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Agana (Hagatna) Immigration Court

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 208 merits decisions make Agana (Hagatna) a thin-volume court in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 41.8% (below the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

41.8%
Asylum grant rate
58.2%
Asylum denial rate
26
Pending cases
16 mo
Time to decision

Agana (Hagatna) in one line

Agana (Hagatna)'s asylum grant rate is 41.8% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 208 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

41.8%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
208
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-6.5 pp
vs. national average
32.1 pp
Judge-level grant spread · wide
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What this court's record shows

Agana (Hagatna) Immigration Court recorded 208 asylum merits decisions in the FY2015–2025 EOIR extract. Its 41.8% grant rate is 6.5 percentage points below the 48.3% national rate. That comparison describes the historical docket, not the likelihood of an outcome in a future case.

Wide judge lottery: 20.3% to 52.4% (32.1 pp) across 3 reported judges at Agana (Hagatna). Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.

26 pending cases and an average recorded wait of 16 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

B

Court outlook score

70/100

Agana (Hagatna), 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 C 41.8%

    Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025

  • Time to decision B 16 mo

    Average recorded months from filing to decision

  • Backlog ratio A 0.5%

    Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload

Agana (Hagatna) 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)

208 74th of 77 higher than 3 of 77 courts

Immigration courts, banded by asylum merits-decision count

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Where Agana (Hagatna) 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. Agana (Hagatna)'s own grant rate is 41.8% and its average wait is 15.9 months.

Grant rate vs. average wait time, 41 largest courts by merits decisions (DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025). Agana (Hagatna) highlighted. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Asylum grant rate (X) and Average wait (months) (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Favorable but SlowSlow & ToughFast & FavorableFast but Tough 20%40%60%80% 10mo20mo30mo40mo50mo Asylum grant rate Average wait (months) Agana (Hagatna) Immigration Court: grant rate vs. average wait among the largest immigration courts
Grant rate vs. average wait time, 41 largest courts by merits decisions (DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025). Agana (Hagatna) highlighted.

How to read this

  • Fast & Favorable
  • Favorable but Slow
  • Fast but Tough
  • Slow & Tough
Statistical data only. Agana (Hagatna)'s 32.1 pp judge-level spread shows how much the same court can diverge by assignment. Aggregate rates are not a forecast. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.
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Asylum Outcomes at Agana (Hagatna) Immigration Court - 208 merits decisions, FY2015–2025

Grant rate over time

Asylum grant rate by fiscal year at Agana (Hagatna) Immigration Court.

Fiscal year Decisions Grant rate
FY2015 14 50.0%
FY2017 4 25.0%
FY2018 9 44.4%
FY2019 33 63.6%
FY2020 4 25.0%
FY2021 2 0.0%
FY2022 38 28.9%
FY2023 36 19.4%
FY2024 35 74.3%
FY2025 33 27.3%

The judge lottery at Agana (Hagatna) Immigration Court

3 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 52.4% (63 decisions) down to 20.3% (59 decisions) - a 32.1-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 DMB 63
52.4%
2 Judge REF 78
51.3%
3 Judge JCL 59
20.3%

Why judge-level rates vary · Browse every tracked immigration court

Data from the DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) via FOIA bulk case data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for Agana (Hagatna) Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 208. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 208 decisions FY2015–2025.

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. Agana (Hagatna) 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.