What is the grant rate at the New York - Broadway Immigration Court immigration court?

New York - Broadway Immigration Court sits in the upper third of tracked courts at 52.5% across 28,250 asylum merits decisions (DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025; denial 47.5%).

How many immigration judges serve at New York - Broadway Immigration Court?

New York - Broadway Immigration Court reports 36 immigration judges with a wide 75.3 pp lottery (18.1% to 93.4%).

How long do cases take at New York - Broadway Immigration Court?

The average wait time at New York - Broadway Immigration Court is approximately 23 months. Wait times vary based on case type, docket load, and whether continuances are granted.

Where is the New York - Broadway Immigration Court immigration court located?

New York - Broadway Immigration Court sits in New York, NY, and is one of the heavier FY2015–2025 merits venues in the EOIR FOIA extract.

Does the grant rate predict my case outcome at New York - Broadway Immigration Court?

No. New York - Broadway's 52.5% upper-third aggregate still mixes judges, relief types, and counsel rates, it is not a forecast for any one merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

How has the New York - Broadway Immigration Court grant rate changed over time?

Between FY2019 and FY2025, upper-third court New York - Broadway decreased from 83.3% to 49.2%.

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Immigration court · New York, NY

New York - Broadway Immigration Court

Name: New York - Broadway Immigration Court Immigration Court Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: a 75.3 pp judge-level grant spread is the widest lottery stamp on New York - Broadway's bench. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 28,250 decisions FY2015–2025 (#6 of 77).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

52.5%
Asylum grant rate: 47.5%
Asylum denial rate: 37,748
Pending cases: 23 mo
Time to decision

New York - Broadway in one line

New York - Broadway's asylum grant rate is 52.5% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 28,250 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

52.5%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 28,250
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +4.2 pp
vs. national average: 75.3 pp
Judge-level grant spread · wide

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What this court's record shows

New York - Broadway Immigration Court sits in the upper third of tracked courts at 52.5% across 28,250 FY2015–2025 merits (4.2 pp above the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.

Wide judge lottery: 18.1% to 93.4% (75.3 pp) across 36 reported judges at New York - Broadway. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.

Heavy-corpus court (#6 of 77): peer grids below match on grant rate and merits volume; methodology covers EOIR extract limits.

Court outlook score

59/100

New York - Broadway, 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+ 52.5%

Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
Time to decision C 23 mo

Average recorded months from filing to decision
Backlog ratio F 22.0%

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

EOIR bench spread roll

Grant-rate neighbourhood for New York - Broadway

Upper-third grant-rate neighbors for New York - Broadway (52.5%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.

SPREAD 75.3pp WIDE JUDGES 36 WAIT MID PEND 37,748 GRANT 52.5% RANK #6 of 77

Asylum grant rate · New York - Broadway highlighted · DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025

New York - Broadway 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)

28,250 6th of 77 higher than 71 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 New York - Broadway sits: Fast & Favorable

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. New York - Broadway's own grant rate is 52.5% and its average wait is 22.7 months.

Grant rate vs. average wait time, 40 largest courts by merits decisions (DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025). New York - Broadway highlighted.

How to read this

Fast & Favorable
Favorable but Slow
Fast but Tough
Slow & Tough

New York - Broadway Immigration Court's merits outcome mix

28,250merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted14,826(52%)Denied13,424(48%)

Statistical data only. New York - Broadway's 52.5% 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.

Asylum Outcomes at New York - Broadway Immigration Court - 28,250 merits decisions, FY2015–2025

Grant rate over time

Upper-third court New York - Broadway: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.

Fiscal year	Decisions	Grant rate
FY2019	6	83.3%
FY2020	1,319	54.9%
FY2021	379	68.1%
FY2022	3,506	56.6%
FY2023	5,244	54.9%
FY2024	6,563	52.5%
FY2025	11,233	49.2%

The judge lottery at New York - Broadway Immigration Court

36 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 93.4% (181 decisions) down to 18.1% (83 decisions) - a 75.3-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 AKR	181	93.4%
2	Judge NB	543	91.3%
3	Judge OLC	512	89.6%
4	Judge DBS	206	80.6%
5	Judge DKU	29	79.3%
6	Judge MEN	930	75.7%
7	Judge ENA	45	73.3%
8	Judge DMM	552	71.2%
9	Judge TSB	891	70.8%
10	Judge KHT	97	69.1%
11	Judge CKI	924	64.6%
12	Judge AWC	1,102	63.2%
13	Judge DED	551	62.1%
14	Judge TAL	658	62.0%
15	Judge BLF	942	61.3%
16	Judge CTS	292	57.5%
17	Judge JME	1,738	57.3%
18	Judge MLL	463	56.4%
19	Judge EGN	473	56.2%
20	Judge RTG	1,290	56.1%
21	Judge JMM	907	55.7%
22	Judge FZH	393	54.5%
23	Judge AVP	1,104	54.1%
24	Judge MAU	101	53.5%
25	Judge CLM	948	51.9%
26	Judge JCG	2,049	49.9%
27	Judge AAD	515	49.5%
28	Judge KNL	766	45.7%
29	Judge LAW	48	41.7%
30	Judge STB	762	40.3%
31	Judge SSX	306	39.9%
32	Judge APL	1,941	38.0%
33	Judge SLR	1,905	36.0%
34	Judge JHB	1,626	32.8%
35	Judge JBC	2,169	28.5%
36	Judge JLM	83	18.1%

Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles

Heavy-corpus peers for New York - Broadway: ABS(grant-rate) and merits-volume matches outside the same state.

Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)

Boston Immigration Court · Boston, MA · 52.7% grant · 19,472 merits
Baltimore Immigration Court · Baltimore, MD · 52.8% grant · 16,562 merits
Chelmsford Immigration Court (Detained) · Chelmsford, MA · 53.3% grant · 942 merits
Annandale Immigration Court · Annandale, VA · 51.4% grant · 19,103 merits

Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)

Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · Houston, TX · 29,412 merits · 29.2% grant
Los Angeles - West Immigration Court · Los Angeles, CA · 30,667 merits · 47.5% grant
Chicago Immigration Court · Chicago, IL · 21,578 merits · 61.3% grant
Miami Immigration Court · Miami, FL · 35,666 merits · 36.2% grant

Why judge-level rates vary · Browse every tracked immigration court

Heavy-corpus court New York - Broadway: 28,250 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how New York - Broadway's 28,250-decision EOIR court row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for New York - Broadway Immigration Court; judge grant-rate spread 75.3 pp. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 28,250 decisions FY2015–2025 (#6 of 77).

Source: U.S. EOIR, Immigration Court Statistics Immigration court outcomes by court and case type · 2025 Accessed 2026-09-05

Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. New York - Broadway 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.