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Immigration court · Baltimore, MD

Baltimore Immigration Court

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: a 70.3 pp judge-level grant spread is the widest lottery stamp on Baltimore's bench. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 16,562 decisions FY2015–2025 (#13 of 77).

Data updated 2026-09-05

52.8%
Asylum grant rate
47.2%
Asylum denial rate
20,133
Pending cases
39 mo
Time to decision

Baltimore in one line

Baltimore's asylum grant rate is 52.8% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 16,562 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

52.8%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
16,562
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+4.5 pp
vs. national average
70.3 pp
Judge-level grant spread · wide
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What this court's record shows

Baltimore Immigration Court sits in the upper third of tracked courts at 52.8% across 16,562 FY2015–2025 merits (4.5 pp above the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.

Wide judge lottery: 20.3% to 90.6% (70.3 pp) across 25 reported judges at Baltimore. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.

Long-wait docket: 20,133 pending and 39 mo average recorded wait. Peer grids below place Baltimore on grant-rate and caseload axes; methodology covers extract limits.

Court outlook score

C-

Court outlook score

52/100

Baltimore, 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 B+ 52.8%

    Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025

  • Time to decision F 39 mo

    Average recorded months from filing to decision

  • Backlog ratio C 9.0%

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

EOIR bench spread roll

Grant-rate neighbourhood for Baltimore

Upper-third grant-rate neighbors for Baltimore (52.8%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.

SPREAD 70.3pp WIDE JUDGES 25 WAIT LONG PEND 20,133 GRANT 52.8% RANK #13 of 77
Baltimore52.8%Boston, MA52.7%New York, NY52.5%Chelmsford, MA53.3%Annandale, VA51.4%
Asylum grant rate · Baltimore highlighted · DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025

Baltimore 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)

16,562 13th of 77 higher than 64 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 Baltimore sits: Favorable but Slow

Each dot is one of the 40 largest immigration courts by merits decisions, split at the MEDIAN grant rate (47.5%) and median average wait (31.2 months) across this set. Baltimore's own grant rate is 52.8% and its average wait is 39.3 months.

Grant rate vs. average wait time, 40 largest courts by merits decisions (DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025). Baltimore 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) Baltimore Immigration Court: grant rate vs. average wait among the largest immigration courts
Grant rate vs. average wait time, 40 largest courts by merits decisions (DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025). Baltimore highlighted.

How to read this

  • Fast & Favorable
  • Favorable but Slow
  • Fast but Tough
  • Slow & Tough
Statistical data only. Baltimore's 52.8% upper-third grant history still mixes judges, case types, and counsel rates, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.
Granted8752Denied7810
Asylum Outcomes at Baltimore Immigration Court - 16,562 merits decisions, FY2015–2025

Grant rate over time

Upper-third court Baltimore: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.

Fiscal year Decisions Grant rate
FY2015 560 49.5%
FY2016 576 68.9%
FY2017 695 65.5%
FY2018 1,610 59.7%
FY2019 2,671 46.1%
FY2020 2,642 40.0%
FY2021 1,777 50.0%
FY2022 908 70.4%
FY2023 754 80.2%
FY2024 1,475 67.8%
FY2025 2,894 43.0%

The judge lottery at Baltimore Immigration Court

25 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 90.6% (774 decisions) down to 20.3% (291 decisions) - a 70.3-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 DNS 774
90.6%
2 Judge ASH 659
68.0%
3 Judge JHW 618
66.7%
4 Judge DK1 1,631
61.6%
5 Judge PLE 306
59.8%
6 Judge ZAM 1,371
59.1%
7 Judge DAS 464
58.8%
8 Judge LD 517
57.1%
9 Judge DCV 623
55.9%
10 Judge BLH 47
55.3%
11 Judge DWC 1,973
54.3%
12 Judge EKM 429
53.1%
13 Judge MWH 53
50.9%
14 Judge NVP 1,821
49.1%
15 Judge WMD 29
48.3%
16 Judge DMJ 283
45.9%
17 Judge EAK 846
42.3%
18 Judge WTN 229
40.6%
19 Judge PTW 2,194
39.2%
20 Judge DKJ 89
37.1%
21 Judge KFL 38
34.2%
22 Judge KQG 668
31.3%
23 Judge SC2 26
30.8%
24 Judge BTJ 216
25.5%
25 Judge JHK 291
20.3%

Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles

Heavy-corpus peers for Baltimore: ABS(grant-rate) and merits-volume matches outside the same state.

Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)

Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)

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

Heavy-corpus court Baltimore: 16,562 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Baltimore's 16,562-decision EOIR court row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for Baltimore Immigration Court; judge grant-rate spread 70.3 pp. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 16,562 decisions FY2015–2025 (#13 of 77).

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. Baltimore 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.