Immigration courts in Hawaii

EOIR runs 1 immigration court in Hawaii, with 41 judges assigned to it today. They completed 617 proceedings in FY2025 and had 372 still waiting.

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What the courts here did in FY2025

617
Proceedings completed, FY2025: 13.3% decided in absentia; 372
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 60.1%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–FY2025: against 37.3% across the country over the same five years

Immigration courts in Hawaii granted asylum in 61.5% 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 Hawaii, 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. The line starts at FY2008, the first year these courts decided enough applications for a rate. Courts sitting in Hawaii, 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 Those abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed or otherwise not adjudicated are in neither side of it, and across EOIR’s release they outnumber the decisions.

FY2010, FY2013, FY2014, FY2021, FY2022, FY2023 have no point: in each, the courts here decided fewer than 100 asylum applications, which is too few for a rate. Gaps, not zeroes.

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 Hawaii granted asylum in 61.5% 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 Hawaii, 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. The line starts at FY2008, the first year these courts decided enough applications for a rate. Courts sitting in Hawaii, not its residents: a detained court hears cases from far outside the state it sits in.
Fiscal year	Hawaii	United States
FY2025	61.5%	23.2%
FY2024	65.1%	43.6%
FY2023	not reported	47.3%
FY2022	not reported	46.2%
FY2021	not reported	37.1%
FY2020	44.1%	28.0%
FY2019	50.6%	30.2%
FY2018	65.0%	33.7%
FY2017	80.1%	38.3%
FY2016	82.3%	43.5%
FY2015	84.3%	48.6%
FY2014	not reported	49.0%
FY2013	not reported	52.8%
FY2012	49.1%	55.5%
FY2011	50.0%	52.1%
FY2010	not reported	50.7%
FY2009	75.2%	47.5%
FY2008	85.0%	45.2%

60.3% of a year's work was still waiting at the end of FY2025

372 proceedings were pending against 617 completed in the year — 60.3% where the country as a whole stood at 40.2%. Pending is a snapshot and completions are a year, so this is a ratio between two different kinds of number; it is the one EOIR's own file supports and it is not a waiting time.

The court

Every figure above is Honolulu, EOIR code HON, with 41 judges assigned today. Its own page carries the ten-year table behind these numbers and the judges by name.

Hawaii elsewhere on the Factbook

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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