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Charlotte Immigration Court

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: a 89.1 pp judge-level grant spread is the widest lottery stamp on Charlotte's bench. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 12,358 decisions FY2015–2025 (#20 of 77).

Data updated 2026-09-05

35.3%
Asylum grant rate
64.7%
Asylum denial rate
117,797
Pending cases
33 mo
Time to decision

Charlotte in one line

Charlotte's asylum grant rate is 35.3% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 12,358 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

35.3%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
12,358
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-13.0 pp
vs. national average
89.1 pp
Judge-level grant spread · wide
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What this court's record shows

Charlotte Immigration Court recorded 12,358 asylum merits decisions in the FY2015–2025 EOIR extract. Its 35.3% grant rate is 13.0 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: 2.5% to 91.6% (89.1 pp) across 28 reported judges at Charlotte. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.

Heavy-corpus court (#20 of 77): peer grids below match on grant rate and merits volume; methodology covers EOIR extract limits.

Court outlook score

F

Court outlook score

27/100

Charlotte, 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 D 35.3%

    Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025

  • Time to decision F 33 mo

    Average recorded months from filing to decision

  • Backlog ratio F 37.7%

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

EOIR bench spread roll

Grant-rate neighbourhood for Charlotte

Nearest grant-rate peers for Charlotte, where the 89.1 pp judge lottery is the standout bench stamp.

SPREAD 89.1pp WIDE JUDGES 28 WAIT MID PEND 117,797 GRANT 35.3% RANK #20 of 77
Charlotte35.3%Houston, TX36.1%Miami, FL36.2%Kansas City, MO36.5%Houston, TX33.9%
Asylum grant rate · Charlotte highlighted · DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025

Charlotte 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)

12,358 20th of 77 higher than 57 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 Charlotte sits: Slow & Tough

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. Charlotte's own grant rate is 35.3% and its average wait is 33.4 months.

Grant rate vs. average wait time, 40 largest courts by merits decisions (DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025). Charlotte 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) Charlotte 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). Charlotte highlighted.

How to read this

  • Fast & Favorable
  • Favorable but Slow
  • Fast but Tough
  • Slow & Tough
Statistical data only. Charlotte's 89.1 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 Charlotte Immigration Court - 12,358 merits decisions, FY2015–2025

Grant rate over time

Asylum grant rate by fiscal year at Charlotte Immigration Court.

Fiscal year Decisions Grant rate
FY2015 231 30.3%
FY2016 355 25.6%
FY2017 423 25.3%
FY2018 933 18.4%
FY2019 1,071 25.1%
FY2020 535 33.8%
FY2021 639 28.8%
FY2022 660 37.4%
FY2023 1,040 42.2%
FY2024 1,412 47.2%
FY2025 5,059 38.2%

The judge lottery at Charlotte Immigration Court

28 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 91.6% (95 decisions) down to 2.5% (80 decisions) - a 89.1-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 AAB 95
91.6%
2 Judge SC2 950
67.3%
3 Judge CB1 175
62.3%
4 Judge MLE 851
49.5%
5 Judge THS 841
45.4%
6 Judge JRN 1,263
45.1%
7 Judge ATL 1,009
42.7%
8 Judge MNS 452
40.3%
9 Judge RHC 836
37.4%
10 Judge JAL 130
29.2%
11 Judge DKJ 205
27.3%
12 Judge CNP 161
24.8%
13 Judge GWR 682
24.6%
14 Judge ZRA 466
24.5%
15 Judge KAR 293
23.2%
16 Judge BJP 824
20.5%
17 Judge VSC 815
20.4%
18 Judge BTP 458
19.7%
19 Judge LDC 229
19.7%
20 Judge VSM 62
19.4%
21 Judge JGH 270
17.4%
22 Judge SNS 148
16.2%
23 Judge JBT 348
15.2%
24 Judge JNK 95
14.7%
25 Judge RML 171
14.0%
26 Judge GJW 176
13.6%
27 Judge NAM 162
11.1%
28 Judge DDW 80
2.5%

Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles

Heavy-corpus peers for Charlotte: 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 Charlotte: 12,358 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Charlotte's 12,358-decision EOIR court row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for Charlotte Immigration Court; judge grant-rate spread 89.1 pp. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 12,358 decisions FY2015–2025 (#20 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. Charlotte 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.