Immigration court · Los Fresnos, TX
Port Isabel Immigration Court (Detained)
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Port Isabel's 12.8% grant rate is among the lowest in the tracked court corpus. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 12.8% (below the 48.3% national average).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 12.8%
- Asylum grant rate
- 87.2%
- Asylum denial rate
- 290
- Pending cases
- 7 mo
- Time to decision
Port Isabel in one line
Port Isabel's asylum grant rate is 12.8% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 789 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).
- 12.8%
- Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
- 789
- Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
- -35.5 pp
- vs. national average
- 15.8 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · mixed
What this court's record shows
Port Isabel Immigration Court (Detained) sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 12.8% across 789 FY2015–2025 merits (35.5 pp below the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
The recorded judge-level range spans 6.1% to 21.9%, a 15.8-point spread across 10 reported judges. Different case mixes, decision volumes, and assignments can all affect a court-level aggregate, so the range is context rather than a prediction.
290 pending cases and an average recorded wait of 7 months describe administrative pressure in this snapshot. Use the peer comparisons below to place this court against similar caseloads and grant-rate profiles, then consult the methodology for the extract's scope and limits.
Court outlook score
Court outlook score
51/100
Port Isabel, 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 12.8%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision A 7 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio B 2.0%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for Port Isabel
Lower-third grant-rate neighbors for Port Isabel (12.8%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
Port Isabel Immigration Court (Detained) 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)
789 72nd of 77 higher than 5 of 77 courts
Immigration courts, banded by asylum merits-decision count
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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025
Where Port Isabel sits: Fast but 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 (31.0 months) across this set. Port Isabel's own grant rate is 12.8% and its average wait is 6.6 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Port Isabel Immigration Court (Detained)'s merits outcome mix
789merits decisions FY2015–2025
The judge lottery at Port Isabel Immigration Court (Detained)
10 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 21.9% (32 decisions) down to 6.1% (33 decisions) - a 15.8-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 Port Isabel, plus caseload matches on a second axis.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive Immigration Court · Atlanta, GA · 14.7% grant · 1,165 merits
- Stewart Immigration Court · Lumpkin, GA · 15.4% grant · 4,315 merits
- LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena) · Jena, LA · 19.2% grant · 6,238 merits
- Miami - Krome Immigration Court · Miami, FL · 19.9% grant · 5,224 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Chelmsford Immigration Court (Detained) · Chelmsford, MA · 942 merits · 53.3% grant
- Portland Immigration Court · Portland, OR · 1,229 merits · 42.1% grant
- Florence Immigration Court · Florence, AZ · 1,821 merits · 23.0% grant
- Indianapolis Immigration Court · Indianapolis, IN · 1,967 merits · 26.8% grant
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Lower-third grant-rate court Port Isabel (12.8%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Port Isabel's 789-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. Port Isabel Immigration Court (Detained)'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.