Immigration court · Atlanta, GA
Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive's 14.7% grant rate is among the lowest in the tracked court corpus. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 14.7% (below the 48.3% national average). Judge lottery spans 28.9 pp on the same bench.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 14.7%
- Asylum grant rate
- 85.3%
- Asylum denial rate
- 3,293
- Pending cases
- 15 mo
- Time to decision
Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive in one line
Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive's asylum grant rate is 14.7% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 1,165 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).
- 14.7%
- Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
- 1,165
- Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
- -33.6 pp
- vs. national average
- 28.9 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · wide
What this court's record shows
Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive Immigration Court sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 14.7% across 1,165 FY2015–2025 merits (33.6 pp below the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
Wide judge lottery: 0.0% to 28.9% (28.9 pp) across 9 reported judges at Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.
3,293 pending cases and an average recorded wait of 15 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
45/100
Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive, 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 14.7%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision B 15 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio B- 5.1%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive
Lower-third grant-rate neighbors for Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive (14.7%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive 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)
1,165 70th of 77 higher than 7 of 77 courts
Immigration courts, banded by asylum merits-decision count
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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025
Where Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive 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. Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive's own grant rate is 14.7% and its average wait is 15.4 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
1,165merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Lower-third court Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 62 | 3.2% |
| FY2016 | 46 | 2.2% |
| FY2017 | 177 | 8.5% |
| FY2018 | 138 | 8.0% |
| FY2019 | 109 | 8.3% |
| FY2020 | 140 | 10.0% |
| FY2021 | 83 | 24.1% |
| FY2022 | 66 | 22.7% |
| FY2023 | 82 | 30.5% |
| FY2024 | 88 | 29.5% |
| FY2025 | 174 | 19.0% |
The judge lottery at Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive Immigration Court
9 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 28.9% (76 decisions) down to 0.0% (29 decisions) - a 28.9-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.
Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles
Lower-third grant-rate peers for Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive, plus caseload matches on a second axis.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- Port Isabel Immigration Court (Detained) · Los Fresnos, TX · 12.8% grant · 789 merits
- El Paso Service Processing Center Immigration Court · El Paso, TX · 17.0% grant · 2,258 merits
- Port Isabel Immigration Court · Los Fresnos, TX · 17.0% grant · 3,999 merits
- LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena) · Jena, LA · 19.2% grant · 6,238 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Portland Immigration Court · Portland, OR · 1,229 merits · 42.1% grant
- Chelmsford Immigration Court (Detained) · Chelmsford, MA · 942 merits · 53.3% grant
- Florence Immigration Court · Florence, AZ · 1,821 merits · 23.0% grant
- Indianapolis Immigration Court · Indianapolis, IN · 1,967 merits · 26.8% grant
Why judge-level rates vary · Browse every tracked immigration court
Lower-third grant-rate court Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive (14.7%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive's 1,165-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. Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive 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.