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Asylum decisions for applicants of this nationality across all U.S. immigration courts.

EOIR data through August 31, 2026 · built September 11, 2026 · What these dates mean

52%

Asylum grant rate

of 2,903 decisions · FY1985–FY2026

95% interval: 50% — 54%

granted:
1,514
denied:
1,389
How this percentage is calculated

Grant rate = granted / (granted + denied). Administrative closures, withdrawals, abandonment and "not adjudicated" are excluded from the denominator. What is counted is a decision per proceeding, not per application: asylum, withholding and CAT protection are almost always asked for together, so withholding and CAT grants are counted separately from asylum. The U.S. fiscal year runs October 1 – September 30.

How this compares

  • Sudan52% (2,903)
  • All U.S. courts33% (1,369,763)

This comparison does not adjust for which cases a judge was given: judges see different nationalities, different shares of detained respondents, and different rates of legal representation. A difference in percentages does not by itself mean identical cases were treated differently.

Trend by fiscal year

0%25%50%75%100%1991199620022008201420202026

U.S. fiscal year: October 1 – September 30.

FY2026 is incomplete: the release covers only 11 of its 12 months. Its point is drawn hollow and the segment leading to it is dashed.

Years with fewer than 10 decisions are not plotted (4): at that sample size the percentage is noise. They remain in the table.

Show as a table
Grant rate by fiscal year
Perioddecisionsgranted95% interval
FY2026partial17127%21% — 34%
FY202517727%21% — 34%
FY20249548%39% — 58%
FY20236884%73% — 91%
FY20226073%61% — 83%
FY20214865%50% — 77%
FY20204427%16% — 42%
FY20197054%43% — 65%
FY20186442%31% — 54%
FY20174764%50% — 76%
FY20163969%54% — 81%
FY20153956%41% — 71%
FY20144933%21% — 47%
FY20137453%41% — 64%
FY20127563%51% — 73%
FY20117244%34% — 56%
FY20106258%46% — 70%
FY20097555%43% — 65%
FY20084764%50% — 76%
FY20073949%34% — 64%
FY20067461%49% — 71%
FY20059160%50% — 70%
FY200412554%46% — 63%
FY200321046%39% — 52%
FY200218247%40% — 54%
FY200114952%44% — 60%
FY200011457%48% — 66%
FY199913052%44% — 61%
FY199811666%57% — 74%
FY199710970%61% — 78%
FY19966274%62% — 83%
FY19955663%49% — 74%
FY19941533%15% — 58%
FY19931450%27% — 73%
FY19921173%43% — 90%
FY19911464%39% — 84%
FY198930%0% — 56%
FY198840%0% — 49%
FY19872100%34% — 100%
FY198670%0% — 35%

Where these cases are heard

Courts by number of decisions for this nationality. Ordered by volume, not by percentage.

Where these cases are heard
Courtdecisionsgranted95% interval
Annandale Immigration Court45661%57% — 66%
New York Immigration Court27063%57% — 69%
Chicago Immigration Court13564%55% — 71%
Baltimore Immigration Court13360%52% — 68%
West Los Angeles Immigration Court12768%59% — 75%
Omaha Immigration Court12421%15% — 29%
Fort Snelling Immigration Court11625%18% — 34%
Dallas Immigration Court10651%42% — 60%
Buffalo Immigration Court9733%24% — 43%
Denver Immigration Court8770%60% — 79%
San Francisco Immigration Court8191%83% — 96%
Elizabeth Immigration Court8148%38% — 59%
Miami Immigration Court7352%41% — 63%
Newark Immigration Court5675%62% — 84%
Detroit Immigration Court5360%47% — 72%
Philadelphia Immigration Court4965%51% — 77%
Boston Immigration Court4961%47% — 74%
Atlanta Immigration Court4941%28% — 55%
Aurora Immigration Court4015%7% — 29%
Eloy Immigration Court3811%4% — 24%
Napanoch Immigration Court3669%53% — 82%
Cleveland Immigration Court3647%32% — 63%
Pearsall Immigration Court3231%18% — 49%
Tacoma Immigration Court2924%12% — 42%
San Diego Immigration Court2843%27% — 61%

The queue

Proceedings of applicants of this nationality with no decision yet.

29 mo

already waited, median

from the NTA to the data cutoff

half of proceedings: 25—34 mo

proceedings in the queue: 1,961

  • 71% of them have a hearing scheduled later than the date this data was collected. The rest have no upcoming event in the release.

The queue counts proceedings with no decision yet in the release. It is how long people have already waited, not how much longer they will.

How this is counted

Shown separately is the share with a hearing scheduled after the cutoff: the rest have no future event in the release at all, and cannot be read as live alongside these.

Judges with the most such cases

At least 50 decisions for this nationality. This is not a ranking: judges hear different mixes of cases even within one country.

Judges with the most such cases
Judgedecisionsgranted95% interval
Iskra, Wayne10053%43% — 62%
Bryant, John Milo8343%33% — 54%
Churchill, Joan V.5535%23% — 48%
How to cite this page

Figures on this page belong to one monthly release and are replaced whole by the next. The release label and the data cutoff are part of the citation for that reason: without them the number cannot be checked later.

Asylum Beacon. Sudan. EOIR Case Data, U.S. DOJ FOIA Library, release 2026-08, data through 2026-08-31. https://asylumbeacon.com/en/nationality/SU

Methodology in full

Data comes from the monthly EOIR Case Data release (U.S. DOJ FOIA Library). This service is not affiliated with the U.S. government and does not give legal advice. The release lags by roughly a month, so check ACIS or Respondent Access for your current case status. The source has known gaps, including among relief applications: if something is missing here, that does not mean it is missing from your case.