Immigration court · Saipan, MP
Saipan Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 21 merits decisions make Saipan a thin-volume court in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 23.8% (below the 48.3% national average).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 23.8%
- Asylum grant rate
- 76.2%
- Asylum denial rate
- 485
- Pending cases
- 29 mo
- Time to decision
Saipan in one line
Saipan's asylum grant rate is 23.8% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 21 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).
- 23.8%
- Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
- 21
- Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
- -24.5 pp
- vs. national average
- Solo bench
- Judge-level grant spread · solo
What this court's record shows
Saipan Immigration Court sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 23.8% across 21 FY2015–2025 merits (24.5 pp below the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
The extract reports no judge-level series with enough decisions to show here. Court-level rates still combine many case-specific factors, so this aggregate is context rather than a prediction.
485 pending cases and an average recorded wait of 29 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
27/100
Saipan, 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 23.8%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision D 29 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio F 25.9%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
Saipan 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)
21 76th of 77 higher than 1 of 77 courts
Immigration courts, banded by asylum merits-decision count
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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025
Where Saipan 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. Saipan's own grant rate is 23.8% and its average wait is 29.0 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Saipan Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
21merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Lower-third court Saipan: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 2 | 0.0% |
| FY2018 | 11 | 0.0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | 0.0% |
| FY2021 | 2 | 50.0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | 0.0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | 100.0% |
| FY2025 | 3 | 100.0% |
How immigration court proceedings work · Browse every tracked immigration court
Lower-third grant-rate court Saipan (23.8%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Saipan's 21-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. Saipan 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.