Immigration court · Tacoma, WA
Tacoma Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 7 mo average time-to-decision is a short-wait stamp on Tacoma's docket. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 27.7% (below the 48.3% national average). Judge lottery spans 28.4 pp on the same bench.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 27.7%
- Asylum grant rate
- 72.3%
- Asylum denial rate
- 663
- Pending cases
- 7 mo
- Time to decision
Tacoma in one line
Tacoma's asylum grant rate is 27.7% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 3,999 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).
- 27.7%
- Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
- 3,999
- Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
- -20.6 pp
- vs. national average
- 28.4 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · wide
What this court's record shows
Tacoma Immigration Court sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 27.7% across 3,999 FY2015–2025 merits (20.6 pp below the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
Wide judge lottery: 11.1% to 39.5% (28.4 pp) across 14 reported judges at Tacoma. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.
663 pending cases and an average recorded wait of 7 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
62/100
Tacoma, 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 27.7%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision A 7 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio A 0.5%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for Tacoma
Lower-third grant-rate neighbors for Tacoma (27.7%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
Tacoma 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 Tacoma 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. Tacoma's own grant rate is 27.7% and its average wait is 7.2 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Tacoma Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
3,999merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Lower-third court Tacoma: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 283 | 32.5% |
| FY2016 | 317 | 34.4% |
| FY2017 | 609 | 21.5% |
| FY2018 | 671 | 27.1% |
| FY2019 | 667 | 28.2% |
| FY2020 | 485 | 39.4% |
| FY2021 | 98 | 18.4% |
| FY2022 | 119 | 45.4% |
| FY2023 | 169 | 31.4% |
| FY2024 | 190 | 24.7% |
| FY2025 | 391 | 11.3% |
The judge lottery at Tacoma Immigration Court
14 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 39.5% (43 decisions) down to 11.1% (72 decisions) - a 28.4-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 AED | 43 | |
| 2 | Judge TLF | 828 | |
| 3 | Judge CNF | 420 | |
| 4 | Judge AAS | 61 | |
| 5 | Judge TSC | 506 | |
| 6 | Judge JCO | 998 | |
| 7 | Judge DCA | 63 | |
| 8 | Judge CMG | 43 | |
| 9 | Judge JLN | 27 | |
| 10 | Judge NNA | 49 | |
| 11 | Judge ZAN | 215 | |
| 12 | Judge PMT | 45 | |
| 13 | Judge JDV | 91 | |
| 14 | Judge KWR | 72 | |
Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles
Lower-third grant-rate peers for Tacoma, plus caseload matches on a second axis.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- Indianapolis Immigration Court · Indianapolis, IN · 26.8% grant · 1,967 merits
- Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · Houston, TX · 29.2% grant · 29,412 merits
- Laredo Immigration Court · Laredo, TX · 26.1% grant · 3,575 merits
- Otero Immigration Court · Chaparral, NM · 29.5% grant · 3,408 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Port Isabel Immigration Court · Los Fresnos, TX · 3,999 merits · 17.0% grant
- Eloy Immigration Court · Eloy, AZ · 3,884 merits · 32.0% grant
- Stewart Immigration Court · Lumpkin, GA · 4,315 merits · 15.4% grant
- Pearsall Immigration Court · Pearsall, TX · 4,642 merits · 24.0% grant
Why judge-level rates vary · Browse every tracked immigration court
Lower-third grant-rate court Tacoma (27.7%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Tacoma'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. Tacoma 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.