Immigration court · Houston, TX
Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 13,837 merits decisions place Houston - Greenspoint Park among the busiest courts in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 13,837 decisions FY2021–2025 (#17 of 77).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 33.9%
- Asylum grant rate
- 66.1%
- Asylum denial rate
- 20,648
- Pending cases
- 29 mo
- Time to decision
Partial window:Since FY2021 Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court has recorded asylum decisions in FY2021–2025 only (years with fewer than 10 decisions are not counted), so the grant rate, case count and wait above cover that span, not all of FY2015–2025. The rankings mark it the same way. The year-by-year record is in the trend table below.
Houston - Greenspoint Park in one line
Houston - Greenspoint Park's asylum grant rate is 33.9% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 13,837 FY2021–2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).
- 33.9%
- Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
- 13,837
- Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
- -14.4 pp
- vs. national average
- 31.6 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · wide
What this court's record shows
Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court recorded 13,837 asylum merits decisions in the EOIR extract (FY2021–2025). Its 33.9% grant rate is 14.4 percentage points below the 48.3% national rate. That comparison describes the historical docket, not the likelihood of an outcome in a future case.
Wide judge lottery: 14.6% to 46.2% (31.6 pp) across 22 reported judges at Houston - Greenspoint Park. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.
Heavy-corpus court (#17 of 77): peer grids below match on grant rate and merits volume; methodology covers EOIR extract limits.
Court outlook score
Court outlook score
43/100
Houston - Greenspoint Park, 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 33.9%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision D 29 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio D 13.3%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for Houston - Greenspoint Park
Nearest grant-rate peers for Houston - Greenspoint Park, where the 31.6 pp judge lottery is the standout bench stamp.
Houston - Greenspoint Park 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)
13,837 17th of 77 higher than 60 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 Houston - Greenspoint Park 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. Houston - Greenspoint Park's own grant rate is 33.9% and its average wait is 28.5 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
13,837merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Asylum grant rate by fiscal year at Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2019 | 5 | 80.0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | 100.0% |
| FY2021 | 153 | 54.2% |
| FY2022 | 1,808 | 36.7% |
| FY2023 | 2,861 | 36.2% |
| FY2024 | 3,122 | 30.8% |
| FY2025 | 5,885 | 33.0% |
The judge lottery at Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court
22 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 46.2% (649 decisions) down to 14.6% (710 decisions) - a 31.6-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.
| # | Judge | Decisions | Asylum grant rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judge MTGSince FY2021 | 649 | |
| 2 | Judge MJOSince FY2022 | 692 | |
| 3 | Judge NMH | 859 | |
| 4 | Judge JLSSince FY2024 | 790 | |
| 5 | Judge DMPFY2021–23 only | 69 | |
| 6 | Judge ODSSince FY2021 | 647 | |
| 7 | Judge LDTSince FY2021 | 1,095 | |
| 8 | Judge JDOSince FY2022 | 716 | |
| 9 | Judge ATPSince FY2021 | 682 | |
| 10 | Judge MTPSince FY2021 | 467 | |
| 11 | Judge MKWFY2021–23 only | 325 | |
| 12 | Judge KAWSince FY2021 | 1,014 | |
| 13 | Judge AXPSince FY2022 | 698 | |
| 14 | Judge JDSFY2021–23 only | 246 | |
| 15 | Judge ADLSince FY2021 | 851 | |
| 16 | Judge BHLSince FY2021 | 810 | |
| 17 | Judge AMJSince FY2022 | 654 | |
| 18 | Judge DHGSince FY2024 | 257 | |
| 19 | Judge EMKFY2021–23 only | 169 | |
| 20 | Judge CPHSince FY2021 | 657 | |
| 21 | Judge REWSince FY2021 | 690 | |
| 22 | Judge JNDSince FY2022 | 710 | |
Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles
Heavy-corpus peers for Houston - Greenspoint Park: ABS(grant-rate) and merits-volume matches outside the same state.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court · Los Angeles, CA · 33.4% grant · 14,595 merits
- Charlotte Immigration Court · Charlotte, NC · 35.3% grant · 12,358 merits
- Otay Mesa Immigration Court · San Diego, CA · 32.4% grant · 2,559 merits
- Eloy Immigration Court · Eloy, AZ · 32.0% grant · 3,884 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court · Atlanta, GA · 12,430 merits · 39.2% grant
- Santa Ana Immigration Court · Santa Ana, CA · 15,413 merits · 47.2% grant
- Orlando Immigration Court · Orlando, FL · 15,998 merits · 48.4% grant
- Memphis Immigration Court · Memphis, TN · 11,643 merits · 40.8% grant
Why judge-level rates vary · Browse every tracked immigration court
Heavy-corpus court Houston - Greenspoint Park: 13,837 FY2021–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Houston - Greenspoint Park's 13,837-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. Houston - Greenspoint Park 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.