,074) while completions of appeals from DHS decisions increased by 134 percent from FY 2008 (3,557) to FY 2012 (8,322). (Figures 27 and 28, page S2)
Aliens from Mexico, China, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras accounted for 58 percent of BIA immigration judge decision appeals completed in FY 2012. (Figure 29, page U1)
Seventy-nine percent of BIA appeals completed in FY 2012 were for represented aliens. (Figure 30, page V1)
In FY 2012, eight percent of immigration judge decisions were appealed to the BIA. (Figure 32, page X1)
There were 326,255 pending proceedings before the immigration courts at the end of FY 2012. There were 24,824 pending cases before the BIA at the end of FY 2012. (Figures 33 and 34, pages Y1 and Y3)
Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer (OCAHO) case receipts increased 100% from FY 2008 (48) to FY 2012 (96). During this time period, OCAHO case completions increased approximately 47%. (Figure 35, page Z1

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