Immigration court · Eloy, AZ
Eloy Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: a 53.7 pp judge-level grant spread is the widest lottery stamp on Eloy's bench. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 32.0% (below the 48.3% national average). Judge lottery spans 53.7 pp on the same bench.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 32.0%
- Asylum grant rate
- 68.0%
- Asylum denial rate
- 573
- Pending cases
- 5 mo
- Time to decision
Eloy in one line
Eloy's asylum grant rate is 32.0% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 3,884 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).
- 32.0%
- Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
- 3,884
- Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
- -16.3 pp
- vs. national average
- 53.7 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · wide
What this court's record shows
Eloy Immigration Court sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 32.0% across 3,884 FY2015–2025 merits (16.3 pp below the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
Wide judge lottery: 4.6% to 58.3% (53.7 pp) across 16 reported judges at Eloy. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.
573 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
Court outlook score
69/100
Eloy, 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 32.0%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision A+ 5 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio A+ 0.3%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for Eloy
Lower-third grant-rate neighbors for Eloy (32.0%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
Eloy 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)
3,884 57th of 77 higher than 20 of 77 courts
Immigration courts, banded by asylum merits-decision count
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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025
Where Eloy 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. Eloy's own grant rate is 32.0% and its average wait is 4.6 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Eloy Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
3,884merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Lower-third court Eloy: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 133 | 8.3% |
| FY2016 | 119 | 16.8% |
| FY2017 | 214 | 9.3% |
| FY2018 | 397 | 4.3% |
| FY2019 | 609 | 32.5% |
| FY2020 | 784 | 50.9% |
| FY2021 | 224 | 71.4% |
| FY2022 | 227 | 57.7% |
| FY2023 | 153 | 29.4% |
| FY2024 | 410 | 27.3% |
| FY2025 | 614 | 21.0% |
The judge lottery at Eloy Immigration Court
16 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 58.3% (266 decisions) down to 4.6% (305 decisions) - a 53.7-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 JPJ | 266 | |
| 2 | Judge PMH | 481 | |
| 3 | Judge JIG | 629 | |
| 4 | Judge KLD | 55 | |
| 5 | Judge JOC | 95 | |
| 6 | Judge RCB | 204 | |
| 7 | Judge DHF | 43 | |
| 8 | Judge RAP | 371 | |
| 9 | Judge WMM | 211 | |
| 10 | Judge JNC | 104 | |
| 11 | Judge MLS | 214 | |
| 12 | Judge NSO | 323 | |
| 13 | Judge ICF | 174 | |
| 14 | Judge LSW | 181 | |
| 15 | Judge JDV | 29 | |
| 16 | Judge JWD | 305 | |
Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles
Lower-third grant-rate peers for Eloy, plus caseload matches on a second axis.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- Otay Mesa Immigration Court · San Diego, CA · 32.4% grant · 2,559 merits
- Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court · Los Angeles, CA · 33.4% grant · 14,595 merits
- Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court · Houston, TX · 33.9% grant · 13,837 merits
- Otero Immigration Court · Chaparral, NM · 29.5% grant · 3,408 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Tacoma Immigration Court · Tacoma, WA · 3,999 merits · 27.7% grant
- Port Isabel Immigration Court · Los Fresnos, TX · 3,999 merits · 17.0% grant
- Laredo Immigration Court · Laredo, TX · 3,575 merits · 26.1% grant
- Stewart Immigration Court · Lumpkin, GA · 4,315 merits · 15.4% grant
Why judge-level rates vary · Browse every tracked immigration court
Lower-third grant-rate court Eloy (32.0%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Eloy's 3,884-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. Eloy 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.