In the last quarter of Fiscal Year 2014, USCIS approved 48.5 % of asylum applications for unaccompanied minors in removal proceedings, a 16 percent drop in approval rate from the first three quarters of Fiscal Year 2014.

1. Minor
Principal
Applicants
(MPA):
affirmative asylum applicants under age 18 at the
time of filing
PRL:
asylum applicants of any age filing with USCIS
under the initial jurisdiction provision of the TVPRA
while in removal proceedings
The Asylum Division of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services routinely provides detailed asylum and credible fear data as part of a statistical package made available during regularly scheduled,
quarterly stakeholder engagement meetings.
RACQMPAP BUREAU OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES 11/11/14
REFUGEES, ASYLUM AND PAROLE SYSTEM
MPA AND PRL REPORT
10/01/13- 9/30/14
Asylum
Office
Pending
10/1/13
Cases
Filed
Approval
Rate
Cases
Granted
Cases
Denied
Interviewed
Referrals
Rejected
Appls
Uninterv.
Referrals
Admin
Closed
No Juris.
Closed
Pending
9/30/14
ALL MPA (NOT PRL) 783 651 90.4% 423 1 42 2 9 40 9 917
Office PRL (ANY AGE) 868 2797 52.8% 289 0 258 0 20 112 47 2986
TOTALS MPA (N/PRL) + PRL 1651 3448 70.1% 712 1 300 2 29 152 56 3903
MPA (NOT PRL) 132 80 96.20% 103 0 4 0 0 4 2 101
ZAR PRL (ANY AGE) 39 119 47.80% 22 0 24 0 1 9 5 102
MPA (N/PRL) + PRL 171 199 81.60% 125 0 28 0 1 13 7 203
MPA (NOT PRL) 57 76 91.60% 22 0 2 0 0 5 0 104
ZCH PRL (ANY AGE) 135 254 29.40% 23 0 55 0 4 10 0 297
MPA (N/PRL) + PRL 192 330 44.10% 45 0 57 0 4 15 0 401
MPA (NOT PRL) 68 48 94.20% 49 0 3 0 5 3 2 56
ZHN PRL (ANY AGE) 78 119 33.30% 18 0 36 0 1 6 1 136
MPA (N/PRL) + PRL 146 167 63.20% 67 0 39 0 6 9 3 192
MPA (NOT PRL) 163 137 91.00% 51 0 5 0 3 14 0 227
ZLA PRL (ANY AGE) 207 455 45.70% 32 0 38 0 3 30 17 559
MPA (N/PRL) + PRL 370 592 65.80% 83 0 43 0 6 44 17 786
MPA (NOT PRL) 50 68 93.50% 29 0 2 0 0 2 1 85
ZMI PRL (ANY AGE) 45 273 67.30% 33 0 16 0 1 4 1 264
MPA (N/PRL) + PRL 95 341 77.50% 62 0 18 0 1 6 2 349
MPA (NOT PRL) 138 99 90.00% 54 0 6 0 0 2 0 175
ZNK PRL (ANY AGE) 172 819 62.50% 10 0 6 0 2 31 14 942
MPA (N/PRL) + PRL 310 918 84.20% 64 0 12 0 2 33 14 1117
MPA (NOT PRL) 62 96 69.10% 47 1 18 2 1 5 4 84
ZNY PRL (ANY AGE) 49 338 39.00% 43 0 67 0 8 9 6 260
MPA (N/PRL) + PRL 111 434 50.50% 90 1 85 2 9 14 10 344
MPA (NOT PRL) 113 47 97.10% 68 0 2 0 0 5 0 85
ZSF PRL (ANY AGE) 143 420 87.00% 108 0 16 0 0 13 3 426
MPA (N/PRL) + PRL 256 467 90.70% 176 0 18 0 0 18 3 511
Approval Rate: Approvals / (approvals + cases denied + referred (interviewed) + filing deadline referrals) x 100
The rate of approval of adjudicated (i.e. interviewed on the merits) completions.