Immigration court · Hyattsville, MD
Hyattsville Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: a 55.2 pp judge-level grant spread is the widest lottery stamp on Hyattsville's bench. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 11,100 decisions FY2015–2025 (#25 of 77).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 54.4%
- Asylum grant rate
- 45.6%
- Asylum denial rate
- 17,627
- Pending cases
- 34 mo
- Time to decision
Hyattsville in one line
Hyattsville's asylum grant rate is 54.4% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 11,100 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).
- 54.4%
- Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
- 11,100
- Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
- +6.1 pp
- vs. national average
- 55.2 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · wide
What this court's record shows
Hyattsville Immigration Court sits in the upper third of tracked courts at 54.4% across 11,100 FY2015–2025 merits (6.1 pp above the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
Wide judge lottery: 25.0% to 80.2% (55.2 pp) across 26 reported judges at Hyattsville. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.
Heavy-corpus court (#25 of 77): peer grids below match on grant rate and merits volume; methodology covers EOIR extract limits.
Court outlook score
Court outlook score
51/100
Hyattsville, 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 A- 54.4%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision F 34 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio F 18.5%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for Hyattsville
Upper-third grant-rate neighbors for Hyattsville (54.4%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
Hyattsville 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)
11,100 25th of 77 higher than 52 of 77 courts
Immigration courts, banded by asylum merits-decision count
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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025
Where Hyattsville sits: Favorable but Slow
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. Hyattsville's own grant rate is 54.4% and its average wait is 34.0 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Hyattsville Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
11,100merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Upper-third court Hyattsville: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 1 | 0.0% |
| FY2016 | 2 | 0.0% |
| FY2017 | 13 | 7.7% |
| FY2018 | 14 | 0.0% |
| FY2019 | 12 | 0.0% |
| FY2020 | 7 | 0.0% |
| FY2021 | 16 | 68.8% |
| FY2022 | 1,086 | 74.4% |
| FY2023 | 2,314 | 72.4% |
| FY2024 | 2,924 | 58.4% |
| FY2025 | 4,711 | 38.9% |
The judge lottery at Hyattsville Immigration Court
26 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 80.2% (101 decisions) down to 25.0% (76 decisions) - a 55.2-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 EVS | 101 | |
| 2 | Judge CAC | 553 | |
| 3 | Judge DK1 | 752 | |
| 4 | Judge AYG | 255 | |
| 5 | Judge WTN | 32 | |
| 6 | Judge MKB | 287 | |
| 7 | Judge DCV | 694 | |
| 8 | Judge PTW | 337 | |
| 9 | Judge AMI | 528 | |
| 10 | Judge DMJ | 809 | |
| 11 | Judge DEW | 389 | |
| 12 | Judge JSR | 721 | |
| 13 | Judge RAN | 743 | |
| 14 | Judge JBT | 58 | |
| 15 | Judge TNB | 639 | |
| 16 | Judge KMR | 328 | |
| 17 | Judge SMW | 458 | |
| 18 | Judge TSK | 587 | |
| 19 | Judge ALQ | 406 | |
| 20 | Judge RHM | 341 | |
| 21 | Judge ANW | 435 | |
| 22 | Judge MWB | 293 | |
| 23 | Judge JEL | 453 | |
| 24 | Judge EAK | 431 | |
| 25 | Judge IRD | 287 | |
| 26 | Judge NAM | 76 | |
Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles
Heavy-corpus peers for Hyattsville: ABS(grant-rate) and merits-volume matches outside the same state.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- San Antonio Immigration Court · San Antonio, TX · 54.6% grant · 11,574 merits
- Denver Immigration Court · Denver, CO · 54.8% grant · 11,218 merits
- Philadelphia Immigration Court · Philadelphia, PA · 55.2% grant · 11,412 merits
- Chelmsford Immigration Court (Detained) · Chelmsford, MA · 53.3% grant · 942 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Memphis Immigration Court · Memphis, TN · 11,643 merits · 40.8% grant
- Sterling Immigration Court · Sterling, VA · 10,044 merits · 48.8% grant
- Charlotte Immigration Court · Charlotte, NC · 12,358 merits · 35.3% grant
- Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court · Atlanta, GA · 12,430 merits · 39.2% grant
Why judge-level rates vary · Browse every tracked immigration court
Heavy-corpus court Hyattsville: 11,100 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Hyattsville's 11,100-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. Hyattsville 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.