Imperial, CA immigration court

The Executive Office for Immigration Review records 126 judges currently assigned to this court, of 173 assigned at any time. It sits in EOIR’s Western region and EOIR marks it active. EOIR’s own code for it is IMP.

American Factbook Research

What these figures are, and what they are not

A grant rate is over decisions, not over applications. Across EOIR’s whole file, 1,947,620 asylum applications ended neither granted nor denied — abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred, not adjudicated — against 1,370,866 granted or denied. This page states that third number beside the rate, because a rate that hides it describes a third of the record.

Pending is a snapshot and not a year’s work. It counts proceedings with no completion date as of the release named below, put in the fiscal year EOIR recorded them. It moves every month, for every past year. And the figures for what a court recorded and what it completed are two different populations in the same row: a proceeding recorded in 2019 and completed in 2024 is in both years and is one proceeding.

And an assignment is not a posting. A judge is assigned to a median of three courts at once and as many as 72, and the largest rosters here belong to detention courts whose cases are heard substantially by judges sitting elsewhere. The roster below is the assignments EOIR publishes and says nothing about where any judge is on any day.

Cases, decisions and backlog

4,143
Proceedings completed in FY2025: 8.0% decided in absentia; 697
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: oldest recorded in FY2010; 48.7%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025: 748 granted of 1,537 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this court granted 748 asylum applications and denied 789 — 48.7% of those it decided, against 37.3% across the country over the five years to 2025. A further 1,049 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

New York · 73.3%Miami · 4.1%

Imperial is 12 of 74 by asylum grant rate, at 48.7%. Highest on the left.

The 74 figures behind this strip

Every jurisdiction by asylum grant rate, highest first, with Imperial marked
Rank	Name	Asylum grant rate
1	New York	73.3%
2	Sacramento	72.8%
3	San Francisco	70.9%
4	West Valley	62.9%
5	Las Vegas	62.1%
6	Honolulu	60.1%
7	Concord	52.3%
8	Chelmsford	51.5%
9	Chicago	51.2%
10	Guaynabo	50.0%
11	Van Nuys	49.3%
12	Imperial	48.7%
13	Hyattsville	48.3%
14	Baltimore	47.9%
15	Boston	47.1%
16	Annandale	44.8%
17	Los Angeles	42.7%
18	San Diego	42.0%
19	New York	41.5%
20	Philadelphia	40.4%
21	New York	38.1%
22	Chelmsford	36.2%
23	Denver	36.1%
24	Sterling	35.3%
25	Hagatna	34.1%
26	Portland	33.9%
27	San Antonio	33.7%
28	Detroit	33.5%
29	Buffalo	33.1%
30	Hartford	31.2%
31	New Orleans	29.7%
32	Harlingen	29.6%
33	Otay Mesa	29.1%
34	Santa Ana	28.5%
35	Orlando	27.7%
36	Seattle	27.4%
37	Los Angeles	27.1%
38	Memphis	26.6%
39	Otero	26.5%
40	El Paso	25.8%
41	Newark	25.7%
42	Eloy	24.1%
43	Tucson	23.8%
44	Annandale	22.1%
45	Fort Snelling	21.2%
46	Miami	20.5%
47	Cleveland	19.8%
48	Aurora	19.6%
49	Dallas	19.2%
50	Indianapolis	19.2%
51	Tacoma	19.2%
52	Laredo	18.8%
53	Portland	18.6%
54	Phoenix	17.3%
55	Kansas City	16.5%
56	Jena	15.7%
57	Oakdale	14.5%
58	Lumpkin	13.4%
59	Houston	13.1%
60	Atlanta	12.9%
61	El Paso	12.5%
62	Atlanta	12.3%
63	Florence	12.0%
64	Charlotte	11.8%
65	Pearsall	10.2%
66	Los Fresnos	10.0%
67	Elizabeth	9.3%
68	Houston	8.7%
69	Conroe	8.0%
70	Houston	7.6%
71	Los Fresnos	6.8%
72	Adelanto	6.5%
73	Omaha	5.3%
74	Miami	4.1%

Imperial completed 468 more proceedings than it recorded in FY2025

Proceedings EOIR recorded at the Imperial immigration court against proceedings that completed there, by federal fiscal year. The two are different populations: a proceeding recorded in one year and completed in another is counted in both and is one proceeding. Complete fiscal years only.

