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November 30, 2022

US records highest number of asylum filings in fiscal year 2022
By National World News Desk


According to a report released Tuesday by Syracuse University (New York State), special immigration courts approved 46% of the requested asylum cases in fiscal year 2022, the highest percentage for any year in the history of these courts. The 46% asylum granted as of last October contrasts with the 36% asylum granted in fiscal year 2021, according to the latest court records, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), that university’s research organization, said today. In total, these special courts granted asylum status to the same number of persons in fiscal year (January-October) 2022 at 23,686, up from 8,945 cases in 2021, making the annual figure for 2022 the highest ever recorded by these courts. has been done.


Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
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