Immigration court · Los Fresnos, TX
Port Isabel Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 3 mo average time-to-decision is a short-wait stamp on Port Isabel's docket. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 17.0% (below the 48.3% national average). Judge lottery spans 25.8 pp on the same bench.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 17.0%
- Asylum grant rate
- 83.0%
- Asylum denial rate
- 3 mo
- Time to decision
Port Isabel in one line
Port Isabel's asylum grant rate is 17.0% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 3,999 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).
- 17.0%
- Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
- 3,999
- Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
- -31.3 pp
- vs. national average
- 25.8 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · wide
What this court's record shows
Port Isabel Immigration Court sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 17.0% across 3,999 FY2015–2025 merits (31.3 pp below the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
Wide judge lottery: 5.4% to 31.2% (25.8 pp) across 16 reported judges at Port Isabel. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.
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
62/100
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 17.0%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision A+ 3 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio A+ 0.0%
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 (17.0%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
Port Isabel 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)
3,999 56th of 77 higher than 21 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 17.0% and its average wait is 3.1 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Port Isabel Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
3,999merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Lower-third court Port Isabel: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 557 | 25.7% |
| FY2016 | 309 | 10.7% |
| FY2017 | 440 | 10.7% |
| FY2018 | 480 | 9.0% |
| FY2019 | 448 | 12.7% |
| FY2020 | 264 | 28.0% |
| FY2021 | 243 | 22.2% |
| FY2022 | 409 | 26.2% |
| FY2023 | 377 | 18.0% |
| FY2024 | 438 | 11.2% |
| FY2025 | 34 | 8.8% |
The judge lottery at Port Isabel Immigration Court
16 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 31.2% (48 decisions) down to 5.4% (37 decisions) - a 25.8-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.
| # | Judge | Decisions | Asylum grant rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judge JN | 48 | |
| 2 | Judge JNC | 107 | |
| 3 | Judge BC2 | 337 | |
| 4 | Judge DM | 76 | |
| 5 | Judge PHE | 329 | |
| 6 | Judge FTP | 571 | |
| 7 | Judge DHS | 50 | |
| 8 | Judge KHU | 223 | |
| 9 | Judge HEA | 87 | |
| 10 | Judge MIO | 706 | |
| 11 | Judge MMG | 140 | |
| 12 | Judge RCJ | 46 | |
| 13 | Judge RPL | 428 | |
| 14 | Judge XDD | 49 | |
| 15 | Judge JGC | 300 | |
| 16 | Judge CAG | 37 | |
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)
- Stewart Immigration Court · Lumpkin, GA · 15.4% grant · 4,315 merits
- LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena) · Jena, LA · 19.2% grant · 6,238 merits
- Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive Immigration Court · Atlanta, GA · 14.7% grant · 1,165 merits
- Miami - Krome Immigration Court · Miami, FL · 19.9% grant · 5,224 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Tacoma Immigration Court · Tacoma, WA · 3,999 merits · 27.7% grant
- Eloy Immigration Court · Eloy, AZ · 3,884 merits · 32.0% grant
- Otero Immigration Court · Chaparral, NM · 3,408 merits · 29.5% grant
- Tucson Immigration Court · Tucson, AZ · 3,195 merits · 29.9% grant
Why judge-level rates vary · Browse every tracked immigration court
Lower-third grant-rate court Port Isabel (17.0%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Port Isabel's 3,999-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'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.