Otherwise, use the Windows style sheet. The number of applications for asylum in January 2001 increased 48 percent compared to the number filed in January 2000. The pending caseload was 4 percent lower than in the same month last year.
Cases filed - includes both new and reopened applications.
RAPS asylum graph shows an increase in the number of new applications and a decrease in reopened and pending cases Nationals of the People's Republic of China submitted the most asylum applications in January, followed by Colombia and Haiti.