Immigration courts in Georgia

EOIR runs 3 immigration courts in Georgia, with 127 judges assigned to them today. They completed 51,993 proceedings in FY2025 and had 20,348 still waiting.

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What the courts here did in FY2025

51,993
Proceedings completed, FY2025: 28.9% decided in absentia; 20,348
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 12.6%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–FY2025: against 37.3% across the country over the same five years

Immigration courts in Georgia granted asylum in 4.7% of decisions in FY2025, against 23.2% across the country

Asylum applications granted as a share of those granted or denied, at the immigration courts sitting in Georgia, by federal fiscal year, against every immigration court in the country over the same years. Year by year, where the figures above this chart are over the five years to FY2025 — so the last point here is FY2025 alone. Courts sitting in Georgia, not its residents: a detained court hears cases from far outside the state it sits in.

A rate is applications granted over applications granted plus denied. Those abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed or otherwise not adjudicated are in neither side of it, and across EOIR’s release they outnumber the decisions.

None of this measures how a court decides. Representation and the detained share of a docket move a grant rate more than the court does, and this site has loaded neither.

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

The figures behind this chart

Immigration courts in Georgia granted asylum in 4.7% of decisions in FY2025, against 23.2% across the country. Asylum applications granted as a share of those granted or denied, at the immigration courts sitting in Georgia, by federal fiscal year, against every immigration court in the country over the same years. Year by year, where the figures above this chart are over the five years to FY2025 — so the last point here is FY2025 alone. Courts sitting in Georgia, not its residents: a detained court hears cases from far outside the state it sits in.
Fiscal year	Georgia	United States
FY2025	4.7%	23.2%
FY2024	22.6%	43.6%
FY2023	20.9%	47.3%
FY2022	14.2%	46.2%
FY2021	11.9%	37.1%
FY2020	12.3%	28.0%
FY2019	6.4%	30.2%
FY2018	6.8%	33.7%
FY2017	4.9%	38.3%
FY2016	4.2%	43.5%
FY2015	3.6%	48.6%
FY2014	5.2%	49.0%
FY2013	8.3%	52.8%
FY2012	17.5%	55.5%
FY2011	19.9%	52.1%
FY2010	20.3%	50.7%
FY2009	24.4%	47.5%
FY2008	10.0%	45.2%
FY2007	11.3%	46.3%
FY2006	16.4%	44.7%

Lumpkin granted 13.4% and Atlanta granted 12.3%

The 3 courts in Georgia with enough decisions to rank granted asylum at rates 1.1 points apart over the five years to FY2025. A state figure is the sum of them, and the sum is not what either court did.

Every immigration court in Georgia

1 more column on a wider screen

Immigration courts sitting in Georgia, with what EOIR records for each
Court	EOIR code	Judges assigned now	Asylum grant rate
Atlanta ATL	ATL	63	12.3%
Atlanta ATD	ATD	72	12.9%
Lumpkin	SDC	103	13.4%

Every immigration court by asylum grant rate ranks these against the rest of the country, which is the comparison this page does not make: the strip above places them among Georgia’s own. By proceedings pending ranks them by backlog.

A court with no rate decided fewer than 100 asylum applications in the window, which is too few for a rate to mean anything; its own page states the count. Judges assigned is a count of people with a live assignment, and a judge assigned to several courts in Georgia is one person on each of their rows — which is why 127 is fewer than the column added up.

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The immigration hub has no page for this state: EOIR runs no immigration court here, and CBP publishes by sector and field office, which are its own areas of responsibility rather than a geography. Immigration and the border.

Sources

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

Data retrieved September 22, 2026