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 FY2020–2025; 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 FY2020–2025 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 FY2020–2025 (#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

Partial window:Since FY2020 New York - Broadway Immigration Court has recorded asylum decisions in FY2020–2025 only (years with fewer than 10 decisions are not counted), so the grant rate, case count and wait above cover that span, not all of FY2015–2025. The rankings mark it the same way. The year-by-year record is in the trend table below.

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 FY2020–2025 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 FY2020–2025 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, FY2020–2025

Grant rate over time

Upper-third court New York - Broadway: fiscal-year grant path across FY2020–2025 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 AKRFY2020–23 only	181	93.4%
2	Judge NBSince FY2020	543	91.3%
3	Judge OLCSince FY2022	512	89.6%
4	Judge DBSFY2021–24 only	206	80.6%
5	Judge DKUFY2021–22 only	29	79.3%
6	Judge MENSince FY2020	930	75.7%
7	Judge ENAFY2022–23 only	45	73.3%
8	Judge DMMSince FY2023	552	71.2%
9	Judge TSBSince FY2020	891	70.8%
10	Judge KHTSince FY2022	97	69.1%
11	Judge CKISince FY2021	924	64.6%
12	Judge AWCSince FY2020	1,102	63.2%
13	Judge DEDSince FY2020	551	62.1%
14	Judge TALSince FY2021	658	62.0%
15	Judge BLFSince FY2020	942	61.3%
16	Judge CTSSince FY2020	292	57.5%
17	Judge JMESince FY2021	1,738	57.3%
18	Judge MLLFY2021–24 only	463	56.4%
19	Judge EGNSince FY2021	473	56.2%
20	Judge RTGSince FY2021	1,290	56.1%
21	Judge JMM	907	55.7%
22	Judge FZHSince FY2024	393	54.5%
23	Judge AVP	1,104	54.1%
24	Judge MAUSince FY2021	101	53.5%
25	Judge CLM	948	51.9%
26	Judge JCGSince FY2020	2,049	49.9%
27	Judge AADSince FY2023	515	49.5%
28	Judge KNLSince FY2023	766	45.7%
29	Judge LAWFY2022–23 only	48	41.7%
30	Judge STBSince FY2022	762	40.3%
31	Judge SSXSince FY2023	306	39.9%
32	Judge APLSince FY2021	1,941	38.0%
33	Judge SLRSince FY2021	1,905	36.0%
34	Judge JHBSince FY2021	1,626	32.8%
35	Judge JBCSince FY2020	2,169	28.5%
36	Judge JLMFY2020 only	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 FY2020–2025 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 FY2020–2025 (#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.