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New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 79,106 merits decisions place New York - Federal Plaza among the busiest courts in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 79,106 decisions FY2015–2025 (#1 of 77).

Data updated 2026-09-05

74.7%
Asylum grant rate
25.3%
Asylum denial rate
224,664
Pending cases
39 mo
Time to decision

New York - Federal Plaza in one line

New York - Federal Plaza's asylum grant rate is 74.7% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 79,106 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

74.7%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
79,106
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+26.4 pp
vs. national average
88.2 pp
Judge-level grant spread · wide
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What this court's record shows

New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court sits in the upper third of tracked courts at 74.7% across 79,106 FY2015–2025 merits (26.4 pp above the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.

Wide judge lottery: 9.0% to 97.2% (88.2 pp) across 86 reported judges at New York - Federal Plaza. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.

Long-wait docket: 224,664 pending and 39 mo average recorded wait. Peer grids below place New York - Federal Plaza on grant-rate and caseload axes; methodology covers extract limits.

Court outlook score

C-

Court outlook score

53/100

New York - Federal Plaza, 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 A+ 74.7%

    Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025

  • Time to decision F 39 mo

    Average recorded months from filing to decision

  • Backlog ratio F 21.0%

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

EOIR bench spread roll

Grant-rate neighbourhood for New York - Federal Plaza

Upper-third grant-rate neighbors for New York - Federal Plaza (74.7%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.

SPREAD 88.2pp WIDE JUDGES 86 WAIT LONG PEND 224,664 GRANT 74.7% RANK #1 of 77
New York - Federal Pla74.7%Sacramento, CA76.2%San Francisco, CA72%Concord, CA68.1%Honolulu, HI64.1%
Asylum grant rate · New York - Federal Plaza highlighted · DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025

New York - Federal Plaza 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)

79,106 1st of 77 the highest of 77 courts

Immigration courts, banded by asylum merits-decision count

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Where New York - Federal Plaza 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. New York - Federal Plaza's own grant rate is 74.7% and its average wait is 38.7 months.

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

How to read this

  • Fast & Favorable
  • Favorable but Slow
  • Fast but Tough
  • Slow & Tough
Statistical data only. New York - Federal Plaza's 74.7% 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.
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Asylum Outcomes at New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court - 79,106 merits decisions, FY2015–2025

Grant rate over time

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

Fiscal year Decisions Grant rate
FY2015 5,853 84.0%
FY2016 5,485 85.2%
FY2017 5,539 80.4%
FY2018 8,231 69.1%
FY2019 11,404 61.5%
FY2020 6,626 53.9%
FY2021 1,395 77.8%
FY2022 7,174 82.1%
FY2023 7,744 83.7%
FY2024 8,090 83.7%
FY2025 11,565 74.0%

The judge lottery at New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court

86 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 97.2% (607 decisions) down to 9.0% (144 decisions) - a 88.2-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 JB 607
97.2%
2 Judge PMM 866
94.2%
3 Judge GTC 726
93.3%
4 Judge TAB 1,462
92.2%
5 Judge EAL 848
92.1%
6 Judge FGL 2,218
90.6%
7 Judge VGU 2,121
90.4%
8 Judge DDK 627
90.0%
9 Judge NB 2,023
89.4%
10 Judge PLM 516
88.4%
11 Judge ACL 919
88.2%
12 Judge AAK 1,181
88.1%
13 Judge HJS 1,296
87.0%
14 Judge LIA 879
86.7%
15 Judge JEB 191
86.4%
16 Judge OLC 1,310
85.8%
17 Judge PAR 465
85.6%
18 Judge RAC 1,412
85.3%
19 Judge TKS 1,048
84.7%
20 Judge MLY 1,888
84.4%
21 Judge CRC 256
83.6%
22 Judge RZA 2,476
83.4%
23 Judge DBS 1,810
82.8%
24 Judge MMT 1,062
82.5%
25 Judge IJC 852
82.5%
26 Judge ASL 2,267
81.5%
27 Judge JCS 2,091
81.4%
28 Judge DDF 41
80.5%
29 Judge DKR 1,078
80.1%
30 Judge BLF 1,734
79.8%
31 Judge WMD 599
79.6%
32 Judge EPD 2,213
79.0%
33 Judge CSE 1,255
79.0%
34 Judge MEN 652
79.0%
35 Judge PDO 390
79.0%
36 Judge STT 887
78.7%
37 Judge RDW 181
78.5%
38 Judge KAN 625
78.4%
39 Judge DH 1,277
77.0%
40 Judge TAP 960
76.5%
41 Judge DWT 2,448
75.3%
42 Judge MGK 698
75.1%
43 Judge LES 1,112
74.6%
44 Judge MMC 196
74.5%
45 Judge LTF 460
73.9%
46 Judge WVW 138
72.5%
47 Judge AJS 649
72.3%
48 Judge MMF 1,677
71.5%
49 Judge CYG 1,581
71.5%
50 Judge KED 1,021
71.5%
51 Judge VAW 1,898
71.0%
52 Judge LGN 1,472
69.6%
53 Judge DNA 652
69.2%
54 Judge EDP 166
68.1%
55 Judge JLP 2,100
68.0%
56 Judge ILD 32
65.6%
57 Judge LCA 403
64.8%
58 Judge MAU 127
63.8%
59 Judge BAN 2,530
61.6%
60 Judge GAM 399
61.4%
61 Judge SLR 36
61.1%
62 Judge SAF 1,241
60.6%
63 Judge JNR 722
60.2%
64 Judge AVP 1,603
58.7%
65 Judge AC2 408
57.8%
66 Judge CEL 28
57.1%
67 Judge JBC 1,591
56.1%
68 Judge LLG 109
54.1%
69 Judge CCJ 1,038
53.7%
70 Judge CC1 497
51.7%
71 Judge JNS 1,163
50.7%
72 Judge LPO 160
48.1%
73 Judge HH 627
45.5%
74 Judge BTP 693
42.6%
75 Judge SC2 37
40.5%
76 Judge JMM 1,010
39.1%
77 Judge AAV 517
36.4%
78 Judge SH 611
31.8%
79 Judge ODS 707
29.4%
80 Judge RFS 56
26.8%
81 Judge EBW 46
26.1%
82 Judge WPK 108
24.1%
83 Judge SHR 62
21.0%
84 Judge ABE 37
16.2%
85 Judge JHB 70
12.9%
86 Judge JLM 144
9.0%

Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles

Heavy-corpus peers for New York - Federal Plaza: 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 New York - Federal Plaza: 79,106 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how New York - Federal Plaza's 79,106-decision EOIR court row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 79,106. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 79,106 decisions FY2015–2025 (#1 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. New York - Federal Plaza 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.