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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
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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

F

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.

SPREAD 76.1pp WIDE JUDGES 28 WAIT LONG PEND 218,767 GRANT 48.9% RANK #11 of 77
Newark48.9%Sterling, VA48.8%New York, NY48.7%Orlando, FL48.4%Harlingen, TX49.5%
Asylum grant rate · Newark highlighted · DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025

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.

Grant rate vs. average wait time, 40 largest courts by merits decisions (DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025). Newark highlighted. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Asylum grant rate (X) and Average wait (months) (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Favorable but SlowSlow & ToughFast & FavorableFast but Tough 20%40%60%80% 10mo20mo30mo40mo50mo Asylum grant rate Average wait (months) Newark Immigration Court: grant rate vs. average wait among the largest immigration courts
Grant rate vs. average wait time, 40 largest courts by merits decisions (DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025). Newark highlighted.

How to read this

  • Fast & Favorable
  • Favorable but Slow
  • Fast but Tough
  • Slow & Tough
Statistical data only. Newark's 48.9% upper-third grant history still mixes judges, case types, and counsel rates, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.
Granted9166Denied9573
Asylum Outcomes at Newark Immigration Court - 18,739 merits 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
86.9%
2 Judge ETKFY2023 only 35
82.9%
3 Judge CCJFY2019–22 only 75
73.3%
4 Judge ASGFY2015–19 only 231
72.3%
5 Judge AC2FY2015–20 only 97
71.1%
6 Judge SR1Since FY2016 922
66.4%
7 Judge ACLFY2022–23 only 146
61.0%
8 Judge RR2Since FY2016 1,006
60.2%
9 Judge LAF 956
59.2%
10 Judge ASRSince FY2018 752
57.6%
11 Judge MMNSince FY2020 315
57.5%
12 Judge AJSFY2020–24 only 401
54.4%
13 Judge DC1 1,023
53.9%
14 Judge LMMSince FY2019 1,069
51.5%
15 Judge DSRSince FY2017 552
50.5%
16 Judge NBLSince FY2022 1,132
47.7%
17 Judge LPOSince FY2020 638
47.2%
18 Judge EM1FY2016–20 only 181
44.2%
19 Judge APSSince FY2023 205
40.5%
20 Judge JNPFY2022–23 only 520
40.4%
21 Judge THWSince FY2016 879
38.0%
22 Judge SCNSince FY2016 1,755
36.9%
23 Judge RDBFY2023–24 only 648
35.0%
24 Judge PLEFY2022–23 only 539
33.6%
25 Judge DAHFY2019–24 only 250
32.8%
26 Judge MIASince FY2016 2,111
27.9%
27 Judge ESSFY2016–17 only 35
20.0%
28 Judge MNSFY2022–23 only 452
10.8%

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)

Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)

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.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for Newark Immigration Court; judge grant-rate spread 76.1 pp. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 18,739 decisions FY2015–2025 (#11 of 77).

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.