Immigration court · Portland, OR
Portland Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 1,229 merits decisions make Portland a thin-volume court in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 42.1% (below the 48.3% national average).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 42.1%
- Asylum grant rate
- 57.9%
- Asylum denial rate
- 39,905
- Pending cases
- 30 mo
- Time to decision
Portland in one line
Portland's asylum grant rate is 42.1% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 1,229 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).
- 42.1%
- Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
- 1,229
- Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
- -6.2 pp
- vs. national average
- 16.5 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · mixed
What this court's record shows
Portland Immigration Court recorded 1,229 asylum merits decisions in the FY2015–2025 EOIR extract. Its 42.1% grant rate is 6.2 percentage points below the 48.3% national rate. That comparison describes the historical docket, not the likelihood of an outcome in a future case.
The recorded judge-level range spans 33.0% to 49.5%, a 16.5-point spread across 4 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.
39,905 pending cases and an average recorded wait of 30 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
34/100
Portland, 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 C 42.1%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision F 30 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio F 74.5%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for Portland
Cross-state courts whose asylum grant rate sits nearest this court, with bench-spread stamps for the judge lottery on the same docket.
Portland 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)
1,229 69th of 77 higher than 8 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 Portland 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. Portland's own grant rate is 42.1% and its average wait is 29.6 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Portland Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
1,229merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Asylum grant rate by fiscal year at Portland Immigration Court.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | 6 | 100.0% |
| FY2025 | 1,223 | 41.8% |
The judge lottery at Portland Immigration Court
4 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 49.5% (327 decisions) down to 33.0% (476 decisions) - a 16.5-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
Cross-state peers matched on grant rate and merits caseload, not the same-state browse list.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- Buffalo Immigration Court · Buffalo, NY · 42.3% grant · 5,018 merits
- Detroit Immigration Court · Detroit, MI · 42.5% grant · 6,017 merits
- New Orleans Immigration Court · New Orleans, LA · 41.5% grant · 8,667 merits
- Chelmsford Immigration Court · Chelmsford, MA · 41.0% grant · 2,330 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive Immigration Court · Atlanta, GA · 1,165 merits · 14.7% grant
- Chelmsford Immigration Court (Detained) · Chelmsford, MA · 942 merits · 53.3% grant
- Port Isabel Immigration Court (Detained) · Los Fresnos, TX · 789 merits · 12.8% grant
- Florence Immigration Court · Florence, AZ · 1,821 merits · 23.0% grant
How immigration court proceedings work · Browse every tracked immigration court
Data from the DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) via FOIA bulk case data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Portland's 1,229-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. Portland 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.