Interactive tools · DOJ EOIR FOIA · September 2026

Immigration court tools

Hands-on views of the same EOIR merits archive behind every court and judge page. Look up a grant rate, then read the coverage board so you know what the lookup can and cannot return.

Data updated September 2026

77
Courts in the archive
1,465
Judges scored (≥50)
48.3%
National asylum grant rate
770,780
Merits decisions

According to this portal's Publishing Organization, this page was last reviewed in August 2026 against our methodology. Figures and extracts on this site, including tables above 1,000 rows when the corpus is that large, are the publisher's responsibility.

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

Decision-support only. Not a prediction for any individual case and not legal advice.

What a lookup returns

A lookup returns a judge-level grant rate. Among judges with at least 50 decisions, JB (NY-Federal Plaza) leads the rate ladder at 97.2% while GEE (HOU-Smith Street) leads raw volume at 4,623 decisions.

1,465
Judges ≥50 decisions
72
Courts >500 cases
48.3%
National grant rate
86.4%
Judges above score floor

Coverage counts are live SQL over the portal DB (same FY2015–2025 EOIR cohort as court and judge pages). Dataset vintage: September 2026.

Judge rate ladder

1. JB · NY-Federal Plaza97.2%2. SML · San Francisco95.5%3. ET · Harlingen94.8%4. PMM · NY-Federal Plaza94.2%5. AKR · NY-Broadway93.4%6. PRM · Sacramento93.3%7. GTC · NY-Federal Plaza93.3%8. MH · San Francisco92.8%
Asylum grant rate · at least 50 decisions · DOJ EOIR FOIA

Judge volume ladder

1. GEE · HOU-Smith Street46232. BHA · HOU-Smith Street44233. BP1 · Seattle37704. MWS · Hartford31155. LLG · NY-Varick Street31026. ICD · San Francisco27117. RBM · Seattle26998. CMG · Salt Lake City2686
Same scored cohort ordered by decisions. JB is not GEE on these two ladders.

What is in the archive

Court profile present100%Meets >500 comparative floor93.5%Judge scored (≥50 decisions)86.4%Origin above 200-case floor43.9%
Share of the court / judge / origin inventories that clear the comparative floors the asylum odds lookup and rankings read. Courts at or below 500 decided cases stay off comparative court rankings.

Tool set

Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. Tool KPIs, rate/volume ChartBars, and coverage bars are computed live from the DOJ EOIR tables in this portal's database. No coverage percentage or ladder figure is typed by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026.