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Immigration court · Annandale, VA

Annandale Immigration Court

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: a 84.1 pp judge-level grant spread is the widest lottery stamp on Annandale's bench. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 19,103 decisions FY2015–2025 (#9 of 77).

Data updated 2026-09-05

51.4%
Asylum grant rate
48.6%
Asylum denial rate
38
Pending cases
42 mo
Time to decision

Annandale in one line

Annandale's asylum grant rate is 51.4% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 19,103 FY2015–2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

51.4%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
19,103
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+3.1 pp
vs. national average
84.1 pp
Judge-level grant spread · wide
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What this court's record shows

Annandale Immigration Court sits in the upper third of tracked courts at 51.4% across 19,103 FY2015–2025 merits (3.1 pp above the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.

Wide judge lottery: 7.1% to 91.2% (84.1 pp) across 61 reported judges at Annandale. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.

Long-wait docket: 38 pending and 42 mo average recorded wait. Peer grids below place Annandale on grant-rate and caseload axes; methodology covers extract limits.

Court outlook score

C+

Court outlook score

62/100

Annandale, 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 B+ 51.4%

    Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025

  • Time to decision F 42 mo

    Average recorded months from filing to decision

  • Backlog ratio A+ 0.0%

    Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload

EOIR bench spread roll

Grant-rate neighbourhood for Annandale

Upper-third grant-rate neighbors for Annandale (51.4%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.

SPREAD 84.1pp WIDE JUDGES 61 WAIT LONG PEND 38 GRANT 51.4% RANK #9 of 77
Annandale51.4%New York, NY52.5%Boston, MA52.7%Baltimore, MD52.8%El Paso, TX50%
Asylum grant rate · Annandale highlighted · DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025

Annandale 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)

19,103 9th of 77 higher than 68 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 Annandale sits: Favorable but Slow

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. Annandale's own grant rate is 51.4% and its average wait is 42.4 months.

Grant rate vs. average wait time, 40 largest courts by merits decisions (DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025). Annandale highlighted. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Asylum grant rate (X) and Average wait (months) (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Favorable but SlowSlow & ToughFast & FavorableFast but Tough 20%40%60%80% 10mo20mo30mo40mo50mo Asylum grant rate Average wait (months) Annandale Immigration Court: grant rate vs. average wait among the largest immigration courts
Grant rate vs. average wait time, 40 largest courts by merits decisions (DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025). Annandale highlighted.

How to read this

  • Fast & Favorable
  • Favorable but Slow
  • Fast but Tough
  • Slow & Tough
Statistical data only. Annandale's 51.4% upper-third grant history still mixes judges, case types, and counsel rates, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.
Granted9828Denied9275
Asylum Outcomes at Annandale Immigration Court - 19,103 merits decisions, FY2015–2025

Grant rate over time

Upper-third court Annandale: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.

Fiscal year Decisions Grant rate
FY2015 413 62.5%
FY2016 630 62.5%
FY2017 982 54.8%
FY2018 1,658 56.9%
FY2019 3,615 46.7%
FY2020 2,377 39.7%
FY2021 1,275 37.9%
FY2022 2,104 55.5%
FY2023 2,322 59.6%
FY2024 3,145 53.2%
FY2025 582 60.8%

The judge lottery at Annandale Immigration Court

61 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 91.2% (34 decisions) down to 7.1% (28 decisions) - a 84.1-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 LAWFY2022–23 only 34
91.2%
2 Judge RJWSince FY2017 64
89.1%
3 Judge PWSFY2015–16 only 169
88.2%
4 Judge SRPSince FY2019 247
84.2%
5 Judge LOB 1,306
83.3%
6 Judge JSBSince FY2018 134
82.8%
7 Judge KAPFY2022–23 only 36
80.6%
8 Judge AABSince FY2019 64
78.1%
9 Judge ETKFY2021–23 only 207
77.8%
10 Judge JMBFY2015–23 only 645
75.7%
11 Judge JTHFY2017–21 only 315
75.2%
12 Judge ARPSince FY2019 76
72.4%
13 Judge AMWSince FY2019 185
70.8%
14 Judge EDSSince FY2016 731
70.2%
15 Judge RPOFY2015–18 only 620
65.6%
16 Judge NCLSince FY2023 90
65.6%
17 Judge LMLSince FY2020 121
64.5%
18 Judge MILSince FY2018 280
60.7%
19 Judge MWGFY2019–24 only 29
58.6%
20 Judge KCMFY2023–24 only 105
58.1%
21 Judge FMZSince FY2018 975
57.0%
22 Judge DNMSince FY2017 579
56.8%
23 Judge JBPSince FY2024 139
56.8%
24 Judge WPKFY2018–23 only 376
56.4%
25 Judge LL1Since FY2018 635
55.7%
26 Judge GJWFY2018–24 only 98
55.1%
27 Judge CHJSince FY2022 325
54.8%
28 Judge RWVSince FY2019 191
54.5%
29 Judge ABEFY2019–22 only 43
53.5%
30 Judge EM1FY2019–23 only 279
53.0%
31 Judge ASHFY2016–23 only 40
52.5%
32 Judge EFCSince FY2019 352
50.3%
33 Judge MBHFY2021–24 only 95
49.5%
34 Judge TGSFY2015–23 only 670
47.6%
35 Judge HRPFY2017–21 only 265
47.5%
36 Judge RCHFY2016–23 only 328
46.3%
37 Judge VHSFY2019–20 only 603
46.1%
38 Judge RKLSince FY2019 218
45.9%
39 Judge RMLSince FY2021 163
41.7%
40 Judge AGLFY2022–23 only 36
41.7%
41 Judge CSTSince FY2016 840
41.4%
42 Judge LCASince FY2018 382
41.4%
43 Judge KD1Since FY2017 389
38.8%
44 Judge QVBFY2016–20 only 910
38.0%
45 Judge ZRAFY2022–23 only 30
36.7%
46 Judge JCBSince FY2018 559
35.8%
47 Judge LDCFY2018–24 only 216
35.6%
48 Judge NAMSince FY2020 144
35.4%
49 Judge LSASince FY2019 60
35.0%
50 Judge JBTFY2021–24 only 29
31.0%
51 Judge RC1Since FY2018 666
30.2%
52 Judge PMCSince FY2016 1,242
29.9%
53 Judge DAGSince FY2023 226
27.4%
54 Judge AGASince FY2020 26
26.9%
55 Judge KEMFY2020–21 only 55
21.8%
56 Judge PRMFY2020 only 59
16.9%
57 Judge JCLFY2018 only 27
14.8%
58 Judge MOBFY2020–23 only 317
12.9%
59 Judge RHCFY2015–18 only 240
11.7%
60 Judge DDWFY2018–22 only 165
9.7%
61 Judge NJPFY2018–20 only 28
7.1%

Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles

Heavy-corpus peers for Annandale: ABS(grant-rate) and merits-volume matches outside the same state.

Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)

Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)

Why judge-level rates vary · Browse every tracked immigration court

Heavy-corpus court Annandale: 19,103 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Annandale's 19,103-decision EOIR court row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for Annandale Immigration Court; judge grant-rate spread 84.1 pp. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 19,103 decisions FY2015–2025 (#9 of 77).

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. Annandale 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.