Published EOIR nationality subset, 2020–2026; grant-or-denial outcomes only.
| Comparison | Grant rate | Decided cases |
|---|---|---|
| China applicants at Santa Ana, CA | 36.3% | 3,279 |
| China applicants across published courts | 49.4% | 39,464 |
| All applicants at Santa Ana, CA | 9.4% | 57,780 |
The grant rate for China applicants at this court is 13.1 percentage points lower than the published nationwide rate for this nationality. It is 26.9 percentage points higher than the court’s overall rate.
This court accounts for 8.3% of the published grant-or-denial outcomes for China applicants in this 2020–2026 subset. That share describes the dataset, not the share of all asylum applications filed nationwide.
Grant rate = granted / (granted + denied). These rows are based on court-nationality cells that met the source publication threshold. They do not control for judge assignment, representation, case facts, procedural posture, or changes over time, and they cannot predict an individual case.
Review the Santa Ana, CA court profile, the China nationality page, and the dataset definitions and downloads.
