Courts with Lowest Grant Rates

Ranked by historical grant rate, lowest first (minimum 500 cases), a court-level statistical average, not a prediction for any individual case. Statistical data from DOJ EOIR.

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

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

The bar behind each grant rate shows it as a share of the highest grant rate among the 72 courts ranked here, so the shortest bars mark the widest gaps.

#1
Port Isabel Immigration Court (Detained)
Los Fresnos, TX · 789 cases
12.8%
grant rate
#2
Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive Immigration Court
Atlanta, GA · 1,165 cases
14.7%
grant rate
#3
Stewart Immigration Court
Lumpkin, GA · 4,315 cases
15.4%
grant rate
#4
El Paso Service Processing Center Immigration Court
El Paso, TX · 2,258 cases
17.0%
grant rate
#5
Port Isabel Immigration Court
Los Fresnos, TX · 3,999 cases
17.0%
grant rate
#6
LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena)
Jena, LA · 6,238 cases
19.2%
grant rate
#7
Miami - Krome Immigration Court
Miami, FL · 5,224 cases
19.9%
grant rate
#8
Conroe Immigration Court
Conroe, TX · 6,073 cases
20.4%
grant rate
#9
Adelanto Immigration Court
Adelanto, CA · 5,079 cases
20.6%
grant rate
#10
Florence Immigration Court
Florence, AZ · 1,821 cases
23.0%
grant rate
#11
Oakdale Immigration Court
Oakdale, LA · 5,826 cases
23.9%
grant rate
#12
Pearsall Immigration Court
Pearsall, TX · 4,642 cases
24.0%
grant rate
#13
Elizabeth Immigration Court
Elizabeth, NJ · 5,586 cases
24.1%
grant rate
#14
Omaha Immigration Court
Omaha, NE · 5,224 cases
25.8%
grant rate
#15
Laredo Immigration Court
Laredo, TX · 3,575 cases
26.1%
grant rate
#16
Indianapolis Immigration Court
Indianapolis, IN · 1,967 cases
26.8%
grant rate
#17
Tacoma Immigration Court
Tacoma, WA · 3,999 cases
27.7%
grant rate
#18
Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court
Houston, TX · 29,412 cases
29.2%
grant rate
#19
Aurora Immigration Court
Aurora, CO · 2,888 cases
29.5%
grant rate
#20
Otero Immigration Court
Chaparral, NM · 3,408 cases
29.5%
grant rate
#21
Tucson Immigration Court
Tucson, AZ · 3,195 cases
29.9%
grant rate
#22
Eloy Immigration Court
Eloy, AZ · 3,884 cases
32.0%
grant rate
#23
Otay Mesa Immigration Court
San Diego, CA · 2,559 cases
32.4%
grant rate
#24
Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court
Los Angeles, CA · 14,595 cases
33.4%
grant rate
#25
Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court
Houston, TX · 13,837 cases
33.9%
grant rate
#26
Charlotte Immigration Court
Charlotte, NC · 12,358 cases
35.3%
grant rate
#27
Houston - S. Gessner Road Immigration Court
Houston, TX · 8,052 cases
36.1%
grant rate
#28
Miami Immigration Court
Miami, FL · 35,666 cases
36.2%
grant rate
#29
Kansas City Immigration Court
Kansas City, MO · 5,050 cases
36.5%
grant rate
#30
Annandale Immigration Court (Annex)
Annandale, VA · 6,174 cases
36.9%
grant rate
#31
Fort Snelling Immigration Court
Fort Snelling, MN · 8,783 cases
37.6%
grant rate
#32
Seattle Immigration Court
Seattle, WA · 17,027 cases
37.8%
grant rate
#33
Hartford Immigration Court
Hartford, CT · 5,835 cases
38.0%
grant rate
#34
