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Table 2. Immigration Court Asylum Denial Rates by Nationality and Representation Status, FY 2012 - FY 2017

Nationality Number of Asylum Decisions Percent Denied Asylum
All Not Represented Represented All Not Represented Represented
China 31,176 1,328 29,848 20.3% 78.7% 17.7%
El Salvador 15,667 4,210 11,457 79.2% 95.9% 73.1%
Mexico 14,688 5,550 9,138 88.0% 97.1% 82.5%
Honduras 11,020 3,407 7,613 78.1% 94.5% 70.7%
Guatemala 10,983 2,575 8,408 74.7% 95.1% 68.4%
India 3,890 376 3,514 42.2% 93.9% 36.7%
Nepal 2,722 156 2,566 25.1% 89.1% 21.2%
Haiti 2,602 1,156 1,446 86.1% 95.5% 78.6%
Ethiopia 2,284 214 2,070 17.0% 66.4% 11.9%
Somalia 1,873 881 992 59.4% 80.1% 40.9%
Eritrea 1,822 279 1,543 25.4% 71.0% 17.1%
Egypt 1,566 126 1,440 11.1% 52.4% 7.5%
Cameroon 1,273 194 1,079 26.7% 51.5% 22.2%
Soviet Union 1,215 62 1,153 9.5% 58.1% 6.9%
Russia 1,136 134 1,002 29.8% 79.1% 23.2%
Bangladesh 1,135 167 968 51.5% 89.8% 44.9%
Pakistan 1,126 131 995 36.6% 72.5% 31.9%
Colombia 1,067 205 862 58.6% 87.8% 51.6%
Guinea 946 216 730 40.8% 69.4% 32.3%
Venezuela 914 127 787 49.8% 79.5% 45.0%
Nigeria 853 276 577 58.1% 83.3% 46.1%
Albania 834 49 785 27.3% 79.6% 24.1%
Ecuador 774 140 634 69.0% 90.7% 64.2%
Ghana 736 476 260 70.8% 80.5% 53.1%
Indonesia 724 65 659 50.0% 84.6% 46.6%
Iraq 662 113 549 39.7% 85.8% 30.2%
Sri Lanka 630 57 573 29.0% 84.2% 23.6%
Jamaica 627 301 326 91.4% 96.7% 86.5%
Nicaragua 620 237 383 78.7% 93.7% 69.5%
Syria 612 54 558 18.5% 72.2% 13.3%
Ukraine 610 113 497 41.5% 84.1% 31.8%
Iran 602 104 498 32.1% 66.3% 24.9%
Gambia 581 90 491 33.7% 85.6% 24.2%
Cuba 563 367 196 81.7% 84.2% 77.0%
Armenia 543 65 478 38.5% 81.5% 32.6%
Kenya 543 131 412 55.2% 90.8% 43.9%
Mali 509 49 460 32.0% 87.8% 26.1%
Moldavia (Moldova) 508 44 464 28.3% 79.5% 23.5%
Burkina Faso 497 54 443 21.5% 74.1% 15.1%
Ivory Coast (Cote D'ivoire) 475 53 422 40.6% 88.7% 34.6%
Dominican Republic 425 177 248 87.1% 97.2% 79.8%
Peru 379 76 303 69.4% 98.7% 62.0%
Romania 377 44 333 51.5% 81.8% 47.4%
Brazil 337 75 262 76.0% 96.0% 70.2%
Senegal 337 132 205 60.5% 89.4% 42.0%
Uzebekistan 337 36 301 31.2% 86.1% 24.6%
Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) 330 24 306 23.9% 75.0% 19.9%
Mauritania 327 36 291 39.4% 94.4% 32.6%
Sudan 318 102 216 44.0% 90.2% 22.2%
Congo 316 56 260 33.2% 73.2% 24.6%
Mongolia 314 42 272 53.2% 92.9% 47.1%
Name A Country 293 22 271 19.5% 63.6% 15.9%
Burma (Myanmar) 282 34 248 32.6% 85.3% 25.4%
Belarus 243 22 221 17.7% 63.6% 13.1%
