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
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
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.
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.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
14,595merits 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 | |
| 2 | Judge RAR | 222 | |
| 3 | Judge ANS | 279 | |
| 4 | Judge TSS | 681 | |
| 5 | Judge NAR | 466 | |
| 6 | Judge TRE | 349 | |
| 7 | Judge KJR | 577 | |
| 8 | Judge BV1 | 168 | |
| 9 | Judge MYT | 32 | |
| 10 | Judge JJO | 225 | |
| 11 | Judge NNA | 896 | |
| 12 | Judge AHO | 357 | |
| 13 | Judge NMR | 244 | |
| 14 | Judge LCH | 1,257 | |
| 15 | Judge JML | 1,979 | |
| 16 | Judge PIE | 739 | |
| 17 | Judge FMT | 2,174 | |
| 18 | Judge CEM | 314 | |
| 19 | Judge PNM | 266 | |
| 20 | Judge ROA | 155 | |
| 21 | Judge KWR | 922 | |
| 22 | Judge KNH | 155 | |
| 23 | Judge TNN | 628 | |
| 24 | Judge LJM | 331 | |
| 25 | Judge JP1 | 25 | |
| 26 | Judge NBW | 52 | |
| 27 | Judge JFW | 30 | |
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)
- Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court · Houston, TX · 33.9% grant · 13,837 merits
- Eloy Immigration Court · Eloy, AZ · 32.0% grant · 3,884 merits
- Charlotte Immigration Court · Charlotte, NC · 35.3% grant · 12,358 merits
- Houston - S. Gessner Road Immigration Court · Houston, TX · 36.1% grant · 8,052 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Orlando Immigration Court · Orlando, FL · 15,998 merits · 48.4% grant
- Dallas Immigration Court · Dallas, TX · 12,879 merits · 47.4% grant
- Baltimore Immigration Court · Baltimore, MD · 16,562 merits · 52.8% grant
- Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court · Atlanta, GA · 12,430 merits · 39.2% grant
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.
Read our methodology - how Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street's 14,595-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. 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.