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
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 FY2015-2025 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 FY2015–2025 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.