English summary

The register in figures

How much of the published Dutch asylum case law is covered, how much of it could be classified by story type, and what the courts decided.

Rulings collected: 19,166
With a story type: 5,971
Story types: 11
Last extraction: 2026-10-18

01Key figures

Coverage and outcomes

Rulings collected

19,166

Published rulings retrieved from the judiciary's open data API.

Substantively classified

16,730

Rulings with an assessable asylum account.

Decision upheld

68.8%

Denominator: 6,592 judged cases, excluding partial and unclear outcomes.

Decision quashed

2,054

The court set the immigration service's decision aside.

Partly upheld

Mixed outcomes, excluded from the percentage above.

With a country of origin

7,486

Country derived from the text of the ruling.

02Over time

Upheld rate per year

Year	Classified rulings	Upheld
2019	402	65.7%
2020	490	68.8%
2021	738	63.4%
2022	780	62.7%
2023	839	74.6%
2024	1,009	68.5%
2025	1,535	65.8%
2026	1,015	64.3%

BronYear is the publication year of the ruling. The percentage counts cases in which the court left the decision intact, over all classified rulings of that year.

03Story types

Largest story types in the register

Story type	Rulings	Upheld
Political activity	1,254	61.4%
LGBTI orientation	1,097	70.7%
Blood feud or honour killing	696	77.4%
Religious conversion	670	47.5%
Family ties	511	65.4%
Concealed origin	367	69.2%
Military service	212	66.0%
Draft evasion	139	68.3%

Source language

Court rulings, quoted passages and case summaries are in Dutch, as published by the Dutch judiciary. These English pages summarise the figures and the method. The full detail lives on the Dutch dashboard (in Dutch).

All story types Search the case register (in Dutch)