Immigration court · El Paso, TX
El Paso Service Processing Center Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: El Paso Service Processing Center's 17.0% grant rate is among the lowest in the tracked court corpus. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 17.0% (below the 48.3% national average).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 17.0%
- Asylum grant rate
- 83.0%
- Asylum denial rate
- 751
- Pending cases
- 5 mo
- Time to decision
El Paso Service Processing Center in one line
El Paso Service Processing Center's asylum grant rate is 17.0% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 2,258 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).
- 17.0%
- Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
- 2,258
- Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
- -31.3 pp
- vs. national average
- 24.2 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · mixed
What this court's record shows
El Paso Service Processing Center Immigration Court sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 17.0% across 2,258 FY2015–2025 merits (31.3 pp below the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
The recorded judge-level range spans 1.2% to 25.4%, a 24.2-point spread across 14 reported judges. Different case mixes, decision volumes, and assignments can all affect a court-level aggregate, so the range is context rather than a prediction.
751 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
58/100
El Paso Service Processing Center, 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 17.0%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision A+ 5 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio A+ 0.4%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for El Paso Service Processing Center
Lower-third grant-rate neighbors for El Paso Service Processing Center (17.0%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
El Paso Service Processing Center 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)
2,258 65th of 77 higher than 12 of 77 courts
Immigration courts, banded by asylum merits-decision count
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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025
Where El Paso Service Processing Center 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. El Paso Service Processing Center's own grant rate is 17.0% and its average wait is 5.3 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
El Paso Service Processing Center Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
2,258merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Lower-third court El Paso Service Processing Center: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 183 | 4.4% |
| FY2016 | 134 | 3.0% |
| FY2017 | 98 | 6.1% |
| FY2018 | 224 | 18.8% |
| FY2019 | 236 | 21.6% |
| FY2020 | 144 | 27.1% |
| FY2021 | 91 | 13.2% |
| FY2022 | 89 | 40.4% |
| FY2023 | 379 | 20.8% |
| FY2024 | 326 | 16.6% |
| FY2025 | 354 | 15.0% |
The judge lottery at El Paso Service Processing Center Immigration Court
14 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 25.4% (457 decisions) down to 1.2% (80 decisions) - a 24.2-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 SMR | 457 | |
| 2 | Judge JN | 75 | |
| 3 | Judge DST | 155 | |
| 4 | Judge XDD | 38 | |
| 5 | Judge MP1 | 308 | |
| 6 | Judge JKM | 62 | |
| 7 | Judge AET | 51 | |
| 8 | Judge VPG | 74 | |
| 9 | Judge RCJ | 50 | |
| 10 | Judge WLA | 501 | |
| 11 | Judge AJB | 31 | |
| 12 | Judge TCR | 43 | |
| 13 | Judge GRG | 68 | |
| 14 | Judge SBM | 80 | |
Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles
Lower-third grant-rate peers for El Paso Service Processing Center, plus caseload matches on a second axis.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- Stewart Immigration Court · Lumpkin, GA · 15.4% grant · 4,315 merits
- LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena) · Jena, LA · 19.2% grant · 6,238 merits
- Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive Immigration Court · Atlanta, GA · 14.7% grant · 1,165 merits
- Miami - Krome Immigration Court · Miami, FL · 19.9% grant · 5,224 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Chelmsford Immigration Court · Chelmsford, MA · 2,330 merits · 41.0% grant
- Honolulu Immigration Court · Honolulu, HI · 2,117 merits · 64.1% grant
- Indianapolis Immigration Court · Indianapolis, IN · 1,967 merits · 26.8% grant
- Otay Mesa Immigration Court · San Diego, CA · 2,559 merits · 32.4% grant
How immigration court proceedings work · Browse every tracked immigration court
Lower-third grant-rate court El Paso Service Processing Center (17.0%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how El Paso Service Processing Center's 2,258-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. El Paso Service Processing Center 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.