Recorded is the date EOIR entered the proceeding in its system, which is not the date the charging document was issued. The gap between the two lines in a year is not the change in the backlog, because a proceeding completed this year may have been recorded in any earlier one.

U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review — EOIR immigration court outcomes

The figures behind this chart

Imperial completed 468 more proceedings than it recorded in FY2025. Proceedings EOIR recorded at the Imperial immigration court against proceedings that completed there, by federal fiscal year. The two are different populations: a proceeding recorded in one year and completed in another is counted in both and is one proceeding. Complete fiscal years only.
Fiscal year	Recorded	Completed	Asylum granted	Asylum denied
FY2025	3,675	4,143	152	285
FY2024	8,256	8,412	84	116
FY2023	8,144	7,551	160	105
FY2022	6,457	6,829	178	126
FY2021	3,158	3,305	174	157
FY2020	3,000	3,111	118	147
FY2019	2,944	5,604	193	266
FY2018	3,818	3,355	80	158
FY2017	4,832	4,905	27	83
FY2016	3,807	2,802	10	65
FY2015	3,169	2,275	17	57
FY2014	2,040	1,726	12	123
FY2013	1,560	1,400	21	105
FY2012	1,832	1,723	12	71
FY2011	2,786	2,604	34	88
FY2010	2,951	2,892	13	64
FY2009	3,108	3,042	11	49
FY2008	3,354	3,243	30	66
FY2007	4,138	4,207	52	53
FY2006	5,236	5,200	25	54

2 more columns on a wider screen

What the Imperial immigration court recorded, completed and decided, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Recorded	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	3,675	4,143	333	152	285	268
FY2024	8,256	8,412	559	84	116	181
FY2023	8,144	7,551	344	160	105	125
FY2022	6,457	6,829	319	178	126	299
FY2021	3,158	3,305	127	174	157	176
FY2020	3,000	3,111	71	118	147	123
FY2019	2,944	5,604	357	193	266	1,844
FY2018	3,818	3,355	33	80	158	854
FY2017	4,832	4,905	116	27	83	719
FY2016	3,807	2,802	0	10	65	360

Recorded and completed are different populations in the same row and must not be added. Complete fiscal years only: FY2026 had not ended when EOIR generated this release, and a part year beside whole ones reads as a collapse. The pending figure above does reach into FY2026, because a backlog is what is waiting now rather than what was waiting last September: 577 of 697 arrived in a year this table does not show.

What EOIR records

126
Judges currently assigned: 72.8% of all assignments; 173
Judges assigned at any time: 47 no longer assigned

The judges EOIR assigns here

Names as EOIR records them, surname first. A name links to what EOIR records that judge deciding; a judge with no completed proceeding has no page and no link. 47 further judges have been assigned to this court and are not listed, because EOIR no longer records the assignment.

Other courts

Adelanto, CA
ADL · 129 judges currently assigned
Concord, CA
CCC · 28 judges currently assigned
Lancaster, CA
LAN · 2 judges currently assigned
Los Angeles, CA
WLA · 179 judges currently assigned
Los Angeles, CA
LOS · 120 judges currently assigned
Los Angeles, CA
NLA · 11 judges currently assigned
Los Angeles, CA
LAD · 1 judge currently assigned
Otay Mesa, CA
OTM · 45 judges currently assigned
Sacramento, CA
SMO · 22 judges currently assigned
San Diego, CA
SND · 71 judges currently assigned
San Francisco, CA
SFR · 1 judge currently assigned
San Pedro, CA
SPD · 4 judges currently assigned
Santa Ana, CA
SNC · 46 judges currently assigned
Van Nuys, CA
VNS · 15 judges currently assigned

Also: every court by asylum grant rate, by proceedings pending, and the immigration hub.

Sources

EOIR immigration judges and courts — U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review · Public domain — U.S. Government work · retrieved September 21, 2026
EOIR immigration court outcomes by judge, court and fiscal year · retrieved September 22, 2026

Data retrieved September 21, 2026