Asylum Grants Have Fluctuated in Recent Decades

Grants by fiscal year

A line chart of U.S. asylum grants by fiscal year showing fluctuation in the past forty years.

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Note: Data from 1980 to 1989 excludes asylum grants awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review.

Sources: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; U.S. Department of Homeland Security; U.S. Department of State.