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Immigration-court data you can cite

Free, regularly updated data on U.S. immigration courts, built from official EOIR records. Use it in your reporting with credit and a link.

Key numbers

Where things stand now

National grant rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2026: 5.0% of 1,303,333 decided asylum cases were granted. Grant rate = granted ÷ (granted + denied).
All years on record: 16.4% of 6,628,807 decided asylum cases.
Judges: 1,532 named immigration judges with at least one decided asylum case on record.
Courts: 78 immigration courts with decided asylum cases on record.
Data through: Sep 30, 2026, from the EOIR data snapshot of Oct 1, 2026. Every page on the site shows its own data date.

Story starters by city

The 10 busiest courts, side by side

Courts with the most decided asylum cases in Oct 2024 – Sep 2026. Open a court for its judges and trends.

Court	Grant rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2026	vs national (5.0%)	Median wait to individual hearing	DHS motions granted
Dallas, TX	0.9%	4.1 pts lower	678 days	85.3% of 1,732
Chicago, IL	4.5%	0.5 pts lower	769 days	77.0% of 2,249
New York City, NY	9.0%	4.0 pts higher	1,005 days	85.6% of 4,928
Charlotte, NC	1.4%	3.6 pts lower	727 days	74.2% of 1,474
Miami, FL	2.2%	2.8 pts lower	895 days	91.6% of 3,931
Orlando, FL	2.7%	2.3 pts lower	746 days	91.8% of 2,373
Atlanta, GA	0.8%	4.2 pts lower	695 days	84.6% of 1,477
New York Broadway, NY	7.3%	2.3 pts higher	675 days	81.5% of 3,261
Memphis, TN	1.5%	3.5 pts lower	722 days	53.1% of 1,176
San Antonio, TX	1.7%	3.3 pts lower	808 days	75.2% of 610

Grant rate: granted ÷ (granted + denied), Oct 2024 – Sep 2026, data through Sep 30, 2026.

Median wait: days from the first master calendar hearing to the first individual hearing, for cases whose first individual hearing was held in Oct 2025 – Sep 2026. Cases still waiting are not counted, so it is a floor. “—” = fewer than 50 such cases.

DHS motions to pretermit: motions DHS filed asking the judge to deny an asylum application without a full hearing; share the court's judges granted of those decided from Oct 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2026. “—” = fewer than 100 decided. See the study.

New data study

DHS motions to pretermit asylum

Data studyDHS asked judges to deny asylum without a full hearing 6,954 times in September 2026Up from 51 in September 2024. Judges granted 80.4% of the motions they decided from Oct 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2026. With a monthly chart, a court table and the method.

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Source: AsylumTracker (asylumtracker.com), based on EOIR immigration-court records

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Charts, files and how we count

Chart kitReady-made charts in English, Spanish and Chinese, with the credit line.Data hubAggregate CSV files, field definitions, frozen snapshots and checksums.MethodologyHow grant rates are calculated and what they leave out.Editorial & corrections policySources, thresholds, dating and how we fix errors.Study: DHS motions to pretermitMonthly filings, judges' granted shares and every court.

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