Asylum Grant Rate
54.8% of merits decisions
Asylum cases decided at Hyattsville Immigration Court
Immigration court · Hyattsville, MD
54.8% asylum grant rate across 10,598 merits decisions (FY2015–2025) - above the 48.2% national average.
Data updated 2026-06-21
The verdict
The Hyattsville Immigration Court granted asylum in 54.8% of the 10,598 cases it decided on the merits - above the 48.2% national rate.
The Hyattsville Immigration Court, based in Hyattsville, MD, decided 10,598 asylum cases on the merits between FY2015 and FY2025 - out of 81,616 total proceedings of all case types it handled. Of those asylum decisions, 5,807 were granted (54.8%) and 4,791 were denied (45.2%). The court has 26 immigration judges with enough asylum decisions to report, whose individual grant rates shape the court-wide average shown above.
Between fiscal year 2015 and fiscal year 2025, the grant rate at Hyattsville Immigration Court rose by 38.9 percentage points, moving from 0.0% to 38.9%. That window spans 11 fiscal years of reported data, covering shifts in bench composition, policy guidance, and nationality mix. The year-by-year table lower on this page shows the underlying annual case volume for every year in the series.
Outcomes vary substantially judge-to-judge. Judge DMJ decided the most asylum cases here - 772 merits decisions (56.9% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 55.4 percentage points - EVS at 80.8% versus NAM at 25.4%. These differences reflect case mix, nationality assignments, and docket type rather than any single factor, and they are why EOIR cautions readers against treating any judge's rate as predictive of an individual case.
Asylum Grant Rate
54.8% of merits decisions
Asylum cases decided at Hyattsville Immigration Court
Pending Cases
15,258
Open proceedings (all case types)
Asylum Decisions
10,598
Merits decisions, FY2015–2025
Asylum grant rate by fiscal year at Hyattsville Immigration Court.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 1 | 0.0% |
| FY2016 | 2 | 0.0% |
| FY2017 | 13 | 7.7% |
| FY2018 | 13 | 0.0% |
| FY2019 | 12 | 0.0% |
| FY2020 | 7 | 0.0% |
| FY2021 | 16 | 68.8% |
| FY2022 | 1,082 | 74.5% |
| FY2023 | 2,260 | 72.9% |
| FY2024 | 2,815 | 58.3% |
| FY2025 | 4,377 | 38.9% |
26 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 80.8% (99 decisions) down to 25.4% (67 decisions) - a 55.4-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 EVS | 99 | |
| 2 | Judge CAC | 546 | |
| 3 | Judge DK1 | 737 | |
| 4 | Judge AYG | 249 | |
| 5 | Judge WTN | 32 | |
| 6 | Judge DCV | 682 | |
| 7 | Judge MKB | 269 | |
| 8 | Judge PTW | 318 | |
| 9 | Judge DMJ | 772 | |
| 10 | Judge AMI | 506 | |
| 11 | Judge JBT | 51 | |
| 12 | Judge DEW | 358 | |
| 13 | Judge JSR | 692 | |
| 14 | Judge RAN | 707 | |
| 15 | Judge TNB | 613 | |
| 16 | Judge KMR | 321 | |
| 17 | Judge TSK | 553 | |
| 18 | Judge SMW | 430 | |
| 19 | Judge RHM | 313 | |
| 20 | Judge ALQ | 374 | |
| 21 | Judge ANW | 427 | |
| 22 | Judge MWB | 289 | |
| 23 | Judge JEL | 413 | |
| 24 | Judge EAK | 410 | |
| 25 | Judge IRD | 272 | |
| 26 | Judge NAM | 67 | |
Data from the DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) via FOIA bulk case data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Source: U.S. EOIR, Immigration Court Statistics Immigration court outcomes by court and case type · 2025
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