Immigration court · Indianapolis, IN
Indianapolis Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 1,967 merits decisions make Indianapolis a thin-volume court in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 26.8% (below the 48.3% national average).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 26.8%
- Asylum grant rate
- 73.2%
- Asylum denial rate
- 52,482
- Pending cases
- 36 mo
- Time to decision
Partial window:FY2025 only Indianapolis Immigration Court has recorded asylum decisions in FY2025 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.
Indianapolis in one line
Indianapolis's asylum grant rate is 26.8% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 1,967 FY2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).
- 26.8%
- Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
- 1,967
- Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
- -21.5 pp
- vs. national average
- 14.6 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · mixed
What this court's record shows
Indianapolis Immigration Court sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 26.8% across 1,967 FY2025 merits (21.5 pp below the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
The recorded judge-level range spans 18.7% to 33.3%, a 14.6-point spread across 6 reported judges. Different case mixes, decision volumes, and assignments can all affect a court-level aggregate, so the range is context rather than a prediction.
Long-wait docket: 52,482 pending and 36 mo average recorded wait. Peer grids below place Indianapolis on grant-rate and caseload axes; methodology covers extract limits.
Court outlook score
Court outlook score
14/100
Indianapolis, 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 26.8%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision F 36 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio F 73.9%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for Indianapolis
Lower-third grant-rate neighbors for Indianapolis (26.8%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
Indianapolis 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)
1,967 67th of 77 higher than 10 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 Indianapolis sits: Slow & 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 (31.4 months) across this set. Indianapolis's own grant rate is 26.8% and its average wait is 36.0 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Indianapolis Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
1,967merits decisions FY2015–2025
The judge lottery at Indianapolis Immigration Court
6 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 33.3% (387 decisions) down to 18.7% (203 decisions) - a 14.6-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 Indianapolis, plus caseload matches on a second axis.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- Laredo Immigration Court · Laredo, TX · 26.1% grant · 3,575 merits
- Tacoma Immigration Court · Tacoma, WA · 27.7% grant · 3,999 merits
- Omaha Immigration Court · Omaha, NE · 25.8% grant · 5,224 merits
- Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · Houston, TX · 29.2% grant · 29,412 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Florence Immigration Court · Florence, AZ · 1,821 merits · 23.0% 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
How to read court backlog data · Browse every tracked immigration court
Lower-third grant-rate court Indianapolis (26.8%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Indianapolis's 1,967-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. Indianapolis 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.