2016] The Protection of Stateless Persons in Australian Law 417 refugee status determination process.83 Of this group, there were 1608 stateless applicants, which was the fourth largest cohort.84 Table 1: Refugee Status Determination Requests Received by Stateless IMAs85 Time period Requests for refugee status determination 2008–9 24 2009–10 463 2010–11 861 2011–12 603 2012–13 160886 The following Table shows the Primary Protection Visa grant rate for IMAs by first-instance government decision-makers over a similar time period. It shows that while success rates have fluctuated, in some years quite dramatically, on the whole there has been a reasonably strong rate of success. Table 2: Primary Protection Visa Grant Rates for Stateless IMAs87 Time period Grants Refusals Grant rate (%) 2008–9 5 0 100.0 2009–10 173 79 68.7 2010–11 373 503 42.6 2011–12 298 122 71.0 2012–13 297 41 87.9 Total 1146 745 N/A 83 Department of Immigration and Border Protection (Cth), Asylum Trends, above n 81, 24. 84 Ibid. 85 Ibid. 86 This represented 9 per cent of all refugee status determination requests in that period: ibid. 87 Ibid 27.