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Immigration court · Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: a 69.2 pp judge-level grant spread is the widest lottery stamp on Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street's bench. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 14,595 decisions FY2015–2025 (#16 of 77).

Data updated 2026-09-05

33.4%
Asylum grant rate
66.6%
Asylum denial rate
39,613
Pending cases
15 mo
Time to decision

Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street in one line

Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street's asylum grant rate is 33.4% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 14,595 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

33.4%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
14,595
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-14.9 pp
vs. national average
69.2 pp
Judge-level grant spread · wide
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What this court's record shows

Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court recorded 14,595 asylum merits decisions in the FY2015–2025 EOIR extract. Its 33.4% grant rate is 14.9 percentage points below the 48.3% national rate. That comparison describes the historical docket, not the likelihood of an outcome in a future case.

Wide judge lottery: 0.0% to 69.2% (69.2 pp) across 27 reported judges at Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.

Heavy-corpus court (#16 of 77): peer grids below match on grant rate and merits volume; methodology covers EOIR extract limits.

Court outlook score

D

Court outlook score

45/100

Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street, 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 33.4%

    Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025

  • Time to decision B 15 mo

    Average recorded months from filing to decision

  • Backlog ratio F 24.6%

    Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload

EOIR bench spread roll

Grant-rate neighbourhood for Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street

Nearest grant-rate peers for Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street, where the 69.2 pp judge lottery is the standout bench stamp.

SPREAD 69.2pp WIDE JUDGES 27 WAIT SHORT PEND 39,613 GRANT 33.4% RANK #16 of 77
Los Angeles - N. Los A33.4%Houston, TX33.9%Eloy, AZ32%Charlotte, NC35.3%Houston, TX36.1%
Asylum grant rate · Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street highlighted · DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025

Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street 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)

14,595 16th of 77 higher than 61 of 77 courts

Immigration courts, banded by asylum merits-decision count

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Where Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street sits: Fast but Tough

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. Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street's own grant rate is 33.4% and its average wait is 15.4 months.

Grant rate vs. average wait time, 40 largest courts by merits decisions (DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025). Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street 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) Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street 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). Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street highlighted.

How to read this

  • Fast & Favorable
  • Favorable but Slow
  • Fast but Tough
  • Slow & Tough
Statistical data only. Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street's 69.2 pp judge-level spread shows how much the same court can diverge by assignment. Aggregate rates are not a forecast. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.
Granted4870Denied9725
Asylum Outcomes at Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court - 14,595 merits decisions, FY2015–2025

Grant rate over time

Asylum grant rate by fiscal year at Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court.

Fiscal year Decisions Grant rate
FY2015 377 8.5%
FY2016 414 10.6%
FY2017 374 10.4%
FY2018 511 13.9%
FY2019 612 18.1%
FY2020 1,162 8.3%
FY2021 778 22.6%
FY2022 2,770 27.4%
FY2023 1,672 42.0%
FY2024 2,617 44.7%
FY2025 3,308 50.5%

The judge lottery at Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court

27 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 69.2% (685 decisions) down to 0.0% (30 decisions) - a 69.2-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 PAK 685
69.2%
2 Judge RAR 222
64.9%
3 Judge ANS 279
62.0%
4 Judge TSS 681
58.7%
5 Judge NAR 466
57.5%
6 Judge TRE 349
55.6%
7 Judge KJR 577
55.3%
8 Judge BV1 168
53.0%
9 Judge MYT 32
50.0%
10 Judge JJO 225
47.1%
11 Judge NNA 896
36.3%
12 Judge AHO 357
33.3%
13 Judge NMR 244
32.4%
14 Judge LCH 1,257
31.3%
15 Judge JML 1,979
30.5%
16 Judge PIE 739
27.3%
17 Judge FMT 2,174
25.9%
18 Judge CEM 314
23.6%
19 Judge PNM 266
16.5%
20 Judge ROA 155
14.8%
21 Judge KWR 922
9.3%
22 Judge KNH 155
8.4%
23 Judge TNN 628
6.5%
24 Judge LJM 331
4.2%
25 Judge JP1 25
4.0%
26 Judge NBW 52
3.8%
27 Judge JFW 30
0.0%

Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles

Heavy-corpus peers for Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street: 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 Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street: 14,595 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court; judge grant-rate spread 69.2 pp. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 14,595 decisions FY2015–2025 (#16 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. Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street 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.