This document provides statistics on asylum applications from Minor Principal Applicants (MPA) and Procedural Related Class (PRL) cases across several USCIS asylum offices from October 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014. It shows the number of pending and new cases, approvals, denials, referrals, rejections, and other case closures. The overall approval rate for MPA cases was 63.5% and the approval rate for PRL cases was 60.4%. The document defines the approval rate as the number of approvals divided by the total number of approvals, denials, interviewed referrals, and filing deadline referrals.

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
RACQMPAP US CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES 1/7/15
REFUGEES, ASYLUM AND PAROLE SYSTEM
MPA AND PRL REPORT
10/01/14-12/31/14
Asylum
Office
Pending
10/1/14
Cases
Filed
Approval
Rate
Cases
Granted
Cases
Denied
Interviewed
Referrals
Rejected
Appls
Uninterv.
Referrals
Admin
Closed
No Juris.
Closed
Pending
12/31/14
ALL MPA (NOT PRL) 940 173 87.3% 138 0 20 0 5 20 10 930
Office PRL (ANY AGE) 3030 2514 60.4% 720 0 472 1 22 108 60 4221
TOTALS MPA (N/PRL) + PRL 3970 2687 63.5% 858 0 492 1 27 128 70 5151
MPA (NOT PRL) 111 11 96.90% 32 0 1 0 0 0 0 89
ZAR PRL (ANY AGE) 103 47 47.20% 17 0 19 0 0 2 2 112
MPA (N/PRL) + PRL 214 58 71.00% 49 0 20 0 0 2 2 201
MPA (NOT PRL) 109 17 100.00% 8 0 0 0 0 1 1 117
ZCH PRL (ANY AGE) 304 244 31.60% 31 0 66 1 4 7 0 439
MPA (N/PRL) + PRL 413 261 36.70% 39 0 66 1 4 8 1 556
MPA (NOT PRL) 60 11 66.60% 6 0 3 0 2 4 3 56
ZHN PRL (ANY AGE) 136 278 29.50% 13 0 31 0 5 5 1 360
MPA (N/PRL) + PRL 196 289 35.80% 19 0 34 0 7 9 4 416
MPA (NOT PRL) 233 37 84.00% 21 0 4 0 3 4 2 238
ZLA PRL (ANY AGE) 567 361 63.00% 184 0 108 0 3 41 38 592
MPA (N/PRL) + PRL 800 398 64.60% 205 0 112 0 6 45 40 830
MPA (NOT PRL) 83 21 66.60% 8 0 4 0 0 1 0 91
ZMI PRL (ANY AGE) 281 507 46.00% 29 0 34 0 5 10 7 710
MPA (N/PRL) + PRL 364 528 49.30% 37 0 38 0 5 11 7 801
MPA (NOT PRL) 175 37 84.60% 33 0 6 0 0 5 2 168
ZNK PRL (ANY AGE) 944 384 57.50% 138 0 102 0 5 23 1 1060
MPA (N/PRL) + PRL 1119 421 61.20% 171 0 108 0 5 28 3 1228
MPA (NOT PRL) 85 30 88.20% 15 0 2 0 0 3 2 95
ZNY PRL (ANY AGE) 269 337 54.70% 98 0 81 0 0 8 8 419
MPA (N/PRL) + PRL 354 367 57.60% 113 0 83 0 0 11 10 514
MPA (NOT PRL) 84 9 100.00% 15 0 0 0 0 2 0 76
ZSF PRL (ANY AGE) 426 356 87.10% 210 0 31 0 0 12 3 529
MPA (N/PRL) + PRL 510 365 87.80% 225 0 31 0 0 14 3 605
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.