No fewer than 897 Nigerians have secured asylum in the United States over the last two years.
This was made known based on the latest case-completion data from the Executive Office for Immigration Review, EOIR.
The data showed that in 2023, US judges granted asylum to 514 Nigerians while another 383 Nigerians were granted asylum in 2024.
The figures marked a 25% decrease between the two years.
The EOIR released the yearly report through the United States Department of Justice’s ‘Asylum Decisions by Nationality’ portal, which includes data on every country that has registered asylum cases so far.
Nigeria is behind Cameroon, which has the highest number with 527 Cameroonians seeking asylum.
Other African countries with high numbers comprise Ethiopia (291), Ghana (238), Egypt (203), Eritrea (193), Uganda (86), Senegal (99), and Sudan (42).
Meanwhile, on a global scale, Russia recorded the highest number of asylum grants in 2024 with 3,605 approvals.
Russia is trailed by China with 2,998 grants. Venezuela and Nicaragua recorded 2,656 and 2,000 grants to complete the top four.
