Immigration court · Miami, FL
Miami - Krome Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: a 42.8 pp judge-level grant spread is the widest lottery stamp on Miami - Krome's bench. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 19.9% (below the 48.3% national average). Judge lottery spans 42.8 pp on the same bench.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 19.9%
- Asylum grant rate
- 80.1%
- Asylum denial rate
- 1,221
- Pending cases
- 9 mo
- Time to decision
Miami - Krome in one line
Miami - Krome's asylum grant rate is 19.9% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 5,224 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).
- 19.9%
- Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
- 5,224
- Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
- -28.4 pp
- vs. national average
- 42.8 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · wide
What this court's record shows
Miami - Krome Immigration Court sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 19.9% across 5,224 FY2015–2025 merits (28.4 pp below the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
Wide judge lottery: 1.6% to 44.4% (42.8 pp) across 18 reported judges at Miami - Krome. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.
1,221 pending cases and an average recorded wait of 9 months describe administrative pressure in this snapshot. Use the peer comparisons below to place this court against similar caseloads and grant-rate profiles, then consult the methodology for the extract's scope and limits.
Court outlook score
Court outlook score
55/100
Miami - Krome, 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 19.9%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision A- 9 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio A- 0.6%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for Miami - Krome
Lower-third grant-rate neighbors for Miami - Krome (19.9%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
Miami - Krome 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)
5,224 46th of 77 higher than 31 of 77 courts
Immigration courts, banded by asylum merits-decision count
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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025
Where Miami - Krome sits: Fast but 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 (31.0 months) across this set. Miami - Krome's own grant rate is 19.9% and its average wait is 8.5 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Miami - Krome Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
5,224merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Lower-third court Miami - Krome: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 317 | 18.6% |
| FY2016 | 644 | 20.3% |
| FY2017 | 812 | 24.4% |
| FY2018 | 672 | 26.3% |
| FY2019 | 622 | 23.5% |
| FY2020 | 527 | 19.0% |
| FY2021 | 241 | 10.4% |
| FY2022 | 249 | 16.9% |
| FY2023 | 325 | 13.8% |
| FY2024 | 373 | 17.2% |
| FY2025 | 442 | 12.2% |
The judge lottery at Miami - Krome Immigration Court
18 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 44.4% (829 decisions) down to 1.6% (62 decisions) - a 42.8-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 RJF | 829 | |
| 2 | Judge BSC | 804 | |
| 3 | Judge SAS | 636 | |
| 4 | Judge DL | 115 | |
| 5 | Judge SGA | 339 | |
| 6 | Judge RYL | 199 | |
| 7 | Judge SM1 | 75 | |
| 8 | Judge AO | 362 | |
| 9 | Judge CAM | 284 | |
| 10 | Judge RDM | 50 | |
| 11 | Judge JO | 314 | |
| 12 | Judge JEP | 254 | |
| 13 | Judge PJM | 62 | |
| 14 | Judge MLE | 287 | |
| 15 | Judge PJE | 62 | |
| 16 | Judge ROS | 31 | |
| 17 | Judge YKA | 220 | |
| 18 | Judge TC | 62 | |
Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles
Lower-third grant-rate peers for Miami - Krome, plus caseload matches on a second axis.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- Conroe Immigration Court · Conroe, TX · 20.4% grant · 6,073 merits
- LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena) · Jena, LA · 19.2% grant · 6,238 merits
- Adelanto Immigration Court · Adelanto, CA · 20.6% grant · 5,079 merits
- Port Isabel Immigration Court · Los Fresnos, TX · 17.0% grant · 3,999 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Omaha Immigration Court · Omaha, NE · 5,224 merits · 25.8% grant
- Concord Immigration Court · Concord, CA · 5,289 merits · 68.1% grant
- El Paso Immigration Court · El Paso, TX · 5,113 merits · 50.0% grant
- Kansas City Immigration Court · Kansas City, MO · 5,050 merits · 36.5% grant
Why judge-level rates vary · Browse every tracked immigration court
Lower-third grant-rate court Miami - Krome (19.9%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Miami - Krome's 5,224-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. Miami - Krome 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.