Phoenix Immigration Court
Phoenix, AZ · 7,051 cases
38.2%
grant rate
#35
San Diego Immigration Court
San Diego, CA · 7,941 cases
38.2%
grant rate
#36
Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court
Atlanta, GA · 12,430 cases
39.2%
grant rate
#37
Memphis Immigration Court
Memphis, TN · 11,643 cases
40.8%
grant rate
#38
Chelmsford Immigration Court
Chelmsford, MA · 2,330 cases
41.0%
grant rate
#39
New Orleans Immigration Court
New Orleans, LA · 8,667 cases
41.5%
grant rate
#40
Portland Immigration Court
Portland, OR · 1,229 cases
42.1%
grant rate
#41
Buffalo Immigration Court
Buffalo, NY · 5,018 cases
42.3%
grant rate
#42
Detroit Immigration Court
Detroit, MI · 6,017 cases
42.5%
grant rate
#43
Portland Immigration Court (Detained)
Portland, OR · 4,996 cases
43.7%
grant rate
#44
Santa Ana Immigration Court
Santa Ana, CA · 15,413 cases
47.2%
grant rate
#45
Dallas Immigration Court
Dallas, TX · 12,879 cases
47.4%
grant rate
#46
Los Angeles - West Immigration Court
Los Angeles, CA · 30,667 cases
47.5%
grant rate
#47
Las Vegas Immigration Court
Las Vegas, NV · 6,581 cases
47.6%
grant rate
#48
Orlando Immigration Court
Orlando, FL · 15,998 cases
48.4%
grant rate
#49
New York - Varick Street Immigration Court
New York, NY · 19,001 cases
48.7%
grant rate
#50
Sterling Immigration Court
Sterling, VA · 10,044 cases
48.8%
grant rate
#51
Newark Immigration Court
Newark, NJ · 18,739 cases
48.9%
grant rate
#52
Harlingen Immigration Court
Harlingen, TX · 4,776 cases
49.5%
grant rate
#53
Cleveland Immigration Court
Cleveland, OH · 9,432 cases
49.7%
grant rate
#54
Imperial Immigration Court
Imperial, CA · 3,089 cases
49.7%
grant rate
#55
El Paso Immigration Court
El Paso, TX · 5,113 cases
50.0%
grant rate
#56
Annandale Immigration Court
Annandale, VA · 19,103 cases
51.4%
grant rate
#57
New York - Broadway Immigration Court
New York, NY · 28,250 cases
52.5%
grant rate
#58
Boston Immigration Court
Boston, MA · 19,472 cases
52.7%
grant rate
#59
Baltimore Immigration Court
Baltimore, MD · 16,562 cases
52.8%
grant rate
#60
Chelmsford Immigration Court (Detained)
Chelmsford, MA · 942 cases
53.3%
grant rate
#61
Hyattsville Immigration Court
Hyattsville, MD · 11,100 cases
54.4%
grant rate
#62
San Antonio Immigration Court
San Antonio, TX · 11,574 cases
54.6%
grant rate
#63
Denver Immigration Court
Denver, CO · 11,218 cases
54.8%
grant rate
#64
Philadelphia Immigration Court
Philadelphia, PA · 11,412 cases
55.2%
grant rate
#65
Salt Lake City Immigration Court
West Valley City, UT · 8,831 cases
59.3%
grant rate
#66
Chicago Immigration Court
Chicago, IL · 21,578 cases
61.3%
grant rate
#67
Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court
Van Nuys, CA · 7,355 cases
62.7%
grant rate
#68
Honolulu Immigration Court
Honolulu, HI · 2,117 cases
64.1%
grant rate
#69
Concord Immigration Court
Concord, CA · 5,289 cases
68.1%
grant rate
#70
San Francisco Immigration Court
San Francisco, CA · 49,818 cases
72.0%
grant rate
#71
New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court
New York, NY · 79,106 cases
74.7%
grant rate
#72
Sacramento Immigration Court
Sacramento, CA · 6,907 cases
76.2%
grant rate

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.