What is the grant rate at the Los Angeles - West Immigration Court immigration court?

The Los Angeles - West Immigration Court immigration court has an overall grant rate of 47.5% and a denial rate of 52.5%, based on 30,667 asylum merits decisions (FY2015–2025) from DOJ EOIR records.

How many immigration judges serve at Los Angeles - West Immigration Court?

Los Angeles - West Immigration Court reports 71 immigration judges with a wide 70.3 pp lottery (6.9% to 77.2%).

How long do cases take at Los Angeles - West Immigration Court?

Los Angeles - West Immigration Court is a long-wait docket at about 46 months on average in this extract. Wait times still vary by case type and continuances.

Where is the Los Angeles - West Immigration Court immigration court located?

Los Angeles - West Immigration Court sits in Los Angeles, CA, and is one of the heavier FY2015–2025 merits venues in the EOIR FOIA extract.

Does the grant rate predict my case outcome at Los Angeles - West Immigration Court?

No. Grant rates are historical averages reflecting aggregate outcomes across all case types and judges. Individual outcomes depend on the specific facts of each case, the judge assigned, the type of relief sought, and whether you have legal representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

How has the Los Angeles - West Immigration Court grant rate changed over time?

Between FY2015 and FY2025, the grant rate at Los Angeles - West Immigration Court increased from 48.3% to 59.9%. Year-by-year data is shown in the trends table on this page.

Courts → Los Angeles, CA

Immigration court · Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles - West Immigration Court

Name: Los Angeles - West Immigration Court Immigration Court Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: a 70.3 pp judge-level grant spread is the widest lottery stamp on Los Angeles - West's bench. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 30,667 decisions FY2015–2025 (#4 of 77).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

47.5%
Asylum grant rate: 52.5%
Asylum denial rate: 21,688
Pending cases: 46 mo
Time to decision

Los Angeles - West in one line

Los Angeles - West's asylum grant rate is 47.5% (mid-band grant rate, roughly in line with the 48.3% national average) across 30,667 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

47.5%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 30,667
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: -0.8 pp
vs. national average: 70.3 pp
Judge-level grant spread · wide

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What this court's record shows

Los Angeles - West Immigration Court recorded 30,667 asylum merits decisions in the FY2015–2025 EOIR extract. Its 47.5% grant rate is 0.8 percentage points roughly in line with the 48.3% national rate. That comparison describes the historical docket, not the likelihood of an outcome in a future case.

Wide judge lottery: 6.9% to 77.2% (70.3 pp) across 71 reported judges at Los Angeles - West. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.

Long-wait docket: 21,688 pending and 46 mo average recorded wait. Peer grids below place Los Angeles - West on grant-rate and caseload axes; methodology covers extract limits.

Court outlook score

49/100

Los Angeles - West, 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- 47.5%

Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
Time to decision F 46 mo

Average recorded months from filing to decision
Backlog ratio B 2.7%

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

EOIR bench spread roll

Grant-rate neighbourhood for Los Angeles - West

Nearest grant-rate peers for Los Angeles - West, where the 70.3 pp judge lottery is the standout bench stamp.

SPREAD 70.3pp WIDE JUDGES 71 WAIT LONG PEND 21,688 GRANT 47.5% RANK #4 of 77

Asylum grant rate · Los Angeles - West highlighted · DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025

Los Angeles - West 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)

30,667 4th of 77 higher than 73 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 Los Angeles - West sits: Slow & Tough

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. Los Angeles - West's own grant rate is 47.5% and its average wait is 46.2 months.

Grant rate vs. average wait time, 40 largest courts by merits decisions (DOJ EOIR FY2015–2025). Los Angeles - West highlighted.

How to read this

Fast & Favorable
Favorable but Slow
Fast but Tough
Slow & Tough

Los Angeles - West Immigration Court's merits outcome mix

30,667merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted14,560(47%)Denied16,107(53%)

Statistical data only. Los Angeles - West's 70.3 pp judge-level spread shows how much the same court can diverge by assignment. Aggregate rates are not a forecast. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Asylum Outcomes at Los Angeles - West Immigration Court - 30,667 merits decisions, FY2015–2025

Grant rate over time

Asylum grant rate by fiscal year at Los Angeles - West Immigration Court.

