Immigration court · Lumpkin, GA
Stewart Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Stewart's 15.4% grant rate is among the lowest in the tracked court corpus. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 15.4% (below the 48.3% national average). Judge lottery spans 36.7 pp on the same bench.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 15.4%
- Asylum grant rate
- 84.6%
- Asylum denial rate
- 1,378
- Pending cases
- 6 mo
- Time to decision
Stewart in one line
Stewart's asylum grant rate is 15.4% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 4,315 FY2015–2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).
- 15.4%
- Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
- 4,315
- Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
- -32.9 pp
- vs. national average
- 36.7 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · wide
What this court's record shows
Stewart Immigration Court sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 15.4% across 4,315 FY2015–2025 merits (32.9 pp below the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
Wide judge lottery: 2.4% to 39.1% (36.7 pp) across 20 reported judges at Stewart. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.
1,378 pending cases and an average recorded wait of 6 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
53/100
Stewart, 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 15.4%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision A 6 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio B+ 0.9%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for Stewart
Lower-third grant-rate neighbors for Stewart (15.4%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
Stewart 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)
4,315 54th of 77 higher than 23 of 77 courts
Immigration courts, banded by asylum merits-decision count
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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025
Where Stewart 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. Stewart's own grant rate is 15.4% and its average wait is 5.6 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Stewart Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
4,315merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Lower-third court Stewart: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 162 | 22.2% |
| FY2016 | 265 | 11.7% |
| FY2017 | 486 | 5.1% |
| FY2018 | 360 | 14.2% |
| FY2019 | 907 | 9.8% |
| FY2020 | 660 | 17.4% |
| FY2021 | 155 | 31.0% |
| FY2022 | 309 | 34.3% |
| FY2023 | 266 | 23.7% |
| FY2024 | 278 | 23.0% |
| FY2025 | 467 | 7.7% |
The judge lottery at Stewart Immigration Court
20 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 39.1% (115 decisions) down to 2.4% (42 decisions) - a 36.7-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 CRCSince FY2019 | 115 | |
| 2 | Judge JERFY2019–22 only | 207 | |
| 3 | Judge BHBSince FY2020 | 398 | |
| 4 | Judge DTBFY2015–24 only | 738 | |
| 5 | Judge GJWFY2018–22 only | 51 | |
| 6 | Judge JRNFY2019–22 only | 186 | |
| 7 | Judge SBFSince FY2018 | 311 | |
| 8 | Judge LDCFY2018–21 only | 44 | |
| 9 | Judge SC2FY2018–24 only | 467 | |
| 10 | Judge SGESince FY2019 | 72 | |
| 11 | Judge SHAFY2015–18 only | 285 | |
| 12 | Judge MPBFY2016–18 only | 81 | |
| 13 | Judge JCRSince FY2020 | 127 | |
| 14 | Judge JEHSince FY2018 | 91 | |
| 15 | Judge JDPFY2017–19 only | 84 | |
| 16 | Judge NBMSince FY2017 | 187 | |
| 17 | Judge WKHFY2019–20 only | 85 | |
| 18 | Judge RD1FY2017–23 only | 406 | |
| 19 | Judge EBWFY2019 only | 88 | |
| 20 | Judge JSW | 42 | |
Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles
Lower-third grant-rate peers for Stewart, plus caseload matches on a second axis.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- Port Isabel Immigration Court · Los Fresnos, TX · 17.0% grant · 3,999 merits
- El Paso Service Processing Center Immigration Court · El Paso, TX · 17.0% grant · 2,258 merits
- Port Isabel Immigration Court (Detained) · Los Fresnos, TX · 12.8% grant · 789 merits
- LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena) · Jena, LA · 19.2% grant · 6,238 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Tacoma Immigration Court · Tacoma, WA · 3,999 merits · 27.7% grant
- Pearsall Immigration Court · Pearsall, TX · 4,642 merits · 24.0% grant
- Eloy Immigration Court · Eloy, AZ · 3,884 merits · 32.0% grant
- Harlingen Immigration Court · Harlingen, TX · 4,776 merits · 49.5% grant
Why judge-level rates vary · Browse every tracked immigration court
Lower-third grant-rate court Stewart (15.4%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Stewart's 4,315-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. Stewart 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.