Immigration court · Adelanto, CA
Adelanto Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: a 48.7 pp judge-level grant spread is the widest lottery stamp on Adelanto's bench. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 20.6% (below the 48.3% national average). Judge lottery spans 48.7 pp on the same bench.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 20.6%
- Asylum grant rate
- 79.4%
- Asylum denial rate
- 3,196
- Pending cases
- 9 mo
- Time to decision
Adelanto in one line
Adelanto's asylum grant rate is 20.6% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 5,079 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).
- 20.6%
- Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
- 5,079
- Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
- -27.7 pp
- vs. national average
- 48.7 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · wide
What this court's record shows
Adelanto Immigration Court sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 20.6% across 5,079 FY2015–2025 merits (27.7 pp below the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
Wide judge lottery: 3.0% to 51.7% (48.7 pp) across 26 reported judges at Adelanto. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.
3,196 pending cases and an average recorded wait of 9 months describe administrative pressure in this snapshot. Use the peer comparisons below to place this court against similar caseloads and grant-rate profiles, then consult the methodology for the extract's scope and limits.
Court outlook score
Court outlook score
52/100
Adelanto, weighted across 3 of 3 tracked dimensions
A weighted composite of asylum grant rate, time to decision, and backlog ratio against the full tracked-court corpus. It describes the historical docket, not the odds of any one case, and does not weigh legal representation, case type, or judge assignment.
- Asylum grant rate F 20.6%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision A- 9 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio B 2.1%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for Adelanto
Lower-third grant-rate neighbors for Adelanto (20.6%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
Adelanto Immigration Court vs all courts by asylum merits caseload
Where this court's FY2015–2025 asylum merits-decision count sits among every tracked immigration court (inventory signal, not a quality ranking)
5,079 48th of 77 higher than 29 of 77 courts
Immigration courts, banded by asylum merits-decision count
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more courts. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025
Where Adelanto sits: Fast but Tough
Each dot is one of the 41 largest immigration courts by merits decisions, split at the MEDIAN grant rate (47.5%) and median average wait (31.0 months) across this set. Adelanto's own grant rate is 20.6% and its average wait is 8.5 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Adelanto Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
5,079merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Lower-third court Adelanto: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 444 | 11.0% |
| FY2016 | 485 | 13.2% |
| FY2017 | 638 | 17.6% |
| FY2018 | 720 | 21.0% |
| FY2019 | 888 | 36.8% |
| FY2020 | 747 | 32.7% |
| FY2021 | 198 | 21.2% |
| FY2022 | 139 | 2.9% |
| FY2023 | 183 | 1.1% |
| FY2024 | 257 | 3.5% |
| FY2025 | 380 | 11.1% |
The judge lottery at Adelanto Immigration Court
26 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 51.7% (240 decisions) down to 3.0% (101 decisions) - a 48.7-point spread on the same bench. Rates based on smaller decision counts carry more statistical noise.
Judge names below are the anonymized judge codes EOIR assigns in its public case-data release, not verified public identities. EOIR does not publish immigration judges' full names in this dataset. See our methodology for detail.
| # | Judge | Decisions | Asylum grant rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judge MB2 | 240 | |
| 2 | Judge TLF | 44 | |
| 3 | Judge IRS | 193 | |
| 4 | Judge TNN | 126 | |
| 5 | Judge DB | 117 | |
| 6 | Judge SJS | 355 | |
| 7 | Judge CEM | 79 | |
| 8 | Judge NBW | 187 | |
| 9 | Judge ATL | 817 | |
| 10 | Judge NNA | 46 | |
| 11 | Judge JPJ | 304 | |
| 12 | Judge JML | 577 | |
| 13 | Judge LOC | 37 | |
| 14 | Judge CGW | 172 | |
| 15 | Judge ARD | 133 | |
| 16 | Judge SDL | 37 | |
| 17 | Judge PDB | 130 | |
| 18 | Judge WDN | 32 | |
| 19 | Judge SNM | 68 | |
| 20 | Judge TRE | 217 | |
| 21 | Judge EHM | 177 | |
| 22 | Judge KGM | 224 | |
| 23 | Judge BDP | 231 | |
| 24 | Judge BB2 | 32 | |
| 25 | Judge KWR | 101 | |
| 26 | Judge RRH | 101 | |
Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles
Lower-third grant-rate peers for Adelanto, plus caseload matches on a second axis.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- Conroe Immigration Court · Conroe, TX · 20.4% grant · 6,073 merits
- Miami - Krome Immigration Court · Miami, FL · 19.9% grant · 5,224 merits
- LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena) · Jena, LA · 19.2% grant · 6,238 merits
- Florence Immigration Court · Florence, AZ · 23.0% grant · 1,821 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Kansas City Immigration Court · Kansas City, MO · 5,050 merits · 36.5% grant
- El Paso Immigration Court · El Paso, TX · 5,113 merits · 50.0% grant
- Buffalo Immigration Court · Buffalo, NY · 5,018 merits · 42.3% grant
- Portland Immigration Court (Detained) · Portland, OR · 4,996 merits · 43.7% grant
Why judge-level rates vary · Browse every tracked immigration court
Lower-third grant-rate court Adelanto (20.6%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Adelanto's 5,079-decision EOIR court row is sourced, computed, and verified.
Source: U.S. EOIR, Immigration Court Statistics Immigration court outcomes by court and case type · 2025
Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. Adelanto Immigration Court's outcome and grant-rate figures are recomputed live from the EOIR case-level extract on every request, never hand-typed. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-05.