Sierra Leone 238 57 181 55.5% 82.5% 47.0%
Democratic Republic of Congo 236 66 170 45.3% 78.8% 32.4%
Yugoslavia 236 12 224 18.6% 91.7% 14.7%
Rwanda 231 32 199 25.1% 59.4% 19.6%
Afghanistan 224 48 176 37.5% 66.7% 29.5%
Philippines 224 83 141 89.7% 98.8% 84.4%
Liberia 217 86 131 62.2% 93.0% 42.0%
Kosovo 210 11 199 18.6% 63.6% 16.1%
Kazakhstan 207 21 186 25.1% 61.9% 21.0%
Burundi 202 29 173 31.2% 82.8% 22.5%
Zimbabwe 192 33 159 46.9% 87.9% 38.4%
Uganda 190 23 167 29.5% 82.6% 22.2%
Vietnam 172 77 95 84.9% 97.4% 74.7%
Togo 162 30 132 48.8% 93.3% 38.6%
Jordan 151 34 117 63.6% 94.1% 54.7%
Turkey 149 24 125 56.4% 70.8% 53.6%
Lebanon 147 20 127 57.8% 65.0% 56.7%
Yemen 145 22 123 46.2% 95.5% 37.4%
Byelorussia (Belarus) 144 2 142 11.1% 100.0% 9.9%
Georgia 124 15 109 35.5% 80.0% 29.4%
Bulgaria 99 15 84 44.4% 60.0% 41.7%
Guyana 99 40 59 78.8% 90.0% 71.2%
Tajikistan (Tadzhik) 97 5 92 38.1% 80.0% 35.9%
Belize 91 44 47 82.4% 97.7% 68.1%
Bosnia-Herzegovina 91 35 56 82.4% 94.3% 75.0%
Laos 89 57 32 89.9% 98.2% 75.0%
Azerbaijan 84 7 77 21.4% 100.0% 14.3%
Trinidad and Tobago 84 29 55 78.6% 93.1% 70.9%
Angola 83 30 53 67.5% 96.7% 50.9%
Niger 83 23 60 63.9% 91.3% 53.3%
South Korea 76 20 56 85.5% 100.0% 80.4%
Tanzania 73 19 54 57.5% 84.2% 48.1%
Chad 71 7 64 19.7% 42.9% 17.2%
Fiji 70 21 49 67.1% 100.0% 53.1%
Germany 69 32 37 85.5% 96.9% 75.7%
Bolivia 68 14 54 69.1% 92.9% 63.0%
Benin 67 8 59 43.3% 100.0% 35.6%
Cambodia 67 22 45 71.6% 100.0% 57.8%
Saudi Arabia 66 6 60 30.3% 66.7% 26.7%
Israel 65 19 46 73.8% 94.7% 65.2%
Serbia Montenegro 60 11 49 46.7% 100.0% 34.7%
Hungary 59 22 37 74.6% 95.5% 62.2%
Djibouti 54 4 50 20.4% 100.0% 14.0%
Central African Republic 53 8 45 28.3% 62.5% 22.2%
Morocco 53 16 37 64.2% 81.3% 56.8%
Macedonia 51 7 44 49.0% 100.0% 40.9%
Thailand 51 22 29 84.3% 100.0% 72.4%
Bahamas 44 25 19 81.8% 96.0% 63.2%
South Africa 44 10 34 70.5% 100.0% 61.8%
Algeria 41 6 35 63.4% 100.0% 57.1%
Chile 41 10 31 85.4% 80.0% 87.1%
Canada 40 13 27 65.0% 100.0% 48.1%
Argentina 39 10 29 64.1% 90.0% 55.2%
Poland 39 16 23 87.2% 100.0% 78.3%
Malaysia 38 9 29 50.0% 88.9% 37.9%
Turkmenistan 37 5 32 29.7% 100.0% 18.8%
United Kingdom 37 11 26 70.3% 100.0% 57.7%
Lithuania 36 11 25 77.8% 100.0% 68.0%
Libya 36 7 29 41.7% 71.4% 34.5%
Costa Rica 35 12 23 80.0% 100.0% 69.6%
Greece 33 5 28 45.5% 60.0% 42.9%
Palestine 31 7 24 58.1% 57.1% 58.3%
Bhutan 28 5 23 42.9% 80.0% 34.8%
Italy 28 6 22 75.0% 100.0% 68.2%
Spain 28 7 21 75.0% 71.4% 76.2%
Zambia 28 10 18 67.9% 80.0% 61.1%
Panama 26 13 13 76.9% 84.6% 69.2%
Kuwait 25 1 24 32.0% 0.0% 33.3%