Immigration court · Tucson, AZ
Tucson Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 3,195 merits decisions make Tucson a thin-volume court in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 29.9% (below the 48.3% national average).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 29.9%
- Asylum grant rate
- 70.1%
- Asylum denial rate
- 807
- Pending cases
- 23 mo
- Time to decision
Tucson in one line
Tucson's asylum grant rate is 29.9% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 3,195 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).
- 29.9%
- Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
- 3,195
- Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
- -18.4 pp
- vs. national average
- 18.3 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · mixed
What this court's record shows
Tucson Immigration Court sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 29.9% across 3,195 FY2015–2025 merits (18.4 pp below the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
The recorded judge-level range spans 24.3% to 42.6%, a 18.3-point spread across 8 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.
807 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
51/100
Tucson, 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 29.9%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision C 23 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio B 1.1%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for Tucson
Lower-third grant-rate neighbors for Tucson (29.9%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
Tucson 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)
3,195 60th of 77 higher than 17 of 77 courts
Immigration courts, banded by asylum merits-decision count
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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025
Where Tucson 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. Tucson's own grant rate is 29.9% and its average wait is 23.2 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Tucson Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
3,195merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Lower-third court Tucson: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 76 | 35.5% |
| FY2016 | 74 | 29.7% |
| FY2017 | 159 | 18.2% |
| FY2018 | 191 | 16.8% |
| FY2019 | 304 | 20.7% |
| FY2020 | 415 | 30.6% |
| FY2021 | 212 | 50.9% |
| FY2022 | 84 | 57.1% |
| FY2023 | 186 | 34.9% |
| FY2024 | 445 | 33.7% |
| FY2025 | 1,049 | 27.2% |
The judge lottery at Tucson Immigration Court
8 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 42.6% (61 decisions) down to 24.3% (577 decisions) - a 18.3-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
Lower-third grant-rate peers for Tucson, plus caseload matches on a second axis.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- Otero Immigration Court · Chaparral, NM · 29.5% grant · 3,408 merits
- Aurora Immigration Court · Aurora, CO · 29.5% grant · 2,888 merits
- Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · Houston, TX · 29.2% grant · 29,412 merits
- Tacoma Immigration Court · Tacoma, WA · 27.7% grant · 3,999 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Imperial Immigration Court · Imperial, CA · 3,089 merits · 49.7% grant
- Laredo Immigration Court · Laredo, TX · 3,575 merits · 26.1% grant
- Otay Mesa Immigration Court · San Diego, CA · 2,559 merits · 32.4% grant
- Port Isabel Immigration Court · Los Fresnos, TX · 3,999 merits · 17.0% grant
How immigration court proceedings work · Browse every tracked immigration court
Lower-third grant-rate court Tucson (29.9%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Tucson's 3,195-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. Tucson 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.