NYC

Case Insights: NYC

The NYC immigration court, based in , , has processed 224,723 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 150,103 resulted in relief granted (66.8%), 1,093 were denied (0.5%), and 73,527 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (32.7%). The court has 87 immigration judges on record, whose individual caseloads and outcome patterns shape the court-wide averages shown above.

Between fiscal year 2015 and fiscal year 2025, the grant rate at NYC rose by 17.4 percentage points, moving from 65.2% to 82.6%. That window spans 11 fiscal years of reported data, covering shifts in bench composition, policy guidance, and nationality mix. The year-by-year table lower on this page shows the underlying annual case volume for every year in the series.

Outcomes vary substantially judge-to-judge. Judge JCS has the largest recorded caseload at 8,921 decisions (72.5% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 93.4 percentage points — ABE at 93.4% versus FPO at 0.0%. These differences reflect case mix, nationality assignments, and docket type rather than any single factor, and they are why EOIR cautions readers against treating any judge's rate as predictive of an individual case.