Asylum Grant Rate
19.8% of merits decisions
Asylum cases decided at Miami - Krome Immigration Court
Immigration court · Miami, FL
19.8% asylum grant rate across 5,088 merits decisions (FY2015–2025) - below the 48.2% national average.
Data updated 2026-06-21
The verdict
The Miami - Krome Immigration Court granted asylum in 19.8% of the 5,088 cases it decided on the merits - below the 48.2% national rate.
The Miami - Krome Immigration Court, based in Miami, FL, decided 5,088 asylum cases on the merits between FY2015 and FY2025 - out of 179,908 total proceedings of all case types it handled. Of those asylum decisions, 1,008 were granted (19.8%) and 4,080 were denied (80.2%). The court has 18 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 Miami - Krome Immigration Court fell by 7.2 percentage points, moving from 18.7% to 11.5%. 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 RJF decided the most asylum cases here - 829 merits decisions (44.4% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 43.0 percentage points - RJF at 44.4% versus YKA at 1.4%. 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
19.8% of merits decisions
Asylum cases decided at Miami - Krome Immigration Court
Pending Cases
332
Open proceedings (all case types)
Asylum Decisions
5,088
Merits decisions, FY2015–2025
Asylum grant rate by fiscal year at Miami - Krome Immigration Court.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 316 | 18.7% |
| FY2016 | 644 | 20.3% |
| FY2017 | 811 | 24.3% |
| FY2018 | 669 | 26.5% |
| FY2019 | 621 | 23.3% |
| FY2020 | 522 | 18.8% |
| FY2021 | 239 | 10.0% |
| FY2022 | 204 | 17.2% |
| FY2023 | 316 | 13.3% |
| FY2024 | 339 | 15.6% |
| FY2025 | 407 | 11.5% |
18 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 44.4% (829 decisions) down to 1.4% (207 decisions) - a 43.0-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 | 780 | |
| 3 | Judge SAS | 606 | |
| 4 | Judge DL | 115 | |
| 5 | Judge SGA | 338 | |
| 6 | Judge SM1 | 75 | |
| 7 | Judge AO | 361 | |
| 8 | Judge RYL | 183 | |
| 9 | Judge CAM | 260 | |
| 10 | Judge RDM | 50 | |
| 11 | Judge JO | 313 | |
| 12 | Judge PJM | 62 | |
| 13 | Judge JEP | 235 | |
| 14 | Judge MLE | 287 | |
| 15 | Judge PJE | 59 | |
| 16 | Judge ROS | 31 | |
| 17 | Judge TC | 62 | |
| 18 | Judge YKA | 207 | |
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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