Humanitarian

I-589 Asylum Application

Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal

Quarterly and historical sources

Dataset updated Jul 25, 2026.

Latest official release Jan 28, 2025.

FY2026 Q1

Latest all-forms quarter

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Quarter pending 1,418,576

October 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Quarter approvals 2,666

All listed classifications

Quarter receipts 53,633

All listed classifications

Quarter denials 9,670

All listed classifications

ClassificationReceivedApprovedDeniedPendingProcessing
Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal53,6332,6669,6701,418,5760 months
Legacy quarterly series

Older inventory movement

This series comes from the pulled legacy TSV export and is not presented as current.

QuarterReceivedApprovedDeniedPending
Q2 201922,9205,431136327,984
Q3 201925,8455,841170330,612
Q4 201924,5584,46299339,836
Q1 202020,1493,2789,280353,562
Q2 202023,1923,32711,695358,419
Q3 202025,9051,5463,309373,957
Q4 202023,8882,3104,532386,014
Q1 202114,2061,4004,190394,101
Service-center coverage

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Official USCIS reports

Recent source documents for I-589

Official USCIS release Jan 28, 2025

Asylum Division Monthly Statistics Report. Fiscal Year 2025. December 2024

Contains information on Applications for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal for petitioners who use Form I-589 and on Screening Referrals for Credible Fear and Reasonable Fear. It displays the number of applications and screening referrals received, completed, pending, interview or screening outcomes, and completion outcomes by month during the Reporting Fiscal Year. This report contains the most up to date data; prior reports are located on the USCIS archive page.

I-589
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