NEW

Case Insights: NEW

The NEW immigration court, based in , , has processed 90,886 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 57,284 resulted in relief granted (63.0%), 456 were denied (0.5%), and 33,146 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (36.5%). The court has 29 immigration judges on record, whose individual caseloads and outcome patterns shape the court-wide averages shown above.

Between fiscal year 2015 and fiscal year 2025, the grant rate at NEW rose by 20.0 percentage points, moving from 56.6% to 76.6%. 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 SCN has the largest recorded caseload at 10,945 decisions (65.6% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 55.1 percentage points — RDB at 87.1% versus ETK at 32.0%. 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.