NYV

Case Insights: NYV

The NYV immigration court, based in , , has processed 62,160 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 39,804 resulted in relief granted (64.0%), 826 were denied (1.3%), and 21,530 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (34.6%). The court has 31 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 NYV rose by 27.8 percentage points, moving from 50.7% to 78.5%. 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 TJM has the largest recorded caseload at 6,256 decisions (50.4% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 69.0 percentage points — JOC at 91.7% versus KHT at 22.7%. 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.