Immigration court · Omaha, NE
Omaha Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: a 50.0 pp judge-level grant spread is the widest lottery stamp on Omaha's bench. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 25.8% (below the 48.3% national average). Judge lottery spans 50.0 pp on the same bench.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 25.8%
- Asylum grant rate
- 74.2%
- Asylum denial rate
- 37,817
- Pending cases
- 39 mo
- Time to decision
Omaha in one line
Omaha's asylum grant rate is 25.8% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 5,224 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).
- 25.8%
- Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
- 5,224
- Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
- -22.5 pp
- vs. national average
- 50.0 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · wide
What this court's record shows
Omaha Immigration Court sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 25.8% across 5,224 FY2015–2025 merits (22.5 pp below the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
Wide judge lottery: 6.5% to 56.5% (50.0 pp) across 10 reported judges at Omaha. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.
Long-wait docket: 37,817 pending and 39 mo average recorded wait. Peer grids below place Omaha on grant-rate and caseload axes; methodology covers extract limits.
Court outlook score
Court outlook score
19/100
Omaha, 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 F 25.8%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision F 39 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio F 26.5%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for Omaha
Lower-third grant-rate neighbors for Omaha (25.8%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
Omaha 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)
5,224 46th of 77 higher than 31 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 Omaha sits: Slow & Tough
Each dot is one of the 41 largest immigration courts by merits decisions, split at the MEDIAN grant rate (47.5%) and median average wait (31.4 months) across this set. Omaha's own grant rate is 25.8% and its average wait is 38.7 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Omaha Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
5,224merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Lower-third court Omaha: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 140 | 31.4% |
| FY2016 | 83 | 38.6% |
| FY2017 | 268 | 28.7% |
| FY2018 | 317 | 23.7% |
| FY2019 | 617 | 23.2% |
| FY2020 | 508 | 14.0% |
| FY2021 | 451 | 8.4% |
| FY2022 | 359 | 16.2% |
| FY2023 | 918 | 24.4% |
| FY2024 | 487 | 49.5% |
| FY2025 | 1,076 | 32.2% |
The judge lottery at Omaha Immigration Court
10 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 56.5% (108 decisions) down to 6.5% (77 decisions) - a 50.0-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.
Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles
Lower-third grant-rate peers for Omaha, plus caseload matches on a second axis.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- Laredo Immigration Court · Laredo, TX · 26.1% grant · 3,575 merits
- Indianapolis Immigration Court · Indianapolis, IN · 26.8% grant · 1,967 merits
- Elizabeth Immigration Court · Elizabeth, NJ · 24.1% grant · 5,586 merits
- Pearsall Immigration Court · Pearsall, TX · 24.0% grant · 4,642 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Miami - Krome Immigration Court · Miami, FL · 5,224 merits · 19.9% grant
- Concord Immigration Court · Concord, CA · 5,289 merits · 68.1% grant
- El Paso Immigration Court · El Paso, TX · 5,113 merits · 50.0% grant
- Adelanto Immigration Court · Adelanto, CA · 5,079 merits · 20.6% grant
Why judge-level rates vary · Browse every tracked immigration court
Lower-third grant-rate court Omaha (25.8%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Omaha's 5,224-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. Omaha 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.