Browse the data

Every US immigration judge, every court, every nationality with case outcomes, sourced from DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA releases. Pick a starting point below — every link goes to a record page where the underlying numbers are visible and verifiable against the official source.

Browse paths

Judges

Browse immigration judges by name, grant rate, and court assignment.

Judges A–Z

Alphabetical index of every judge in our dataset.

Courts

Every US immigration court with backlog stats and panel-level grant rates.

Nationalities

Country-of-origin breakdowns: applicants, grant rates, dominant courts.

Rankings

Top and bottom courts and judges by grant rate, backlog, and case volume.

Research

Original analysis of immigration court outcomes and judicial variance.

Judges by surname letter

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Highest-grant-rate courts

  • INP — 89.0% grants
  • CHE — 85.7% grants
  • LOW — 83.8% grants
  • ULS — 81.8% grants
  • POR — 80.6% grants
  • ANN — 79.4% grants
  • LRO — 78.4% grants
  • AGA — 75.6% grants

Lowest-grant-rate courts

  • SAJ — 35.6% grants
  • IMP — 41.3% grants
  • SAI — 49.9% grants
  • PHO — 50.4% grants
  • ADL — 50.4% grants
  • POO — 50.6% grants
  • KRO — 51.5% grants
  • WAS — 51.9% grants

About this dataset

PlainImmigration browses the complete DOJ EOIR FOIA case dataset — every individual immigration court decision the Executive Office for Immigration Review has released. Most public conversation about immigration courts relies on aggregate statistics. We surface the underlying records so you can navigate from a high-level question ("which court has the longest backlog?") down to the individual judge and case-type rows that explain why.

Every entity on this site — court, judge, nationality — has its own detail page with grant rate, denial rate, average wait time, year-by-year trend, and the FAQ that the data answers. Detail pages link back to the methodology so you can verify each computation against the upstream source. We do not editorialize the numbers, we do not blend proprietary signals, and we do not accept payment to feature or de-feature any entity.

The browse paths above are the fastest way to land on a specific record. The rankings page is the right starting point if you do not yet have a specific court or judge in mind — it surfaces extreme values across the dataset and is updated whenever the upstream FOIA dataset refreshes.