U.S. Immigration Court - affirmative and defensive asylum cases FY 2018
This statistic represents the number of affirmative and defensive asylum cases received by the U.S. Immigration Court from the fiscal year of 2014 to the fiscal year of 2018. The defensive asylum process applies to aliens who appear before EOIR and who request asylum before an IJ. The affirmative asylum process applies to aliens who initially file an asylum application with USCIS and, subsequently, have that application referred by USCIS to EOIR. In FY 2018, there were 110,469 defensive asylum applications received.