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  "title_en": "Pending affirmative asylum cases (Form I-589) by USCIS asylum office",
  "title_es": "Casos de asilo afirmativo pendientes (Formulario I-589) por oficina de asilo de USCIS",
  "source": "USCIS Asylum Division Monthly Statistics Report, FY2025 year-to-date edition through Dec. 31, 2024 (RAIO; Global case system queried 2025-01-28)",
  "source_url": "https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/data/asylumfiscalyear2025todatestats_241231.xlsx",
  "source_page": "https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/immigration-and-citizenship-data",
  "data_through": "2024-12-31",
  "edition_note": "As of Aug. 1, 2026 this Dec. 31, 2024 edition is the most recent Asylum Division statistics report published on the USCIS data hub (hub listing + RSS feed checked 2026-08-01). DHS OHSS publishes asylum workload by nationality only, not by office.",
  "canonical_copy": "USCIS-hosted XLSX at source_url. National Dec. 31, 2024 pending total (1,446,908) cross-checked against independent published citations of the same edition.",
  "counting_note": "Counts are applications, not people — one application can include a spouse and children as dependents. Column sums are verified against the report's own Total row at build time.",
  "rounding": "share_of_national_pct uses Python round(x, 1) (banker's rounding)."
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