Phoenix, AZ immigration court

The Executive Office for Immigration Review records 15,641 proceedings completed at this court in FY2025, with 21 judges currently assigned of 65 assigned at any time. It sits in EOIR’s Western region and EOIR marks it active. EOIR’s own code for it is PHO.

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 Across EOIR’s whole file, 1,947,620 asylum applications ended neither granted nor denied — abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred, not adjudicated — against 1,370,866 granted or denied.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

15,641
Proceedings completed in FY2025: 32.6% decided in absentia; 21,347
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: oldest recorded in FY2011; 17.3%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025: 706 granted of 4,081 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this court granted 706 asylum applications and denied 3,375 — 17.3% of those it decided, against 37.3% across the country over the five years to 2025. A further 11,683 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

New York · 73.3%Miami · 4.1%

Phoenix is 54 of 74 by asylum grant rate, at 17.3%. Highest on the left.

The 74 figures behind this strip

Every jurisdiction by asylum grant rate, highest first, with Phoenix 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%

Phoenix completed 2,487 more proceedings than it recorded in FY2025

Proceedings EOIR recorded at the Phoenix 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

Phoenix completed 2,487 more proceedings than it recorded in FY2025. Proceedings EOIR recorded at the Phoenix 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	13,154	15,641	207	1,651
FY2024	29,298	16,069	234	537
FY2023	12,091	10,404	165	688
FY2022	7,464	6,120	72	212
FY2021	2,902	2,382	28	287
FY2020	4,812	4,169	39	429
FY2019	7,381	4,923	55	360
FY2018	6,408	5,076	101	130
FY2017	4,789	5,361	84	43
FY2016	3,864	5,879	34	15
FY2015	3,515	5,087	39	17
FY2014	5,008	6,211	31	19
FY2013	6,569	5,736	34	22
FY2012	6,115	3,845	40	51
FY2011	5,895	3,341	47	51
FY2010	5,908	3,436	57	62
FY2009	4,695	3,375	62	53
FY2008	4,132	3,009	84	69
FY2007	3,081	2,796	130	72
FY2006	3,603	3,767	194	87

2 more columns on a wider screen

What the Phoenix immigration court recorded, completed and decided, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Recorded	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	13,154	15,641	5,101	207	1,651	2,877
FY2024	29,298	16,069	3,112	234	537	3,571
FY2023	12,091	10,404	1,958	165	688	2,945
FY2022	7,464	6,120	386	72	212	1,879
FY2021	2,902	2,382	49	28	287	411
FY2020	4,812	4,169	847	39	429	327
FY2019	7,381	4,923	938	55	360	488
FY2018	6,408	5,076	498	101	130	743
FY2017	4,789	5,361	519	84	43	990
FY2016	3,864	5,879	507	34	15	890

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: 5,043 of 21,347 arrived in a year this table does not show.

What EOIR records

21
Judges currently assigned: 32.3% of all assignments; 65
Judges assigned at any time: 44 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. 44 further judges have been assigned to this court and are not listed, because EOIR no longer records the assignment.

Other courts

Eloy, AZ
ELO · 49 judges currently assigned
Florence, AZ
FLO · 54 judges currently assigned
Tucson, AZ
TUC · 7 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