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
Highest-grant-rate courts
- New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court - 74.9% grants
- Sacramento Immigration Court - 74.8% grants
- San Francisco Immigration Court - 72.2% grants
- Concord Immigration Court - 68.6% grants
- Honolulu Immigration Court - 63.8% grants
- Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court - 62.9% grants
- Chicago Immigration Court - 61.5% grants
- Salt Lake City Immigration Court - 55.9% grants
Lowest-grant-rate courts
- Port Isabel Immigration Court (Detained) - 12.1% grants
- Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive Immigration Court - 14.3% grants
- Stewart Immigration Court - 14.6% grants
- El Paso Service Processing Center Immigration Court - 16.4% grants
- Port Isabel Immigration Court - 16.7% grants
- LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena) - 18.9% grants
- Batavia Immigration Court - 19.0% grants
- Miami - Krome Immigration Court - 19.8% grants
About this dataset
According to US Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA case data (snapshot March 2026), PlainImmigration browses the complete dataset of 725,732 merits decisions, 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.
Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on DOJ EOIR immigration court case data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.