According to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), the odds that your asylum claim will be denied in Immigration Court has risen. In FY 2012, the rates of denial reached a historic low of just 44.5 percent. They started rising again immediately. In FY 2013 the rates rose to 47.2 percent and during the first 9 months of FY 2014 the rates average 50.2 percent. This number, while higher than seen since FY 2009, is still much lower than rates seen a decade ago when nearly 2 out of every 3 claims were rejected.
The number of asylum claims decided by Immigration Judges continues to drop. The highest point was in FY 2003, when more than 35,000 cases were revised. That number dropped by FY 2010 to just 19,445. In FY 2013 that number was 20,941.
