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 FY2015–2025 (#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
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 FY2015-2025 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 FY2015–2025 EOIR extract. 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
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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 MTG | 649 | |
| 2 | Judge MJO | 692 | |
| 3 | Judge NMH | 859 | |
| 4 | Judge JLS | 790 | |
| 5 | Judge DMP | 69 | |
| 6 | Judge ODS | 647 | |
| 7 | Judge LDT | 1,095 | |
| 8 | Judge JDO | 716 | |
| 9 | Judge ATP | 682 | |
| 10 | Judge MTP | 467 | |
| 11 | Judge MKW | 325 | |
| 12 | Judge KAW | 1,014 | |
| 13 | Judge AXP | 698 | |
| 14 | Judge JDS | 246 | |
| 15 | Judge ADL | 851 | |
| 16 | Judge BHL | 810 | |
| 17 | Judge AMJ | 654 | |
| 18 | Judge DHG | 257 | |
| 19 | Judge EMK | 169 | |
| 20 | Judge CPH | 657 | |
| 21 | Judge REW | 690 | |
| 22 | Judge JND | 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 FY2015–2025 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.