Immigration court · New York, NY
New York - Varick Street Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: a 66.1 pp judge-level grant spread is the widest lottery stamp on New York - Varick Street's bench. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 19,001 decisions FY2015–2025 (#10 of 77).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 48.7%
- Asylum grant rate
- 51.3%
- Asylum denial rate
- 23,191
- Pending cases
- 21 mo
- Time to decision
New York - Varick Street in one line
New York - Varick Street's asylum grant rate is 48.7% (upper-third grant rate, roughly in line with the 48.3% national average) across 19,001 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).
- 48.7%
- Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
- 19,001
- Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
- +0.4 pp
- vs. national average
- 66.1 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · wide
What this court's record shows
New York - Varick Street Immigration Court sits in the upper third of tracked courts at 48.7% across 19,001 FY2015–2025 merits (0.4 pp roughly in line with the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
Wide judge lottery: 19.9% to 86.0% (66.1 pp) across 29 reported judges at New York - Varick Street. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.
Heavy-corpus court (#10 of 77): peer grids below match on grant rate and merits volume; methodology covers EOIR extract limits.
Court outlook score
Court outlook score
62/100
New York - Varick 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 B 48.7%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision C+ 21 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio D 13.4%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for New York - Varick Street
Upper-third grant-rate neighbors for New York - Varick Street (48.7%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
New York - Varick 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)
19,001 10th of 77 higher than 67 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 - Varick Street 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 - Varick Street's own grant rate is 48.7% and its average wait is 21.0 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
New York - Varick Street Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
19,001merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Upper-third court New York - Varick Street: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 70 | 17.1% |
| FY2016 | 49 | 32.7% |
| FY2017 | 173 | 22.0% |
| FY2018 | 222 | 14.0% |
| FY2019 | 1,110 | 36.2% |
| FY2020 | 999 | 47.2% |
| FY2021 | 241 | 51.9% |
| FY2022 | 3,580 | 39.4% |
| FY2023 | 4,366 | 47.1% |
| FY2024 | 4,252 | 59.8% |
| FY2025 | 3,939 | 54.8% |
The judge lottery at New York - Varick Street Immigration Court
29 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 86.0% (292 decisions) down to 19.9% (146 decisions) - a 66.1-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 SR1 | 292 | |
| 2 | Judge RJA | 40 | |
| 3 | Judge SAL | 147 | |
| 4 | Judge DNO | 465 | |
| 5 | Judge JFD | 436 | |
| 6 | Judge LYB | 374 | |
| 7 | Judge TJM | 922 | |
| 8 | Judge SEB | 1,465 | |
| 9 | Judge THA | 204 | |
| 10 | Judge MGK | 833 | |
| 11 | Judge WYW | 469 | |
| 12 | Judge TSM | 1,050 | |
| 13 | Judge FHR | 141 | |
| 14 | Judge FPO | 831 | |
| 15 | Judge LLG | 3,102 | |
| 16 | Judge MEH | 108 | |
| 17 | Judge RFS | 221 | |
| 18 | Judge RDD | 1,486 | |
| 19 | Judge CC1 | 854 | |
| 20 | Judge KYA | 198 | |
| 21 | Judge JDE | 1,033 | |
| 22 | Judge JOC | 451 | |
| 23 | Judge CSO | 509 | |
| 24 | Judge DRD | 2,321 | |
| 25 | Judge UUL | 115 | |
| 26 | Judge LTF | 140 | |
| 27 | Judge CEL | 172 | |
| 28 | Judge PLB | 25 | |
| 29 | Judge MMT | 146 | |
Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles
Heavy-corpus peers for New York - Varick Street: ABS(grant-rate) and merits-volume matches outside the same state.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- Sterling Immigration Court · Sterling, VA · 48.8% grant · 10,044 merits
- Newark Immigration Court · Newark, NJ · 48.9% grant · 18,739 merits
- Orlando Immigration Court · Orlando, FL · 48.4% grant · 15,998 merits
- Harlingen Immigration Court · Harlingen, TX · 49.5% grant · 4,776 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Annandale Immigration Court · Annandale, VA · 19,103 merits · 51.4% grant
- Boston Immigration Court · Boston, MA · 19,472 merits · 52.7% grant
- Seattle Immigration Court · Seattle, WA · 17,027 merits · 37.8% grant
- Baltimore Immigration Court · Baltimore, MD · 16,562 merits · 52.8% grant
Why judge-level rates vary · Browse every tracked immigration court
Heavy-corpus court New York - Varick Street: 19,001 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how New York - Varick Street's 19,001-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. New York - Varick 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.