Immigration court · Newark, NJ
Newark Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: a 76.1 pp judge-level grant spread is the widest lottery stamp on Newark's bench. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 18,739 decisions FY2015–2025 (#11 of 77).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 48.9%
- Asylum grant rate
- 51.1%
- Asylum denial rate
- 218,767
- Pending cases
- 38 mo
- Time to decision
Newark in one line
Newark's asylum grant rate is 48.9% (upper-third grant rate, roughly in line with the 48.3% national average) across 18,739 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).
- 48.9%
- Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
- 18,739
- Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
- +0.6 pp
- vs. national average
- 76.1 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · wide
What this court's record shows
Newark Immigration Court sits in the upper third of tracked courts at 48.9% across 18,739 FY2015–2025 merits (0.6 pp roughly in line with the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
Wide judge lottery: 10.8% to 86.9% (76.1 pp) across 28 reported judges at Newark. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.
Long-wait docket: 218,767 pending and 38 mo average recorded wait. Peer grids below place Newark on grant-rate and caseload axes; methodology covers extract limits.
Court outlook score
Court outlook score
35/100
Newark, 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 B 48.9%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision F 38 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio F 41.3%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for Newark
Upper-third grant-rate neighbors for Newark (48.9%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
Newark 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)
18,739 11th of 77 higher than 66 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 Newark 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. Newark's own grant rate is 48.9% and its average wait is 37.8 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Newark Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
18,739merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Upper-third court Newark: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 117 | 66.7% |
| FY2016 | 252 | 81.3% |
| FY2017 | 395 | 74.7% |
| FY2018 | 479 | 66.6% |
| FY2019 | 1,068 | 56.1% |
| FY2020 | 1,199 | 49.0% |
| FY2021 | 998 | 35.7% |
| FY2022 | 1,999 | 40.4% |
| FY2023 | 4,015 | 52.0% |
| FY2024 | 4,047 | 44.7% |
| FY2025 | 4,170 | 48.5% |
The judge lottery at Newark Immigration Court
28 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 86.9% (1,517 decisions) down to 10.8% (452 decisions) - a 76.1-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 AJR | 1,517 | |
| 2 | Judge ETK | 35 | |
| 3 | Judge CCJ | 75 | |
| 4 | Judge ASG | 231 | |
| 5 | Judge AC2 | 97 | |
| 6 | Judge SR1 | 922 | |
| 7 | Judge ACL | 146 | |
| 8 | Judge RR2 | 1,006 | |
| 9 | Judge LAF | 956 | |
| 10 | Judge ASR | 752 | |
| 11 | Judge MMN | 315 | |
| 12 | Judge AJS | 401 | |
| 13 | Judge DC1 | 1,023 | |
| 14 | Judge LMM | 1,069 | |
| 15 | Judge DSR | 552 | |
| 16 | Judge NBL | 1,132 | |
| 17 | Judge LPO | 638 | |
| 18 | Judge EM1 | 181 | |
| 19 | Judge APS | 205 | |
| 20 | Judge JNP | 520 | |
| 21 | Judge THW | 879 | |
| 22 | Judge SCN | 1,755 | |
| 23 | Judge RDB | 648 | |
| 24 | Judge PLE | 539 | |
| 25 | Judge DAH | 250 | |
| 26 | Judge MIA | 2,111 | |
| 27 | Judge ESS | 35 | |
| 28 | Judge MNS | 452 | |
Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles
Heavy-corpus peers for Newark: ABS(grant-rate) and merits-volume matches outside the same state.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- Sterling Immigration Court · Sterling, VA · 48.8% grant · 10,044 merits
- New York - Varick Street Immigration Court · New York, NY · 48.7% grant · 19,001 merits
- Orlando Immigration Court · Orlando, FL · 48.4% grant · 15,998 merits
- Harlingen Immigration Court · Harlingen, TX · 49.5% grant · 4,776 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Annandale Immigration Court · Annandale, VA · 19,103 merits · 51.4% grant
- Boston Immigration Court · Boston, MA · 19,472 merits · 52.7% grant
- Seattle Immigration Court · Seattle, WA · 17,027 merits · 37.8% grant
- Baltimore Immigration Court · Baltimore, MD · 16,562 merits · 52.8% grant
Why judge-level rates vary · Browse every tracked immigration court
Heavy-corpus court Newark: 18,739 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Newark's 18,739-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. Newark 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.