Immigration court · Florence, AZ
Florence Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: a 41.6 pp judge-level grant spread is the widest lottery stamp on Florence's bench. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 23.0% (below the 48.3% national average). Judge lottery spans 41.6 pp on the same bench.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 23.0%
- Asylum grant rate
- 77.0%
- Asylum denial rate
- 164
- Pending cases
- 6 mo
- Time to decision
Florence in one line
Florence's asylum grant rate is 23.0% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 1,821 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).
- 23.0%
- Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
- 1,821
- Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
- -25.3 pp
- vs. national average
- 41.6 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · wide
What this court's record shows
Florence Immigration Court sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 23.0% across 1,821 FY2015–2025 merits (25.3 pp below the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
Wide judge lottery: 1.5% to 43.1% (41.6 pp) across 10 reported judges at Florence. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.
164 pending cases and an average recorded wait of 6 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
62/100
Florence, 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 23.0%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision A 6 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio A+ 0.1%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for Florence
Lower-third grant-rate neighbors for Florence (23.0%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
Florence 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)
1,821 68th of 77 higher than 9 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 Florence 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. Florence's own grant rate is 23.0% and its average wait is 6.0 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Florence Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
1,821merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Lower-third court Florence: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 102 | 5.9% |
| FY2016 | 68 | 5.9% |
| FY2017 | 83 | 4.8% |
| FY2018 | 135 | 8.9% |
| FY2019 | 250 | 31.6% |
| FY2020 | 344 | 35.2% |
| FY2021 | 88 | 33.0% |
| FY2022 | 76 | 48.7% |
| FY2023 | 113 | 8.8% |
| FY2024 | 234 | 27.4% |
| FY2025 | 328 | 16.2% |
The judge lottery at Florence Immigration Court
10 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 43.1% (197 decisions) down to 1.5% (68 decisions) - a 41.6-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.
Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles
Lower-third grant-rate peers for Florence, plus caseload matches on a second axis.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- Oakdale Immigration Court · Oakdale, LA · 23.9% grant · 5,826 merits
- Pearsall Immigration Court · Pearsall, TX · 24.0% grant · 4,642 merits
- Elizabeth Immigration Court · Elizabeth, NJ · 24.1% grant · 5,586 merits
- Adelanto Immigration Court · Adelanto, CA · 20.6% grant · 5,079 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Indianapolis Immigration Court · Indianapolis, IN · 1,967 merits · 26.8% grant
- Honolulu Immigration Court · Honolulu, HI · 2,117 merits · 64.1% grant
- El Paso Service Processing Center Immigration Court · El Paso, TX · 2,258 merits · 17.0% grant
- Chelmsford Immigration Court · Chelmsford, MA · 2,330 merits · 41.0% grant
Why judge-level rates vary · Browse every tracked immigration court
Lower-third grant-rate court Florence (23.0%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Florence's 1,821-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. Florence 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.