Immigration court · Dallas, TX
Dallas Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: a 67.0 pp judge-level grant spread is the widest lottery stamp on Dallas's bench. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 12,879 decisions FY2015–2025 (#18 of 77).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 47.4%
- Asylum grant rate
- 52.6%
- Asylum denial rate
- 143,617
- Pending cases
- 31 mo
- Time to decision
Dallas in one line
Dallas's asylum grant rate is 47.4% (mid-band grant rate, roughly in line with the 48.3% national average) across 12,879 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).
- 47.4%
- Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
- 12,879
- Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
- -0.9 pp
- vs. national average
- 67.0 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · wide
What this court's record shows
Dallas Immigration Court recorded 12,879 asylum merits decisions in the FY2015–2025 EOIR extract. Its 47.4% grant rate is 0.9 percentage points roughly in line with the 48.3% national rate. That comparison describes the historical docket, not the likelihood of an outcome in a future case.
Wide judge lottery: 12.0% to 79.0% (67.0 pp) across 34 reported judges at Dallas. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.
Heavy-corpus court (#18 of 77): peer grids below match on grant rate and merits volume; methodology covers EOIR extract limits.
Court outlook score
Court outlook score
44/100
Dallas, 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- 47.4%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision F 31 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio F 27.1%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for Dallas
Nearest grant-rate peers for Dallas, where the 67.0 pp judge lottery is the standout bench stamp.
Dallas 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)
12,879 18th of 77 higher than 59 of 77 courts
Immigration courts, banded by asylum merits-decision count
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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025
Where Dallas 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. Dallas's own grant rate is 47.4% and its average wait is 31.4 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Dallas Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
12,879merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Asylum grant rate by fiscal year at Dallas Immigration Court.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 306 | 18.3% |
| FY2016 | 421 | 23.8% |
| FY2017 | 654 | 22.6% |
| FY2018 | 548 | 27.4% |
| FY2019 | 911 | 33.7% |
| FY2020 | 540 | 33.7% |
| FY2021 | 278 | 38.1% |
| FY2022 | 989 | 41.4% |
| FY2023 | 1,022 | 48.0% |
| FY2024 | 1,393 | 65.8% |
| FY2025 | 5,817 | 55.6% |
The judge lottery at Dallas Immigration Court
34 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 79.0% (510 decisions) down to 12.0% (142 decisions) - a 67.0-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 TNN | 510 | |
| 2 | Judge JN | 720 | |
| 3 | Judge CTI | 465 | |
| 4 | Judge EMB | 80 | |
| 5 | Judge GRH | 46 | |
| 6 | Judge JFP | 233 | |
| 7 | Judge CTN | 926 | |
| 8 | Judge JNW | 452 | |
| 9 | Judge XDD | 913 | |
| 10 | Judge DHF | 26 | |
| 11 | Judge RJH | 251 | |
| 12 | Judge SME | 487 | |
| 13 | Judge JDF | 200 | |
| 14 | Judge VPG | 523 | |
| 15 | Judge KFL | 28 | |
| 16 | Judge CDK | 680 | |
| 17 | Judge DHS | 1,084 | |
| 18 | Judge AJB | 197 | |
| 19 | Judge FSM | 29 | |
| 20 | Judge RCJ | 38 | |
| 21 | Judge RRO | 1,207 | |
| 22 | Judge DER | 175 | |
| 23 | Judge RLF | 270 | |
| 24 | Judge JAM | 48 | |
| 25 | Judge MEC | 207 | |
| 26 | Judge RWK | 1,484 | |
| 27 | Judge JGC | 34 | |
| 28 | Judge DHW | 244 | |
| 29 | Judge AYB | 42 | |
| 30 | Judge BLH | 359 | |
| 31 | Judge JBE | 201 | |
| 32 | Judge HRG | 316 | |
| 33 | Judge MPB | 76 | |
| 34 | Judge KHS | 142 | |
Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles
Heavy-corpus peers for Dallas: ABS(grant-rate) and merits-volume matches outside the same state.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- Los Angeles - West Immigration Court · Los Angeles, CA · 47.5% grant · 30,667 merits
- Santa Ana Immigration Court · Santa Ana, CA · 47.2% grant · 15,413 merits
- Las Vegas Immigration Court · Las Vegas, NV · 47.6% grant · 6,581 merits
- Orlando Immigration Court · Orlando, FL · 48.4% grant · 15,998 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court · Atlanta, GA · 12,430 merits · 39.2% grant
- Charlotte Immigration Court · Charlotte, NC · 12,358 merits · 35.3% grant
- Memphis Immigration Court · Memphis, TN · 11,643 merits · 40.8% grant
- Philadelphia Immigration Court · Philadelphia, PA · 11,412 merits · 55.2% grant
Why judge-level rates vary · Browse every tracked immigration court
Heavy-corpus court Dallas: 12,879 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Dallas's 12,879-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. Dallas 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.