Immigration Judges by Caseload

Name: PlainImmigration EOIR Asylum Statistics Extract
Creator: PlainImmigration
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Judges ranked by total number of decisions, a volume statistic only, not a measure of outcome likelihood. DOJ EOIR data.

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. Decision counts and grant rates here are asylum (I-589) merits for FY2015–2025 across the 77 immigration courts in our extract; EOIR's wider FOIA archive goes back to 2001 and is not this ranking's population. See our methodology for detail.

Not legal advice: outcomes depend on facts specific to each case. Consult a licensed immigration attorney or accredited representative for guidance on your situation.

Download the EOIR asylum statistics dataset (CSV) , open extract wired into this page's Dataset JSON-LD.

The Decisions bar shows each judge's caseload relative to GEE, the busiest in this extract.

Partial window: 23 judges below carry a chip such as "Since FY2024" or "FY2015–17 only". Their recorded decisions do not span all of FY2015–2025, so their figure covers fewer years than the rows without a chip; compare them with care. Their own pages show the year-by-year record.

#	Judge	Court	Decisions	Grant Rate
1	GEE	Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court	4,623	28.7%
2	BHA	Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court	4,423	30.3%
3	BP1	Seattle Immigration Court	3,770	39.0%
4	MWS	Hartford Immigration Court	3,115	27.6%
5	LLGSince FY2019	New York - Varick Street Immigration Court	3,102	48.7%
6	ICDSince FY2016	San Francisco Immigration Court	2,711	90.5%
7	RBMSince FY2017	Seattle Immigration Court	2,699	37.8%
8	CMGSince FY2017	Salt Lake City Immigration Court	2,686	55.3%
9	FASSince FY2018	San Francisco Immigration Court	2,545	40.4%
10	BAN	New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court	2,530	61.6%
11	JBL	New Orleans Immigration Court	2,506	42.0%
12	RZA	New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court	2,476	83.4%
13	DWT	New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court	2,448	75.3%
14	DCA	Salt Lake City Immigration Court	2,350	64.2%
15	GMPSince FY2016	Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court	2,338	32.2%
16	DRDSince FY2020	New York - Varick Street Immigration Court	2,321	26.5%
17	ASL	New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court	2,267	81.5%
18	FGL	New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court	2,218	90.6%
19	EPDSince FY2016	New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court	2,213	79.0%
20	PTWFY2015–22 only	Baltimore Immigration Court	2,194	39.2%
21	PMTSince FY2017	Salt Lake City Immigration Court	2,193	57.4%
22	FMT	Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court	2,174	25.9%
23	JBCSince FY2020	New York - Broadway Immigration Court	2,169	28.5%
24	JWHSince FY2016	Kansas City Immigration Court	2,128	36.7%
25	VGU	New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court	2,121	90.4%
26	MIASince FY2016	Newark Immigration Court	2,111	27.9%
27	JEB	Miami Immigration Court	2,108	39.8%
28	JLP	New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court	2,100	68.0%
29	JCS	New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court	2,091	81.4%
30	JCGSince FY2020	New York - Broadway Immigration Court	2,049	49.9%
31	MJS	Boston Immigration Court	2,034	45.9%
32	NB	New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court	2,023	89.4%
33	CSG	San Francisco Immigration Court	2,016	78.4%
34	JMLSince FY2017	Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court	1,979	30.5%
35	DWCFY2015–23 only	Baltimore Immigration Court	1,973	54.3%
36	MCL	Philadelphia Immigration Court	1,961	50.6%
37	PSS	San Francisco Immigration Court	1,950	89.9%
38	APLSince FY2021	New York - Broadway Immigration Court	1,941	38.0%
39	MOS	Boston Immigration Court	1,922	84.6%
40	SBNSince FY2016	Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court	1,917	27.1%
41	SLRSince FY2021	New York - Broadway Immigration Court	1,905	36.0%
42	VAW	New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court	1,898	71.0%
43	OMB	Boston Immigration Court	1,897	67.8%
44	JCA	Philadelphia Immigration Court	1,888	55.2%
45	MLY	New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court	1,888	84.4%
46	CDESince FY2018	Chicago Immigration Court	1,849	48.4%
47	MG1	Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court	1,841	27.5%
48	HEWSince FY2017	Seattle Immigration Court	1,824	44.0%
49	NVPSince FY2018	Baltimore Immigration Court	1,821	49.1%
50	DBSFY2015–24 only	New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court	1,810	82.8%

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on DOJ EOIR immigration court case data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-05.