Fiscal year	Decisions	Grant rate
FY2015	1,878	48.3%
FY2016	1,754	50.1%
FY2017	2,397	50.3%
FY2018	2,993	50.0%
FY2019	6,032	39.6%
FY2020	4,776	30.6%
FY2021	1,531	40.6%
FY2022	1,737	54.9%
FY2023	2,336	62.1%
FY2024	2,031	62.9%
FY2025	3,202	59.9%

The judge lottery at Los Angeles - West Immigration Court

71 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 77.2% (646 decisions) down to 6.9% (29 decisions) - a 70.3-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.

#	Judge	Decisions	Asylum grant rate
1	Judge GA	646	77.2%
2	Judge VSV	638	75.2%
3	Judge DDB	97	74.2%
4	Judge JP1	115	73.9%
5	Judge LB7	323	72.8%
6	Judge ANS	202	72.3%
7	Judge WDN	564	70.4%
8	Judge SDL	222	70.3%
9	Judge YEM	166	69.9%
10	Judge MOS	54	68.5%
11	Judge AC2	202	68.3%
12	Judge AGA	163	68.1%
13	Judge IRP	277	67.5%
14	Judge JPK	599	66.8%
15	Judge ARD	613	65.4%
16	Judge CES	1,585	64.2%
17	Judge AHO	408	64.0%
18	Judge RJH	105	63.8%
19	Judge JAW	163	63.2%
20	Judge JD1	615	60.0%
21	Judge HO	255	58.4%
22	Judge DHM	572	58.2%
23	Judge JAN	311	57.9%
24	Judge JBV	995	57.6%
25	Judge PJC	1,226	57.0%
26	Judge MML	331	56.8%
27	Judge KRM	361	55.7%
28	Judge BV1	444	54.7%
29	Judge RCP	268	53.0%
30	Judge ACT	42	52.4%
31	Judge BP1	42	52.4%
32	Judge ALS	1,524	51.3%
33	Judge CFP	307	50.2%
34	Judge EDL	313	47.9%
35	Judge CAB	46	47.8%
36	Judge STP	565	47.1%
37	Judge RLH	39	46.2%
38	Judge FMT	128	46.1%
39	Judge RR1	201	45.8%
40	Judge CMW	35	45.7%
41	Judge JDL	710	45.6%
42	Judge KC1	369	45.3%
43	Judge TRE	734	44.7%
44	Judge ABE	703	43.5%
45	Judge NMR	632	43.2%
46	Judge MGO	182	41.2%
47	Judge CRJ	1,399	40.5%
48	Judge DDS	452	40.0%
49	Judge JJO	719	39.1%
50	Judge JWO	562	38.3%
51	Judge IEB	589	37.7%
52	Judge NHT	480	36.5%
53	Judge DB	900	36.0%
54	Judge JTH	51	35.3%
55	Judge NAM	244	34.0%
56	Judge AMN	223	33.2%
57	Judge JSF	115	33.0%
58	Judge GET	28	32.1%
59	Judge WRL	70	30.0%
60	Judge HYC	1,294	29.8%
61	Judge LOC	559	28.3%
62	Judge AKP	124	28.2%
63	Judge AAT	417	24.5%
64	Judge DC1	25	24.0%
65	Judge RFH	118	23.7%
66	Judge DAN	48	20.8%
67	Judge RAR	641	20.1%
68	Judge JSM	314	19.4%
69	Judge LJF	895	17.1%
70	Judge TNN	1,016	10.6%
71	Judge JLR	29	6.9%

Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles

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

Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)

Dallas Immigration Court · Dallas, TX · 47.4% grant · 12,879 merits
Las Vegas Immigration Court · Las Vegas, NV · 47.6% grant · 6,581 merits
Orlando Immigration Court · Orlando, FL · 48.4% grant · 15,998 merits
New York - Varick Street Immigration Court · New York, NY · 48.7% grant · 19,001 merits

Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)

Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · Houston, TX · 29,412 merits · 29.2% grant
New York - Broadway Immigration Court · New York, NY · 28,250 merits · 52.5% grant
Miami Immigration Court · Miami, FL · 35,666 merits · 36.2% grant
Chicago Immigration Court · Chicago, IL · 21,578 merits · 61.3% grant

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

Heavy-corpus court Los Angeles - West: 30,667 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Los Angeles - West's 30,667-decision EOIR court row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for Los Angeles - West Immigration Court; judge grant-rate spread 70.3 pp. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 30,667 decisions FY2015–2025 (#4 of 77).

Source: U.S. EOIR, Immigration Court Statistics Immigration court outcomes by court and case type · 2025 Accessed 2026-09-05

Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. Los Angeles - West 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.