Figure Q

Annual grants of affirmative and defensive asylum, fiscal years 1990-2022

Year Affirmative asylum granted Defensive asylum granted Total (affirmative + defensive)
1990 5,672 2,800 8,472
1991 2,908 2,127 5,035
1992 4,123 2,184 6,307
1993 7,509 2,034 9,543
1994 11,775 2,053 13,828
1995 17,573 3,130 20,703
1996 18,624 4,908 23,532
1997 16,380 6,559 22,939
1998 13,216 7,291 20,507
1999 18,150 8,421 26,571
2000 23,278 9,236 32,514
2001 29,147 10,001 39,148
2002 25,960 10,977 36,937
2003 15,367 13,376 28,743
2004 14,354 13,022 27,376
2005 13,547 11,757 25,304
2006 13,048 13,304 26,352
2007 12,459 12,859 25,318
2008 12,130 10,892 23,022
2009 12,003 10,300 22,303
2010 11,258 8,519 19,777
2011 13,493 10,138 23,631
2012 16,871 10,575 27,446
2013 14,886 9,745 24,631
2014 14,424 8,614 23,038
2015 17,807 8,139 25,946
2016 11,616 8,695 20,311
2017 15,817 10,565 26,382
2018 24,504 13,198 37,702
2019 26,893 18,912 45,805
2020 16,132 14,604 30,736
2021 9,212 7,416 16,628
2022 14,134 22,481 36,615
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Note: "Affirmative" represents affirmative grants of asylum by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; "defensive" represents defensive grants of asylum by the Executive Office for Immigration Review in the U.S. Department of Justice.

Source: Office of Homeland Security Statistics, "Table 16. Individuals Granted Asylum Affirmatively or Defensively: Fiscal Years 1990 to 2022," Yearbook of Immigration Statistics 2022, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. See also Irene Gibson, Refugees and Asylees: 2022, Office of Homeland Security Statistics, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

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