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Immigration court · Conroe, TX

Conroe Immigration Court

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: a 59.4 pp judge-level grant spread is the widest lottery stamp on Conroe's bench. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 20.4% (below the 48.3% national average). Judge lottery spans 59.4 pp on the same bench.

Data updated 2026-09-05

20.4%
Asylum grant rate
79.6%
Asylum denial rate
2,047
Pending cases
5 mo
Time to decision

Conroe in one line

Conroe's asylum grant rate is 20.4% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 6,073 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

20.4%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
6,073
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
-27.9 pp
vs. national average
59.4 pp
Judge-level grant spread · wide
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What this court's record shows

Conroe Immigration Court sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 20.4% across 6,073 FY2015–2025 merits (27.9 pp below the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.

Wide judge lottery: 2.4% to 61.8% (59.4 pp) across 31 reported judges at Conroe. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.

2,047 pending cases and an average recorded wait of 5 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

C

Court outlook score

56/100

Conroe, 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 20.4%

    Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025

  • Time to decision A+ 5 mo

    Average recorded months from filing to decision

  • Backlog ratio B+ 0.8%

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

EOIR bench spread roll

Grant-rate neighbourhood for Conroe

Lower-third grant-rate neighbors for Conroe (20.4%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.

SPREAD 59.4pp WIDE JUDGES 31 WAIT SHORT PEND 2,047 GRANT 20.4% RANK #39 of 77
Conroe20.4%Adelanto, CA20.6%Miami, FL19.9%Jena, LA19.2%Florence, AZ23%
Asylum grant rate · Conroe highlighted · DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025

Conroe 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)

6,073 39th of 77 higher than 38 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 Conroe sits: Fast but 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. Conroe's own grant rate is 20.4% and its average wait is 5.1 months.

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

How to read this

  • Fast & Favorable
  • Favorable but Slow
  • Fast but Tough
  • Slow & Tough
Statistical data only. Conroe's 79.6% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.
Granted1237Denied4836
Asylum Outcomes at Conroe Immigration Court - 6,073 merits decisions, FY2015–2025

Grant rate over time

Lower-third court Conroe: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.

Fiscal year Decisions Grant rate
FY2015 169 8.9%
FY2016 203 12.3%
FY2017 372 11.3%
FY2018 398 7.5%
FY2019 810 17.8%
FY2020 933 35.9%
FY2021 310 41.9%
FY2022 479 45.5%
FY2023 638 19.9%
FY2024 966 10.5%
FY2025 795 8.8%

The judge lottery at Conroe Immigration Court

31 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 61.8% (76 decisions) down to 2.4% (85 decisions) - a 59.4-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 VPG 76
61.8%
2 Judge EMB 35
45.7%
3 Judge HRG 80
41.2%
4 Judge HDA 360
38.3%
5 Judge SSL 40
35.0%
6 Judge MES 293
33.4%
7 Judge CBA 448
32.1%
8 Judge JBE 95
30.5%
9 Judge BSP 646
28.5%
10 Judge DKT 34
20.6%
11 Judge RCJ 111
19.8%
12 Judge RPL 663
19.5%
13 Judge BHA 31
16.1%
14 Judge JGC 32
15.6%
15 Judge SEG 263
14.8%
16 Judge KFL 34
14.7%
17 Judge BQN 28
14.3%
18 Judge JAM 148
14.2%
19 Judge TMC 437
13.3%
20 Judge GMP 35
11.4%
21 Judge ADC 246
11.0%
22 Judge CTN 82
9.8%
23 Judge DL 54
9.3%
24 Judge RW 261
9.2%
25 Judge JNM 221
7.2%
26 Judge AJC 250
5.6%
27 Judge RDM 56
3.6%
28 Judge KC 58
3.4%
29 Judge LLU 158
2.5%
30 Judge DWE 40
2.5%
31 Judge GWR 85
2.4%

Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles

Lower-third grant-rate peers for Conroe, plus caseload matches on a second axis.

Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)

Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)

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

Lower-third grant-rate court Conroe (20.4%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Conroe's 6,073-decision EOIR court row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for Conroe Immigration Court; judge grant-rate spread 59.4 pp. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 6,073 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. Conroe 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.