Immigration court · West Valley City, UT
Salt Lake City Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: a 46.6 pp judge-level grant spread is the widest lottery stamp on Salt Lake City's bench. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked courts at 59.3% (above the 48.3% national average).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 59.3%
- Asylum grant rate
- 40.7%
- Asylum denial rate
- 47,247
- Pending cases
- 23 mo
- Time to decision
Salt Lake City in one line
Salt Lake City's asylum grant rate is 59.3% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 8,831 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).
- 59.3%
- Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
- 8,831
- Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
- +11.0 pp
- vs. national average
- 46.6 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · wide
What this court's record shows
Salt Lake City Immigration Court sits in the upper third of tracked courts at 59.3% across 8,831 FY2015–2025 merits (11.0 pp above the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
Wide judge lottery: 42.3% to 88.9% (46.6 pp) across 10 reported judges at Salt Lake City. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.
47,247 pending cases and an average recorded wait of 23 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
56/100
Salt Lake City, 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 A 59.3%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision C 23 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio F 40.2%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for Salt Lake City
Upper-third grant-rate neighbors for Salt Lake City (59.3%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
Salt Lake City 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)
8,831 28th of 77 higher than 49 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 Salt Lake City sits: Fast & Favorable
Each dot is one of the 40 largest immigration courts by merits decisions, split at the MEDIAN grant rate (47.5%) and median average wait (31.2 months) across this set. Salt Lake City's own grant rate is 59.3% and its average wait is 22.6 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Salt Lake City Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
8,831merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Upper-third court Salt Lake City: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 64 | 40.6% |
| FY2016 | 38 | 18.4% |
| FY2017 | 179 | 30.7% |
| FY2018 | 544 | 28.1% |
| FY2019 | 769 | 22.1% |
| FY2020 | 670 | 30.1% |
| FY2021 | 712 | 42.6% |
| FY2022 | 551 | 75.7% |
| FY2023 | 1,359 | 89.3% |
| FY2024 | 1,838 | 76.3% |
| FY2025 | 2,107 | 61.0% |
The judge lottery at Salt Lake City Immigration Court
10 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 88.9% (45 decisions) down to 42.3% (26 decisions) - a 46.6-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)
- Chicago Immigration Court · Chicago, IL · 61.3% grant · 21,578 merits
- Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court · Van Nuys, CA · 62.7% grant · 7,355 merits
- Philadelphia Immigration Court · Philadelphia, PA · 55.2% grant · 11,412 merits
- Denver Immigration Court · Denver, CO · 54.8% grant · 11,218 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Fort Snelling Immigration Court · Fort Snelling, MN · 8,783 merits · 37.6% grant
- New Orleans Immigration Court · New Orleans, LA · 8,667 merits · 41.5% grant
- Cleveland Immigration Court · Cleveland, OH · 9,432 merits · 49.7% grant
- Houston - S. Gessner Road Immigration Court · Houston, TX · 8,052 merits · 36.1% grant
Why judge-level rates vary · 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 Salt Lake City's 8,831-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. Salt Lake City 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.