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
- 16,721
- With a story type
- 5,970
- Story types
- 11
- Last extraction
- 2026-07-26
01Key figures
Coverage and outcomes
Rulings collected
16,721
Published rulings retrieved from the judiciary's open data API.
Substantively classified
16,720
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
99
Mixed outcomes, excluded from the percentage above.
With a country of origin
7,479
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 | 1,014 | 64.4% |
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).